1999 Council 1a Reports:
Membership Committee

From: Joe Rutledge

The teratology society added 19 members from August 1998 to June 1999. The influx of members was in part due to aggressive recruiting by several senior members. This brings us to a total of 739 members of which 591 have paid. We have 27 emeritus members, 16 associate, and 22 student members. The membership acceptance process worked well with evaluation of several groups at periodic times of the year. The requirement for 2 letters of sponsorship was waived to make the application process less onerous. It is pointed out however, that the membership committee should closely evaluate the CV's of the applicants to insure they will be appropriate members and may request, if there is any doubt, supporting letters. The Website committee, through the efforts of John Krayer, has set up the membership application on the Web page http://teratology.org/. There are several challenges in membership that this committee may in part address over the next year. These include (as with other similar organizations):
(a) retention;
(b) recruitment, especially at the student level;
(c) promotion of student members to continue affiliation with the Teratology Society;
(d.) payment of past due dues.

The new members are:
Ibrahim Chahoud, Betty L. DeLise, M.S., Ursula G. Froster, M.D., Robert M. Greene, Ph.D., Thomas Bruce Grizzle, Nafeesa Hunt, Diana Johnson, M.S., Amy L. Lavin, Ph.D., Jean-Jacques Legrand, D.V.M., Alexander Lyubimov, Ph.D., Jeffery S. Nye. M.D., Ph.D., Terence R. S. Ozolins, Ph.D., Eniko K. Pivnick, M.D., Timothy Robison, Ph.D, David Rowitch, R. Woodrow Setzer, Jr., Ph.D., Marilyn H. Silva, Ph.D., DABT, Kristina D. Spranger, and Mary K Walker, Ph.D.