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Personal Chef Needed!
JOB DESCRIPTION: Senior culinary student with own transportation to work as personal chef at my home in Springville, UT. Looking for an efficient multitasker.
HOURS: One day a week - possibly turning into two days a week. Any day, Monday through Friday during business hours.
SALARY: Starting at $13 an hour, and moving to $15 after a one month trial period. Compensation for gas and time spent shopping as well.
RESPONSIBILITIES: I am a gluten free, oil free, sugar free, mostly salt free VEGAN (no animal products). My husband and college age children eat a more "normal" diet. I will provide cookbooks and recipe ideas. To begin, I would like the following:
- Shop once a week
- Chop veggies/fruit for "on the go" veggie, salad and fruit cups, as well as chopped veggies/fruit for at home use.
- Cook one grain (brown rice, millet, quinoa, etc.) and portion into serving containers.
- Make 2 salad dressings
- Make a Vegan soup or casserole
- Make a "normal" casserole (think Standard American Diet comfort food) for weekend when college age children are home. Something freezable if you choose to work earlier in the week.
- Hard boil eggs
- Bake potatoes or sweet potatoes
- Help with kitchen organization
I have a food processer, Blendtec, rice cooker, crockpot, and other small appliances. I am willing to buy kitchen equipment as needed.
TO APPLY: Please send resume and references to Jennifer at email@example.com
Posted 3/26/15
Short-Order Cook Needed
Pinewoods Resort Restaurant. Call on this job for more information!
To apply and for more information contact Janice at firstname.lastname@example.com
Posted 3/26/15
Part-Time Chef Needed
JOB DESCRIPTION: It's time to let your creative side flourish! Part-Time (30 hours week) Chef wanted for busy, professional, Provo Family.
QUALIFICATIONS: The optimal applicant is excited about an independent working environment, health conscious gourmet meal preparation 3-5 days a week for appetizer plates, dinners, some lunches and occasional larger gatherings. Using organic ingredients, minimal sugar/wheat/pasta are extremely important.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Includes shopping, food prep and cooking.
SALARY: Generous wage for the right individual. A full-time position could be available for an individual that likes to clean as well. Some benefits are also available.
TO APPLY: Please email resumes to email@example.com.
Posted: 3/24/14
Provo Marriott - Line Cook Position Open
Hotel/Office: Provo Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
Location: Provo, UT, United States
Posted: 3-Mar-2015
Ref#: 140022OJ
Job Category: Food and Beverage & Culinary
Brand: Marriott Hotels & Resorts and JW Marriott Hotels
Schedule: Full-time
Position Type: Non-Management/Hourly
JOB DESCRIPTION: With more than 300 managed properties worldwide (including conference centers) our flagship brand, Marriott Hotels & Resorts celebrates the drive, focus, and resilience of our guests while focusing on exceptional service and genuine comfort. As part of the Marriott Hotels & Resorts team, you'll work to make the most of the travel experience of each and every guests. Find Your World™ at Marriott Hotels & Resorts.
SUMMARY: Prepare ingredients for cooking, including portioning, chopping, and storing food. Wash and peel fresh fruits and vegetables. Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients. Prepare and cook food according to recipes, quality standards, presentation standards, and food preparation checklist. Prepare cold foods. Operate ovens, stoves, grills, microwaves, and fryers. Test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently. Monitor food quality while preparing food. Set-up and break down work station. Serve food in proper portions onto proper receptacles. Wash and disinfect kitchen area, tables, tools, knives, and equipment. Check and ensure the correctness of the temperature of appliances and food.
Follow all company and safety and security policies and procedures; report maintenance needs, accidents, injuries, and unsafe work conditions to manager; complete safety training and certifications. Ensure uniform and personal appearance are clean and professional; maintain confidentiality of proprietary information; protect company assets. Speak with others using clear and professional language. Develop and maintain positive working relationships with others; support team to reach common goals; listen and respond appropriately to the concerns of other employees. Ensure adherence to quality expectations and standards. Stand, sit, or walk for an extended period of time or for an entire work shift. Reach overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stooping. Move, lift, carry, push, pull, and place objects weighing less than or equal to 25 pounds without assistance. Perform other reasonable job duties as requested by Supervisors.
TO APPLY: Apply online at
Executive Chef - UVU Dining Services
JOB DESCRIPTION: UVU Dining Services has an opening for an Executive Chef. This is a full-time position at UVU with benefits. It will pay between $50,000 and $67,000 per year, depending on experience.
SUMMARY OF DUTIES: The executive chef is responsible for food production including food used for restaurants, retail foods, and vending, as well as banquet functions and special events which include University staff meetings, executive meetings, student events and other remote outlets in the University; developing menus, controlling food purchase, implementing purchasing specifications and producing standardized recipes; supervising, training and hiring kitchen staff. Developing and monitoring food and labor cost budgeting for the department. Maintaining highest professional food quality and sanitation standards.
To Apply: Go to https://www.uvu.jobs/
Posted: 3/24/14
North Fork Club Needs Cooks & Waitstaff - Will Consider Externship
Nadine San Antionio, Exec. ChefP.O. Box 512 Ossipee, NH 03864
603-539-6767, Cell 603-391-5661
Position Offered: Cook/Hospitality Staff for long standing private fly-fishing club or will consider Externship
Location – Island Park, Idaho, Henry's Fork of the Snake River, 30 miles southwest of Yellowstone N.P.
Seasonal Position – June 5, 2014 – September 7, 2014 (approximate dates)
Days of Operation – Monday through Saturday, breakfast and dinner
Compensation – Commensurate with qualifications, $10+
Room & Board provided for a minimal fee
Purpose/Objective: Looking for dedicated, energetic people who have a base of expertise in the culinary arts and hospitality field and who are willing to apply their skills in both areas. We encourage creativity and attention to detail. We foster a work environment that values collaboration. We support an awareness of current trends in fostering relationships with local growers and producers.
• Assist Chef with menu planning (cook)
• Demonstrate skill in the application of suggested menus (cook)
• Plan & execute a variety of breakfast entrees and accompaniments (cook)
• Assist Chef with prep requirements for dinner (cook)
• Work cooperatively with other kitchen staff to set up & share work space (cook)
• Set tables and buffet and serve as needed (all staff)
• Track inventory by keeping daily records (all staff)
• Accept and assess product from vendors (cook)
• Have an understanding of what constitutes conscious food choices (all staff)
• Maintain high standards of safety & hygiene in kitchen & dining room (all staff)
• Maintain neat appearance and congenial attitude (all staff)
• Be proactive about the needs of our members as well as co-workers (all staff)
• High School Diploma
• Minimum 2 years of College Level Culinary training (cook)
• Two years on the job experience in food service (all staff)
• Broad base of knowledge & skills in food handling, preparation & cooking (cook)
• ServSafe certified (cook)
• Strong ability to work on a team and cooperatively achieve goals (all staff)
• Experience with vegetarian/vegan/gluten-free menu planning is desirable (cook)
To Apply: Contact Nadine at email@example.com
Posted 3/23/15
Students! Do You Need Catering Hours?
We need 20 students on Tuesday, March 31st for front and back of the house.
Please contact Michelle or Cody at 801.863.7054, and leave a message and Michelle will call you back with details.
Thank You!
Posted 3/23/15
Tower & Deli Ice Cream Shop at Thanksgiving Point - Kitchen/Shop Manager
POSITION: We have recently opened the Tower Deli and Ice Cream Shop Manager position here at Thanksgiving Point.
SALARY: ($32k-$36k) DOE
JOB SUMMARY: We are looking for someone with a Culinary Arts/Kitchen Manager background, who is a great "coach," enthusiastic about food, and has excellent customer service skills. Responsible for developing and maintaining a strong and cohesive Deli & Ice Cream Shop / Concessions team. Oversees all activity in the department maintaining the highest standards in cost control, budgeting, cleanliness, food safety, customer service and overall organization.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsible for the creation and implementation of across-the-board standards for
Deli & Ice Cream Shop and Concessions events, maintaining quality food products and
remarkable customer service in all outlets and operations.
1. Works with Food Service team keeping concept current and fresh.
2. Oversees the production and rotation of all food products.
3. Provides a learning environment through daily training.
4. Insures that the work areas are clean and organized at all times.
5. Creates standards for all positions, trains staff and monitors service to insure that all standards are being maintained and enforced.
6. Exhibits job and product knowledge sufficient to provide (personally, as well as staff) guests with accurate information in all aspects of product, service, and property information.
7. Exhibits self-confidence and a disposition necessary to project a positive image to Thanksgiving Point guests as well as a being a role model for employees.
OPERATIONS: Responsible for all Deli & Ice Cream Shop and Concessions events, including but
not limited to:
1. Controls costs and is responsible for assisting to achieve budgeted percentages for labor, applicable operating expenses and food costs and assists in monthly inventories.
2. Manages day-to-day operations. Gives daily skill development training to staff.
3. Assist in overseeing the proper storage, maintenance and security all food and service equipment.
4. Attends and participates in Thanksgiving Point meetings as required.
5. Monitors employee morale and assists with reviews for all Deli & Ice Cream Shop, Concessions employees.
6. Insures that all Deli & Ice Cream Shop, Concessions areas and food production areas are compliant with Utah County Health codes.
7. Ensures staff is practicing safe and responsible food handling practices as well as maintaining clean and orderly work areas.
8. Responsible for the hiring, firing, training and scheduling of all Deli & Ice Cream Shop, Concessions personnel.
9. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• Min. 40 hours per week
• Requires working weekends, evenings and holidays.
• Strong interpersonal skills and work well with others
• Demonstrated computer skills, primarily Microsoft Office programs
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Requires heavy lifting and moving heavy objects/products up to 75+ pounds
• Requires extended periods of time on feet including walking and moving about property
• Problem solving and good communication skills
• Two to three years related front of the house experience (strong back of the house/kitchen management experience a bonus)
• Culinary Arts education and knowledge preferred
• Superior knowledge of County sanitation and safety requirements
TO APPLY: Go to https://thanksgivingpoint.applicantpro.com/jobs/195798.html
Rick Allen | Director of Food & Beverage
3003 North Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, UT 84043
801.768.7447 | thanksgivingpoint.org
Thanksgiving Point Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit farm, garden, and museum
complex that draws upon the natural world to cultivate transformative family learning
West Valley City Golf F&B - Positions Open for Line Cooks
JOB DESCRIPTION: We are looking for 3 to 4 Line Cooks.
HOURS: It would be 20-40 hrs with a portion of gratuities and golf benefits.
TO APPLY: Contact:
Jeremy Erkkila
Director of Food & Beverage at West Valley City Golf F&B
Posted 3/5/15
Summer Job in Alaska - Salary Plus Expenses - Full-time Cook Needed
- Looking for an individual to cook for our guests at a fishing lodge in Alaska.
- We are presently booked completely for the month of August and will probably add a few additional weeks in July.
- Time for our staff is provided each week to fish for salmon, halibut and cod (etc), if they would like to do so.
- The lodge usually has 9 or 10 guests each 5-day week (5-night trip). So we would need to perfect 5 meals, which can be repeated and rotated with each group.
- Daily, we provide breakfast, a sack lunch for the guests to take on the fishing boat, and a nice dinner in the evening.
- Tasks would also include helping around the lodge with the domestic chores.
- We will provide transportation from SLC to the lodge in Alaska, and back home again at the end of the season.
- Pay will be $500.00 per week, plus tips. The tips should provide a good increase in the total pay.
- We want to fill this position before mid-April
- Please call Neal Dastrup at 801-358-4400 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, or mail one to:
Neal Dastrup
1061 East Provo Canyon Rd
Provo UT 84604
Website: www.alaskanbearlodge.com
Posted 3/4/15
Student Graduates or New Graduates - East Canyon Vacation Resort - Needs a Head Cook!
Department: Restaurant & Bar Location: East Canyon Resort
• Our restaurant is called the Canyon Ridge Grill at East Canyon Resort. The restaurant is open from mid-May to mid or end of October. We would like a new chef to start in April.
Job Summary:
To oversee all the food service operations of the restaurant department. To guarantee the delivery of excellent food services to all owners, guests, and fellow employees. To ensure that owners vacations are enjoyable and problem free insofar as restaurant services are concerned. The Resort prides itself in the level of personalized service we provide. Therefore, we expect our Staff to maintain a high level of integrity and service and to always attend to our guests' needs in a professional manner.
Job Expectations:
1. Abides by and enforces established policies and procedures, house and departmental rules, safety rules, grooming codes and security procedures and work instructions.
2. Exercises independent judgment in all areas of accountability in the interest of Management.
3. Recommend retention or termination of probationary employees.
4. Responsibly directs the daily work of all employees.
5. Handles Customer Service whenever necessary.
Essential Functions:
1. Provide excellence in restaurant service.
• Determine how food should be presented, and create decorative food displays.
• Create and organize menu for restaurant that will satisfy guests and owners.
• Check the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
• Responsible for the condition of all kitchen and restaurant interiors.
• Order or requisition food and other supplies needed to ensure efficient operation.
• Monitor sanitation practices to ensure that employees follow standards and regulations.
2. Determine production schedules and staff requirements necessary to ensure timely delivery of services.
• Meet with customers to discuss menus for special occasions such as weddings, parties, and banquets.
• Collaborate with other personnel to plan and develop recipes and menus, taking into account such factors as availability of ingredients and the number of customers.
• Record production and operational data on specified forms.
3. Employee Supervision and Development
• Hire, train and evaluate all restaurant cooks and other kitchen workers.
• Require that employees are capable of completing jobs assigned in an excellent manner and remove any employee who is unable to do so.
• Conduct routine mandatory staff meeting.
• Establish efficient standard for hours required and number of employees to prepare food and keep restaurant operational. Require employees to work within this standard.
• Scheduling of employees—maintain hours, limit overtime.
4. Responsible for budget management and cost control
• Estimate amounts and costs of required supplies, such as food and ingredients.
• Meet with sales representatives in order to negotiate prices and order supplies.
• Evaluate purchases and secure best price for best products.
• Maintain record of all expenses—submit purchase requests in a timely manner and never be caught without proper supplies.
• Assign prices to menu items, based on food, labor, and overhead costs.
• Control use of overtime, control wages within budgetary constraints.
5. Responsible for quality of kitchen equipment and inventory levels
• Check the quantity and quality of received products.
• Inspect supplies, equipment, and work areas to ensure conformance to established standards.
• Report all items requiring repair and/or replacement utilizing resort developed and approved work order forms.
• Schedule, organize and manage a complete annual maintenance week.
• Maintain records of areas inspected and work orders generated.
• Arrange for equipment purchases and repairs. Maintain up-to-date inventory of all cleaning supplies. Reorder as needed to maintain minimum par on-hand.
• Maintain all necessary equipment in excellent condition, replace as needed.
• Report any kitchen or restaurant equipment maintenance problems.
6. Responsible for developing and maintaining excellent department communications concerning food quality, presentation quality, and service quality.
• Develop, maintain and constantly strive to improve the cooking techniques and food quality provided by the kitchen.
• Supervise and coordinate activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
• Demonstrate new cooking techniques and equipment to staff.
• Instruct cooks and other workers in the preparation, cooking, garnishing, and presentation of food.
• Keep RGM well informed of employee needs.
7. Responsible for total restaurant quality and owner/guest evaluation
• Responsible for all restaurant staff to always greet and communicate well with guests with a smile and verbal acknowledgement.
• Determine best program for retrieving and evaluating customer feedback to ensure customer satisfaction.
8. Performs other duties as requested by RGM.
Knowledge, Skill and Experience:
1. Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required:
• The ideal candidates will possess a bachelor's degree or related culinary degree with 4 or more years of industry and culinary management experience.
2. Minimum Experience required:
• Previous experience with control food and labor cost, demonstration cooking, menu development, and pricing and development of culinary team preferred.
3. Skills Required:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, • Leadership skills, • Ability to multi-task, Physical Job Description
Job Title: Head Cook
Typical Working Conditions: Environment may include exposure to heat as a kitchen is a hot place, full of stoves, ovens and grills. May include exposure to cleaning chemicals, fumes, grease, oils and other kitchen materials used to clean or cook.
Equipment Used: Stoves, grills, ovens, fryer, knives, pots, pans, mixers, walk in freezer and refrigerator, ice machines, washing machine, other restaurant kitchen equipment.
Essential Physical Tasks: Close quarters, standing for hours at a time, lifting, and working near hot ovens and grills. Regularly required to stand, use hands, reach above head, walk, kneel, crouch and lift at least 50 lbs.
TO APPLY: Go to www.eastcanyon.com
Posted 03/04/15
Experience for Students - Teaching at Thanksgiving Point
We would like to offer UVU Culinary Arts Institute students the opportunity to teach or help teach culinary art classes here at Thanksgiving Point. Classes are taught using the facilities in our Trellis Café during the evening hours.
Classes may include instruction, demonstration and hands-on. Culinary ingredients, supplies and most equipment (if available) will be provided. If interested, please contact us for additional information.
Thank you,
Marie Anderson | Education Programming
Family and Consumer Science Educator
3003 North Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, UT 84043
801.768.4943 | thanksgivingpoint.org
Thanksgiving Point Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit farm, garden, and museum complex that draws upon the natural world to cultivate transformative family learning
Posted 3/3/15
Help Wanted for Spirit Lake Lodge - Summer Employment/Internship Opportunity
4 general workers to help with both the grill and the lodge
JOB DESCRIPTION: Staff members help with the whole resort. The job includes working in the restaurant: serving, washing dishes, cleaning up, running the register, and helping with cooking. Additionally, our staff will be serving as cashiers for the store (in the same space as the restaurant). Also, in the morning, they clean the cabins, change sheets, do laundry, and chop wood. They may also help with renting boats and helping on the dock. Employees must be 18 years or older, but no experience is necessary as we train on the job. They do need to be able to pass a Criminal Background Check, and cannot use drugs. Also they cannot use alcohol on the lodge property.
HOURS/SHIFT: Staff members work 3 ½ days per week: 3 twelve-hour shifts and one 4 hour shift. They split the week, working either: Saturday, Sunday, Monday and 1/2 of Tuesday; or 1/2 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. The restaurant is open only on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So each shift has two days of lodge duty/cleaning plus restaurant duty, and a day and a half of lodge duty/cleaning only. The days worked are grouped together so that folks can go backpacking or drive home for a couple of days.
PAY/BENEFITS: Pay is $170 per week, plus tips and board and room. Payday is every two weeks. Season is from June 1 thru Labor Day (September 7). Employees stay in the Lodge itself, which includes a bathroom. They can stay in the lodge on their days off as well, but must supply their own food on their days off. Boat rentals are free for employees (But customers have priority.)
DESCRIPTION OF SPIRIT LAKE LODGE: Our season is basically from Memorial day to Labor Day, but sometimes the snow is too deep to get in before the first week of June. We are at 10,200 ft elevation, at the East entrance of the High Uintah Wilderness Area and the Highline Trail. The lodge is where the road ends and the trails start. The Lodge is small, and was built in 1936, so it is an historic spot with lots of folks coming to stay or eat there for generations. We have 9 cabins, the lodge restaurant/convenience store, and boat rentals (one canoe, two row boats, and a paddle boat). The cabins are made of log, built in the 1930's/40's and each has a wood stove, which is the only source of heat. We also heat the lodge itself with two wood stoves. There is no electricity to the cabins. We do have a generator for the lodge, which we use to do laundry and run the internet for our mini ipad which we use as a cash register. Also, cell phones don't work here, so we have a mountain phone (1) that serves as the only phone in the area. Also, there are two bathrooms with running water, (one men's, one women's) and a shower house that is a bathroom also.
It is an amazing spot of paradise in a high mountain valley with 8 lakes in the basin and many more all around us. For someone who wants to gain experience in a wide range of hospitality tasks and loves the outdoors, it is a great summer opportunity.
TO APPLY: You can check it out on our website: spiritlakeutah.com, OR Call me if you have questions: Maddy Liebing Tele: 801.361.4070, or email@example.com
Posted 3/2/15
The Old Spaghetti Factory - Hiring Kitchen Staff Now!
Line/Prep Cooks & Dishwashers
- Competitive wage – DOE
- Flexible hours
- Opportunity for advancement
- On-site training
- Need nights and weekend availability
- Call Frank De Santiago, Kitchen Manager at 801.224.6199, drop off an application downloaded at http://www.osf.com/pdf/OSF_hourlyApplication.pdf
The Old Spaghetti Factory
575 E University Parkway Space A-2
Orem, UT 84097
Posted: 2/25/15
Collie's Bar & Grill - Cook Positions Open! - Park City, UT
JOB: 5 cooking positions available
HOURS: Full-time
APPLY: At firstname.lastname@example.com
Posted 2/25/15
Merit Medical - Bistro Cook Opportunity
Hourly or Salaried:
Hourly, Wage DOE
Position Status:
Full-time-Regular, 1st Shift
Working Hours:
5:00 AM to 3:30 PM (Monday - Thursday)
South Jordan, UT
Job Description:
COOK: Merit Medical has a beautiful Bistro Cafe onsite at our Corporate Headquarters-South
Jordan, Utah facility. Our Bistro Cafe strives for excellence in providing cuisine
entree items that rival that best restaurants in town! We are looking for an experienced
Cook, who will continue our strive for excellence!
Merit Medical Systems, Inc., an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V, is a dynamic, progressive and innovative company with a strong global presence. Our culture is highly energetic, family friendly, values its employees, and promotes them as standard business practice. To see what it is like to work at Merit take a look at our new recruiting video on YouTube at www.youtube.com/meritmedical to see the video titled "Great people, Great products, Great Company". Excellent compensation and benefits packages will be offered to the right candidate.
Posted 2/20/15
The Homestead Resort is Hiring - Several Positions Available Immediately!
Currently seeking:
- Lead Line cooks – FT / PT
- Bakers – FT / PT
- Line Cooks – FT / PT
- Servers – FT / PT
- Bartenders – PT
COMPENSATION: We are flexible with school needs, mentoring and externships. We do not take unpaid interns, as we believe that any one in our kitchen contributes to the team, and deserves compensation. Compensation is based on experience.
JOB DESCRIPTION: Come grow with us! We have a great kitchen with 2 restaurants, banquets, golf, and a sandwich shop. We make everything from scratch including our cured meats, jams, pickles etc. We believe that a great kitchen is led by the community, so we hire and source as much as we can locally.
TO APPLY: Please call Roe'e Levy, Executive Chef, at 435.503.4648 for further information. You may also visit our website at www.homsteadresort.com
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Roe'e Levy
Executive Chef
700 North Homestead Drive
Midway, UT 84049
Cell 435.503.4648
Posted 2/20/15
Camp Hobe' - Summer Camp for Children with Cancer & their Siblings
Currently Recruiting Volunteers for Three 2015 Camp Sessions
~ Kids Camp (ages 6 to 11 years) - June 6-12 ~
~ Day Camp (ages 4 to 7) - June 12-14 ~
~ Teen Camp (ages 11 to 19) - June 15-20 ~
A Head Cook and Kitchen Assistants Volunteers are needed for 2015 Camp Sessions
- Food service experience and a current Food Handler's Permit are preferred for all positions
- Supervisory experience is preferred but not required for head cook positions
- Kitchen volunteers for Kids and Teen Camps receive a small stipend and many other benefits, including being outdoors with awesome inspiring kids
- College credit may be available
The head cook works with our kitchen supervisor to prepare menus and order supplies. During each camp session, the head cook is responsible for the following:
- Planning and supervising meal preparation for up to 250 people
- Assigning volunteers as needed
- Following established guidelines
- Requesting additional supplies if needed
- Adapting to special dietary needs and impromptu requests as appropriate.
- Week-long session stipend: $500
Kitchen assistants help prepare and serve meals and snacks as well as support program activities for each session under the head cook's direction. Other responsibilities include the following:
- Supporting medical and pool staff
- Refilling outdoor drink stations
- Final checkout at the end of the week
- Other volunteers are assigned to wash dishes, clean up after meals, and mop; kitchen assistants are not expected to do these tasks on a routine basis
- Kitchen assistants can choose between bunking with Camp Directors or with a group of campers and counselors.
- Week-long session stipend: $250
- Minimum age of 20 years-old preferred
- Experience in food preparation for large groups preferred
- Ability to accept guidance and supervision,
- Self-motivated, good character, adaptability, enthusiasm, sense of humor, patience, and willing to learn
- Ability to provide guidance, verbal instruction, and supervision to others in a caring supportive manner and participate in camp activities
- Flexible and able to respond positively to change in duties or schedule
- Food Handler's Permit or ServeSafe certification
- Protect confidentiality of campers and staff members
- Able to identify and respond to hazards; able to assist in emergency situations
- For more information contact the Camp Director at 801.631.2742, or email@example.com, or visit www.camphobekids.org
Posted 2/17/15
YMCA Camp Roger -- Kitchen Manager Externship/Position Open Immediately
JOB DESCRIPTION: This position has been a great job/externship opportunity for culinary students in the past. We are more than willing to work with students to ensure they meet the requirements needed in order for this experience to count towards credit needed for an externship or job. We often hire those who like to work in ski lodges during winter, since scheduling works out nicely.
POSITION: We are looking to hire a kitchen manager for YMCA Camp Roger located in the Uinta's near Kamas, UT. YMCA Camp Roger is an overnight summer camp for boys and girls between the ages of 7-17 serving up to 120 youth a week. This is a 10 week seasonal position between May 26th and August 8th.
BENEFITS: Room and board is provided and the kitchen staff are expected to live at the facility while employed. The kitchen serves three family style meals a day for 150-200 children and college students per meal.
TO APPLY: We will be accepting applications until the position is filled. Apply by emailing Marcie Glad a resume and letter of intent or online at http://www.ymcautah.org/camp-roger/staff.
QUALIFICATIONS: Students seeking an externship or job and we are willing to look at flexibility.
Posted 2/3/2015
Homestead Resort - Cook Positions/Externships Open
POSITION and/or PAID EXTERNSHIP
- We are looking for all-star cooks to join our team.
- Can be done as paid externship.
- Past fine dining experience is a plus.
- Salary depends on experience.
- Great career path for the right candidate, as well as competitive pay and benefits, above the industry standards.
- The Homestead Resort
- 700 North Homestead Drive
- Midway, UT 84049
- For more information, please email Roe'e Levy, Executive Chef, at firstname.lastname@example.com with a cover letter and a resume.
Posted 2/3/2015


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Bill Schmitz, a 1976 Coast Guard Academy graduate who later coached his alma mater to its first NCAA Division III football playoff appearance, died Monday in Florida of an apparent suicide.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office told the Tampa Tribune that Schmitz, 59, drove his 2010 Kia to the main span of the Sunshine Skyway bridge at 4:56 a.m., exited his car and jumped over the side of the railing into Tampa Bay.
His body, authorities told the Tribune, was recovered approximately four hours later.
Schmitz was teaching history and coaching the boys' track and field team at Land O' Lakes High School in Pasco County, Fla.
He served as offensive coordinator of the Land O' Lakes football team in 2011 and 2012, but was not coaching football this season, the Tribune said.
"When he came to us, the thing that attracted him to us was his resume, which had a lot of quality to it," Land O' Lakes principal Ric Mellin told the Tribune. "He was also humbled to have the opportunity to start over again. He embraced the notion of not only teaching on the field, but teaching in the classroom."
Schmitz, who starred in football and basketball at Coast Guard, was inducted into the Academy's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
He held assistant coaching positions at Division I schools Cincinnati, Rice, Vanderbilt and Eastern Michigan from 1981-1991 and spent the 1992 season as an assistant with the London Monarchs of the former World League before landing his first head coaching job at Coast Guard.
He guided the Bears to a 20-19 record over four seasons (1993-96), capped by an 8-2 regular season in 1996 that led to the program's first NCAA Division III playoff appearance, where Coast Guard lost 17-16 in the opening round to the College of New Jersey.
Schmitz left Coast Guard to become head coach at Austin Peay, a Division I-AA program in Clarksville, Tenn. He coached the Governors until 2002, was head coach of Tampa Jesuit High School in 2003 and 2004, and then spent two seasons as an assistant at Alabama-Birmingham and two more at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at Land O' Lakes.
Coast Guard athletic director Tim Fitzpatrick, in a statement released by the Academy on Monday, said: "We are very saddened to learn of the passing of coach Bill Schmitz, CGA Class of 1976. The athletics division coaches, staff and cadet-athletes send out thoughts, prayers and condolences to Bill's family during their time of loss.
"Those who had the pleasure of knowing Bill clearly recognized his pride in and great love for the Coast Guard Academy, the Bears football team and the Coast Guard itself. As the only CGA graduate to ever serve as the Academy's head football coach, Bill leaves a significant legacy of accomplishment - having led the Bears to their first-ever NCAA playoff berth in the 1996 season. However, Bill's greatest legacy is that of selfless service and commitment to his players, whose lives and careers and he impacted so positively."
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The rooms have their own entrance outside so the indoor pool is in the lobby area where you have to leave your hotel room and you have to walk to the other building where the lobby and pool is located so inconvenience.
Staff was very polite and friendly. Very clean.
Not as close to Sesame Place as I thought.
Staff were very friendly and helpful. Everything was quite clean.
My room had an old heater/air system that was very loud when it was on. The exercise room only had 3 machines and no towels
The front desk people were friendly.
Our room was dirty, there was hair all over the bathroom floor and also found some hair stuck in a towel. We arrived late and my husband didn't want to ask for another room. We could hear every word in the 2 rooms next to us. We won't stay at again.
polite staff clean comfortable room reasonable decor and amenitiespretty good breakfast buffet
the pool was out of order
We loved the indoor pool and whirlpool! Great way to decompress before hitting the slots.
I wanted a balcony or opened window but I knew they had neither so it was okay
Booked a king... Got there and was given a room, which turned out to be a double. I called he from desk and hey told me they were sold out. I told them I wanted a refund and to cancel my reservation that I would go else where. The girl at the front told me she couldn't do that, so therefore I contacted the third party I booked through. They called the hotel and the hotel told them since I went into the room they wouldn't cancel it.
Bait and switch at its finest.
This days inn was great my son and I stayed there for two days while we went to sesame place. It was very close to the amusement park and the price and service was great I would definitely recommend.
There were footprints all over the walls and two giant holes on the wall as well.
Very clean. Common bathroom was spotless. Great breakfast. Checking in was a breeze. Very pleasant staff. Modern common spaces. The bedrooms were a little old fashioned with the super high ceilings. Loved the complementary bottle of water.
they gave us the wrong room. instead of 1 king bed they gave us 2 queen beds. Also I noticed a service charge for $25?
Hotel was better than expected for the money. Front desk gal Julie was new to the job, but awesome! Cleaner than I imagined based on the reviews I read.
Proximity to places in the area
Noisy, difficult to communicate with staff, handicap room
Our room was comfortable. I felt the breakfast options were good considering it's complimentary. And being able to spend a day at the hotels pool with my daughter was relaxing.
Although it's not the hotels fault my biggest complaint would be the construction going on on the main road in front of the hotel. You have to go a little out of your way to get to it because of it and when you don't know the area that can be a bit frustrating.
Clean, updated rooms and super comfy beds.
No hot tub.
The bed was soooo comfy and the breakfast was delicious better than alot of restaurants.
Nice spot
The cleaning they only clean when you getthere when it should be every day
Hotel location, room location, kitchen inside room, room space, smoking room option.
Upgrade charge for a double bed.
Clean, well kept
Difficult to locate, at the back of an office complex, no easily visable sign viewable from the street
The staff was wonderful !!!
Adequate complimentary breakfast, hot coffee throughout the day, plenty of free papers.
Most of the hotel undergoing rebuilding, room was shabby and should have been redone before courtyard. Most outlets in room were in lamp bases, bulbs flickered while light was off, and frige/microwave stand swayed alarmingly, like furniture you buy for a dorm room.
Was formally a Holiday Inn and is in the middle of remodeling.I stayed here when it was a Holiday Inn and they are making improvements but still do not have it all together, Breakfest bar was good but the room although updated appears warn. My TV remote did not work and the channels were limited. It was quiet but that was because no one was there!
the room overall was good. nice size beds and counter space.
that there is no refrigerator in the rooms and there is no iron either. and this past time that we stayed there the ice machine was out of order in the front of the motel and we had to walk all the way to the next building on the top floor to get ice. and the front office did not know that the ice machine was out of order.
Price was reasonable and staff was friendly
No hair dryer in room and it took 3 tries to get a working iron.
I attended ATCO Raceway for an event. The proximity to the track was great. This hotel was awful. There were beer bottle caps under the bed, it smelled, I had to clean the Air conditioner filter so that the AC would work properly. Not a good experience.
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The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery
Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a landslide against the imploding Whig Party, he proved a dismal failure in office.
Michael F. Holt, a leading historian of nineteenth-century partisan ...
The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery
Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a landslide against the imploding Whig Party, he proved a dismal failure in office.
Michael F. Holt, a leading historian of nineteenth-century partisan politics, argues that in the wake of the Whig collapse, Pierce was consumed by an obsessive drive to unify his splintering party rather than the roiling country. He soon began to overreach. Word leaked that Pierce wanted Spain to sell the slave-owning island of Cuba to the United States, rousing sectional divisions. Then he supported repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which limited the expansion of slavery in the west. Violence broke out, and "Bleeding Kansas" spurred the formation of the Republican Party. By the end of his term, Pierce's beloved party had ruptured, and he lost the nomination to James Buchanan.
In this incisive account, Holt shows how a flawed leader, so dedicated to his party and ill-suited for the presidency, hastened the approach of the Civil War.
"Professor Holt brings to his task his considerable knowledge of the ins and outs of party politics in the 1850's. This is the book's greatest strength… Holt's book presents a more incisive and more realistic understanding of [Pierce's] fateful presidency."—Civil War Book Review, Louisiana State University Library's Special Collections
"Holt writes well, delivering a lively, opinionated account of a president who served in turbulent times and did not improve matters. This is an admirable addition to the already admirable American Presidents series."—Publishers Weekly
"Pierce deserves his low ranking by historians, but not, Holt argues, because he was a bad man or politician... Another excellent American Presidents series volume."—Booklist
A Precocious Start
Franklin Pierce was born on November 23, 1804, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. He was the sixth child of Anna Kendrick Pierce and General Benjamin Pierce, who also had a daughter from a previous marriage. Pierce later described his mother as affectionate and endlessly forgiving of his youthful hijinks, but it was his far sterner father, the most influential man in Hillsborough County, who had the greater impact on him. A native of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Benjamin Pierce had enlisted in the Continental army as a teenager as soon as he heard about the fighting at Lexington and Concord. He fought in the battles of Breed's Hill and Ticonderoga, among others, and spent the winter with George Washington at Valley Forge. He was mustered out of the army with a medal from Washington, and at the rank of lieutenant, in 1784. In short, he had the credentials of a Revolutionary War hero, and his war stories inspired young Franklin with a desire to emulate his father's military service. That two of his older brothers as well as his half sister's husband fought in the War of 1812 intensified this yen.
His reputation as a war hero served Benjamin Pierce well when he moved to the frontier town of Hillsborough in western New Hampshire in 1786. Not only would he quickly become the commanding general of the state's militia, but he was also elected to several terms as the county's sheriff, where he became famous for his generosity toward jailed debtors. He also sat on the governor's council. In the late 1820s, he served two one-year terms as governor of the state. Benjamin Pierce was a Jeffersonian Republican who loathed Federalists as elitist snobs, and that hatred deepened when a Federalist majority in the state legislature purged him from the office of sheriff after he had defied an order from a Federalist judge.
Frank Pierce was hardly a bookish youth. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed roughhousing, swimming, fishing, and ice skating far more than lessons in school. Even as a boy he evinced the personal charm that would smooth his political rise. He was his playmates' ringleader, and adults, especially adult women, found him an altogether winning lad—honest, polite, and poised. To put it differently—and perhaps more ominously—from boyhood on Pierce was eager to please other people. Pierce did not like school, but his father, who lacked a formal education of his own, was determined that his sons attend college. Thus Pierce was dispatched to a series of academies outside Hillsborough to learn Latin and Greek in preparation for the required college entrance exams. One of Pierce's older brothers had attended West Point and another Dartmouth College. When the time came to send Frank off to college, however, Federalists controlled Dartmouth, and Benjamin Pierce would not consider it. He determined instead to send Frank to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Pierce and his parents arrived in Brunswick for the beginning of the 1820 fall term several months before Frank's sixteenth birthday. Bowdoin was then a very small college, but it attracted an astonishing number of young men destined for national eminence. William Pitt Fessenden, the future Whig and Republican U.S. senator from Maine, was in the class ahead of Pierce's, and James Bradbury, a future Democratic senator from Maine, was in the student body at the same time. John P. Hale, who would later run against Pierce for president, was a freshman when Pierce was a senior. Calvin Stowe, the future husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was valedictorian of Pierce's class. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was in the class of 1825, and two other members of that class would play important roles in Pierce's future life. One was Jonathan Cilley of New Hampshire, later a Democratic congressman who lived in the same boardinghouse with Pierce in Washington during one of his congressional terms. The other was Nathaniel Hawthorne, who remained Pierce's lifelong friend and who would write a campaign biography for him in 1852.
While he struggled with mathematics, Pierce's training in classical languages served him well—indeed too well—during his first years at Bowdoin. The cold fact is that during his first two years, Pierce played far more than he studied. He frequently skipped mandatory recitation periods in order to hike in the nearby woods or fish in nearby streams. In the dormitory at night, when solitary study was the prescribed regimen, Pierce was famous for bursting into other students' rooms to start furniture-smashing wrestling matches. He usually won those contests. Ten years later, a fellow Democratic state legislator with whom Pierce tussled described him as "the most powerful man of his size I know of." Wrestling was not Pierce's only nighttime activity in those first years at Bowdoin. In violation of the school's rules, Pierce and his closest pals snuck out of the dorm to frequent a Brunswick tavern.
Heavy drinking and Pierce's name go together like a horse and carriage, and years later his political opponents would label him a drunkard. In the 1820s, young men were as likely as those today to seek amusement and drink heavily in bars, and there seems little doubt that the gregarious and fun-loving Pierce enjoyed socializing with his friends. From his perspective, not to do so would be an insult to those friends. It appears that his tolerance for alcoholic intake was low and that he often became riotously giddy much sooner than his drinking partners. But there is no evidence that Pierce's drinking sprees impaired his mental faculties once he had sobered up. Some of Pierce's behavior then and especially after he left the White House suggests that he suffered from alcoholism, but at this distance in time it is impossible to render a definitive diagnosis.
As a result of Pierce's carefree behavior, he ranked dead last academically in his class by the end of his sophomore year at Bowdoin. When he learned of his embarrassing status, he determined to reform. Gone were the hikes in the woods and the evenings in the tavern. Instead of copying other students' work to turn in as his own as he had done for two years, he arose at 4 a.m. every morning to hit the books. Overseeing this transformation to academic self-discipline was a new member of his class, a devout Methodist from Maine named Zenas Caldwell, who brought Pierce home with him during the midwinter break. In his senior year, Pierce roomed with the sober-minded Caldwell, and with the help of his strict supervision the onetime dunce graduated fifth in his class, now reduced to fourteen students, and had the honor of delivering a seven-minute disquisition in Latin at graduation in August 1824.
Pierce was far too fun-loving and far too addicted to outdoor exercise, however, to become a total bookworm. In the spring of his junior year he organized a military company called the Bowdoin Cadets, which "Captain" Pierce led in marching drills around the campus. Like most colleges in that day, Bowdoin boasted rival debating societies, and during Pierce's senior year, the impending presidential election of 1824 became the focus of their competition. One of these societies proclaimed the merits of John Quincy Adams, while, tellingly, Pierce's club touted those of Andrew Jackson.
After graduation Pierce returned to his parents' house in Hillsborough and began to read law with a local attorney. He moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the spring of 1825 to study in the office of Levi Woodbury and, after Woodbury left to serve in the U.S. Senate, to another lawyer in Northampton, Massachusetts. He completed his legal studies in Amherst, New Hampshire, the Hillsborough county seat, and was admitted to the bar there in September 1827, two months shy of his twenty-third birthday. He then returned to Hillsborough to start his practice.
The interest Pierce developed in national politics at Bowdoin quickened during his months in Portsmouth, a former Federalist and now pro-Adams bastion. Like other supporters of Andrew Jackson, Pierce was infuriated by the so-called Corrupt Bargain that had placed Adams in the White House. He sympathized with the efforts of Woodbury and Isaac Hill, a Concord editor, to organize a pro-Jackson opposition party. "A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly," he wrote a friend. "The citizens are convinced that Jeffersonian principles are the principles for a free people, and I trust they have no notion of renouncing their faith."
Pierce put these beliefs into practice when he returned to Hillsborough. In 1827 his father was elected governor for the first time with no organized opposition, but in 1828, the presidential election year, pro-Adams men rallied to stop his reelection. Frank Pierce campaigned aggressively for his father. He helped organize a pro-Jackson demonstration on the anniversary of Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in January. Two months later, Frank made his formal political debut at the annual Hillsborough town meeting. Town meetings in New Hampshire did more than discuss local affairs. They also cast votes each year for state officials and, in odd years, for U.S. congressmen. Hillsborough, like many other New Hampshire towns, was divided between Adams and Jackson men. To the surprise of many, Jacksonians elected young Frank Pierce moderator of the meeting, as they would during the next five successive years. That, however, was the only Pierce victory that March. Benjamin's bid for reelection failed, an accurate portent of Jackson's defeat in New Hampshire in the presidential election the following November. Yet Benjamin, now openly aligned with the Jacksonians, would win the governorship again in March 1829, and at the Hillsborough town meeting that year Franklin Pierce, barely twenty-four years old, was unanimously elected to the state legislature. The town meeting repeated that choice over the next three years, and in the final two of them Pierce's admiring colleagues in the state house of representatives elected him their Speaker.
Pierce's interest in politics, devotion to Jeffersonian principles, and deep commitment to the new Jacksonian Democratic Party endured for the remainder of his life. Nonetheless, he had studied law to earn a living, not to run for office. Initially his practice was confined primarily to the semiannual sessions of the county court of common pleas in Amherst. He lost his first case there in the spring of 1828, but gradually he developed into a very successful advocate. Pierce lacked an incisive legal mind, but he had other attributes that served him well in the civil and criminal cases he argued before juries. He displayed a prodigious memory for names and faces, a trait that obviously benefited him in his political career as well. He could address individual jurors by name when pleading cases, and he would remember those names for years thereafter. He had a deep, rich voice, again a trait that helped his political career because his audience could actually hear his unamplified voice at political rallies. Most important, he exuded a personal charm, an amiable temperament, and an instinctive human empathy. Pierce directed his arguments to the emotions of jurors, not to their collective logic, and he usually won.
The state legislature met in Concord each June, between the semiannual sessions of the court of common pleas, and occasionally in November and December, after the fall session. Much of the legislature's business was so humdrum that no one even bothered to demand roll-call votes. The public policy issues that evoked partisan conflict between the Adams men, who referred to themselves as National Republicans after Adams's defeat by Jackson in 1828, and the fledgling Jacksonians were primarily economic: the role of government in constructing internal improvements such as turnpikes, canals, and railroads; the incorporation of, and the privileges awarded to shareholders in, corporations, especially those that absolved them from any responsibility for companies' debts; and banking and paper money. Indeed, most partisan conflict between 1834 and 1856, what historians call the Second American Party System, was fueled by these issues.
In New Hampshire, these questions, especially those surrounding the chartering of banks and railroad companies, had a regional dimension. The coastal towns of southeastern New Hampshire were the first settled in the state, had once been Federalist strongholds, and were closely aligned with business interests in Boston. They had financial stakes in locating banks in and pushing railroad tracks to the more recently settled western and northern regions of the state. Many residents of those western and northern areas, in turn, viewed Boston-owned banks and especially Boston-owned railroads as outside imperial monopolists that would gut farming folk for their own distant profit. The legislative tussles over these issues catalyzed Franklin Pierce's commitment to what would soon develop into Jacksonian orthodoxy: opposition to any government subsidization of economic development, to corporate privilege, and to paper-money banking.
Beyond the reinforcement of these rigid policy stances, however, something more important was happening in New Hampshire between 1829 and 1832. Benjamin Pierce's reelection as governor as an avowed Jackson man in 1829 heralded New Hampshire's transition from a competitive state to a granite-ribbed Democratic one. In 1832, when his primary opponent was the Kentuckian Henry Clay, rather than the New Englander Adams, Andrew Jackson would carry New Hampshire, and from that date until the mid-1850s New Hampshire would remain the most reliably Democratic state in the North. During Pierce's four brief terms in the state legislature, New Hampshire became the political anomaly of New England, certainly an anomaly compared to its neighbors to the south and west. Not only would Massachusetts and Vermont become veritable fortresses of Whiggery, but both, especially Vermont, were swept by the Antimasonic tornado in the late 1820s and early 1830s. From 1831 to 1837, indeed, Antimasons won every annual gubernatorial election in Vermont, and it was the only state carried by the Antimasonic candidate for president in 1832. By contrast, Antimasons had negligible sway in New Hampshire, although they did manage to run a separate congressional ticket in 1833 that helped divide those who opposed the dominant Democrats.
One of the most important—if also most mystifying—political phenomena of the 1820s and 1830s, the Antimasonic Party represented a populistic grassroots protest movement against the purported legal, economic, social, and political privileges of members of Masonic lodges vis-à-vis nonmembers or outsiders. Its political goals were to purge Masons from elective and appointive public offices and then to eradicate Masonry altogether by stripping Masonic lodges of their state charters and making membership in the fraternity a criminal offense. Confined primarily to northeastern states, it attracted those who harbored grievances against the dominant party or faction of each particular state, whether it was the friends of Adams in Vermont and Massachusetts or those of Andrew Jackson in New York and Pennsylvania.
Because the economies, topography, and mix of religious denominations were so similar in Vermont and neighboring New Hampshire, historians have long been puzzled about why Antimasons were so strong in the former and so weak in the latter. One answer may be the stark difference in the competitive balance between Adams men (i.e., National Republicans) and Jacksonians in the two states. In 1828 Adams won 75 percent of Vermont's popular vote compared to Jackson's meager 25 percent. In New Hampshire, in contrast, Adams edged Jackson 52 percent to 48 percent. For those opposed to National Republicans who controlled both states, a new party may have seemed far more necessary in lopsided Vermont than in closely contested New Hampshire.
Franklin Pierce benefited markedly from New Hampshire's unique political trajectory. Because the 250 members of the state legislature assembled in Concord in June, rival state parties held their state conventions there that month so that members of the legislature could represent their home districts. Until the mid-1840s, New Hampshire chose its congressmen on statewide general tickets, rather than by individual districts. And in June 1832, the Democratic state convention put Pierce, then only twenty-seven years old, on the Democratic slate of five congressional candidates to be chosen by town meetings the following March. By 1832 that nomination virtually guaranteed his election; he went on to receive almost 76 percent of the statewide vote. His political horizons had widened.
A New Hampshire newspaper editorial at the time of his nomination merits quotation, for it identifies this fun-loving, friendly, and politically talented young man as the state's emerging favorite son. "Frank Pierce is the most popular man of his age that I know of in N.H.—praises in every one's mouth. Every circumstance connected with him seems to contribute to his popularity. In the first place, he has the advantage of his father's well earned reputation to bring him forward, and there is aristocracy enough, even in a community democratic as our own, to make this of no trifling importance to a young man just starting his life. In the next place he has a handsome person, bland and agreeable manners, a prompt and off-hand manner of saying and doing things, and talents competent to sustain himself in any station." As would become clear later in Pierce's political career, that last encomium was mistaken.
Between his election in March and the meeting of the Twenty-third Congress in December, Pierce had the thrill of meeting his hero Jackson as well as Vice President Martin Van Buren when they came to Concord during a summer tour of New England. The experience made Pierce an even firmer supporter of the administration when he reached Washington. Once there, he found lodging with a group of senators: Isaac Hill, whom the New Hampshire legislature had sent to the Senate, and his wife; both of Maine's senators; Senator William Wilkins of Pennsylvania; and Senator Hugh Lawson White of Tennessee. Pierce's closest friend in this Capitol Hill "mess," however, was Benjamin B. French, a former colleague in the New Hampshire legislature who had come to Washington to take a clerkship in the House of Representatives and who had brought his vivacious wife with him. Throughout Pierce's nine years in Congress, French would remain his closest confidant in the capital city.
Jackson's removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States by executive fiat in the fall of 1833 set the main agenda for this congressional session. Among other things, Jackson's alleged executive usurpation caused various opponents of that action in the Senate—National Republicans, South Carolina Nullifiers, who still maintained that a single state could void a federal law within its borders, and southerners who dubbed themselves Independent States Rights men—to coalesce as the new Whig Party. During the summer and fall of 1834, Antimasons in most of the northern states would join this new anti-Jackson party, and the coalition would take control of the Senate. The Whig Senate passed bills and resolutions commanding Jackson to restore the deposits to the Bank of the United States, but each time such bills reached the House, Jacksonians, including Pierce, easily defeated them. Pierce became a staunch Democrat, voting against every internal improvements bill that came up and against a measure giving preemption rights to squatters on federal lands in the West. Most of his time, however, was occupied by off-stage and often routine work for the judiciary committee, although he did manage to give one speech during the session on Revolutionary War pensions. To his great pleasure, this speech won him congratulations from a number of southern members of the House. For the remainder of his political career, Pierce would seek similar southern approval.
Between the first and second sessions of Congress, Pierce was married to Jane Means Appleton of Amherst, to whom he had become officially engaged in January 1833. Pierce first met Jane when he studied law in Amherst during 1827, but it's not clear how long he courted her before their engagement. They seemed an unlikely pair. For one thing, her family was wealthy and Federalist. One of her aunts, indeed, had married the Federalist senator Jeremiah Mason, while another was married to Amos Lawrence, the fabulously rich Boston textile manufacturer. Jacksonian Democrats they were not. For another, with dark auburn hair, blue eyes, a square jaw, and a slender, muscular physique, Franklin Pierce was a strikingly handsome man. The dark-haired Jane was no beauty. They also had quite different personalities. Pierce was gregarious, a paragon of health who loved out-of-doors physical activity. Jane was painfully shy, relentlessly prim, physically frail and sickly, and given to frequent bouts of melancholy. She loathed any use of tobacco or alcohol, and she soon grew to loathe politics and public life just as deeply. Surrounded by servants, she had no experience keeping house and was thoroughly daunted by the prospect. What they saw in each other is unclear. But opposites can attract, and on November 19, 1834, they married in her grandmother's mansion in Amherst, where she had been living for years. Portentously, within half an hour of exchanging vows, the couple left for Washington and the new session of Congress. Jane's poor health prevented much socializing by the newlyweds, and during these few months Frank abstained from drinking.
At the Democratic state convention in June 1834, Pierce was renominated for Congress, and in March 1835 he led the at-large Democratic slate to victory with 63 percent of the vote against the Whig ticket. Jane was pregnant and did not accompany Pierce to Washington for the opening of the Twenty-fourth Congress. She spent most of the winter and spring in Amherst with her mother and grandmother. So once again, Pierce made his quarters in a "mess," this time headed by the Democratic titan Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, whom Pierce quickly befriended.
The first session of the Twenty-fourth Congress proved more consequential for, and more revealing about, Franklin Pierce than any other term he served in Congress. From December 1835 until the session's close, much of his time was devoted to behind-the-scenes work on the judiciary committee and a special select committee to investigate the rechartering of banks in the District of Columbia. But the issue that preoccupied this legislative session, and especially the House's deliberations, was how to handle the thousands of petitions pouring into Washington demanding that Congress abolish slavery in the district. That issue led to a very public clash between Pierce and Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.
Pierce was hardly proslavery, but he detested the abolitionist movement almost from the moment that it began to organize in the early 1830s. Never a particularly religious or pious man, quite unlike his new wife, he found the holier-than-thou attitude of abolitionists, and their penchant for condemning anyone who did not join their movement as a sinner, deeply offensive, indeed intolerable. Equally important, he feared that abolitionist agitation, if unchecked, could rend the nation his revered father had fought to create. Pierce was committed to the preservation of the Union, and he resented and rejected anything that he believed might threaten its perpetuity. Over time, Pierce's instant hatred of abolitionists evolved into hostility to any northern group that opposed slavery and its expansion westward in any way, even if it did not seek immediate abolition. By the 1850s, moreover, his stance on sectional disputes over slavery and its western expansion was flatly prosouthern, not simply anti-antislavery.
The abolitionist question came to a head early in December 1835, when Representative James H. Hammond of South Carolina demanded that the House summarily reject abolitionist petitions without considering or even officially receiving them. For Pierce and many other congressmen, including some southerners, this was too much, for it violated the people's constitutionally guaranteed right of petition. The proper course, Pierce told the House in a speech on December 18, was to receive but then automatically table such petitions without any further consideration, the solution that the House would ultimately adopt in May 1836 in what became known as the Gag Rule. But in his December 1835 speech, Pierce went further. Abolitionists were a tiny minority of fanatics, he declared; southerners should not identify them as representative of northern public opinion. In New Hampshire, he boasted, there was "not one in a hundred who does not entertain the most sacred regard for the rights of their Southern brethren—nay not one in five hundred who would not have those rights protected at any and every hazard."
In the first week of February 1836, tragedy struck. Pierce learned that Jane had given birth to a son and had survived the trials of labor, news that thrilled and relieved him. But joy quickly turned to grief when a subsequent letter reported that the boy had died three days later. Meanwhile, the work of Congress went on. On February 8 the House had appointed a select committee, chaired by South Carolinian Henry L. Pinckney, to consider proposals for handling abolitionist petitions. Pierce was named to the committee. When the Senate turned to the petition question on February 12, Calhoun, who was apparently trying to awaken his fellow southerners to the danger posed by abolitionists, charged that New Hampshire's residents sympathized with abolitionist fanatics. As evidence for his accusation, Calhoun sent a newspaper clipping to the clerk's desk to be read. How Calhoun obtained this piece from the recently established Herald of Freedom, an abolitionist organ in Concord, is unclear, but the article said that Pierce had lied when he declared that only one person in five hundred in New Hampshire sympathized with the abolitionists. By adding up the number of signatures on petitions from the state and dividing that sum by the state's population reported in the 1830 census, the Herald of Freedom claimed that the proper ratio was one in thirty-three. If Pierce was so ignorant of his constituency, the article added, he should resign. Significantly, this article also labeled Pierce a doughface, a term that subsequently connoted a northerner with southern sympathies, but in the North at the time it was an allegation of personal cowardice. Isaac Hill, New Hampshire's other senator, and Thomas Hart Benton immediately chastised Calhoun for allowing this slur against Pierce to be read on the Senate floor, and Calhoun later apologized to Pierce for having done so. But that apology was not enough for the furious Pierce, who had been in the Senate when the clipping was read.
On February 15 Pierce asked and received permission in the House "to repel an assault on his personal character, and impugning his veracity." The vast majority of the signatures on the petitions counted by the Herald of Freedom, he pointed out, came from women and children. His earlier speech had alluded only to white male voters. In recent months, he added, every county in New Hampshire had held conventions to nominate candidates for the impending state election in March, and every convention, regardless of party, had condemned the abolitionist petitioners for jeopardizing the Union. Finally, he angrily rejected the characterization of himself as a doughface. Pierce's indignant speech won plaudits from other congressmen and constituents in New Hampshire. The doughface label, however, was only temporarily shelved, not permanently buried.
In December 1836, after Pierce had returned to Washington for the second session of the Twenty-fourth Congress, the New Hampshire legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate for the six-year term beginning in March 1837. At the age of thirty-two, Pierce was the youngest man yet elected to the Senate but, according to the Boston Post, he had "more experience in legislative business than many of his seniors." The appointment kept Pierce in Washington for a few weeks after Congress adjourned, for the new Senate was charged with confirming the cabinet selections of the new president, Martin Van Buren, who was sworn into office on March 4, 1837.
Pierce again returned to Washington in September for a special session of Congress called by Van Buren to deal with the recession triggered by a banking panic in May 1837. Van Buren, like Pierce himself, attributed the panic to rampant speculation caused by an overissue of state banknotes, and his solution was to drastically reduce the amount of paper money in circulation. Van Buren proposed withdrawing federal monies from the private economic sector and depositing them in government vaults, known as subtreasuries, where they could no longer serve as backing for banknotes. Whigs and a minority of conservative Democrats opposed this so-called Independent Treasury plan, while orthodox Jacksonians like Pierce staunchly supported it. From September 1837 until July 1840, when Democrats finally managed to enact the Independent Treasury, this would remain the chief public policy question debated in Congress.
During Pierce's years in the Senate, the start of each session also rehashed the appropriate way to handle the continuing onslaught of abolitionist petitions. Indeed, Pierce's maiden Senate speech in December 1837 objected to a southern proposal for flat-out rejection. Abolitionists were dangerous fanatics, he repeated, but he "could give no vote that might be construed into a denial of the right of petition." Instead, he favored the kind of gag he had helped frame in the House in 1836—reception but then immediate tabling of the petitions without any discussion of their content.
As in the House, most of Pierce's time in the Senate was consumed by the drudgery of committee work. That routine was shattered by an incident outside the halls of Congress in early 1838. During the September special session, Pierce had shared a mess with his old Bowdoin chum Jonathan Cilley, now a freshman Democratic representative from Maine. When he returned to Washington for the regular session in December, this time with Jane in tow, he renewed that arrangement. Cilley was a firebrand, and in February he found himself challenged to a duel by Kentucky Whig congressman William J. Graves. Cilley consulted frequently with Pierce during the lead-up to the duel, which, at Cilley's request, would be fought with rifles at a distance of eighty yards. Some newspapers later charged that Pierce had goaded Cilley into fighting when in fact he unsuccessfully, if indirectly, tried to avert the duel. On February 24, 1838, Graves shot and killed Cilley, outraging the Washington community. Pierce was overwhelmed by guilt and grief, and Jane's hatred of politics and her husband's political career intensified. "Oh, how I wish he was out of political life!" she wrote a relative. "How much better it would be for him on every account."
That summer, after the close of the long congressional session, the Pierces moved from Hillsborough, where Jane had never been comfortable, to Concord, the state capital, where they rented a house and Pierce formed a new law partnership. Jane agreed to return to Washington for the second session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, but the birth of a healthy son, Frank Robert, in September 1839 gave her an excuse never to return there again during the remainder of his term.
Still, the most important juncture during Pierce's senatorial years was the political earthquake that occurred in 1840 when Whigs won the White House, three-fifths of the House seats, and two-thirds of the state legislatures, guaranteeing them a majority in the Senate as well. When Congress met on May 31, 1841, for the special session called by President William Henry Harrison before he died one month to the day after his inauguration, Pierce found himself in the minority for the first time in his precocious political career. He and other Democrats sat by powerlessly as Whigs, led by Henry Clay, whom many suspected had put Graves up to challenging Cilley, rammed through a package of economic legislation that the Democrat Pierce abhorred. Frustrated by his minority status, aware that he could not be reelected because New Hampshire's Democrats chose to rotate the state's Senate seats, determined to increase the income from his oft-interrupted law practice, and eager to be with Jane and his son, Pierce resigned his seat at the end of February 1842, a full year before his term was due to expire.
One other factor may have influenced Pierce's desire to escape Washington. In the early fall of 1841, while back in Concord after the close of the special congressional session, he had publicly taken the temperance pledge, and in 1842 he became president of the state temperance association. Alone without Jane in Washington's heavy-drinking culture, Pierce may have found the temptation to break that pledge too agonizing to bear. His return to Concord would help him avoid it.
Pierce had resigned from political office, but to Jane's growing dismay he most certainly had not left political life. Pierce served as the de jure and then de facto boss of New Hampshire's Democratic state party from 1842 until his nomination for the presidency in 1852. In that role he tried, usually with success, to resolve squabbles over issues as well as party nominations in order to preserve party unity. For Pierce, the unity of the Democratic Party, both within the state and within the nation as a whole, was a fixation, a shibboleth, virtually a be-all and end-all. His obsession with obtaining that unity would help wreck his presidency. But between 1842 and 1852 it primarily drove Pierce to extirpate any and every inkling of antislavery or antisouthern sentiment from the New Hampshire Democratic Party. He simply would not tolerate any criticism of slavery or slaveholders, and he had the clout to impose his intolerance on the state Democratic organization. On two occasions—in 1845 and then again in 1851—he called special sessions of the Democratic state convention and ordered members to oust previously nominated men from the state ticket because they had the temerity publicly to announce antislavery sentiments.
The first of these occasions was by far the more portentous. In 1843 Pierce's fellow Bowdoin alumnus John P. Hale had been elected to Congress on the Democratic slate. The state convention in June 1844 renominated Hale, but before the March 1845 elections Hale publicly denounced a central plank of the Democrats' 1844 national platform, one that many believed had spurred James K. Polk's ascent to the White House that year—the immediate annexation of the slaveholding Republic of Texas. Hale believed that adding Texas to the Union as a slave state would spread a sinful institution and tighten the grip of the so-called Slave Power on the national government. He was so firm in his stance that he voted against the Democrats when the question came before Congress in the winter of 1844–45. Once stripped of his Democratic nomination by the recalled Democratic state convention, the defiant Hale ran as an independent in 1845. Like most New England states, New Hampshire required an absolute majority rather than a plurality of the popular vote for election to all offices. In 1845 the votes of Hale's supporters combined with the Whigs managed to keep anyone from being elected to the seat, one that Pierce thought rightfully belonged to the Democrats.
Nor did the damage stop there. In 1846 Hale's antislavery supporters, Whigs, and Democrats all ran separate candidates for governor and the state legislature. No one gained a majority in the gubernatorial race, but in the state legislature Hale's supporters plus the Whigs attained a majority over the usually dominant Democrats. So they cut a deal. They elected the Whig candidate Anthony Colby, who had gotten about 37 percent of the popular vote, as governor, the only Whig ever to hold that office in New Hampshire, and they sent John P. Hale to the Senate for a term running from March 1847 to March 1853. Pierce was absolutely livid, and in 1847 he mobilized a huge increase in Democratic turnout that crushed the Whigs and Hale's allies, now running under the Liberty Party label, in the state and congressional elections. That smashing victory probably increased Pierce's confidence that antislavery men were a contemptible minority, but there was little he could do to stop Hale from becoming one of the most prominent antislavery politicians in the country. In 1852, indeed, Hale would be named a candidate for president of the United States on the antislavery Free Soil Party ticket.
Several aspects of Pierce's career until the mid-1840s provide clues to his subsequent behavior as president. One is the striking ease of his political ascent. On Pierce's part this was primarily attributable to his amiable personality and his astonishing memory for people's names and faces. He had, in short, the instincts of a clubhouse pol, and he was likely overconfident about his ability to win over others with his personal charm. Pierce was a good public speaker, in part because his memory allowed him to eschew written texts and notes, but there's no evidence that anything he said was deep or original. Both in the state legislature and in Congress he hewed closely to Democratic orthodoxy, and his only significant action in Congress was helping to frame the controversial Pinckney Gag Rule. Not only did Pierce hold antislavery groups in contempt, but his consistent votes against federal subsidies for internal improvements and lower federal land prices displayed a callous indifference to the needs and interests of the Midwest. His political vision was narrow, even parochial.
Yet more important in explaining Pierce's precocious political career was the lock that the Democratic Party held over New Hampshire. Whig candidates rarely secured as much as two-fifths of the popular vote, and in 1836, 1840, and 1844 New Hampshire gave Democratic presidential candidates larger popular majorities than any other northern state. The atypicality of Democratic strength in New Hampshire probably deepened Pierce's commitment to internal party unity. Since the early 1820s, astute politicians had recognized that any party's internal cohesion varied inversely with the strength of its external rivals. Where that external competition was weak, as in New Hampshire, internal party fragmentation was a constant danger. Democratic dominance in New Hampshire also blinded Pierce to the needs of Democrats in far more competitive states. That Pierce resigned his Senate seat after spending only four months in the minority is telling. He liked to compete only when he held a winning hand. Political defeat was a new and intolerable experience.
Pierce's successful campaign for the presidency in 1852 and his actions while in that office would in many ways eerily echo his experience in the 1830s and 1840s. By 1852 the opposition Whigs had become as weak nationally as they had always been in New Hampshire. As a result, Pierce would waltz into the White House with a landslide in the electoral vote. On becoming president, however, Pierce would immediately face the problem of holding the victorious Democratic coalition together when the temporary lack of a threatening external opposition party made that goal difficult, if not impossible. The upshot would be a piece of legislation that Pierce prominently endorsed and that, along with other things, produced the Democratic defeats that Pierce could not stand. But to understand how this happened, one must first assess the impact of the Mexican-American War of 1846–48 on American politics in general and upon Franklin Pierce in particular.
Posted January 14, 2012
After reading about this president on Wikipedia, I became intrigued about his biography. This book was very informative and detailed about the Pierce's life. This was man who experienced many heartbreaks such as the death of all his children (while they were young and all of these deaths took place before he became president). The most recent death was of the only child who lived to be 12 and was killed a few weeks before Pierce was inaugurated. From the get-go his presidency was doomed because of the slavery issue and as a result he would serve only one-term. He was never able to solve the slavery dilemma without alienating his own party as well the country itself. Sadly, he has been rated as one of the worse president in history simply because he was seen as too accomodating to both sides of the issue because he didnt want to see a civil war break out by outright outlawing slavery. With every new territory that would join the country during his short time in office, disputes broke out over whether they would be slave or free states. In the end, his own party would discard him in favor of James Buchanan (who would suffer the same fate as Pierce four years later). The book did a great job of explaining his life, his presidency, and they way he conducted himself as a man. It was a short but good read.
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Sorry for being in school and sports okay? I cant be on 24/7 im sorry
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Its not like u or pierce are ever on so why continue? sorry but this is tiresome.
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I'm fairly certain there is a select closest threat option. I have it set for ground, and I think it can be set for space as well. Go into the
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and look for the one "Target Nearest Enemy".
In addition to that, I think you have to look for an additional option that will count all foes in range, otherwise it will target the nearest enemy ON SCREEN. However, I prefer it that way since it's likely I will be trying to keep a major threat to me on the screen.
An extremely useful alternative is to simply save Beam Fire At Will until there is a High Yield Plasma Torpedo coming at you. If you don't have Beam Fire At Will, then get it.