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AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
MIDWEST CHAPTER
THIRD MAILING, 2000-2001
JANUARY 2001
The present mailing is being sent to all AMS members residing within the geographic area of the Midwest Chapter, whether they are Chapter members or not. In terms of square miles, the Midwest Chapter is the largest constituent chapter of the AMS, and it comprises nearly a quarter of the national membership. It holds two meetings a year-the fall meeting usually in Chicago, the spring meeting rotating among the rest of the dozen states that make up the Chapter. Papers are carefully vetted by a Program Committee, as reflected in the consistently high quality of the presentations. A call for papers for the spring meeting in Kansas City follows below, and we do encourage you to submit your best work and to attend the meeting.
If you are not a member of the Midwest Chapter, we heartily invite you to join. (Simply fill out an online membership form.)The annual dues are a mere $10 ($5 for students). Please make your check payable to "AMS Midwest Chapter," and send it to the Chapter Treasurer, Prof. Mary Natvig, at the address given on the last page of this mailing. You will be apprised four times a year of the Chapter's meetings and doings, and you will receive the annual Newsletter, which details the professional activities of Chapter members as reported by themselves. (Vide infra for a call to contribute news items to same.) And you will have the professional and personal satisfaction of participating in one of the most active chapters of your national society.
BUSINESS
OF THE CHAPTER
The Midwest Chapter held its fall 2000 meeting on the Michigan Avenue campus
of National-Louis University in Chicago. Our hearty thanks go to Dr. Elinor
Olin for local arrangements that resulted in a meeting space far more pleasant
than those of recent years, included breakfast goodies that only heightened
our receptivity to the scholarly fare. Lawrence Bennet and the Program Committee
deserve our gratitude for a distinguished group of presentations that certainly
spanned the chronological and methodological spectra of our disciplinary interests.
The Nominating Committee (chaired by James Briscoe) is forming a slate of candidates for the offices of Chapter Secretary and Treasurer. The next mailing will include thumbnail CVs of the candidates and a detachable ballot, for those preferring to vote by mail. In conformance with by-law A.2 to article V of the Chapter Constitution, additional nominations may be submitted by mail to the President, Camilla Cai. Any additional nomination must be signed by three Chapter members, must include the nominee's written statement that he or she will indeed serve if elected, and must reach the President not later than seven weeks before the Business Meeting in Kansas City.
At the national meeting in Toronto last November, Jan Herlinger convened the annual breakfast meeting for chapter officers. Prominent among the items of discussion was consideration of the intricacies entailed in moving a chapter bank account, which (at least in some locales) requires a certificate of incorporation and a matching non-profit tax identification number. The national office of the AMS is in the process of obtaining a group exemption letter for all chapters, to make redundant the otherwise hairy process of applying for independent non-profit status (501C3) with the IRS. Each chapter was encouraged to obtain its own EIN [Web Editor's note: = Employer Identification Numer]. The Southwest Chapter raised the question whether payment of chapter dues should be required for the privilege of voting in chapter elections, based on the assumption that membership in AMS automatically conferred chapter membership. In response to my question whether the converse were true, Secretary Herlinger asserted that all chapter members should also be members of the parent organization. Dissatisfaction was expressed with the lateness of the next national meeting (15-18 November), which, as Robert Judd explained, was dictated by hotel availability in Atlanta. One chapter representative urged that chapter funds from the national office not require matching monies (which in effect requires the chapters to engage in fundraising) but be distributed to chapters automatically for special events (e.g., speakers or concerts), not routine business. As one struggling chapter asked about procedures for dissolving itself, a broad discussion of the function of chapters themselves ensued.
SPRING MEETING
IN KANSAS CITY
Meeting Website
The Midwest Chapter will hold its next spring meeting at the University of Missouri
(Kansas City) Conservatory of Music, Grant Hall, on 24-25 March 2001. Thanks
are extended to William Everett for serving as a one-person Local Arrangements
Committee. There will be another Chapter dinner -a practice happily inaugurated
at the spring meeting in Ann Arbor-this time (you guessed it) barbecue. Details
of where to stay and how to get there have been posted on the Chapter website
(with sincere thanks to Mark Clague) and they will appear in the next mailing.
Call
for Papers
Chapter members are invited to submit papers on any subject to the Program Committee.
As in past years, the committee will favor submissions from members who have
not read papers at Midwest Chapter meetings in the preceding year. In 500 words
or less, abstracts should explain the originality, methodology, and conclusions
of the paper. They should also include a list of audio-visual equipment needed
and an estimate of the time required to deliver the paper. Papers of 20-25 minutes
are the norm.
Abstracts without identification of authorship must be sent to each member of the Program Committee and must be RECEIVED by MONDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2000. (The Secretary apologizes sincerely for the time squeeze.)
Prof. Lawence
E. Bennett, Chair
601 E. Wabash Avenue
Crawfordsville, IN 47933
Prof. Dane
Heuchemer
Music Department
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022
Prof. James
Parsons
4355 So. National Ave. Apt. 1209
Springfield, MO 65810
In addition to the anonymous abstracts, please mail one signed abstract to the President of the Chapter, Prof. Camilla Cai, Music Department, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022.
Students wishing to compete for the annual prizes offered by Indiana University Press and A-R Editions, should so indicate in the letter covering the signed abstract. In order to be considered, students must submit three copies of the complete paper to the program committee no later than the meeting at which they read the paper. Winners of the awards will be announced after the spring 2001 meeting.
CHAPTER
NEWSLETTER
Chapter members are invited to send news of their professional accomplishments
to the editor of the Newsletter, preferably by e-mail: peter-alexander@uiowa.edu
(please make sure to indicate diacritical marks) or via the news
submission page of the chapter website. By snail mail, the address is Dr.
Peter Alexander, Arts Center Relations, 100 Old Public Library, Iowa City, IA
52242-1373. The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2001 firm. Any report received
thereafter will be held for the 2002 Newsletter. Since reports are printed pretty
much as submitted, please make sure your report is accurate, clear, and consistent
with pertinent bibliographic norms.
Chapter Officers and Representatives
President (2000-2002)
Dr. Camilla Cai
Music Department
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022
phone: 740.427.5180
cai@kenyon.edu
Secretary (1999-2001)
Dr. Steven M. Whiting
School of Music
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085
phone: 734.764.2504
stevenmw@umich.edu
Treasurer (1999-2001)
Dr. Mary Natvig
512 No. Main St.
Bowling Green, OH 43402-2043
phone: 419.353.9292
mnatvig@bgnet.bgsu.edu
AMS Council Representative
(2000-2002)
Dr. Craig B. Parker
Music Department-McCain Auditorium
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-4702
phone: 785.532.3810
cbp@ksu.edu
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