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Request through Ray Burnett leads to Institute of Physics activities
On 6th April 1964 I had my first contact for many years with the Institute of
Physics (IOP) when I received a message from H.W. (R.E. Burnett's secretary) that IOP
wanted a careers representative for an Alleynes Boys Grammar School, Stevenage, event.
The request had come through Hertfordshire County Council.
I told H.W. I would take it on. She phoned IOP - and relayed a message
back that IOP was delighted etc.
On the 9th April IOP wrote saying that they understood from R.E. Burnett that I was willing to be a Careers Consultant at the Alleynes Convention. 64d09 . Enclosed was a copy of a 26 Mar letter from HCC Youth Employment Service about the Careers Convention.
The Alleynes (Boys) Grammar School Careers Convention took place in the evening of 28th April and I was in attendance as a representative of the Institute of Physics.
What happened next was that at a meeting on 1st July of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Scientific Instruments (JSI or J.Sci.Inst.) - a long established periodical published under the auspices of the Institute of Physics (IOP) - A.H. Beck of M.I. was proposed (among others) to fill 1 vacancy. 64g01 . The outcome of JSI Board proposal was that at its meeting on 28th April the IOP Publications Committee agreed that I be invited to serve as a member of JSI Editorial Board. I was not a member of IOP.
I had no idea all this had been going on until, on 4th August,
Dr. A.C. Stickland (Deputy Secretary of the IOP) wrote inviting me to be a
member of the JSI Board. 64h04 .
I accepted the invitation and on 8th October 1964 I attended a meeting of the
JSI Board for the first time. There
was a new Chairman, Dr. A.J. Maddock. Miss
A.C. Stickland & Miss H. Carcas in attendance.