HSA 65th Anniversary Book
• To provide an organization with facilities and some capital through which students of the university could be encouraged to develop and to manage small businesses that might provide funds that could be applied to the cost of their education. • To afford needy students of the university the opportunity to earn substantial amounts of money for brief periods of work through the exercise of energy and ingenuity. • To encourage students to explore the business community as a potential career choice. • To enable students to gain valuable experience and to develop a sense of the excitement and responsibility involved in the management of small enterprises.
• To provide an organization with facilities and some capital through which students of the university could be encouraged to develop and to manage small businesses that might provide funds that could be applied to the cost of their education.
• To afford needy students of the university the opportunity to earn substantial amounts of money for brief periods
of work through the exercise of energy and ingenuity.
• To encourage students to explore the business community as a potential career choice.
• To enable students to gain valuable experience and to develop a sense of the excitement and responsibility involved in the management of small enterprises.
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FEBRUARY 1, 1986 –
JANUARY 31, 1987
Harvard Bartending Course
stops serving liquor
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FEBRUARY 1, 1987 –
JANUARY 31, 1988
Let’s Go is used by
1.6 million travelers
HSA mellowed out high-strung aspiring lawyers with its Law School Cafe agency. So distracted were they
by the incipient pressures of the rest of their legal lives, however, the patrons neglected to purchase enough
stress-relieving snack items to sustain the business. Case closed. Due to the prohibitive cost of liquor-liability
insurance, the Harvard Bartending Course dried up, and only the brave did dare pound the colored waters
used as liquor substitutes.
The annual meeting of November 12, 1987, preceded HSA’s 30th-anniversary birthday fest. Held at
Memorial Hall, the ’50s-themed party drew more than 300 past and present HSAers bedecked in period
apparel with a DJ, cotton-candy machines, and carnival games.
PRESIDENT
Linda
Doyle
PRESIDENT
Debra
Graham
OFFICE
OFFICE
Thayer Hall B
Thayer Hall B
The number and type of agencies remained exactly as they had been two years prior. Travel first offered
spring-break vacations to sun-starved students, the Union agency added a yogurt machine, and HSA
switched computer systems from Fortune to System 36. Linen topped all other agencies in revenue, and
Catering sent waitstaff to an 80-guest wedding that, thanks to a tropical storm, had only enough food to
serve a dozen.
The KOA campground in Baton Rouge was vexing, Let’s Go: Europe burst with 47 maps (a whopping
increase of one map over the previous year), back covers first asked, “Did you know?”, and The Unofficial
Guide dished out its inaugural blue coupons in back.
The series reached 11 volumes as Let’s Go:
California & the Pacific Northwest was hacked and
whacked and split into two bits, Let’s Go: California
& Hawaii and Let’s Go: The Pacific Northwest,
Western Canada & Alaska. On page one of Let’s Go:
Europe, Dr. Seuss told would-be budgeteers: “From
there to here, from here to there, funny things are
everywhere.” The estimated annual readership for
the Let’s Go series reached 1.6 million, giving HSA
leverage in renegotiations with St. Martin’s.
LET’S GO TITLES
• Europe
• Britain & Ireland
• France
AGENCIES
• Linen
• Publishing
• Catering
• Italy
• USA
• Greece
• Israel & Egypt
• Travel
• Direct Sales
• Harvard Student Resources
• California & the
Pacific Northwest
• Spain, Portugal & Morocco
• Mexico
• Union
• Harvard Distribution
Services
• Advertising
OTHER TITLES
• The Unofficial Guide to Life at
Harvard
• Sales Group
• Text Processing
• Law School Cafe
LET’S GO TITLES
• Europe
• Britain & Ireland
• France
• Italy
AGENCIES
• Linen
• Publishing
• Catering
• USA
• Greece
• Israel & Egypt
• California & Hawaii
• Travel
• Direct Sales
• Harvard Student Resources
• The Pacific Northwest,
Western Canada & Alaska
• Spain, Portugal & Morocco
• Mexico
• Union
• Harvard Distribution
Services
OTHER TITLES
• The Unofficial Guide to Life
at Harvard
• Advertising
• Sales Group
• Text Processing
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