Senior accountants meeting;Moves between offices;

              The Firm brought its new senior ac-countants to New York in May for tech-nical discussions and formal introduc-tion to their enlarged responsibilities. They assembled at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel—123 of them, from H&S offices in 30 U. S. cities and from DPH & S offices in Caracas, Mexico City, and Toronto.
For four days the seniors heard a dozen partners and principals explain H&S policies and procedures. At two evening receptions and dinners they met and talked with more of the part-ners and principals of the Executive, New York, and neighboring offices. The seniors broadened their acquaintance with each other, too, establishing the relationships that knit Haskins & Sells together as a unified whole.
John W. Queenan gave them new in-sight into the organization they are a part of. He described the growth of domestic and foreign practice and the close interrelationship of H & S offices. He told how the number of partners and principals has more than doubled in the past ten years and showed the seniors where growth is expected in the future. The functions and services of the
Executive Office and the special inter-ests of its partners were explained. Mr. Queenan also gave statistics showing the Firm's standing in the profession as a whole and mentioned some of the larger new engagements of the past year.
Weldon Powell told of the work of the American Institute's Accounting Principles Board, of which he had served as the first chairman. He de-scribed the status of research projects in process and gave perspective to some of the issues that have arisen. "Pure accounting research cannot be forced on businessmen," he said, "and some balance will have to be reached be-tween the theoretical and pragmatic approaches in developing accounting principles."
Thomas J. Graves outlined the Firm's "aggressive policy in offering good tax services to clients" as one which "em-phasizes constructive planning services more than the preparation of tax re-turns." He reviewed for the seniors the extent of services available to clients and also discussed the new tax law be-fore Congress, which he predicted would be a "monster of complexity"
if it is finally passed.
Gordon L. Murray reviewed the ex-panding scope of management advis-ory services which H & S is prepared to offer its clients. He described the "H & S approach to MAS as essentially consulting, that is, helping the client to solve his own problems and giving him know-how rather than manpower." "We have learned by experience that this approach works best,"said Mr. Murray, "and it is well received by our clients."
The seniors also witnessed a drama-tized case study of constructive services for the Wingding Manufacturing Com-pany, "a manufacturer of wingdings, which, as most of you know, is a small appliance." Stars in the production act-ing out their real-life roles were Thomas B. Hogan, John C. Crane, Richard V. Leighton, and James B. Miller.
This meeting opened a season of many meetings and training sessions. The principals met in June at Skytop in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, and July and August saw a succession of orientation courses in New York for new staff accountants. The partners met in September at the Lake Placid Club in New York's Adirondack Mountains.
MOVES BETWEEN OFFICES
Since June, when our new fiscal year began.
NAME
FROM
TO
NAME
FROM
TO
Howard H. Hankins
San Diego
Los Angeles
Principal
Casper B. Apple
Newark
Executive Office
Robert A. Hoffman
Bogota
Baltimore
Partner
Principal
Bernard W. Arvin
San Francisco
Tokyo
Robert C. Lanka
San Francisco
Detroit
Partner
Partner
Michael L. Balint
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Charles F. Lemons
Chicago
Executive Office
Principal
Partner
Lawrence F. Chandler
Executive Office
Omaha
George R. Pain
Honolulu
San Francisco
Principal
Principal
Robert L. Chappell
Louisville
Orlando
David C. Ranney
Chicago
Executive Office
Principal
Principal
Lynd E. Cohick
Omaha
Providence
Irwin C. Rust
Miami
New Orleans
Principal
Principal
Ronald L. Colwell
Executive Office
Milwaukee
E. Keith Stott
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Principal
Partner
Edward M. Darcey
New York
Executive Office
Robert C. Tatgenhorst
Cincinnati
Louisville
Principal
Partner
Vincent T. Donnelly
Los Angeles
San Francisco
James H. Thompson
Denver
Executive Office
Director
Principal
Earl A. Faulkner
New York
Executive Office
DeWitt C. Warren, Jr.
Executive Office
San Francisco
Principal
Principal
Oscar S. Gellein
Detroit
Executive Office
Wayne Williamson
Birmingham
Executive Office
Partner
Principal
William W. Gerecke
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Frederick A. Zimmer
Detroit
Philadelphia
Manager
Principal
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SENIOR ACCOUNTANTS MEETING