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email: May. Social meetings
move to the Horseshoe Bar in Drury St., Glasgow -
unsuccessfully. After June they moved again to the Waterloo,
on Waterloo St., but died away over the following
year. As 1976 went on the
internal problems became acute, with complete disagreement
about how to handle them because the old constitution had
been suspended and the new one had yet to be ratified. I
resigned from the Vice-Presidency on 13th June, and the next
few months were the first of the only two periods when I've
been off the Council since 1963. (See 1989).
Chris
Boyce and Jim
Campbell stepped in. Aug.21.
Ayrshire branch meeting. One reason why the troublemakers
couldn't agree was that the one eventually expelled was
opposed to all discussion of Contact with Other
Intelligence, including the tracking station project. I had
been chairing discussion meetings (which he insisted on
disrupting) for as equal to "Man and the Stars", and to keep
them going I held three meetings at the Sun Inn in Irvine,
where I had previously run the Irvine Folk Song Club, and
also hosted one meeting at home. Sept.4. One
troublemaker expelled, the only expulsion in all the years
to date. The other resigned soon afterwards. Oct.20. ASTRA
signs lease for new premises at 49 Almada St., Hamilton.
These gave us lecture room, lounge, office, workroom,
kitchenette and toilet which was intended to be a darkroom,
and were occupied for the next six years. Nov.18. It had now
emerged, by chance, that the Companies Office was holding up
our application because they didn't believe the society was
genuine. Once convinced of that, they had with drawn almost
all objections to the name (the sticking point) except for
the word 'Technology', which, they said, could cause us to
be confused with the Association of Circuit Technologists
Ltd. A number of other acronyms were considered, including
Oscar's 'Association to Search for Those Trying to Radio
Anyone', but in the end we settled for 'The Association in
Scotland To Research into Astronautics, Limited', although
it makes the acronym ungrammatical by capitalising the 'To'.
However the best acronym to date was suggested later by
Gordon
Dick (Ross),
'A Set of Totally Reprehensible Alcoholics'. 1977
1975
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