Office profile: San Francisco;

              where the atmosphere
is of the
Twentieth Century
moving fast
toward the Twenty-first
History, topography, climate and ro­mance
have combined for more than
a century to make San Francisco one
of the magnetic cities of the world.
People of every age, occupation and
inclination in search of a good life con­verge
on this Paris of the West, the city
by the Golden Gate. So it is not sur­prising
that the San Francisco Office
of Haskins & Sells holds a special at­traction
for the ambitious and adven­turous
accountant. This past year 40
per cent of the 48 recruits who signed
on at the San Francisco Office came
there through referrals by other H&S
offices.
Surely the blessings of nature have a
great deal to do with the attractions of
the San Francisco Bay Area for young
people who want to work and grow
professionally with a dynamic organi­zation,
to live in a culturally stimu­lating
atmosphere, and at the same
time enjoy the finest of outdoor life
and scenic beauty. Tom Graves, part­ner
in charge, is enthusiastic about
what he calls the cosmopolitan nature
of the staff:
"There's nothing provincial about
our organization, because we draw
staff members from schools all over
the country. They come to us from
Massachusetts, Oregon, Montana,
Michigan, Indiana and Iowa—just to
name a few who are arriving this week.
We are trying to capitalize on the at­tractiveness
of the Bay Area in order
to get an outstanding staff. We are
definitely not ingrown. There is a lib­erality
of view here, a tolerance that
you don't find to the same degree in
other parts of the country."
Built on a fingertip of land between
the Pacific Ocean and one of the
world's greatest natural harbors, the
city of San Francisco is confined by its
water boundaries. It has grown up­ward—
up the steep sides of its many
hills and up in towering buildings that
from a distance resemble a profusion
of giant gray and white building blocks
standing on end. The metropolitan area
of San Francisco has spread south­ward,
down the peninsula to dozens of
communities whose inhabitants surge
into the city for work in the mornings.
It reaches across the great bridges into
Marin County to the north and to
Oakland, Berkeley and other East Bay
points.
San Francisco boosters do not exag­gerate
when they claim the city has a
climate all its own—moody and whim­sical,
yet invigorating, like perpetual
spring. Cleansing drafts of air from the
Pacific sweep in through the Golden
Gate, as if from a giant natural air
conditioner. Temperatures seldom rise
above 75° or drop below 45°, so cool-weather
clothes are comfortable the
year around. The only weather feature
about which San Franciscans can com­plain
is the fog, which is borne in from
the Pacific Ocean by the morning
breeze, lingers awhile and then is
swiftly swept away.
San Francisco, one of the world's
greatest shipping ports, is also the fi-
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