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| Serena Reeder Carroll, Chair E-mail: awx6@cdc.gov Special Pathogens Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Road, MS G-14 Atlanta, GA 30333 Phone: 404-639-1061 Joel G. Brant Department of Biology McMurry University McM Station Box 368 Abilene, TX 79697 Phone: 325-793-3875 E-mail: brant.joel@mcmurryadm.mcm.edu Elmer J. Finck Department of Biological Sciences Fort Hays State University 600 Park Street Hays, KS 67601-4099 Phone: 785-628-4214 FAX: 785-628-4153 E-Mail: efinck@fhsu.edu Michael R. Gannon Department of Biology 3000 Ivyside Park The Pennsylvania State University Altoona PA 16601-3760 E-Mail: mrg5@psu.edu John Hanson Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409 E-mail: jdelton.hanson@ttu.edu Michelle L. Haynie Department of Biology University of Central Oklahoma 100 N. University Dr. Edmond, OK 73034 Phone: 405-974-5774 E-mail: mhaynie@uco.edu Kendra L. Phelps Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-2737 E-mail: kendra.phelps@ttu.edu Duke S. Rogers Department of Integrative Biology Brigham Young University 647-A WIDB Provo, UT 84602 Phone: 801-422-5898 E-mail: duke_rogers@byu.edu H. Smith 8412 E Old Maple Ave. Terre Haute, IN 47803 Phone: 812-240-8431 E-mail: handcsmith@hotmail.com Richard D. Stevens Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-0224 E-mail: rstevens@lsu.edu Irma Tapia Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program Iowa State University 81 Science I Ames, IA 50010 E-mail: itapia@iastate.edu S. Westerman-Ayers Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: 806-742-2725 E-mail: s.westerman@ttu.edu Sarah Weyandt Committee on Evolutionary Biology University of Chicago 1025 E. 57th Street, CH 402 Chicago, IL 60637 E-mail: weyandt@uchicago.edu | |||||
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| History and Mission The Board of Directors established this committee in 1930 to encourage all persons with an interest in mammals to become members of the Society. No restrictions as to age or education are placed on members of ASM (Gill and Wozencraft, 1994). Responsibilities In recent years an emphasis has been placed on making new members feel at home in the society and encouraging retention of members by writing welcoming letters to new members, pursuing any problems in the mailing of journals, and writing two-year delinquents to determine their reason for dropping membership. Also, letters are written to nonmember authors who publish in the Journal of Mammalogy explaining the benefits of ASM membership and encouraging them to join the society. The committee has been instrumental in retaining members; short-term memberships are a financial drain on the society. The committee also is involved in sending back volumes of the Journal of Mammalogy to mammalogists and in arranging for sponsorships of ASM memberships for individuals or institutions outside of North America that cannot afford to buy journals or pay annual dues. Geographic balance (national and international) in the composition of this committee is important. |
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