User:Hmich176/The Hotel Hershey/List of Hotel Hershey managers
The Hotel Hershey has had leading managers under the title Managing Director or General Manager. Below is a list of the people who have held these titles.
List of managers[edit]
| # | Name | Year | Tenure | Title | Ref(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | Last | |||||
| 1 | Joseph A. Gassler | 1933
|
1957
|
24
|
Managing Director
|
|
| 2 | Charles E. Todd | 1957
|
1959
|
2
|
Managing Director
|
|
| 3 | Robert P. Cournoyer | 1959
|
1969
|
10
|
Managing Director
|
|
| 4 | Edward R. Book | 1969
|
1970
|
2
|
General Manager
|
|
| 5 | Austin L. Mott, III | 1971
|
1973
|
1.5
|
General Manager
|
|
| 6 | Donald H. Pierson | 1973
|
1985
|
12
|
Managing Director
|
|
| 7 | David S. Drooker | 1985
|
1988
|
3
|
Managing Director
|
|
| 8 | Patrick J. Kerwin | 1988
|
1992
|
4
|
General Manager
|
|
| 9 | Robin A. Kirk | 1992
|
1996
|
4
|
General Manager
|
|
| 10 | Maarten Van Wijk | 1996
|
2002
|
6
|
General Manager
|
|
| 11 | Stephen Bello | 2002
|
2003
|
1
|
General Manager
|
|
| 12 | Brian R. O'Day | 2003
|
2017
|
14
|
General Manager
|
|
| 13 | Bill Hendrix | 2017
|
Present | 4
|
General Manager
|
|
References[edit]
- ^ "New $2,000,000 Hotel in Hershey to Open May 25". The Evening News. Harrisburg, PA. May 4, 1933. p. S2-1.
Joseph Gassler, manager of the Hershey Country Club for the last three years, will be managing director of the two country clubs and the hotel.
- ^ "Todd New Manager of Hershey Hotel". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 1, 1957. p. B-39.
Charles E. Todd of Aiken, S.C., has been appointed managing director of Hotel Hershey following the retirement of Joseph Gassler.
- ^ "Hershey Hotel Manager". Lancaster New Era. August 24, 1959. p. 18.
Robert P. Cournoyer has been named managing director of the Hershey hotel. He will succeed Charles E. Todd who retires November 1.
- ^ "Hotel Hershey Manager Resigns For New Post". Lebanon Daily News. February 14, 1969. p. 28.
Robert P. Cournoyer, managing director of the Hotel Hershey, has resigned his job to accept an appointment as managing director of the Lodge at the Four Seasons at Lake Ozark, Missouri...
- ^ "Penn State Grad Named Manager Of Hotel Hershey". Lebanon Daily News. February 15, 1969. p. 29.
The appointment of Edward R. Book as the new general manager of the Hotel Hershey has been announced today...
- ^ "Managers Named At Hershey Hotels". Elizabethtown Chronicle. Elizabethtown, PA. January 7, 1971. p. 8.
Austin L. Mott, III, manager and director of sales for Hotel Hershey, has been appointed general manager of Hotel Hershey ... The appointment becomes effective immediately. ...
- ^ "Hershey Hotel, Club Have New Manager". Lebanon Daily News. June 14, 1973. p. 50.
Edward R. Book … announced the appointment of Donald H. Pierson as managing director of the Hotel Hershey and Hershey Country Club, effective July 1. ...
- ^ "Pierson managing director". Citizens’ Voice. Wilkes-Barre, PA. June 5, 1985.
Donald H. Pierson ... named managing director of The Hershey Pocono Resort in White Haven. He has served since July 1973 as managing director of The Hotel Hershey & Country Club...
- ^ "Honored By Institute". Lebanon Daily News. October 11, 1987. p. D-1.
David S. Drooker managing director of The Hotel Hershey...has been managin director of The Hotel Hershey since September 1985. ...
- ^ "HERCO Changes Course To Survive Rough Waters". Lebanon Daily News. November 20, 1988. p. D-1.
...We asked Pat [Kerwin] to go to the hotel, still carrying his title as vice president, but now carrying the additional title of general manager of the hotel...
- ^ "HERCO eliminates 2 executive posts". Lebanon Daily News. October 17, 1992. p. 3.
... Robin Kirk, general manager of the Hilton Inn Towers in Philadelphia, will become generla manager of the Hotel Hershey...
- ^ "HERCO appointments". Lebanon Daily News. March 25, 1996. p. 15.
... Maarten Van Wijk has been named general manager of The Hotel Hershey...
- ^ "Bello Named GM At Hotel Hershey In PA". Hotel Business. May 28, 2002. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
The Hotel Hershey appointed Stephen Bello as general manager.
- ^ "New GM takes over at Hotel Hershey". Lebanon Daily News. April 27, 2003. p. C-9.
Brian R. O'Day was named the new general manager at The Hotel Hershey, effective April 3.
- ^ a b "New GM named at The Hotel Hershey". Central Penn Business Journal. January 26, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
Bill Hendrix, the hotel's assistant general manager, will assume the [role as general manager] when current general manager Brian O'Day retires at the end of April.