Board of directors concerned mainly with proposed AIEE-IRE merger

The proposed merger with IRE occupied the larger part of the Board´s attention on the last day of the 1962 Winter General Meeting in New York. After hearing the subject discussed at an open meeting on Wednesday night, and reviewing the newly revised draft of “Principles of Consolidation for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers” (IEEE) prepared by the Eight-Man AIEE/IRE Committee, the Board voted approval with suggestions for modification of a few points. The Principles approved by the Board are given in brief form on pp. 222 of this issue. Intensive work by the Board and the joint AIEE-IRE committees will continue in preparation for a concurrent meeting of the Boards of the two Institutes on March 8. If the two Boards recommend consolidation, a membership vote will probably take place at the AIEE Annual Meeting set for June 18, 1962, in Denver, Colo.