Bronze medallists.

Albert Wallace Cowie was a member of council for area I from 1978 to 1984. During this period, he served as a member of two standing committees -- finance for five years and examinations for seven years. More recent service to CIMA has been as a dedicated and hardworking member of the investment sub-committee. He stood down in June 2000, having served since 1979.

CIMA bought 61 Portland Place during Cowie's time as chairman between 1980 and 1984. Although this was initially an investment decision, it enabled the institute to expand to accommodate new staff more recently.

Basil Lawrence Sidney Hulatt began training with CIMA when he left the police force in 1958. He qualified in 1963 and became a fellow in 1982. Hulatt enjoyed a varied career in industry and retired as group chief accountant for CU Ware in 1999.

Hulatt has been active in CIMA since registering as a student in the 1950s. He has tirelessly supported not only the Luton and Bedford Branch, but also all area 3 branch committees. Hulatt has given talks to CIMA members in the area and at the University of East Anglia: He has given both time and support to all members in the area who he represented on CIMA council for 15 years.

Frank Macfarlane registered as a student in August 1962 and passed the final examination in 1967. He was elected an associate in January 1968 and became a fellow in July 1973.

Macfarlane joined the Manchester and District Branch committee in 1977 and he has held a variety of appointments in the branch. He was elected branch president in 1982 and has twice served as branch secretary. He was awarded an institute plaque in 1989. From 1985 to 1988 he was a member of CIMP/s public-sector committee.

He held various financial appointments in the engineering industry before entering local government in 1975 when he joined Manchester City Council. He then moved on to Greater Manchester Police, initially as financial controller and then as finance director until his retirement. Macfarlane was an adviser on a number of ACPO and Home Office working parties and lectured to senior police officers at Bramshill College.

Chitral Hiran Mendis started out as a cost trainee with the Building Materials Corporation of Sri Lanka in 1978. Since then, he has held various financial appointments in trading and manufacturing and financial institutions and in produce and stock brokering companies. He was the founder and managing director of an economic, financial and management consultancy until he took up his present appointment in 1997 as the director general of the Colombo Stock Exchange. In this role, he is a member of many government committees involved in developing the capital markets and deal markets.

He is currently vice-president of the South Asian Federation of Stock Exchanges and he represents the exchange at the International Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIBV), headquartered in France.

Mendis has published articles on strategic planning, the economic performance and economic growth of the country, interest rate fluctuation, and the balance of payments in Sri Lanka. He has also co-authored and published a monthly bulletin on the economic performance of Sri Lanka.

Mendis has presented papers at national and international conferences at home and overseas on strategic planning, equity markets, portfolio management, economic development, movement in interest rates, financial management and management accounting. He has been an active and distinguished member for over 10 years and has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the institute nationally and internationally.