Peg Connolly, Ph.D. First Executive Director of NCTRC Professor Emeritus Western Carolina University – College of Health and Human Sciences   Hard to believe NCTRC is now 40 years old. I remember being on the NTRS (National Therapeutic Recreation Society) Board of Directors in 1981 when we voted to set up NCTRC as an independent credentialing organization. Then it was a bit unexpected for me to be selected as their first full-time Executive Director in 1986 when we celebrated the 5th year of NCTRC. There were so many challenges in those early years to manage the organization so that it…