Alastair Paterson, FEng, Senior Partner, Bullen & Partners, consulting engineers, will succeed Dr. Roy Rowe, CBE, FEng, as President of the Institution 1984-85. The handover comes on Thursday 4 October 1984 when, at an Ordinary Meeting at Institution headquarters, beginning at 6 pm, Mr Paterson will give his Presidential Address ‘The structural engineer in context’. The full text will be published in The Structural Engineer in December next.