PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: What Is It All About?

JSGT 1954 V38 T365-T370

Without the platform which the Society offers and the social gatherings which so properly go hand in hand with the lectures, the industrialist not only would suffer by not being able to keep himself in the forefront of the most up-to-date developments, but he would not see, and be able to encourage, and perhaps subsequently to employ in his own laboratories and factories, the most up-and-coming technologists of the day. I believe, therefore, that any industrialist whose production depends on the advancement of glass technology is retrograde and unenterprising, deserving of the inevitable fate which will overtake him, if he does not recognise the value of the work of the Society and give it his support.

Sir Graham Cunningham