David Male has been elected president of the RICS for 1989-90. During his year in office he intends to highlight three key issues; the need to establish a response to the decline in school leavers and graduates in the 1990s, to press the Government on regulation of estate agents, and to emphasise the role of chartered surveyors in strategic planning.
He was born in 1929 and educated at Aldenham School. During 1947-49, he was commissioned and served in the Royal Artillery. He spent a year of his military service in Malaya.
In 1950 he joined quantity surveyors Gardiner & Theobald, becoming a professional associate of the RICS in 1954. He joined the partnership of Gardiner & Theobald in 1960, where he is now joint senior partner. He is a past president of the Quantity Surveyors’ Divisional Council, a member of the General Council and has served on the Professional Practice Committee and as a vice-chairman of the Standards Committee.
Having been one of the founder members of the Company of Chartered Surveyors, he was elected to serve as Master for the year 1984-85.
In October 1984, he took over as chairman of the MCC Estates Sub-Committee (responsible for the new Mound Stand) and serves on the MCC Committee. His vice-presidents in order of seniority for the 1989-90 session are: Idris Pearce, Ted Watts and Christopher Jonas. Donald Ensom is honorary secretary and Roy Swanton in honorary treasurer.
Clive Lewis (53) has been elected president of the General Practice Division. Mr Lewis is senior partner of Clive Lewis & Partners, which he founded in 1963. He was previously employed from 1957 to 1962 by Goddard & Smith.
Deputy chairman of the Merseyside Development Corporation and non-executive director of St Modwen Properties, Mr Lewis is also a member of the RICS General Council and chairman of RICS Journals, as well as a director of Surveyors Holdings.
He became the youngest-ever world president of FIABCI in 1984-85, having become president of FIABCI UK in 1976-77.
Mr Lewis was chairman of the first Shelter for the Homeless International Congress held in Washington DC and was a member of Lord Scarman’s International Year of Shelter for the Homeless Council from 1985-1988. He is president of Land Aid Charitable Trust.
Jeremy Bayliss (52) has been elected president of the Planning and Development Division. He is joint senior partner of Gerald Eve, the firm he joined in 1960 after graduating from Cambridge. Mr Bayliss has been involved in the institution’s education affairs, having served on both the Divisional and Institution Education and Membership Committees. He chaired the Divisional Committee for three years and became a member of General Council in 1987.
Peter Fall (42) is the new president of the Building Surveyors Division.
Mr Fall started his training in local authority work at Middlesbrough and later Teeside. He studied for the RICS examinations at Hammersmith College of Art and Building, becoming an associate of the institution in 1970 and a Fellow in 1981. He established Peter Fall Cowie Associates in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1973 after some time lecturing at Newcastle Polytechnic. He is chairman of the institution’s Maintenance Committee and a member of the Professional Practice Committee. He became a member of the Building Surveyor’s Divisional Council in 1975 and was elected to General Council in 1985.
Peter Hart (64), a consultant to chartered quantity surveyors and construction consultants Walfords, has been elected president of the Quantity Surveyors Division.
Having served in the Royal Engineers from 1943 to 1948, he joined Walfords in 1950. He became a partner in 1967, joint senior partner in 1982, senior partner in 1987 and a consultant this year.
Mr Hart has been active in RICS affairs since 1967. His main involvement has been with public relations and CPD. He served on the RICS PR Committee for 13 years and chaired the Quantity Surveyors Members and Public Affairs Committee for five years. He represented the RICS on the National Joint Consultative Committee for building from 1978 to 1986.
Peter Dale (53), a Professor and Reader in the Land Surveying Department of the Polytechnic of East London, has been elected president of the Land Surveyors Division. He is currently carrying out research on land information systems in third world countries.
A well-travelled surveyor, Dr Dale’s overseas experience has included work for the Department of Lands and Surveys in Uganda; district surveyor in Kampala; and running the survey training school in Entebbe.
Leaving Uganda in 1968, he took up a post as assistant lecturer in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University. Dr Dale later became researcher for the Overseas Development Administration. He has spent the last 15 years lecturing at the Polytechnic of East London, interspersed with short-term advisory placements in developing countries.
Brian Donnelly (58) is the new president of the Minerals Surveyors Division. Mr Donnelly joined the Inland Revenue Valuation Office as a mineral valuer in Leeds in 1963. Since 1980 he has been valuer in charge of the Central (East) Minerals office. He has served on several RICS Committees over the years and since 1984 has represented the Yorkshire Minerals Branch on the Minerals Divisional Council. He is an examiner for the RICS finals examination in the law of mines and minerals and has the OBE for services to the minerals surveying profession.
In addition to his RICS qualification, he is a barrister of Gray’s Inn.
