Business screen magazine (1946)

MKxinint; how he tries to do his jb. "This A-V setup grew out of tlic now-how available to it," he says. All sorts of experienee ean appi) 0 help >oii do that job a little beter." He sumniari/es his own hackround. "I had early background as chemical engineer, veered over to heater and theatrical production, ut meanwhile had grown up in the uikling business. My fiist job enailed teaching math in Los Angeles igh schools. I wrote for the school •apers and earned my way through ollege as an embryo architect . . . K\] of these experiences have helped le to encourage our A-V people D take on almost everything that as come our way. "Management, when reviewing ur activities when we were athered under the Holiday Inn Jniversity "umbrella' was frankly stounded at the scope of some of he things we have been asked to !o. This involved such items as our icture-framing facility and our elping the Architectural Division •"ith its meeting room designs. I hought we had a pretty good anwer. People wander down our way rying to get their work done and /e have developed a reputation round this place 'if you can't get : anywhere else, try the A-V deartment. That once included a ;llow who just needed a 2' x 4' oard, eight-feet long, which he got cm us, naturally." Holiday Inn's president William I. Walton puts the A-V Divison's rimary responsibility into closer Kus: "The Audio-Visual Division is an Qvaluable asset to our company. y viewing their training films, our ersonnel at all of the Inns can eally know what we expect of them. n turn, the traveler is assured of cnsistently good service at any loliday Inn, anywhere in the v-orid." rresentation controls at Lectern are i/pical of those which aid meeting .waders at nearly 1.300 Holiday ins . . . Ready to serve sales and other meeting-site requirements throughout the world at more than 1,292 Holiday Inns are typical facilities pictured on this page. All Holiday Inn meeting rooms are equipped to show many types of audio-visuals. ^ AY, 1971 19