Ethel Hinds Burch Awards

The Ethel Hinds Burch Award fund was established in 1992 by Vance L. Burch. The fund is used to provide awards for deserving graduate students majoring in theatre in the department. The annual awards, which may be renewable, are given to outstanding graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in recognition of both their teaching ability and their academic accomplishments at KU.

Ethel Margaret Hinds Burch was born in Missouri on January 22, 1906, and married Vance Lindill Burch on May 29, 1937, in Jackson County, Missouri. Ethel taught drama and theater at Pasadena Community College, Pasadena, California, for most of her working life. She died on March 1, 1976, in San Marcus, California, where she and Vance lived in retirement. Ethel had been a student at KU in the 1920s and had been active in the KU community having participated in the Dramatic Club, the History Club, and the Jay Janes, an early women's pep club at KU.

The Ethel Hinds Burch Awards are presented by nomination and vote of the faculty & staff of the department.