Warmest Computergram congratulations to those telecommunications, computer and microelectronics notables who feature in the 1988 Queen’s Birthday Honours list, published over the weekend. Plessey’s research director John Bass becomes a CBE, with other CBEs going to Racal Radar’s chairman and managing director Barton Clarke for services to export; Samuel Clarke for government; university and industrial-based research in information technology, Philips Electronic and Associated Industries’ technical director, William South; and William Uttley-Moore, chairman and managing director of Control Data subsidiary, Computing Devices Plc. Peter Conchie, director of British Aerospace business development, space and communications division, becomes an OBE, and also created OBEs are IBM UK’s Warwick-based computer services development group manager, Ian Nussey; Leslie Biggs, chief estimator at Marconi Radar Systems, Chelmsford; and Frederick Walter, lately general manager of STC Plc, Treforest, Mid Glamorgan. New Members of the Order include Gerald O’Neill, Plessey Telecommunications’ general manager in Ballynahinch, Co Down; Ian Vance, director of STC’s Saffron Waldon-based navigation, radio and microwave division; and David Young, chairman of Continental Microwave Plc, who gets his MBE for services to export.
