- Scrap book of memories of the Scottish Hotel School (formerly the Scottish School of Hotel Management) from 1944 until around 1996. Includes a potted history of the establishment and development of the School; photographs of staff and students; photocopies of newspaper articles and function menus, and copies of the Scottish Hotel School Graduates' Association Newsletter.
- Pictorial record of the Scottish Hotel School (1944-1997), compiled in February 2002. Includes a short history of the Scottish Hotel School; photographs of students and staff; copies of prospectuses, programmes, newspaper and magazine articles and menus; second year examination paper for 'Hotel Accounting and Control I', 7 May 1951.
- Papers and press cuttings relating to the Scottish Hotel School, compiled in February 2002
With original index. Includes an annotated copy of the summary of Committee decisions relating to the Scottish Hotel School (see OF/26/1/8).
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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)
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.
- 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.
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.
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.