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The General Meeting fixed the number
of contributory shares for each Founder
Member, established a budget, and set
the amount of a unit contributory share at
US$ 20. It also determined the objectives of
its Scientific and Technical Directorate (STD).
The IUVSTA maintained the legal status
which had been granted to the IOVST in
compliance with Belgian laws on international
associations having scientific aims.
The Executive Council, which also met
for the first time on 8 December 1962,
appointed E. Thomas as Secretary
General and as Secretary of the STD,
R. Mercier as Treasurer, K. Diels as
Scientific Director of the STD and
J. Yarwood as Recording Secretary,
a post he held for many years. The
Council also set the Union’s program of
activities for the triennium. This included
the following main points: to continue to
encourage the establishment of national
vacuum societies and committees where
they did not yet exist, to coordinate
meetings of the national societies in order
to avoid conflict of dates, to prepare a
manual on the purpose and policies of the
Union, to organise the Third International
Vacuum Congress, to publish a News
Bulletin on the activities of the Union,
and to develop working groups within
the STD on education, bibliography and
literature, measurements and standards.
In response to these objectives, K. Diels
set up the following four Working Groups
within the framework of the STD:
Working Group Chairman
Education
D. A. Degras (F)
Documentation J. H. Makkink (NL)
Development of
W. Steckelmacher (GB)
Measuring Methods
Standardisation W. Hänlein (D)
The statutes of the Union proved to
endure time remarkably well.They have
served the Union for more than fifty
years with only minor modifications.
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