Statler High: Please Rewind

I admit it. I had not set foot in Statler Hall prior to the first day of this semester’s Intro to Wines class. To me, the Hotel School was a foreign place with familiar names: Nestlé, Marriott, Pillsbury and the like. But — partly because I have a Hotelie roommate and partly because I’m a history nerd — this week’s column charts the history of the nation’s first four-year college degree program devoted to the field of hotel education.