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VIVACIOUS CAROL

GEERAERT is 18, a very, .
attractive desk clerk in

her parents’ new Terrace
Hotel.

> serving...
“making: sandwiches’ for
“the forest fire fighters. °

Carol © says. she ©
started working in- the...
“business when-she was ‘11 _
- years old -- doing dishes,’
‘eoffee- and.

Carol has -her father’s .

strong: confidence | -in
herself.- but~. is still
undecided. what. she

wants to:make of herself

“jn. the: business world. |
-This.::

-auburn- chaired.

young *. beauty with

flashing preen -eyes.

displayed a keen sense of

‘humor: when, in: the

. interview, she answered’

“the: ‘question, “I want to

““do."ai: million | and - one.

things.: J could tell you 50
of them, but they would
probably all change by
tomorrow." This.with a

{

cute little toss of her

head. However Carol has:

busy, though her father
was. with his hotel.
business, he was still the
backbone- of the family.

“If he wants something —

done”’, she said, wit has to
‘be. done now.”’- He has.

“made it known, now that

- we are grown up,.that if.

we don’t go.along with his

' ways, we can go our own...”

way.”’ But, she added
with a loyal ‘and. genuine
smile, “‘His ways. are

*. @aSy enough to live with, :

é

been: brought up to think ©

for: herself: and can be .

serious . too. She

‘and if. we did go, we

know. the ‘door. would —

‘always be open for us to -

come back.’’ Then
speaking of her mother,
very . fondly «she : ‘said,
“Mother is.a giver. ‘She.

has given all of herself to
-my father and the hotel, .

and yet still keeps a close
family relationship.’’.

When asked ‘about: how

she liked: Terrace Carol .
. said, “Living in Terrace. .
and working with ‘so.
many people as we do in -
the ‘hotel. business has —
‘made me so much more

tolerant. - [like people for -

mentioned in the course ©

or the. conversation, that, .

what they are and accept
them ail.

now “manager ‘Of: ei.
lounge... in: his: ‘parents’

New: Terrace Hotel. He is *

_- intent.on- making this his ©
life’s work: “Following in’:

a big pair of. shoes,’’I: |
said, And he. answered -
proudly, ‘‘Yes,. they sure

are!’’ Graham started as .
-a dish washer when -he '—
_ was 11 years old, he has,

cooked, worked in” the ©

cafe, waited on tables,.

did the desk work, was
serving in ‘the pub: and —
behind, the taps, hg. was.

‘travelling. around British’

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1972

‘and 1 now tei is in the ioe

“ge. He said ‘I started at

“the bottom and I KNOW I
 couldn’t: have had a
better teacher: thin my. -
father in‘ this” business, .
_and he-is a good father at .
-homeé too.”’ “I must. say;

~ Graham went on, ‘A lot:
of their success in’ this - -

‘business is attributed ‘to.
mother: She putin a lot of
hours too. We are a-
family with a very strong.
_unity, and I’m very proud
to be Part of that ten ”.

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