Author Bio: Robert O. Day is a retired Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts from East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City Tennessee. During his 30 plus years in education he has taught at Brigham Young University, Southern Illinois University, and East Tennessee State University. At the latter he served as director of high school and college forensics/debate, and in that capacity he directed numerous tournaments, being twice called on to server as state director of the Tennessee High School Speech and Drama League A Master Storyteller and specialist in Elementary Oral Language Arts, for many years he conducted seminars and workshops throughout the Southeast. A notable public speaker and presenter, he wrote, directed and starred in a thirty part television series in Oral Language Arts for educational television through PBS. He and his wife have shared their talents telling stories in the public schools in affiliation with BookPals (Sponsored through the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, in an effort to expand children's interest and involvement with good literature) Author of March of the Mormon Battalion, Called to Serve and two dozen other books, he also has to his credit twenty five children stories, six dozen plays and readers theatre scripts, along with numerous poems and choral speaking arrangements. He recently received three awards for his children's' book There's a Frog on a Log in the Bog . He and his wife served as missionaries on 4 different occasions, one of which was at the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City Utah, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There he wrote and directed two new historical chamber theatres; Nine Blasts of the Cannon and The Enoch Train Pioneers . The inspiration for each story and writing come from his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as ancestral research into the roots of his own past. Mr. Day passed away in October of 2002 and leaves behind a rich heritage of books, poems, stories and plays that will echo long into the future. His own work as a tireless historian and his love for children of all ages are a lasting legacy to his family and all who read and act out the beauty and accuracy of his many marvelous works |
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