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Hugh Featherstone
• Hugh Featherstone, director of the Freight Transport Association, was loud in his praise last week for the way Tony Jacklin had handled the opposition in winning the American Open Golf Championship. Not just because Hugh is himself an accomplished golfer but also because he likes to see any job well done.
At 44 years of age, Hugh has done jobs well throughout his life. When only 17T, he volunteered for the Royal Navy; within six months he had been commissioned. He served in the North Atlantic and the Far East, on little ships, frigates and the like, and on some postings, he was "Jimmy the One"—first lieutenant. No mean achievement for one so young.
Unlike many who consider their Service life to have been wasted years, Hugh looks upon them as a substitute for a university education.
In the immediate post-war years he rose from being a clerk to become assistant secretary with the Funeral Directors' Association, then gained a taste for promotional activity in his role as assistant secretary to the Rubber Development Board.
With Hugh Featherstone at the helm over the past 10 years, the TRTA broadened to become the FTA—and advanced significantly in strength and influence; he would be the last to claim entire credit for this achievement but there can he no denying that his assiduity has been an important factor.
He has also made his influence felt in the Transport, Managers' Licence Committee. He regards the education and training of transport management, from the boardroom to the traffic desk, as vitally important. Indeed, it is difficult to be in his company for long before the conversation turns to education and training. It will be surprising, indeed, if the FTA does not play a leading role in this field in the future. It certainty will if•the industry is prepared to listen to him.
Hugh is married, with two children, and at home regularly takes his dubs down the garden--another keen interest for 15 minutes' practice driving golf balls into a net. He admits to being "almost a sports fanatic"! Small wonder that at South Herts Golf Club he plays off 13.
Small of stature, this Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries I expect to see emerging as one of the big men in the transport world in the Seventies with the emphasis of effort very much on practical services. I.S.