H&S scene;

              Two for one for the old school
The matching gifts program of the
Haskins & Sells Foundation is off to a
rousing start. During the first four months
of its operation, starting in March of this
year, the Foundation has sent checks
totaling $21,036 to match 289 gifts of the
same amount sent to colleges and
universities by H&S people.
The Foundation was established in 1928
with the stated purpose of "furthering
accounting education in the United
States." In recent years the American
Alumni Council has been assisting a
great many colleges and universities in
fund raising through appeals to their
alumni. Each year the council assists the
institutions of learning by printing a list
of employers that are pledged to match
the gifts of their employees, within certain
limits, to the participating schools. Many
colleges enclose the list with their annual
fund appeal to alumni. Since last March,
H&S has joined that list of employers,
most of them nationally known.
At the time the Foundation's matching
giftsprogramwasannouncedonMarch8,
1972, Managing Partner Michael N.
Chetkovich said in a message to all H&S
personnel: "The matching gifts program
offers such a wide range of choice for
individuals who want to give financial
support to higher education that we
expect that there will be broad
participation by the people of
Haskins & Sells."
The rules of our Firm's matching
program provide, in general, that all
active and retired fulltime employees
and partners are eligible to participate.
Eligible recipient schools include
graduate and baccalaureate degree-granting
colleges and universities in
the U.S. and Puerto Rico that have tax
exempt status. Eligible contributors
need not have attended the recipient
school. The Foundation matches an
employee's total contributions up to a
maximum of $500 per person each
calendar year. The minimum contribution
eligible for matching is $25.
Moral: double your money this coming
gift-giving season by sending $25 or
more to your favorite college. From your
office, obtain a matching gift form and
include it with your check. The Haskins
& Sells Foundation will
do the rest. •
S€EME
So what else is new, Bruce?
[The following item is reprinted from
The Ledger, newsletter of the
Los Angeles office of H&S.]
When you're hot, you're hot; when you're
not you're not. The latter seemed to be
the case for H&S staff accountant Bruce
Henry, on June 29, 1972. Having released
all assistants on the 28th, Bruce was
alone, completing the audit of a branch
of a local bank. He should have known he
was in for a bad day while reviewing
working papers on statistical sampling.
Evaluating errors in the population was
enough to give any statistical sampling
expert a migraine headache.
Bruce, rather quickly, forgot his
accounting problems when a sawed-off
shotgun was placed six inches from
his head. He was ordered to move from
his desk, abruptly rammed against a
wall and ordered not to move. As the
robbery progressed, Bruce, being an
auditor at heart, made discreet
observations (without inquiries).
Still shaking after the police and FBI
investigations, Bruce managed his way
to the H&S softball game against
Seidman & Seidman. The day appeared
to be taking a turn for the better when,
Bruce reports, he "accidentally" hit the
ball into deep left center for a triple.
All illusions were shattered as, sliding
into third base, he tore his knee-requiring
stitches-and re-injured the
ligaments in his back which had been
torn in a game three weeks earlier
To top the day off, waiting in the mail
when Bruce finally arrived home was a
confirmation (2nd request] from Uncle
Sam reminding him he was needed in
Death Valley for two weeks of summer
camp, an honor due to his outstanding
performance during his two years of
active duty.
To make one thing perfectly clear, as
Bruce said, "The day could have been
worse- H&S did win the softball game'.' •
Palm Beach glamour kitty
Imagine an H&S partner's being
upstaged and out-publicized by his
seven-year-old daughter's cat. It
happened in Florida recently to Jack
Von Funk, who transferred last year from
Miami to open our Palm Beach office.
Jack's daughter is named Cara; her cat,
a slow moving, not too bright male
Siamese, is named Dum Dum. Cara
loves Dum Dum as only a young mistress
her age can.
This past spring Cara learned about the
All-American Glamour Kitty Contest
sponsored by the makers of Kitty Pan
Cat Absorbent, and she pestered her
mother into getting the contest rules and
the sponsor's address. Then Cara wrote
a contest letter describing her plump
Siamese as "healthy, looks like a tiger,
eats lizards, takes sand baths, catches
snakes, has sparkly eyes, purrs good, has
cute legs, likes other cats, has a good
face, good noise, good paws, is sneaky,
lively, funny, cute, gentle, loving," amongst
other things.
To the Von Funk family's amazement,
word came in late April that Dum Dum
was chosen as a semi-finalist in the
national contest, which would be decided
early in June in Miami Beach. This
made big news in the Palm Beach Post.
which ran several prominent stories with
large photos showing Cara beaming on
her pet.Then Dum Dum was selected
as one of the nine national finalists, and
life really changed for the Von Funk family.
Amid the congratulatory letters and
phone calls they tried (hopelessly) to
train their most famous member for the
talent contest, but found that Dum Dum
could hardly be taught to jump over a
fly swatter. Climbing a pole? Forget it.
Jo Von Funk, Cara's mother, was quoted
in the Post: "If they ask Dum to play
dead, we're in."
For the cat fashion parade they chose a
red night shirt and a tasseled blue striped
nightcap. "The sponsor said to pick a
costume that best fits your cat, and for old
Dum that could only mean pajamas," Jo
told the newspaper. To put pep in his
step, the cat's diet was switched to the
best chopped chicken liver. "Pet Goes
From Scraps to Riches," the Post declared.
A Palm Beach bank with a sign that it
changes every few days first put up:
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