General
Membership Meeting
Saturday, April 3, 2004
William Paterson University,
Wayne, NJ
Members present: McCain (Western Illinois
University), O’Brien
(Middle Tennessee State University), Ashbourne (Clark Atlanta
University), Fansler (Dallas Baptist University), Nickolson (Chowan
College), Lawrence (Northeastern University), Cho (Delgado Community
College), Hill (Lebanon Valley College), Bulla (Belmont University),
Ronkin (Northeastern University), Schmunk (University of Southern
California), McIlvery (University of Southern California), Lewis
(Valparaiso Univerisity), Kemmerer (Albright College), Snyder (Lebanon
Valley College), Chappell (Anderson University), Johnson (Columbia
College Chicago), Terrell (Alabama State University), Segal (CAMI),
Wangler (BelCanto Reeds), Strasser (Univ. Mass. Lowell), Hinderlie
(Loyola University New Orleans), Krikun (Bergen Community College),
Thomas (Georgia State University), Baskerville (Sherwood Publishing
Partners), Weissman (University of Colorado, retired), Gorder (Berklee
College of Music), Dorenfeld (Berklee College of Music), Nelson
(College of St. Rose), Sanchez (University of Miami), Papadopoulos
(Victoria University AU), Dassinger (William Paterson University),
Murphy (University of the Redlands), Progris (University of Miami),
Leonard (Trebas Institute Montreal), Decker (Towson University)
Chappell, president, called the meeting to
order at 4:03 pm
O’Brien move to accept minutes as
presented Ashbourne seconded
Unanimous
- President report and overview:
- Board overview
a) Year
of re-organization for MEIEA
i) Resignation
of Exec. Director last spring
ii) Redistribution
of Board responsibilities
iii) Loyola is maintained as headquarters; Hrycaj is maintained as
office
assistant
b) Web
site update
c) Journal
update
d) Stability
of membership numbers
e) Stability
of finances
f) Regional
MEISA conference overview
g) Periodical
discounts for MEIEA members
h) MEIEA
conference 2005 will be at the University of Miami, April 1 – 2,
2005
i) Acknowledgement
of Marcone for successful spring 2004 conference
Possibility
of making a small profit/breaking even in spite of NYC expenses
j) Seeking conference host for 2006
a) Expectations of board members: i)
Attendance at meetings;
two
springs, one fall ii) High level of participation
b) Board re-structured to include:
i) Six (6) Executive Board
(1) President (2) Vice-president (3) Secretary (4) Treasurer (5)
Director of membership
(6) Director of student relations ii) Eight (8) board members
c) Positions up for election spring 2004:
i) Secretary
ii) Treasurer
iii) Director of Student Relations
iv) Four (4) board positions
3. Elections
d) Director of Student Relations
i) Lewis
(1) Motion by Ashbourne to approve Lewis as Dir. Of Student Relations
(2) Second by Marcone (3) Unanimous (4) Sec. Cast vote
e) Secretary
i) Kemmerer
(1) Motion by Ashbourne to approve Kemmerer as secretary (2) Seconded
by Marcone (3) Unanimous (4) Sec. Cast vote
f) Treasurer
i) Johnson
(1) Motion by Ashbourne to approve Johnson as treasurer (2) Seconded by
Marcone (3) Unanimous (4) Sec. Cast vote
g) Board positions
i) nominations
(1) Hinderle (2) Fansler (3) *Strasser (4) Harrington (5) *Bulla (6)
Hill (7) Terrel (8) *Ashbourne
(9) Kellog
ii) Ashbourne: Motion to close nominations
(1) Seconded by Marcone iii) By request: people starred (above) are
current board members iv) Discussion of people running
h) Results
i) Returning Exec. Board
(1) Chappell, President (2) Snyder, Vice-President
(3) McCain, Director of Membership
ii) Newly elected Exec. Board:
(1) Lewis, Director of Student Relations (2) Kemmerer, Secretary
(3) Johnson, Treasurer
iii) Returning Board members:
(1) McCain (2) Wangler (3) Cho
(4) Ronkin
iv) Newly elected Board members
(1) Kellog (2) Strasser (3) Harrington (4) Bulla
4. Progris on relationship with NARM a) Seeking to broaden
relationship with NARM b) Annual trade show – August 2004, San Diego,
CA
i) Three competitions ii) deadline extended to April 30 iii)
three
categories: marketing plan, performance (vocal and instrumental), and
songwriting iv) open to all MEIEA members
c) Encouraged all to attend
- Introduction of Bill Thomas, recipient of MEIEA award for
service
to the industry
- Introduction of Jen Segal, newly nominated advisory board
member
- Wangler: introduction of ‘perks’ for MEIEA (discounts on
periodicals); info. on web and in hard copy
- Sanchez: spoke about Miami conference 2005; seeking input
from
members
- Ronkin: seeking Journal submissions by mid-May for
publication in
fall 2004 a) Submission information also available on the web
The meeting was adjourned at 5:30 pm.
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