AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER
MINUTES OF THE BUSINESS MEETING
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2006
University of Denver
Officers: Suzanne Moulton-Gertig and Jack Sheinbaum
Meeting presided over by Jack Sheinbaum and Suzanne Moulton-Gertig.
1. Call to Order
Jack Sheinbaum called the meeting to order at 1:06 pm MST. Moulton-Gertig, confirmed the time.
Dr. Oliver Ellsworth, as is historical practice, immediately moved for adjournment.
As is also historical practice, his motion for adjournment was ignored (as per. the Chapter Bylaws, item 9).
2. Approval of Minutes
The minutes of the 2005 meeting were approved unanimously without discussion.
3. Treasurer’s Report
We have a $0.34 balance. The conference fee this year was $15.00 for faculty members and $5.00 for student members. The optional luncheon buffet this year was $10.00. The AMS contributed $114.00 that went toward purchasing parking passes from DU Parking Office for those who requested them. For those who did not and needed them the last minute, it was taken from the registration money. With parking at $6.00 per day for this two-day meeting, the registration money was eaten up in short order.
By prior agreement with faculty who normally use the classrooms and by opening the meeting to DU faculty and students, the three rooms for the meeting were able to be used at no cost to AMS-RMC. As was expected, very few members of the DU community came to the sessions, so this little work around was quite successful. The Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences approved an application of a small grant to fund the printing and binding of the program and abstracts booklet.
Moulton-Gertig is sending along the $0.34 with student member Woody Colahan, who will present it to the ASU AMS-RMC Treasurer. Sorry, there isn’t anything that cheap that I could buy to make $0.00 balance.
4. New Business
Student member registration. Moulton-Gertig received last year’s minutes (2005) within two weeks of the 2006 meeting. As a result, in the minutes where the membership decided that there would be no registration charge was not viewed in time for the 2006 meeting. Happily, since the registration was $5.00 for students, it was not a prohibitive sum.
Discussion of the Rocky Mountain Chapter Bylaws. Two issues brought up the request to revisit our by-laws:
1. The every so often reoccurring question of chapter dues and,
2. Antonia Banducci’s email about the membership electing standing officers rather than the practice of the annual host school’s faculty serving as officers for the annual meeting.
As a result of discussion, the membership voted to stay with the original bylaws in both matters. In review:
1. No chapter dues, as discussed, voted on and approved at Flagstaff, was affirmed by vote at Denver.
2. No elected standing officers
Other New Business
1. Registration fees. The membership discussed registration fees for the annual meeting. The motion was to put a ceiling on registration of $25.00 for faculty members and enact the 2005 vote for free student registration.
2. Length of papers. Discussion centered on trying to find a uniform length for all papers for ease of scheduling and to allow members to plan to attend papers that may be in another session that is occurring simultaneously. The membership voted to limit papers for all to twenty (20) minutes.
Discussion of the bylaws resulted in member Deborah Kauffman’s volunteering to send a proposed revised set of chapter bylaws to address registration fees and length of papers to be ratified at the ASU meeting. Her proposed document is appended to this set of minutes for the membership’s convenience.
3. Joice Gibson was elected student representative to the AMS meeting.
4. Amy Holbrook thanked DU hosts and student workers for the Denver meeting
5. The meeting was adjourned at 1:46 pm MST, not anywhere near the record for the shortest meeting held by ASU.
Respectfully submitted,
Suzanne Moulton-Gertig,
Co-chair, AMS-RMC Denver