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Plans! Plans! Plans!
It takes a lot of smart planning to make
an annual banquet turn out exactly right

THE Piedmont & Northern's popular
annual banquets don't just happen.
They are the result of many hours of
careful planning and hard work involv-
ing as many as 75 employees.

This is the banquet season. In Decem-
ber of each year the management ap-
points a general committee composed of
six or seven employees, one of whom is
asked to serve as general chairman of
the banquet. Since there are two ban-
quets -- one for the North Carolina Divi-
sion in Charlotte and another for the
South Carolina Division in Greenville
-- two separate and distinct committees
are appointed.

Chairman takes the lead

The chairman then calls a meeting of
his committee and designates responsi-
bilities to members of the genenral com-
mittee. These general committee mem-
bers become sub-chairmen of such special
committees as attendance and registra-
tion, entertainment, decorations, and hos-
pitality. These sub-committees, which
are expanded with personnel chosen by
the general committee, are the real work-
horses. Under the direction of the gen-
eral chairman they plan all of the details
of the banquets and then carry out their
plans. All a good chairman has to do is
worry about whether or not his sub-
committees are doing their jobs -- or at
least that is the theory of it.

The attendance sub-committee extends
invitations to all employees, finds out
who is coming, prepares names tages, reg-
isters all guests attending the banquet,
and buys the door prize. The entertain-
ment committee engages an orchestra,
arranges for special entertainment, and
works out all of the details of the pro-
gram, including the agenda to be fol-
lowed by the toastmaster. The decora-
tions committee plans the decoration mo-
tif, purchases needed supplies, and deco-
rates the ballroom on the afternoon pre-
ceding the banquet. The hospitality com-
mittee is all that the name implies. Mem-
bers of this committee are responsible
for greeting all guests, making intro-
ductions, and generally making everyone
feel at home.

Committees for the 1955 banquet next
month are already hard at work. Menus
have been selected, orchestras have been
booked, and the entire programs have
been outlined. Even the 1955 crop of
toastmasters are culling over their sup-
plies of funny stories in an effort to
make the evening as enjoyable as pos-
sible.

Circle these dates

The North Carolina Division banquet
is scheduled for Saturday, January 8,
in the ballroom of the Hotel Charlotte.
Registration will begin at 6:30 p.m. and
dinner will be served at 7:00. Following
the banquet in the ballroom, a dance will
be held in the Chelsea room across the
lobby.

In South Carolina the banquet will be
held a week later -- on Saturday, January
15. The times will be the same. The ball-
room of the Poinsett Hotel will be the
setting for both the banquet and the
dance which will follow.

The North Carolina Division party is
under the general chairmanship of R. R.
Vaughan, Charlotte agent. Members of

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