Free Membership and a Free Book--And It's All Legal!

Here's how: Upon graduation, students without immediate plans to continue on to graduate school may obtain full TMS member benefits through November 30, 1995, at no cost. For two years after the expiration of the free membership, you pay only $19.50 per year if you elect to remain a member. You will be called a "junior member" during this period. Afterward, you will be eligible for full membership. [Sure, the designation is not quite as pretigious as "member," but you'll also be saving $50.50 over the full member fee. That's a deal--ed.]

The procedure is simple: Complete an application form and return it to TMS. Approval is automatic for existing student members. For a form, see page 40 in the January 1995 JOM or contact Nellie Luther at the address listed below.

About that book: Automatic junior membership entitles the former student to select one complimentary book from a list made available through the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers' (AIME)'s Seeley W. Mudd Memorial Fund. (TMS is one of four member societies in AIME.) The fund, used to produce publications for young engineers, began at AIME in 1929 in memory of Colonel Mudd's contribution to the growth of various mining enterprises.

The following titles are available:

• Advanced Sensing, Modelling, and Control of Materials Processing, edited by B.G. Kushner and E. Methys.
  
• Case Histories of Mineral Discoveries Volume 2: Discoveries of Valuable Minerals and Precious Metals Deposits Related to Intrusions and Faults, edited by V.F. Hollister.
  
• Coal Preparation, edited by J.W. Leonard III.
  
• Design and Operation of Caving and Sublevel Stoping Mines, edited by D.R. Stewart.
  
• Economics of Internationally Traded Minerals, edited by W.H. Bush.
  
• Economics of the Mineral Industries, edited by W.A. Vogely.
  
• Electric Furnace Steelmaking, edited by C.R. Taylor.
  
• Electrode Use in Electric Arc Furnaces, edited by G. Harry.
  
• The First Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, edited by C. Shi, H. Li, and A. Scott.
  
• High-Strain Rate Behavior of Refractory Metals and Alloys, edited by R. Asfahani, E. Chen, and A. Crowson.
  
• High-Temperature Niobium Alloys, edited by J. Stephens and I.Ahmad.
  
• Industrial Minerals and Rocks, 5th edition, edited by S.J. Lefond.
  
• Mine Investment Analysis by D.W. Gentry and T.J. O'Neil.
  
• Mining Engineering Analysis by C.J. Bise.
  
• Original Steelmakers by J.R. Stubbles.
  
• Proceedings of the Morris E. Fine Symposium, edited by P.K. Liaw, J.R. Weertman, H.L. Marcus, and J.S. Santner.
  
• Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Agglomeration, edited by C.E. Capes.
  
• Recent Developments in Rotor Forging Steels, edited by R.L. Bodnar.
  
• A selectrion from the Specific Petroleum Engineering Monograph Series.
  
• A selection from the Specific Petroleum Engineering Reprint Series.
  
• Surface Modification Technologies VI, edited by T.S. Sudarshan, D.G. Bhat, and M. Jeandin.
  
• Underground Mining Methods Handbook, edited by W.A. Hustrulid.
  
• Vacuum Degassing of Steel by R.J. Fruehan.

For more information on junior membership or for a form, contact Nellie Luther, TMS Member Services Department, at (724) 776-9000, ext. 213; fax (412) 776-3770; or e-mail natale@tms.org.