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, 1992 –
JANUARY 31, 1993
OFFICES
93
PRESIDENT
Brian
Goler
Thayer Hall B
1 Story St.
Once again, HSA searches
for a new home
Due to approaching Yard renovations, HSA’s days in Thayer were
numbered. In March, the university announced that HSA needed
to depart its basement home by June 1993. August rolled around,
Michele Ponti resigned from her position as General Manager, and
HSA identified 53A Church St. as a prospective new location. In
November, HSA hired Richard M. Olken ’67 to be the next General
Manager.
An Entrepreneurial Program
for the generation of new
business ideas spawned
the unsuccessful Friends of
Harvard mail-order catalog.
Richard Olken.
For the first time, the presidential election for the following fiscal year
took place before November. Travel acquired its first SABRE systems
to become a fully functioning travel agency, and Type and Graphics
developed a new division, Out-House Testing. It tested software, not
toilets.
Newly joined in wholly owned matrimony, Publishing and Sales
Group eloped from Thayer basement to brighter offices at 1 Story St.
Anne Chisholm.
in April, and Anne Chisholm was hired as the new office manager for
Let’s Go, Inc. Due to political turmoil abroad, several RWs
unexpectedly found themselves in Rome as plans for Let’s Go:
Thailand were scrapped at the last minute. On the bright side,
the city guides Let’s Go: Rome and Let’s Go: Paris expanded the
series to 17. For the first time, the thumbpick logo appeared at
a 45° angle on all front covers, turning the increasingly taboo
hitchhiking symbol into a more positive thumbs-up. Back
in Cambridge, a new computer network bound the office
together in a blissful union of email, the guides were first
typeset in-house, and The Unofficial Guide first helped train
RWs on a blustery, gray Saturday in April. Readership hit 3.5
million, and profits from royalties neared $800,000.
WHERE THEY ARE NOW...
Julie Cotler Pottinger | ’92
JOBS AT HSA: Researcher-Writer, Let’s Go: Greece, FY91; salesperson, Sales Group, FY92; receptionist, Publishing, FY93.
CURRENTLY: Writes romance novels, including the bestselling Bridgerton series, under the pen name Julia Quinn.
HOW DID YOU FIRST GET HIRED AT LET’S GO? “My first year I was an RW in Crete and Cyprus. I was hired to go to Britain
and Ireland and then at the last minute, they were like, ‘Oh, we’re sending you to Greece!’ I was like, ‘I don’t speak Greek,’ and they
said, ‘We don’t have anyone who speaks Greek, it’s fine!’ Once I signed the contract, they were like, ‘By the way, Cyprus is a war zone,
did you know that?’ I did not know that!”
WHAT WAS IT LIKE BEING A RECEPTIONIST FOR LET’S GO? “That was a super fun time — that was the year after Israel
& Egypt forgot the entire chapter on the Pyramids! I don’t really know how it happened; I think because of a miscommunication
between the editors and St. Martin’s Press, they deleted the wrong chapter. We got a lot of hate mail that summer.”
WHAT ROLE DID LET’S GO PLAY IN YOUR PATH TO BECOMING A WRITER? “I wrote the first four chapters of [my first
novel] the summer I sold the advertising [for Let’s Go]. It was a job you didn’t have to take home with you. … I was living with my
boyfriend (now husband). He was an EMT, so he had weird hours, and there was no internet then, so you can’t be there surfing the
web. So I started writing a book.”
WHAT LIFE SKILLS DID LET’S GO GIVE YOU? “It helps you become more resourceful. … I got this horrible, horrible rash [while
traveling as an RW]. Everything I owned got infested with fleas; it turns out I’m allergic to Mediterranean fleas. I’m in a foreign
country, I’m clearly dying — what do you do? Again, there was no internet, so you learn to deal.”
WHAT ARE YOUR BEST STORIES FROM THE ROAD? “The time I got propositioned by a monk. That was shocking.”
LET’S GO TITLES
• Europe
• Britain & Ireland
• France
• Italy
• USA
AGENCIES
• Greece & Turkey
• Israel & Egypt
• California & Hawaii
• The Pacific Northwest,
Western Canada & Alaska
• Spain & Portugal
• Mexico
• New York City
• London
• Washington, D.C.
• Germany, Austria
& Switzerland
• Paris
• Rome
OTHER TITLES
• The Unofficial Guide to Life
at Harvard
• Linen
• Publishing
• Catering
• Travel
• The Campus Store
• Harvard Student Resources
• Union
• Harvard Distribution
Services
• Sales Group
• Type and Graphics
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