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Roberta Gamble
Roberta Peacock Gamble was born in Lakeland, Florida, in 1926. She graduated from the University of Alabama in 1947 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech and Theater, and has devoted herself to the preservation and promotion of theater arts in Alabama. In 1982, Gamble co-founded the Greenville Area Arts council and was awarded the Governor’s Arts Award for the restoration of the Ritz Theatre in Greenville, Alabama, where she makes her home.
Gamble has served as the Chairman of the Grants Review Committee of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Chairman of the Ritz Theatre Advisory Board, Production Chair of the Greenville Area Arts Council, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Southern Writers Project of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her contributions to the arts in Alabama have been recognized through the Patron of Arts Award from The University of Alabama (1995), the John D. Murphy Award (Citizen of the year Award for Outstanding Community Service in Greenville, 1997), and the DAR Outstanding Citizen Award (2000).
Gambles work has appeared in The University of Alabama Humor Magazine, The Greenville Advocate, The Kennesaw Review, Ala-Arts Magazine, and Design Magazine. Southern Dogs and Their People, co-authored with P.S. Davis, was released in June 2000.
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Southern Dogs &
Their People
Last Updated:
11 May 2001
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