The Gazette 1973

The New Director-General Mr. James J. Ivers, M.Econ.Sc., M.B.A., has been appointed Director-General to the Society with effect from 1 October 1973; he was born in Cork, and is 45 years of age.

Class Honours in 1968, and the Master of Business Administration Degree with First Class Honours in 1970. Mr. Ivers holds various other posts. He is a founda- tion member, as well as a Council member, of the Irish Institute of Public Administration; he is Chairman of the General Medical Services (Payments) Board and of the Health Staff Advisory Board in the Institute of Public Administration; he is also a member of the Local Government staff negotiating Committee, as well as being Honorary Treasurer of Irish Credit Union, nnd a member of the Credit Union Advisory Com- mittee in the Department of Industry and Commerce. The new post of Director General was created on the retirement of Mr. Eric A. Plunkett, B.A. (N.U.I.), who has been Secretary of the Society since 1942. Mr. Plunkett will continue to act as part-time consultant to the Council. He qualified in 1931 and practised in Dublin until his appointment as Secretary.

Mr. Ivers has had a varied and interesting career. In 1944 he was a clerk with the Great Southern Railways in Waterford, and was successively Clerical Officer and Executive Officer in the Department of Industry and Commerce, from 1945 to 1950; from 1950 to 1958 he was an Administrative Officer in the Department of Health. Mr. Ivers then left the Civil Service to take on a very successful business career. From 1958 to 1970, Mr. Ivers was General Secretary of the Irish Dental Association, and in 1970 was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the North Western Health Board in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. He had a very successful academic career in University College, Dublin, securing the B.Gomm. Degree with Honours in 1967, the M.Econ.Sc. Degree with First

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