Two successive Special General Meetings had had quorum trouble: one flittered up and down like the cable car, the other just stopped when the quorum walked out. But the third Special General Meeting in the week before the vacation had no trouble with a quorum—it just didn't get one.

But as the President, K. B. O'Brien, pointed out, it seemed rather a shame to have dragged out some of the faithful to discuss the Building and then send them home without any reward: so an informal meeting was called and held. Naturally none of the decisions made at it could be binding, but it didn't really matter because it didn't make a great number of decisions.

The basis of discussion was the Executive report on the requirements for the new building (the full report will be published in one of the next issues of Salient) but the discussion was desultory at the best.

President O'Brien made a brief, survey of the report, making odd explanations as he went.