A proposal in the Executive Committee to elect members of the executive to be Chairmen of the International Class Committees (ICCs) has succeeded. They are as follows:
Marblehead Chairman: Matteo Longhi (also RO Europe)
A Class Chairman: Glenn Dawson (also RO Oceania)
10R Chairman: Selwyn Holland (also General Secretary)
This is a step in the aim to develop international class status for these later in the form of International Class Associations (ICAs). The reason that the positions at this stage are filled by members of the IRSA Executive is that the constitution is basically a regional based not a class based document. But the EC can create any committee it sees as important, so the way around this issue was for these members of the EC to volunteer to take charge of the class committees (ICCs) for the moment. We do intend to ask permission of the IRSA members through the revised constitution in the future to rearrange the EC positions to allow for full class committee status on the EC while the committees are being developed into independent class associations. This will also allow us to help other rising classes to become internationally more efficient in the future. All part of promoting the sport and helping classes to be self determining if they wish.