This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.
I had the chance to read some of the biographies of these great men and their histories of esteemed and dedicated service. It was inspiring and weighty to learn about their lives in hospitality right before I began my own first service/serving job.