Pictured Here Standing in Front of the 880-foot-long Porch

Pictured here standing in front of the 880-foot-long porch (billed as "the longest in the world" by Ripley) of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan are John Gillespie '54 (left) and Dan Musser '55. Musser is presi- dent and owner of the classic midwestern resort hotel, and Gillespie is senior vice president of Needham and Grohmann, hotel and resort advertising specialists in New York City.

Musser and Gillespie were together to head up two days of seminars focusing on tourism in the Midwest. During that time, they also con- ducted some unofficial business swapping food and beverage ideas for the joint 30th re- union of their two classes, along with the class of 1953, this coming June, and discussing ways to increase attendance at reunions by classmates from the Midwest.

The 94-year-old Grand Hotel was an opulent showplace when it opened in 1887. Sustained through the difficult years of the Depression and World War II by Musser's uncle, the resort is being refurbished and restored to prominence by Musser and his wife Amelia. It is on the National Register of Historic Places; it was pro- filed several months ago on the NBC Today show; and it was the subject of a feature in the August issue of Architectural Digest, which called it "that magnificent dowager of mid- western hostelries."