Businessmen Will Discuss Photo Agency

The proposed Harvard Student Agencies passport photo service will be discussed at the Thursday meeting of the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, it was learned yesterday. Attending the meeting will be Dustin M. Burke '52, Director of Student Employment, and William L. Gross '61, president of the HSA.

Declining to comment fully on the opposition of Harvard Square businesses to the proposed agency, Burke said only that the proposed agency has not yet been considered by the HSA board.

Paul Koby, Harvard Square photographer, and leader of the opposition to the HSA photo agency when it was proposed in 1958, said yesterday "I was and will be opposed to Harvard going into the photographic business. It is difficult to compete with this great institution on a legitimate business basis." Koby returned recently from a vacation in Mexico City.

Adding that he did not feel the University would approve the proposed photo service, Koby said that he would bring the matter up at the Businessmen's Association meeting.

The proposed agency may well "constitute a threat to other businessmen, since passport photographs help us pay our rent," he stated. Koby also pointed out the difficulties for amateurs in making such a business pay.

No comment on the photo agency is at present available from the HSA, though it is expected that their views will be forthcoming following Thursday's meeting.