Forty-third Annual Meeting
University of California, Los Angeles
Schoenberg Hall
February 21-22, 2009
Los Angeles, CA
2008 Business Meeting Minutes (Approved 2009)
2009 Program Committee
Ricardo D. Trimillos (Chair), University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Kevin Delgado, San Diego State University
Nancy Guy, UC San Diego
Katherine Hagedorn, Pomona College
Paul Humphreys, Loyola Marymount University
Jacob Rekedal, UC Riverside
Timothy Taylor, UC Los Angeles
Local Arrangements (UCLA)
Roger Savage
Benjamin J. Harbert
Michael Iyanaga
At our annual meeting on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009 we approved our new name, the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California & Hawai'i Chapter (SEMSCHC). To commemorate this occasion, Mariachi Uclatlán from UCLA and Keola Donaghy from Hawai'i offered songs and chant. The tradition we honored is a venerable one. Through exchanging greetings, members from Southern California and from Hawai'i acknowledged the inestimable value of the other. This symbolic exchange served as a pledge of commitment and trust. It was this, as much as the scholarly institution of which we are a part, that we celebrated.
As many of you know, Ric Trimillos was instrumental in initiating the venture on which we have embarked. We also owe Timothy Cooley a word of thanks. It was during Tim's tenure as president that we set out on this path. I had the great privilege and joy to formally welcome Hawai'i at this inaugural meeting. Welcome Hawai'i!! With you, I look forward to the new adventures and new horizons that await us as colleagues, partners and friends.
Roger Savage
Chapter President