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THE PARTNERS MEET AT LAKE PLACID The partners of Haskins & Sells held their annual meeting on September 16-18, 1963 at the Lake Placid Club, 50 miles south of the Canadian border in the Adirondack Mountains. In attendance were 215 active and 36 advisory H&S partners, as well as 16 partners of Deloitte, Plender, Haskins & Sells from Britain, Canada, Japan, and South America, who attended as guests. Each year these meetings serve to reassert the essential nature of the Firm as a genuine professional For weeks in advance Miss Alice Schluter prepares for the meeting. partnership. Coming together as they do from 31 states and the District of Columbia, the partners exchange views, compare experiences, and seek each other's advice as partners do in smaller firms. Though they sometimes speak of absent partners as having been left behind "to mind the store," in practice only illness or the most urgent business prevents partners from attending. This year only 19 were missing. With long years of experience, the advisory part- Most of the partners journeyed from New York to Lake Placid and back by special train starting from Grand Central Station. 17