Fifty years ago, 1965, Western International Hotels inaugurated the company's first Management Trainee Program at
The Olympic Hotel. The corporation's headquarters were then located on the top floor of the hotel allowing the trainees exposure to the senior officers.
Some of the alums that "graduated" and passed through Seattle's then flagship hotel:
Bob Hawes, Peter
Blyth, Sue
Brush, Bob
Bushman, Mike
Corrigan, Tom
Cortabitarte, Hanne
Dittler, Joe
Falceto, Frank
Finneran, Jeff
Flowers, Dennis Fox, Ross
Grimm, Thomas
Gurtner, Alan
Harrison, Bob
Hawes, Dave
Higgenbottom, Joe
Huber, Bill
Hulett, Lee
Jencks, Mike
Kaylk, Fran
Lindquist, Gary
Mabee, Tony
Marble, Chris
Marker, Lou
Martinelli, Fred
Mawer, Dan
McClaskey, Nancy Wong-Gurtner, Jim
Mogush, Mike
Moran, Bill
Newman, Pat
O'Brien, Dave
Paulon, Susan
Picht, Warren
Sakai, Peter
Smith, Ty
Stroh, Ray
Sylvester, Gene
Thissen, Bill
Thurston, Bob Thurston, Dick
Whaley