The objectives of this study included the development of a classification system for the restaurant industry in Virginia and the provision of an operating data base to be used in the future to asess annual changes and mate trend comparisons. A questionnaire was mailed to 2,864 restaurant operations which were randomly selected from the total population of restaurants in Virginia. Demographic data, as well as financial information was collected from a total of 120 respondants. Results for the entire sample were reported at the .1 level of confidence. Operating characteristics, ratios, and a sample Profit and Loss statement was reported for the entire sample. A classification system was developed and the sample was broken down according to it. This system includes major class divisions for type of restaurant, type of management, total sales volume, and general location. Results are compared to other sources of information pertaining to the restaurant industry in Virginia. This study provides industry members with a source of comparative information. It is also useful as a data base upon which future comparisons can be made utilizing the classification system. / M. S.

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Data on 376 farms were acquired from a direct mail questionnaire containing 31 questions. These farms were on a production testing program and employed one or more full time workers who spent 50% or more of their time with the herd. Characteristics on workers, farms, and working conditions were obtained. The average worker was 38.6 years, had 6.8 years of schooling, and 5.9 years of dairy experience prior to their last employment.. About 80% of the workers were married and had 3.6 children. Reasons why workers left dairy farms and where they go for employment were compiled on 262 workers. The average dairy farm had a herd of 69 cows, and 1.9 hired workers. Seventy-eight percent of the farms had loose housing, 71% pipeline milkers, 55% mechanical manure handling, and 32% mechanical silage feeding. Average working conditions on these farms were: starting hour, 5:00 am.; hour per day, 9.75; days off per month, 3; wages per month, $230.48, and benefits per month, $81.65. Farms that provided incentives, 37%; annual leave, 63% and advancement opportunities, 94%. / M.S.

In this chapter was presented a comparative description of the programs of guidance in certain Virginia schools according to the following groupings: (a) large, medium-sized, and small schools; (b) urban and rural; and (c) Negro and white schools. Guidance in the large and medium-sized schools appeared, in general, to excel that in the small schools in both number and scope of services offered. Similarly, guidance services in urban situations seemed superior in organization and offerings to those in rural locations. Little significant difference was noted between guidance programs of white and Negro schools except in instances in which lack of facilities appeared to hamper the programs in schools for Negroes. / M.S.

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In this study, job analyses were made of twenty-two individual record keepers working in over two-thirds of the Roanoke businesses employing twenty-five or more office employees. / Master of Science

This thesis develops a philosophy for management, preservation, and interpretation of Woodlands Farm and Thomas's Wharf in Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service methodology for historic properties, including cultural landscapes, is used to complete this study. The National Park Service method includes four interrelated steps: (1) historical research, and (2) inventory and documentation of existing conditions, (3) site analysis and evaluation of significance and integrity, and (4) recommendations for future management. Essential to the future of Woodlands Farm and Thomas's Wharf is continued use of the property while retaining character defining features that make them significant. The most suitable management philosophy for a historic property that allows for protection and maintenance of significant features, as well as future use and development, is Rehabilitation. Thomas's Wharf's significance is derived from fragments of many periods and histories can be read on the landscape; a palimpsest. The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service evaluates a landscape much as one evaluates a historic building, defining it as a type or from a specific time period. The U.S. Department of the Interior's criteria for significance does not address a landscape, like Thomas's Wharf, as part of the continuum of history. Rather the study of landscapes is limited and the criteria does not acknowledge a site's broader continuum of significance. Landscapes that are records of change and evolution, palimpsests of a people, culture, and place, need to be identified and deemed significant for that quality. / Master of Landscape Architecture

This thesis analyzes coeducation as a process between 1914 and 1964 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), as it was called during the period of study. The date for women's full-time admission came in 1921, but this thesis argues that, in the process of coeducation, the date for official access represents only one marker for VPI. Since women had taken courses during the summer before 1921 and did not encounter a welcoming environment after that date, this thesis contends that the relative importance of this "first" needs to be put in perspective. This thesis explores VPI as a case study to analyze how society's gender roles and women's place affected the decision to admit women and their treatment on campus after access. Examining social, political, and economic events in Virginia and the nation, this thesis places VPI within the context of events at the time. In particular, this thesis discusses how federal legislation, during the 1910s, prompted VPI to admit women, an area previously unexplored by historians of higher education. Throughout the period of study, this thesis argues that VPI - its students and administration - limited women's access and inclusion on campus in an effort to maintain its identity as a white, male, military institution. / Master of Arts