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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.

• 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.

Subjects covered include: staff appointments and salaries; teaching delivered by visiting lecturers; procurement of external assistance to teach technical subjects; proposed alterations to staffing arrangements; provision of a Residential Management Training Centre at Ross Hall; alterations to the constitution of the Students' Representative Council of the Scottish Hotel School; expenses in connection with Hotel School students competing at Hotelympia, London, 1952.

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.

Correspondence relating to the Scottish Hotel School's appeal to external companies for donations to finance the extension of Ross Hall.

• List of the numbers of diplomas awarded from session 1949-1950 to session 1960-1961
• Summaries of the numbers of students enrolled on the diploma course from session 1952-1953 to session 1963-1964
• Lists of names and addresses of first year and second year students for session 1952-1953 (access restricted until 2029)
• Statistical breakdown of countries in which students spent their summer practical training placement for 1954 and 1955
• Lists of students' results for 1963 and 1964 (access restricted until 2040)

Photographs of student prize winners for the Introduction to Beverage Management class. Nine of the photographs show individual students being presented with their prize by the head of department, Professor Tom Baum (pictured standing to the left of the student), and a representative of the sponsoring company (pictured standing on the right of the student). The tenth photograph is a group shot of all the winners.

Postcards sent by former students and staff to Mr Alistair Goldsmith, Lecturer at the Scottish Hotel School.

Menus for 117 functions catered by students and staff of the Scottish Hotel School, arranged in chronological order. Also includes one blank menu card for the Scottish Hotel School at Ross Hall.

• 1994
• January 1995
• December 1995
• December 1996

Magazine to disseminate the latest news and events taking place in food and beverage within the Scottish Hotel School restaurant and throughout the School.

• Issue 3 (Autumn 1997)
• Issue 4 (Autumn 1998)
• Millennium Special Issue (2000)

• 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)