Final recruitment tally available next month

Jack Raplee
ASME NEWS

Using member recruitment to establish student scholarships was so successful during ASME's 2001-02 recruitment campaign that it will be used in the 2002-03 campaign, which begins this month.

The tally as of May for the 2001-02 campaign totaled more than $15,000 in new scholarship money. The final campaign tally, which includes June, wasn't available at press time.

Through the membership campaigns for 2001-02 and 2002-03, 50 percent of a new member's first-year dues will go into a scholarship fund for mechanical engineering students that will be managed by the ASME Foundation.

Dues from a new member who was not recruited by an ASME member will not be added to the scholarship fund.

From the time the 2001-02 campaign started last August, it has brought in more than $15,000, or about one new $1,500 scholarship a month. In May, the campaign raised $523.

A total of 349 new members have joined since the program began last summer. Of those, 23 enrolled in May. Overall, 315 members have taken part by sponsoring a new member.

These scholarships are awarded to ASME student members based on their scholastic abilities and their potential contributions to the mechanical engineering profession.

For more information about the ASME recruitment campaign, visit www.asme.org/memb, or call Cheryl Hasan at (212) 591-8239.

To get scholarship information, visit www.asme.org/education/enged/aid/scholar.htm.

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