Joining nations 1947-1990

JOINING NATIONS

the decision of the New Zealand delegation to invite the IIW to hold its third Regional Congress in that country in 1 996, thus confirming the establishment of a four-yearly cycle for these Congresses, of which the second was to be held in Brazil in 1992. At a more fundamental level, the Governing Council had given consideration the previous year to ways and means of encouraging young people to interest themselves in the work of the Institute. Two separate proposals with this aim were adopted in Montreal. The first concerned the amendment of the Bye-Laws to facilitate the attend– ance of students at Annual Assemblies in general and at meetings of the working units in particular. The second contained the draft rules for a competition among student authors of papers devoted to research into welding technology or a related subject. This competition 1was 1 named the Granjon Medal Competition to record and( ltonour the name of the previous Scientific and Technical Secretary who had devoted so much of his career to the teaching of welding and the furtherance of the IIW. Thus, at the end of the Montreal Assembly, the IIW, with a new President and Secretary-General, faced a new decade with a grateful thought for a past contributor but with eyes firmly fixed on future opportunities to serve welding technologists and their industries in member countries and beyond.