European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse In from Patof 11 House registered representative whence was a clerk on the Exchange floor. Monica and Dan. A Navy Veteran have been married three years and live in Sands Point. Brown eyed Anne Marie Tho Mieux. 5-foot-fi. Is from , and has Heen in the . Three years. She became a guide a Little Overa year ago and lives in Roslyn Heights Santullano a Petite 5-foot-2 Brunette from Mexico City has been a guide one year. She came to new York 10 years ago and lives in Brooklyn. Others on the guide staff Are Debbi Cook and Flora i Riff in both of Forest Hills n y Dorothy Higgins of Brook Lyn Trace Dibble of Valley Stream by Jodee love Caroline Warner and Marion Weil All of Manhattan. A of than 2.300 persons from allover the a Oral ranging from school kids and College students to foreign . Visit the Exchange each Day. The record of 8,231 visitors was set on May 29, 19b2, during the startling mar Ket break that four Day thanksgiving Holiday apparently brings a Large number of out of towners to new York with time on their hands and a spirit of Advent of. Guides have had to Check turtles snakes dogs and a horned Toad. Ture. By actual count 6,245 person crowded the visitors gallery on the Friday after thanksgiving Day Las year in 19li6, the attendance on the same Day was 7,547 in 1965, 6,390 and in1964, 6,855. For kids the guides have had Tocheck turtles snakes dogs and a horned Toad for adults babies in addition to their guide duties some of the girls take turns broadcasting news such As the 15 most Active the nose Index and volume of transacted. These radio Broad Market stocks shares casts network and local Are made from a desk on the visitors gallery several times a Day. Taped broadcasts Are also relayed to Points. Lin the guide f r o m its in Spanish to , broads trial and South i rom the gallery guests look Down at the 18 a shaped trading posts wherefore than 1,500 actively traded stocks Are listed. On the clamorous trading floor some 2,200 brokers clerks super visors pages and tube men Are inaction. A noisy colourful Arena about the size of a football Field the floor serves As a marketplace where an average of More than 12 million shares of stocks a Day Are bought and sold for investors All Over the visitors the Din of the trading is almost As dizzying As the Pace. Brokers numbers slap against the Annunciator boards on the Walls the nervous Clatter of the ticker projectors Echo above the crowd and every so often broker themselves will Send up a Roar of exuberance or the trades Are unfolding on the floor the guides up in the gallery offers running commentary for visitors. Each guide conducts an average of four45-minute Tours a Day including a ques Tion and answer period. The first tour starts at 10 a.m., the last at 3 15 . The guides also spend some time Tell ing visitors How the Exchange s modern computerized Market data system May also double As usher ettes at the exhibit Hall s 74-seat theater where visitors watch three Short films the lady and the Stock Exchange you Shan in tomorrow and what makes us or she May assist in putting on the miniature puppet show which graphically demonstrates How an orders executed. Several times a month miss Vijh Ger personally guides the vip who Page 12 guide Sid High Fil millions of Sha on a floor the size of a football Field 2,200 brokers clerks runners and supervisors buy and so Schuettler 5 up with the answer 1968 Dick t. Callanan started the girl guides in business. Jean Geiger has been chief guide for seven years. Comment. Even visiting russian officials who traditionally scorn the Exchange As an institution have not been Able to re Sist a tour during trips to new York a nose spokesman from the new african nations japanese and germans grasp How the is photos by Exchange works almost guides consider foreign visitors their favourites mainly because they Are so polite and but the girls flipped when handsome movie Star Rock Hudson visited the Exchange about a year recalled the visit on april 30, 1962 of the soviet astronaut Muj. Gher Man s. Titov who completed 17 orbits of the Earth on aug. 6, 1961.in the visitors gallery she tried to explain the bedlam on the floor. It waste end of trading for the Day men milled about like bees in a hive an suddenly the closing Bell clanged. Everything was very Clear in outer space maj. Titov replied to a request for his reaction. Here nothing is occasional visitor will attempt to i Veigle the. Guides into an argument about capitalism and its shortcomings. We just give them a few facts an figures Jean pointed out and then let them draw their own everyone seems so fascinated by girl guides use visual aids diagrams and photographs to show visitors How bulls and bears operate on the big Monica Hanley operates a computer and if you want a quote on you the idea that fortunes can be made or lost in a matter of minutes. Guides Are always being asked for hot tips on the Market by visitors who Are seeking an easy Way to make their first million. " if it was that easy Jean laughed we d All be she confided. "1 buy stocks i think will Takecare of me in my old every time the Market takes a skid special Breed shows up in the visitors gallery and they always have the Sam questions. The girls Tab the commenting they re Rush to an Airport for plane red haired freckle faced Debbie King a newly wed whose husband. Pvt. Thom As Cook is stationed at it. Gordon ga.,joined the nose guide staff a year ago almost 22 years to the Day after her Mother mrs. Marie Allingham King mho vultures the kind who souvenirs of a the stars and stripes became one of the first girl guides in1945, mrs. King left the Exchange a year later but returned in 1952 and spent nearly five years there. It was in 1939, when new York first world s fair came to town that the nose decided to admit the Public to its gallery but there were no female guides in those Days. Actually the first guide was Richard 1-. Callanan a Brooklyn irishman who was borrowed from his floor Post As a Page to run the were ordered to close up during the said Callanan. Who has Bee with the Exchange us years and is now Nysky is minor press representative be cause there was no a to get a gallery crowd into an air raid shelter. But on Day while 1 was getting ready to shut up shop a Soldier showed up and asked if he Cou d take a Dick of plied and that Semi formal the stars and stripes Public relations program continued through the War. In 1945, at the end of world War ii. He was called on to train the first group of girls As guides. Soon after the Public relations depart Callanan from his Tempo status and the girls too Kment lifted Ary duty Over. Each of tin guides has her own on the Job anecdote but this one is a favorite an inquisitive lady stood in the visitors gallery watching the bustling scene below on the trading floor. Tell me. she Siuk Lenly asked one of the guides what i the name of that Stock Over therein s gone up two Points while i be been watching. Look it s going up again. Indeed it was. She was watching the Large floor clock that tells the minute by minute tune in numbers 1 13. 2 14, 2 15. Page ii
