Day 123 - 09 May 95 - Page 47


     
     1        else's express wishes, until about quarter past four.
     2
     3                       (Short Adjournment).
     4
     5   MS. STEEL:  Mr. Beavers, did you go to Hamburger University?
     6        A.  Yes, I did.
     7
     8   Q.   You did.  When were you at Hamburger University?
     9        A.  Back in the early 60s.
    10
    11   Q.   In the early 60s?
    12        A.  And I also returned again, let us see, in the 70s and
    13        got a masters and then again in the 80s.  So I have been
    14        actually three times, not counting a bunch of other, you
    15        know, seminars, professional seminars, that I have
    16        attended.
    17
    18   Q.   In the early 60s that was before the official university
    19        opened, was it not?
    20        A.  The new university had not been opened.  We were still
    21        located in Oak Grove, yes.
    22
    23   Q.   Was the one in Oak Grove in the basement of a McDonald's
    24        store?
    25        A.  That was, that was a little bit before my time.
    26
    27   Q.   Which was the one that opened in 1968?
    28        A.  That was the one in Oak Grove.  That was after we had
    29        moved out of basement of the Oak Grove store, and built the
    30        facility that was adjacent to the McDonald's restaurant.
    31
    32   Q.   So the first time you went that was the -----
    33        A.  The first one I attended was in Washington DC.  We had
    34        a hamburger college which was, the curriculum was exactly
    35        the same as HU at Oak Grove.  I started with a franchisee
    36        that had 40 some restaurants and because of the number of
    37        management people that he had, he really developed his own
    38        programme, training programme, that was modelled after
    39        McDonald's programme.
    40
    41   Q.   That was the one you went to in the early 60s?
    42        A.  I went it that before I went to HU.  I went to both.
    43
    44   Q.   In the early 60s.
    45        A.  In the 60s, yes.
    46
    47   Q.   At the time you were there, was there a dean called Gerry
    48        Pelletier, I might have pronounced it wrong?
    49        A.  Gerry Pelletier?
    50 
    51   Q.   That sounds right. 
    52        A.  Gerry Pelletier, I believe, was a dean, probably in the 
    53        70s.  He came along after I was there.
    54
    55   Q.   I mean, do you know him?  Have you met him?
    56        A.  Yes, he is a franchisee now, in Tennessee.
    57
    58   Q.   Is it right that he is particularly fond of hamburgers?
    59        A.  I would assume that he is.
    60

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