Minutes of meetings of the Selection Committee of the Scottish School of Hotel Management held on 27 November 1947 and 11 December 1947. The Selection Committee, comprising the Director, an Assessor of the Scottish Education Department and representatives of the various hotel interests concerned in the School, was set up to interview applicants for admission and allocate places on the Diploma course to the successful candidates.
With original index. Includes an annotated copy of the summary of Committee decisions relating to the Scottish Hotel School (see OF/26/1/8).
Correspondence concerning the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College's application for exemption from the development charge under the Act in respect of alterations and additions to Ross Hall. With original index. Includes a plan of Ross Hall and a certificate of exemption from the development charge issued by the Central Land Board.
Minutes of meetings of the Scottish Hotel School Committee of Management and the Scottish Hotel School Executive Committee (formed in 1948 and directly responsible to the Committee of Management) for the period 22 April 1948 - 17 August 1949. Several of the minutes are signed by the Chairman, Professor Mellanby. Copies of most of them appear in a bound volume of minutes of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College for January 1948 - August 1949 (OH/2/1/17) - the minutes concerned are marked accordingly with page references to the bound volume.
- Letter from John Dallas, Glasgow, to [A.W.] Middleton, Secretary of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College, 14 March 1949, tendering his resignation from the Management Committee of the Scottish Hotel School;
- Letter from John Dallas, Glasgow, to A.W. Middleton, 1 April 1949, concerning his resignation from the Management Committee of the Scottish Hotel School. Enclosed with the letter is a typed, 2-page 'Memorandum on the Organisation of the Scottish Hotel School by Mr Dallas', outlining the difficulties that had influenced his decision to resign.
- Letter to David [Gee] from [Mrs] Maura Carmichael, 24 January 1998. Enclosing her husband's 'very old student work sheets for the old boys museum - if going ahead';
- Curriculum Vitae of William D. Carmichael;
- Notes of lectures on hotel accounting and control, wine and other subjects attended by William Carmichael at the Scottish Hotel School, plus accounting exercises completed by William Carmichael.
- Her Majesty's Inspectors' report on the Scottish Hotel School, November 1950. The report contains an assessment of the School's premises, equipment, organisation, teaching, students and student welfare, with a summary of recommendations for improvements. 10 pages, typescript.
- Letter from William MacLean, Montgomerie Flemings Fyfe MacLean & Co, Solicitors, Glasgow, to A.W. Middleton, Secretary, Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College, 30 November 1950. Enclosing an annotated copy of a report on the Scottish Hotel School by Her Majesty's Inspectors, November 1950, and a 3-page memorandum detailing MacLean's views on the Inspectors' report.
Copy of the Scottish Hotel School prospectus, annotated on the front cover 'George Parker [,] 1950'. The inside front and back covers contain the autographs of 23 of Parker's fellow students. Enclosed with the prospectus is a Scottish Hotel School menu card dated 24 October 1950, and a programme for the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College presentation of diplomas and prizes for session 1950-1951, held on 1 December 1951.
Copy of 'Wine and the Wine Trade: five lectures delivered to wine trade students at Vintners' Hall, London, and at Birmingham, in Autumn, 1946 (London, 1947); notes taken at Scottish Hotel School lectures on food, wine and dining room organisation.
Photocopies of two menus for the Scottish Hotel School students' Christmas meal at Ross Hall, 1951 and 1952, made from originals belonging to former student, Alistair Gardner. Both menus were designed and hand-drawn by another student, Colin MacLean. The menu for 1951 is reproduced in the Scottish Hotel School Former Students' Association Newsletter for January-March 2000.
With original index. Includes copies of the Scottish Hotel School student regulations dating from 1951, 1952 and 1953.
Item 29 in the index - copy of letter from the Scotch Education Department regarding capital expenditure and enclosing vouchers, 8 February 1951 - is missing from the folder.
Includes a copy of the draft report on an enquiry into discipline at the Hotel School, which discusses the roles and responsibilities of Monsieur and Madame Dutron (see OF/26/1/5).
- Article by Rankin Taylor entitled 'Hotel School in Scotland', in Hotel Management, volume 20, number 1 (January 1949), pp.41-43
- Article by J. Wilson Hawthorn entitled 'Learning the "Inns" and "Outs"', in Illustrated, 26 February 1949, pp.27-29
- Article by John Kerr entitled 'Scotland's School for Hoteliers', in Scotland's Magazine, volume 53, number 5 (May 1957), pp.8-12 (2 xerox copies)
Includes a 35-page inventory and valuation prepared by J. & R. Edmiston, Auctioneers, Valuators & Arbitrators, Glasgow, in September 1956, and a subsequent inventory prepared in March 1959.