Abstract
AbstractThe dust has settled back on St. Johns† and the Leys, the greenfly have retired to their winter quarters and enough time has elapsed to allow an objective look at the CCSO of 1979. What will mark 1979 in the long sequence of these highly successful conferences, what will cause us to say “Remember '79 that was the one …”? It may be the conference of the long walks for lunch with the blessedly fine weather which accompanied them to the frustration of the exhibHors, of the unfailing prologue which Ed Furmston provided for each session, or the smell of the midnight oil burning in the office of the 18 technical staff, of the dawning awareness of the explosive potential of mixing West Indians, Australians and others under the catalyst of a British Admiral. It may even be remembered as the Conference when it was finally realised that the sharp, and expensive, end of technology can be less important than getting the right people, in the right place, at the right time, to do a straightforward survey task. ...
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