Sue Whitney, one of many founders of the Valerie Gamers, has been elected president of the Gamers for the subsequent two years.
Whitney has been energetic in native theater, after serving as a choral music trainer, principal and college superintendent in New York State. She’s a member of the Citrus Neighborhood Live performance Choir, amongst different issues.
Whitney, Inverness Metropolis Councilwoman Linda Bega and the Gamers’ Inventive Director Patrick Erhardt based the Gamers’ nonprofit board two years in the past.
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Erhardt will proceed as creative director however is giving up his duo position as president.
He has stated he desires to pursue writing tasks, act, journey and spend extra time together with his household.
Different officers embrace: Vice President John Koch, Secretary Cami Plaisted, Treasurer Bega and Data Know-how Adviser A.J. Lovato.
Koch will fill in for Whitney, who’s a snowbird, whereas Whitney’s away, Bega stated.
In his position as creative director, Erhardt stated he’ll choose performs as a part of the Play Studying Committee and do some advertising, together with for a gala, deliberate for Feb. 10, 2023.
Whitney stated as president, she is going to attempt to hold issues organized and reply the cellphone. She and Erhardt nonetheless are figuring out who will administer such particulars as negotiating the rights to provide performs, she stated.
Her job is slightly like “herding cats,” she joked.
She stated she is going to strive for the Gamers to proceed to have “a constructive affect on the group, to have stay performances proper downtown in a fantastic metropolis.
“We’re off to a terrific begin,” she stated.
