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H&S DAY FOR HOWARD BUSINESS CLUB Joseph D. Wesselkamper, Executive Office, displays an Auditape reel as he explains the H&S Auditape System to visiting Howard University students. April 3rd was Haskins & Sells day in New York for thirty-one members of the Business Club at Howard University, Washington, D.C. The occasion was the first day of a three-day field trip to New York, designed to give Howard students of business administration a chance to learn about career opportunities in business. Students visiting in groups are a familiar sight in H&S offices. Chartered by Act of Congress in 1867, Howard at its start was a school for Negro freedmen. Since that time it has expanded greatly in size and purpose. The University admits students of both sexes and every ethnic background, but its special responsibility remains the training of Negro students. Since World War II, an influx of students from the West Indies, Africa, and other former colonial areas has made the Howard student body broadly international. Howard alumni are increasingly represented in the professions and business around the world. The Howard University Business Club day at H&S developed from correspondence early in 1968 between Edwin R. Lang, H&S National Personnel Partner, and the club's field trip chairman, Sammy L. Watson. The club's first letter of inquiry about a possible introduction to a major public accounting firm elicited from Mr. Lang a prompt invitation to visit H&S. As club President Conliffe L. Thomas later explained it, Ed Lang's response was one of genuine cordiality and sincerity. Communication led to action. Lang flew to Washington, conferred with club leaders ("in a spirit of complete frankness," President Thomas said) and helped to arrange the club's program for the full three days. The field trip schedule was rugged. It began at 2:30 in the morning on April 3rd, when the group boarded a bus for the 240-mile drive to New York City. Accompanying the students was the Club's faculty advisor, Joseph J. Urciolo. By 9 a.m. the students were being welcomed into the H&S conference room by Ed Lang and Irwin C. Rust, Assistant Personnel Director. From there on it was like an intensive five-class day at the University, in which lectures and question-answer periods followed one another in rapid succession. Speakers and subjects included Colin Park on H&S auditing practice; T Milton Kupfer on tax practice; Gordon L. Murray on MAS; Robert L. Steele on H&S international practice, and Joseph D. Wesselkamper on Auditape. The students remained keenly alert throughout. Their sharp questioning showed that the H&S speakers had stimulated an intense interest in the part to be played by men and women with accounting skill in the unfolding world of tomorrow. That evening, when representatives of the Firm and our student guests had dinner together at the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel, there was no mistaking the prevailing spirit. Messrs. Thomas, Watson, Lang, and Rust arose to exchange compliments and thanks. And everyone present sensed the larger meaning of the day—that both Haskins & Sells and Howard students, looking to the future, were extending hands to one another in a cooperation that can greatly benefit both in the years ahead. Their mutual gain would be reflected in the accounting profession as a whole. • 29
Object Description
Title |
H&S day for Howard Business Club |
Author |
Anonymous |
Contributor |
Stevens, Roy |
Subject |
Howard Business Club (Howard University) |
Personal Name |
Wesselkamper, Joseph D. |
Portrait |
Wesselkamper, Joseph D. |
Citation |
H&S Reports, Vol. 05, (1968 summer), p. 29 |
Date-Issued | 1968 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte; Photograph by Roy Stevens |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2010 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | HSReports_1968_Summer-p29 |