BIOS Reporter – Volume 7, No.4 – October 1983

It is now two years since Michael Gillingham first indicated to members of BIOS that he felt the time to be approaching when he should retire from the Chairmanship of the society. The Council could only accept his decision with reluctance, but at the A.G.M. on Saturday, September 24th, a successor was duly elected. On that occasion, Mr. Gillingham was presented with a modest token of the society’s appreciation of all that he had done for BIOS during the seven years in which he served as Chairman; this took the form of an engraved stop knob, mounted on an oak block, recording those seven years – “Michael Gillingham, Chairman BIOS, 1976-83″…