Abstract :
In recognition of the professional interests of its thousands of members outside of North America, the increasing membership and Section activities abroad, and a demand for greater accessibility to IRE services anid publicationis the IRE Board of Directors, at its meetinig of January 4, 1961, authorized Presidenit Lloyd V. Berkner to appoint a committee to consider ways anid meanis for more effectively servinig these inemibers. The Board further outlined the scope of this committee Tlhe 1961 Ad Hoc Committee onl IRE Initerniational Activities Outside of Existing Regionis-to include: 1) The development, establishment and operation of Sections. 2) Affiliation with qualified societies. 3) Extension of Professional Group activities internationally. 4) Potential development of Regions. 5) Visual-Audio aids to Sections.
