Mountain-Plains Chapter Annual Report 2018
submitted by Myrna Layton, Chair
Current Roster
- Myrna Layton, Chair, Newsletter Editor
- Janice Bunker, Secretary/Treasurer
- Elwood (Woody) Colahan, Vice Chair/Chair Elect, Webmaster, Chapter Archivist
- Christopher Mehrens, Past Chair
- Christine Edwards, Member at large
List of Previous Goals and Progress Made
- Our chapter awarded five travel grants for the Reno meeting.
- Our Best of Chapters winning papers were Anita Breckbill’s and Hannah Jo Smith’s “Follow the Baton” a story which you can follow at this link: http://netnebraska.org/interactive-multimedia/other/wagners-baton and Sarah Perske’s “Transcribing Mudarra’s Fantasia X.”
- Next meeting is planned for May 17-18, 2019, to be hosted by Lisa Chaufty, University of Utah.
List of Future Goals
- Our chapter applied for and received a $400 grant to support our Oral History Project.
- For this project emeritus members of our chapter are being interviewed about their careers as music librarians.
- The interviews are to be incorporated in our chapter website.
- We are also working on historical documentation and collection of chapter archives.