MRS Council Reviews 1987 Highlights
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1987, gaining Council approval for new Student Chapters at the University of Michigan, University of Florida, Alfred University, and University of Minnesota. The total number of MRS Student Chapters now stands at 14. Second vice president Bob Chang reported on the progress of various MRS international activities. Plans for the MRS international meetings to be held in Japan in 1988 are proceeding well. A meeting of international representatives interested in MRS-type activities held during the MRS Fall Meeting had a record 32 participants, with representatives from Australia, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. JULIA M.PHILLIPS MRS Secretary
Council approved a preliminary 1988 budget of approximately $2.4M for the Society. The final budget for the year will be approved at the Spring Council Meeting. During 1987, seven full-time employees joined the MRS headquarters staff. Two employees filled existing positions, and five provided additional support in publications, data processing, accounting, and meeting activities. Council authorized the hiring of a Director of Meeting Activities, who will be responsible for coordinating E.N. Kaufmann Receives all aspects of meeting planning and exeWoody Award at 1987 MRS cution between MRS headquarters, the meeting chairs, and the various contracFall Meeting tors who provide meeting services. MRS published twenty-seven books in 1987. A catalog of these and previously published books has recently been compiled and mailed to MRS members, book buyers, and distributors. MRS books include proceedings of MRS symposia as well as proceedings of other conferences deemed of high interest to MRS members. Plans are underway for a technical monograph series. Also underway is a search for a full-time technical editor for the MRS BULLETIN, which will be published monthly beginning January 1988. Journal of Materials Research grew in stature and circulation in 1987. The JMR MRS BULLETIN Editorial Board Chaireditorial office was moved to MRS headman, Elton N. Kaufmann (above right), quarters in January when Walter Brown was presented with the MRS Woody assumed the position of Editor-in-Chief of Award by past president Gordon Pike the publication. The journal recently pub(above left) following the December 4, lished a special issue highlighting high Tc 1988 session of the MRS Council meeting. superconductors. Council approved the The Woody Award was initiated by former appointment of J. Wachtman, F. Young, MRS president Harry J. Leamy in 1984 and M. Fine to the JMR Advisory Review and was named by him after its first recipBoard. ient C.W. (Woody) White, the 1984 president of the Society. It is given to an MRS Council approved changes in the MRS volunteer who, following the model esBylaws to split the Education Committee tablished by White, devotes to MRS acinto two committees. One, to be called the tivities over an extended period of time a Academic Affairs Committee, will serve level of time and energy that considerably in an advisory capacit
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