
America's First Professional Theatrical Club - Established in 1874
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Governance
The Lambs, Inc. (incorporated in New York in 1877) is governed by an elected Council consisting of Officers, which include; the President - styled Shepherd; Vice-president - styled Boy; Corresponding Secretary; Recording Secretary; Treasurer and Historian; and a Board of Directors. Elections are held annually as terms expire, each position has a 3-year term. Annual Membership Meetings and elections are held in January. The current Council members are:
Officers
Randy Phillips, Shepherd
Marc Baron, Boy
Peter Kingsley, Corresponding Secretary
Kay Arnold Cooper, Recording Secretary
Eleanore Carney, Treasurer
Gerry Ruth, Historian
Council Members
David Dow Bentley III, Bruce Brown (Ex-Shepherd), William Brown, Peter Dizozza, Vivienne
Gilbert, Scott Glascock, Annette Hunt, Kathy Kelleher, Donald Pippin, Joyce Randolph, Davida
Rothberg, Roseann Sheridan and Terry Wells.
OUR SHEPHERDS
| Henry J. Montague | 1874-1878 |
| J. Lester Wallack | 1878-1879, 1880-1882, 1884-1888 |
| Harry Beckett | 1879-1880 |
| William J. Florence | 1882-1884 |
| John R. Brady | 1888-1890 |
| Edmund M. Holland | 1890-1891 |
| Clay M. Greene | 1891-1898, 1902-1906 |
| Thomas B. Clarke | 1898-1900 |
| DeWolf Hopper | 1900-1902 |
| Wilton Lackaye | 1906-07 |
| Augustus Thomas | 1907-1910 |
| Joseph R. Grismer | 1911-1913, 1917-1918 |
| William Courtleigh | 1913-1917 |
| R. H. Burnside | 1918-1921 |
| Albert O. Brown | 1921-1924, 1930-1932 |
| Thomas Meighan | 1924-1926 |
| Thomas Wise | 1926-1928 |
| Fritz Williams | 1928-1930 |
| Frank Crumit | 1932-1936 |
| Fred Waring | 1939-1942 |
| John Golden | 1942-1945 |
| Raymond Peck | 1945-1947 |
| Bert Lytell | 1947-1952 |
| Walter N. Greaza | 1953-1956 |
| William Gaxton | 1936-39, 1952-53, 1957-59, 1960-61 |
| Frank M. Thomas | 1962-1963 |
| Martin Begley | 1964-1965 |
| Harry Hershfeld | 1966-1969 |
| Jack Waldron | 1969 |
| Tom Dillon | 1969-1986 |
| Richard L. Charles | 1986-1997 |
| A. J. Pocock | 1998-2001 |
| Bruce Brown | 2002-2008 |
| Randy Phillips | 2008-current |
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