Acknowledgements
The Organising Committee would like to thank the following:
- Those who provided financial or material support before the event:
- The BAS Club (help in tracing Halley Bay fids)
- BAS Club Benevolent Fund (support for needy delegates)
- Bovis Lend Lease (financial donation)
- British Antarctic Survey (loan of display boards, DVDs and much else)
- Bury Transport, Falkland Islands (financial donation)
- Corroconsult (financial donation)
- George Hemmen (encouragement and information)
- Keilyn Glass, Falkland Islands (engraved glassware)
- Joe MacDowall (donation of books)
- Mike Rose (technical help)
- The Royal Society (IGYE exhibits and film)
- Allan Wearden (birthday cake)
- Rodney Whitwell (photography)
- Stephen Williams (commemorative DVD)
- Louise Wincott (menus, name badges, tickets)
- Our speakers:
- Prof. Chris Rapley
- George Hemmen
- At the dinner:
- David Fletcher (MC)
- Capt. Stuart Lawrence (after dinner speaker)
- Steve Marshall (video chat with Halley)
- Liz Pinnock (grace)
- Tony Haynes (toast)
- George Hemmen (toast)
- Our Cake Cutters:
- David Dalgliesh
- Simon Coggins
- Those who brought exhibits and flags
- Those who manned the registration desk at Northampton:
- Pauline Aslin
- Steve Ault
- Toby Clark
- Liz Pinnock
- Mick Roscoe
- Rosy Smith
- Those who assisted in the Exhibition and Sales Rooms:
- Phil Anderson
- Helen Campbell
- Graham Chambers
- Dave Clements
- Lucy Clements
- Paul Coslett
- Alan Etchells
- Cat Gillies
- David Habgood
- Pete Jenkins
- Lewis Juckes
- Tom Lachlan-Cope
- Caroline Lewis
- Geoff Lovegrove
- Graham Mawdsley
- Stuart McMillan
- Peter Noble
- David Peel
- Petra Schmidt
- John Skilling
- Steve Smith
- Keith Yearby
- Everyone who help set up and take down display boards, etc.
- The guys and gals at Halley, who joined us (virtually) on the day,
produced and sent their video, and did the technical stuff on base
- The hotel staff, who could not have been more helpful
- The conference team: Janette Risk, Paul Tyrrell, James Berry
- The chef, for the great food
- The serving staff, for their efficient service to 383 diners
seated at 35 closely spaced tables
- The maintenance team: Gary, for putting up and taking down the flags and banners
- Anyone else omitted from the above, who helped make Z-50 a great success
The committee has received many messages of appreciation
and congratulation, and we thank you all for those.
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