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Show Chamber Member Profile by Shirley Smith tive secretary, Michael Pole-chette Pole-chette is head housekeeper, Peter Heper chief auditor, Debbie Travis director of sales and Deanna Richmond director of marketing. These people are all professionals in their fields and hail both from Park City and other Holiday Inns in the east. The Holiday Inn has much to offer both residents and visitors. As a guest you would enjoy beautifully appointed ap-pointed rooms with all services, 16 hour room service, a beautiful year round pool, use of the tennis courts adjoining the golf course and in the winter on the spot ski tuning, repair and storage. Open to everyone is the Pub, serving beer and set ups, a state liquor store and Royce's restaurant (plans are being made now for an additional restaurant and disco to hopefully open in time for next ski season). But in addition the hotel has facilities for a myrjad of social and business functions from, weddings to outdoor Bar b ques to major conventions of. up to 700 people. ' Special kudos arc in order for the role of the hotel and entire staff in - the ASTA convention this week. Registration, Regis-tration, press- room and ASTA headquarters are all located in donated space at the Holiday Inn and the hotel went out of their way to provide staff lor" set ups and coordination of functions. In addition, each delegate staying stay-ing at the Holiday Inn find a - special gift in his or her room each evening. We at the Chamber - appreciate the first class job being clone by the Holiday Inn. welcome them as a major factor in the increased convention business we will be seeing in Park City and thank them for both their Chamber membership and their ongoing willingness to cooperate in making Park City a special place. If something can become a "fixture" in only 8 months, the Holiday Inn must certainly certain-ly hold that distinction. Open only sirjee Oct. the tasteful brick and wood hostelry on Park Ave. has quickly found an important niche in many aspects of Park City life. In the words of general manager David Shamoian, this hotel is a cut above the regular Holiday Inn largely through the concern of the local owners for first class facilities and service. The actual hotel is owned by local Park City and Salt Lake residents, Rob Morris, Rick Prince, Jim Steele, Lynn Dougan and David Geldzahler, but the Holiday Inn. franchise is owned and managed by Western Motel Corp. a seemingly ideal blend of local concern and care anf professionally train ed hotel management people. This is the first western hotel for the parent management manage-ment corp. which owns and manages a number of other Holiday Inns, mainly in the east, and general manager David Shamoian was "imported" "im-ported" in January of this year especially for the Park City position from the Holiday Inn in Woburn, Mass. where he had spent a very successful year. David is still trying to gear down to the relaxed pace of the west a feature he is just now learning to enjoy and appeciate, having spent his whole life in the east. But his management of the hotel is anything but relaxed, for David brings with him the knowledge, experience and efficiency garnered from literally a lifetime, in the hotel business. . While growing up in the Boston area his family owned a 75 room hotel and David received his formal education educa-tion at the University of Mass. and Cornell U, where he received a B.S. in Hotel Management. His experience has taken him through all phases of hotel management. He worked for seven years for Sheraton Hotels and in that time became familiar with everything from front desk management to Food and Beverage operations. David, of course, is not doing the job alone and depends upon a number of key people to help the hotel function professionally and effectively. Pat Weir is rooms division manager in charge of the front office. Kathy Snoddy functions in the important post of execu- i |