Acknowledgement
At the 1999 Annual Meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, President Jack Guzewich issued a call for an Association History to be written. A history document was not available and he felt that the turn of the century was an excellent time to "take a look back" at the Association’s roots. He asked for assistance from the Past Presidents and long-time Members.
Following Jack’s call, four Past Presidents volunteered to help review early Journals and Annual Reports, to pull information from printed Presidential Addresses, to look at information and extract interesting details, and to write text that would capture the essence of the important contributions this Association made to enhance public health since 1911. As it turned out, two individuals, Harry Haverland and Earl Wright carried the bulk of the weight in seeing the project through to fruition. In addition to Harry and Earl’s contributions, Jackie Runyan and David Tharp wrote sections to round out the history. Donna Bahun, Lucia Collison, Didi Loynachan, and Pam Wanninger from the Association office provided additional assistance. Helene Uhlman contributed a woman’s perspective of her 30-plus years as Member. Harold Bengsch and William LaGrange also reviewed the draft manuscript and provided meaningful guidance. To everyone who contributed time, effort and expertise to this document, we are grateful to you. Thanks also to the individual Members who devoted their time and effort to the Association from that first Meeting in Milwaukee to the present time.
The majority of information contained within this document was taken from written, Presidential Addresses presented at Association Annual Meetings. Because of relying heavily on these reports, some details of the Association history may have been overlooked.
To everyone who reads the History of the International Association for Food Protection, we hope you will enjoy it and we hope you will learn about the contributions the Association has made to improve the public’s health for over 89 years.
History Book 1911-2000
- The Early Years and the 1920’s
- The 1930’s and 1940’s
- The 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s
- The 1980’s, 1990’s and 2000
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