And Mr. Reik;

              52 HASKINS & SELLS July
And Mr. Reik
RAYMOND C A R L I S L E REIK, mana­ger,
Baltimore office, became a mem­ber
of the firm June 1, 1926. While we
have no thought in referring to Mr. Reik's
admission to the firm of including him as
among those "also present," we confess to
having drawn somewhat severely on our
fund of laudatory remarks in writing about
Mr. Padon and Mr. Palmer. However, at
the risk of committing the sin of repetition,
we cannot refrain from saying some things
which we feel concerning the subject of
this sketch.
Mr. Reik came up, so to speak, by the
same route as Mr. Padon and Mr. Palmer,
but he was a member of the Maryland Bar
Association, holding the degree of L L . B.
from the University of Maryland, and a
C. P. A. of Maryland, when he joined our
staff in Baltimore on July 1, 1915. We
have the authority of one person to whom
he referred in his application for a position
with us that he "took the regular course in
expert accounting while still earning his
livelihood and at the sacrifice of many of
the pleasures that usually appeal to young
men of his age." Incidentally, it may be
said that never have we seen a finer collec­tion
of references than those which support
his application. They are not of the per­functory
kind. Rather, they speak volumes
for the esteem in which he was held by
those with whom, for a matter of about
eleven years, he was associated in the office
of the Comptroller of the State of Mary­land.
Everything of record in our files con­cerning
Mr. Reik indicates that he was a
"find." His work on the Baltimore staff
was finished and intelligent. He became
a tower of strength in the Baltimore office
and we are pleased to acknowledge here­with
the credit for the success of that
office which is due to his conscientious,
thorough, unpretentious work and his dig­nified
demeanor day in and day out.