1995 Series 1 Number 14 Page 18
A.H. (Drew) Wilson, chairman of the CACOR board of directors at the time, oversaw the annual general meeting in May, 1995.
The AGM included a three-person panel: Nicole Morgan, Morris Miller, and Fred Belaire.
Drew Wilson outlined the history of CACOR discussions on the world problematique (the growing population and its ecological effects) beginning in the early 1990s. He stressed the expanded availability of information and how people were reacting to news about environmental problems, including the propensity to refuse to acknowledge the facts. [This is a problem which, if anything, has intensified in the subsequent three decades. Ed.]
Drew gave his introduction on the three-person panel that discussed the World Problematique that preoccupied CACOR in 1995. Mr. Wilson speculated on whether CACOR might be able to pursue further discussions through a third working group.
[Drew Wilson was a graduate in mechanical engineering and the liberal arts, and held technical, administrative, research, and management positions in the UK and the Public Service of Canada. He served for many years as chair of the History Committees of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and the Engineering Institute of Canada, and has been president of both. He joined CACOR in 1986 and has been both board member and chair of the Association. Over the years, he wrote many papers and was a frequent lecturer on a variety of subjects. Ed.]
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