CET has an executive director with policy and financial responsibility falling on a board of parent volunteers and community members.
CET was the brainchild of former South Salem High School drama teacher Phyllis Quanbeck. Phyllis and a small group of parents in the McKinley neighborhood got together in 1974 to offer local youth an opportunity to learn about the performing arts in a “camp-like” format.
A $500 grant from the Oregon Arts Commission launched the program, which was housed in the Salem-Keizer School District until 2005, when CET became an independent, noprofit organization.
During the program’s first year in the summer of 1975, 92 kids signed up to learn about acting, dance, vocal music and other aspects of the performing arts. In 1978, instruction in the technical arts and stagecraft were added to the curriculum.
Now CET enrollment hovers around 225 each summer, and classes range from improvisation to auditioning to stage combat. Each student is cast in a play, and takes either performance or technical arts classes.
The format of CET has changed very little in its 36 years – a testament to the solid foundation built by Quanbeck and the many instructors, families and children who have poured their heart and soul into this unique program in the Willamette Valley.
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