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email: April. Boy Scouts' exhibition
at Kelvin Hall including space-ship stand by Andy Nimmo.
First meeting of Andy and Oscar. July 18-20. BIS holds joint
3-day symposium with Cranfield College of Aeronautics, first
proposed by T.R.
Nonweiler of Cranfield (see
below). The symposium was followed by a cricket match
between the BIS XI and the local football club. A joint Scottish Branch meeting was
held with Astronomical Society of Glasgow, a talk by the
Astronomer Royal, Prof. Richard van de Riet Woolley. In an
interview at the airport, and in questions afterwards, Prof.
Woolley repeated his famous utterance "Space travel is utter
bilge", only weeks before the launch of Sputnik
I. Donald Malcolm became Branch
Secretary, and from here on records are more comprehensive.
Things were going well: 36 people attended the October 25th
meeting on 'The Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life' and 82
the 13th December lecture by L.R. Shepherd on 'Artificial
Satellites', at the Glasgow University Botany Theatre.
Dr.
Roy was now Chairman, and the
Committee were John W. Macvey, of whom more later, also A.
Stewart, J. Burton and P. Connelly. However the Scottish
Branch was still officially described as
'Provisional'. 1958
1956
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