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Organize & Preserve Westin Archive Collection
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THANK YOU! $11,900 RAISED
Ulrich Wall, Jorg Lippuner, Michael Horrocks, Tom Hosea, Jim Purvis, Jack Ferguson, Randy Guthrie, Catherine Walker, Hans Bruland, Tom Naokawa, Bruce Lucker, Chris Marker, Silvio Berron, Bill Moyer, Jean Spaulding, Giovanni Angelini, Chris Steuri, Peter Smith, Kevin Mallory, Larry Magnan, Brad Jencks, Michael Kaylk, Karyn (Marasco) Guitierrez, Stephen Schnoor, Douglas Sutten, William Slawson, Joseph Carroll, Wayne Bodington, James McKennon, Jim Treadway, Wendy Stauff, Catherine Walker, Tom Dupar, Dupar Foundation, Jack Ferguson, Sue Brush, Jorg Lippuner, Cherie Ohlson, Lindsey Geyer, Charlotte Behnke, Ray Sylvester
A special thank you to the Dupar family for their generous support for this project.
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Westin Alumni Association 1990-2025
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WelcomeT
hank you for visiting the Westin Alumni Association (WAA) website!
There are over 1,000 members of WAA who reside in 37 countries.
From its founding in 1991 the sole purpose of the WAA was to provide means for former Westin associates to stay in touch, i.e., friends keeping in touch with friends. That remains our purpose to this day.
With the purchase by Starwood in 1998 the company, Westin Hotels & Resorts, founded in 1930, ceased to exist, thus the association focuses on the years that Western Hotels operated as a company, namely 1930-1998.
Until May of 2018 membership was restricted to those who had worked in the corporate, regional sales, and affiliate offices such as Westin Service & Supply, which was later named FORMA. Within hotels membership was restricted to General Managers, Executive Assistant Managers and Division Heads.
In March of 2018, the WAA board expanded the membership to include those who had worked in any capacity for the company for 5 or more years. The group selected five years as a time period that would allow an associate to learn the history of the company and to understand its culture and values.
Over the years various groups of alums dispersed around the globe have arranged to meet for lunch, dinner or even for a weekend. Events have taken place in Tokyo, Oslo, Denver, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Johannesburg, Vancouver, Ottawa, Seattle, Phoenix, Washington, D.C., Bellevue (2006) and Las Vegas (2016 & 2019). The latter three were weekend events that drew hundreds of members from around the globe.
We hope that you will enjoy the history, photos, stories and trips down memory lane as you view the website content..
Western Hotels, later Western International Hotels, Westin Hotels, and Westin Hotels & Resorts was an innovative and storied company populated with outstanding people!
Yes, people did make the difference!
Sincerely,
Ray Sylvester
President
Westin Years 1965-1998
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Western Hotels, Inc. Founders
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Severt W. Thurston
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Frank A. Dupar
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Organize & Preserve Westin Archive Collection
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The WAA Board hosted a virtual meeting on February 26th with Dr. Mark Young (bottom left) who elaborated on the condition of the Westin Collection at the HIA. He emphasized that better organization will result in the ability to locate and respond to inquiries for historical information on the industry and / or Westin in particular. The other concern is that specific documents are deteriorating and should be copied to archival paper.
Learn more on this subject, here.
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