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Photographs, certificates, student notes, assignments, examination papers, correspondence and other memorabilia relating to former students and staff of the Scottish Hotel School. Much of this material was acquired by former student and staff member, David Gee, with the intention of setting up an 'Old Boys' Museum'.

• 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

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.

Includes a short history of the Scottish Hotel School; photographs of students and staff; copies of prospectuses, programmes, newspaper and magazine articles and menus, and a second year examination paper for Hotel Accounting and Control I, 7 May 1951.

Collection of papers and press cuttings relating to the Scottish Hotel School, compiled in February 2002. Includes copies of some materials held in OF/26/1 and OF/26/25.

Letter from John C. Moffat, Dunkeld, to the Editor of the Scottish Hotel School Newsletter, Glasgow, 4 September 2002. The letter describes Mr Moffat's training at the Scottish Hotel School from 1946-1948 and his subsequent career and hotel experience. Enclosed with the letter are copies of Mr Moffat's Scottish Hotel School Diploma and his certificate of election as a Full Member of the Hotel and Catering Institute, 1951.

• Diploma examination papers for the following classes for session 1959-1960: Economics and Tourism; Management; Catering I A; Catering I B; Maintenance; French (Higher); Income Tax and Hotel Law; Hotel Accounting;
• List of ingredients and utensils to be used for an exercise or examination in catering, with method of work for preparing and serving the meal;
• Lecture notes on restaurant and dining room service, including: lectures on restaurant service by Mr A. Currie, Headwaiter ;Instructor; notes on the toastmaster's duties; and lectures on weddings, functions and banquets by Mr J. Houston, Assistant Headwaiter Instructor;
• Instructions for students on duty at the Scottish Hotel School, issued by the Director, Monsieur Roger Dutron, 1958;
• Correspondence concerning Gavin Billinghurst's applications to, and studies at, the Scottish Hotel School, 1957-1963 (access restricted);
• Song sheet containing words for 'The Happy Wanderer' and an unnamed song about the Scottish Hotel School, set to the tune of 'Toreador' from the opera, 'Carmen'; copies of a map of the parish of Eastwood, possibly used for rambling.

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.

Paperback volume published for the Education Committee, Wine Trade Club, London. Annotated on the front cover: 'Graham T. Ross' and 'Part I'.

Hard-backed volume of notes taken at lectures attended by Graham Ross at the Scottish Hotel School. The notes are divided into three sections and those on wine (section B) are continued in OF/26/15/3/3. A double-sided instruction sheet on the operation of the Scottish Hotel School telephone switchboard and a blank Scottish Hotel School menu card are enclosed at the front of the volume.

Hard-backed volume containing notes of lectures attended by Graham Ross at the Scottish Hotel School. This volume is a continuation of the notes on wine contained in section B, pages 1-27 of OF/26/15/2.

• 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.

Notes and assignments from the 'commerce course' at the Scottish Hotel School, plus other memorabilia, as follows:

• Student assignment to explain the nature of the conditions underlying the concept of perfect competition, marked and annotated by the assessor;
• Scottish Hotel School memorandum to staff concerning the purchasing of supplies and ordering of services, 25 September 1959;
• Notice by the Scottish banks regarding the new basis of commission charges, 7 July 1952;
• Notes on devaluation;
• Letter from P.A. Saltford Beaman, Manager, 16MM Division, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd, London, 22 September 1958, advising that as from 6 October 1958, all 16MM [film] operations on Glasgow territory will be handled directly by the company's Head Office;
• Receipt from Govan Music House for payment of 17s. 6d. from the Scottish College of Commerce, 4 November 1957;
• Bill and receipt to Ross Hall from J. & J. Barr, Newsagent and Tobacconist, for the sum of £9. 14s. 4d., 6 May 1958;
• Royal Society of Arts examination paper, Stage II - Intermediate: Commerce, 1953;
• Supplement no.7 to the Post Office Guide for July 1952;
• Pencil notes on the use of the delivery note, pro forma invoice, statement, and the Bank Clearing House, written on the inside pages of a Scottish Hotel School examination answer booklet (the front cover of the booklet is blank);
• Notes on EPU;
• Examination notes on international trade and assignment on the relation of full employment to the UK's position in international trade;
• Examination notes on devaluation;
• Typed notes on the training in hotel reception delivered as part of the Associateship Course in Hotel and Catering Management for the ACT (Bat.) qualification at Battersea College of Technology, London; compiled on the occasion of student displays in the Hotel Reception Unit, Hotelympia, 22-31 January 1958;
• Undated newspaper clipping of a report on matches due to be played by the Dunfermline [tennis] team;
• Newspaper clipping from the Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser, May 1959, reprinting an article originally published on 23 May 1934 concerning the 12th Annual Report of the Queen of the South Football Club.

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.

Tyneside Exhibition of Modern Cookery certificate: Second Award in Class 1, obtained by John F. Docker