Anatomy of excellence;

              Homer E. Sayad
Mr. Sayad, partner-in-charge of our
St. Louis Office, began his
accounting career with Deloitte,
Plender, Griffiths & Co. in Chicago
and became an H&S principal in
1952, when DPG's practice in the
U.S. was merged with H&S. Born in
Rezaieh, Iran, in 1915, he took an
economics degree in England at the
University of Nottingham, and did
postgraduate work in this country at
Northwestern. He still speaks enough
Persian to be asked to meet visiting
Iranian officials and businessmen.
Mr. Sayad has been chairman or
member of 12 committees of CPA
societies and chapters in Illinois and
Missouri and is Treasurer of the
Missouri Society. He is president of
the Greater St. Louis Arts and
Education Council, a director of
William Woods College and the St.
Louis Symphony, and past president
of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
He is pictured here admiring Rodin's
"Jean Baptiste" at the City Art
Museum of St. Louis. The St. Louis
Post Dispatch recently featured
Homer and Elizabeth Sayad (she's an
accomplished musician) as central
figures in the cultural life of St. Louis,
but he was quoted as disclaiming
any artistic talent of his own.