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Frou Frou
Salad Tosses
Jet Jockey
Br ROGER GREENE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 W-Jrt
fighter pilot Merlyn Koecher, 29,
or the look of man whose life
r death depended on hearing
fvery word and obeying Instruc
tions explicitly,
It was serious business, all
right, Koecher was learning, with
painful concentration, how to mix
chickory, truffles, hard-boiled egg
whites' and other mysterious in
gredients into a concoction known
as French-style frou frou salad.
"Believe me, it's tougher than
flying .jets," he said.
Koecher, who was' jockeying
Sabr 'Jets With the Air Form
47th Fighter Interceptor Squadron '
nniy a lew months ago, turned in
his flying suit to don a student 1
chef's cap at what is described as
"the only school of its kind in the
world." .
40lh Anniversary i
The institution, now celebrating
its 40th anniversary, is Washing
ton's famed Lewis Hotel Training
School, which has taught students
from almost every country in the
world and sent 'oul more than
100,000 graduates to operate every
thing from big luxury hotels to
modest wayside innj.
Koecher's goal is to run his own
steak house. Hit background as a '
jet pilot rales high on the glamor ,
side but caused little stir on the i
Lewis "campus," whore recent i
students ranging in age from 18
to Ki have included a Finnish
count, an undertaker, a butcher,
an Egyptian diplomat, two Car
melite nuns and a retired fire
man. Presiding over this strange hut
hard-working assembly is Mrs.
Alary Catherine Lewis, 78, the
rofounrler, who was born in a
hotel, married in a hotel and
spent most of her life living and
working in hotels. Her grand
father, Kdmund Bourke, was
While House steward for Presi
dent Lincoln.
Trim, white-haired, with blue
eyes and a warm smile, Mrs.
lwis .said she believes the buga
boo of lipping is largely respon
sible for the nudcentury upsurge
of swanky (and tiplessi motels
lining the nation's highways and
the decline in hotel business.
There are now about 55.000 moiels
and 19.000 hotels in the L'mted
Slates.
"People Reoent Tipping'
"People resent tipping their way
from taxi to hniel room and hack
again,' Mrs. Lewis said. That s
whv motels are booming."
With s faculty of 25 leathers,
the Lewis school provides a stiff
four-month course covering every
phase of hotel business from front
door to roof garden including les
sons on how to guard against
short-change artists, skippers, rubber-cheek
passers . and the old
"e.o.d." racket.
Located in downtown Washing
ton, seven blocks from the White '
House, the Lewis school is s three-'
story red brick structure built like
a miniature hotel, complete with
model bedrooms, kitchens and ;
foyer. It offers four 50-leison
courses a year, with a maximum
of 400 resident student annually,
and has 7.000 "mail" students en
rolled in this country and abroad.
Most of the students are re
markably serious about their
work. They put in a five-hour day
in elates, five days a week, and
tark on at least two hours of
home work daily. If absent, a
student must bring a written ex
cuse, and it's got to be good.
"The course is so short we have ,
to keep banging away at Ihem all
the time." said Miss Mary
Bourke, who joined the school
staff in 1928 after graduating from
the University of Maryland. She
is a niece of the founders.
All Take Same Course ,
No matter how high or low Ihey
may be aiming from hotel
manager to lowly kitchen scullion
all a t u d e n t s take the same
course so that when they gradu
ate they'll know every facet of the
hotel business.
Altogether, they study 155 dif
ferent hotel jobs. Some of the be
ginners 'male) don't even know
how to boil, an egg. One student,
asked to separate eggs, lined up
six bowls and popped an egg into
each.
Mrs, Lewis and her late hus
band, Clifford. unwittingly
launched the school in 1916 when
they were managing the Glacier
Hotel Id Glacier National Park. To
help train his own employes, Lew
is wrote a job analysis In clear,
simple terms. ' !
First Hotel Textbook
Requests for the , booklet soon
flooded in from other hotel man
agers, prompting Lewis to write
the first known textbook on hotel
training. Then came requests for
personal on-the-spot training,
A few months later the Lewis- ,
e: opened the school in Washing
ton where Lewis' father, Morgan i
Lewis, was manager of the old i
Willard Hotel. j
Sine the beginning there has
- been no age limit on students...
"Many of them are past SO
when they come to us," Mrs. !
Lewis said. "It's a career you can
start after middle age and still',
reach the top before retirement.
No other profession offers greater .
opportunity for old folks."
Spelled out in eacn oi tne
school's 50 lessons are Mrs. Lew
is' "seven golden rules lor suc
cess" - honesty, service, cleanli
ness, efficiency, economy, cour
tesy and hospitality with a smile.
Refugees Ask Bibles
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 ( -The
American Bible Society said to
day that mass requests for Bibles
by Hungarian refugees have ex
hausted the society's supply of BU
bles II. the Hungarian language,
and that special rush printings
were authoriied of 250,000 more
copies, at plants in this country
tpd Europe.
Statesman, Salem, Ore'., FrI., Nov. 30, 58 (Sec. TTI)-3I v
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