An educational setting

Towards the end of 1953, before I was a member of the Tavistock Institute, I became acquainted with Mr. David Richardson at a seminar held at the Institute. Mr. Richardson was the newly appointed head of the Department of Management and Production Engineering at the Helmsley Technical College. ¹ We both had an interest in the work done at the Tavistock Institute and had both known the then chairman of the management committee, Dr. A. T. M. Wilson, for some years. There was a further link between Helmsley and the Institute, in that an influential member of the governing body ² of the college was managing director of a company which had been closely associated with the Institute over many years.