Box 1
Contains 79 Collections and/or Records:
Board of Trustees Meetings, 1974
One copy of minutes contains DB's annotations. File also contains letter about raising funds from board members. Bortnick presents update about Kodaly research.
Board of Trustees Meetings, 1975
Board meeting in April contains detailed notes (recorded by Bodie Miller).
Board of Trustees Meetings, 1976
Contains documentation of KMTI's ongoing budget shortfalls and the board's growing impatience with running large financial deficits. Executive committee begins to make decisions without DB's approval. File includes one loose page from a 1977 meeting (misfiled), with undated DB note: "No record of March 23rd 1977 mtg firing D Bacon except possibly this loose sheet." Alternate budget 76-77 included in file.
Board of Trustees Meetings, 1977
Minutes for meetings in the first half of the year missing. Minutes begin June 15, 1977, at the first meeting after DB's dismissal in March.
Board of Trustees Meetings, 1978-1980
Minutes in the years following DB's dismissal. May be duplicated in an earlier box.
Strategic Planning and KMTI History, 1969-1975
Includes some confidential information on the early years of KMTI, including a list of other Kodaly specialists and how supportive they are of KMTI. File had "keep at home" on the label.
Schedule: Original Kodaly-Nemesszeghy Trip, October 1969
Report on Summer Activities of Denise Bacon in Russia and Hungary, 1970
Important document describing the ISME conference where the pilot class film was shown. Also Kecskemet seminar. Report for KMTI board.