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With eager pleasure and some trepidation, I launch into the first Executive Secretary's Report of my three-year tenure, checking the mirror from time to time for a certain semi-visible steam rising from my head, that curious involuted undulation that will assure me I'm on target. As I do so, I am humbled and honored to follow in the wake of never ponderous but assuredly profound previous secretaries Start Garner, Sandy Marovitz, and Chris Sten.
The year 2003 sounded many glorious heights and one particular tragic depth for the Society. Our crowning jewel was the Society's 4th International Conference, Melville and the Pacific, mounted by co-chairs Charlene Avallone and Carolyn Karcher in Lahaina, Maui, June 3-7, drawing over sixty Melvillean presenters from all points of the globe. Unique to the place and time were special sessions by Keone Freeland (Lahaina Restoration Foundation), a slide presentation on 18th-19th century Hawai'i by Karen Thompson (Honolulu Academy of Art), a beautifully plaintive call for Hawaiian independence in word and song by Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio, and "oceanic" tattooing in word and deed by Keone Nunes (Pacific Island Tatau Association). An edition of the conference proceedings is now being edited by Chris Steal, Wyn Kelley, and Jill Barnum. Several Melvilleans also attended "Melville in the Marquesas," a conference and expedition chaired by Henry Hughes and hosted by the Purdue Circle for American-Pacific Studies and Western Oregon University in Papeete, Tahiti, June 29-July 10. See the Extracts Maui supplement, a souvenir issue brimming with reports and photos of both programs.
The tragedy which stunned us all was the sudden death on December 26 of Bryan Short, Society Treasurer, colleague, and friend. We will be enduringly grateful for his selfless and loyal service, generous heart, intelligence, and noble ease, and are most fortunate and glad for...
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