People in H&S: Emmett S. Harrington;

              Emmett S. Harrington
In an age of specialization the versatile man, like Em­mett
S. Harrington, Executive Office partner, rates
particular notice. He plays golf left-handed and has an
eight handicap. But he writes with his right hand,
having been born in an era when left-handers were
switched, and withal his penmanship is better than that
of most busy men.
Soon after he joined Haskins & Sells as a partner in
the 1952 merger with McLaren, Goode, West & Co., the
prominent and prestigious West Coast firm where his
concern had been with the technical aspects of the
practice, Mr. Harrington moved to the EO to assist in
general administration.
One of his first jobs there was to help expand the
Firm's national recruitment program, in conjunction
with Lawrence M. Walsh, now a partner in our Phila­delphia
Office. Then his responsibilities broadened to in­clude
personnel policies in general. Robert L. Steele, who
now coordinates our South American practice and who
was closely associated with Mr. Harrington at that time,
recalls that "Emmett has always had an intuitive feeling
for people and a genuine interest in their welfare."
Staff training, salaries, insurance and pension plans
soon all fell within his purview. He then became ab­sorbed
with long-range planning and later with prac­tice
office coordination, which is now Malcolm Devore's
responsibility.
As expansion occurred in the Canadian practice of
DPH&S, Mr. Harrington was made responsible for liai­son
with the partners in Canada. Regular attendance
at the Canadian partners' meetings led to a continuing
close relationship.
For three years Mr. Harrington supervised the Gen­eral
Motors engagement and traveled more than 50,000
miles through Europe, South America, Australia and
New Zealand to observe GM's far-flung installations.
Then in the space of a few months, the Firm lost the
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