My sponsors were Sheila Little who was seconded by Hugh Wynne. I have been a member of the Committee from then on. I came to know most of those who were prominent in the early pioneering days of the Society and I recall with special affection Thea and Jacob Miller, Ruth Barr, Albury Sanders, Jeannie Geddes and Greta Gross. He had overstepped legal bounds by assisting would-be suicides and paid for it by a spell in prison. I still regret our change of name.
Exit is so much more elegant and succinct.
But we could hardly have clung to it once the London based Society had abandoned it. A Humanist Viewpoint. At the 1985 AGM in Glasgow I took over from Sheila Little as Chairman. Should any reader wish to know more about me, my career, my family background etc, they can consult the Profile of Our New Chairman which Jacob Miller published in the April 1985 issue of our Newsletter on the basis of an interview. VESS is, of course, but one element in a world-wide movement and in November 1985 I attended my first international conference.