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  • 2020 Officers / Board

     

    Residence / Years With Westin




    Ray Sylvester
    Houston, TX
    1965-1998

     



    Silvio Berron
    Juriquilla, QRO, Mexico
    1979-1995




    Bill Dougherty
    Bristol, TN
    1978-1998





    Larry Dustin
    Farmers Branch, TX
    1969-1983

     





    Michael Horrocks
    Houston, TX
    1971-1986

     





    Andrew Jones
    Hong Kong
    1975-1988


     


     



    Bill Moyer
    Bethesda, MD
    1972-1984


     



    Jorg Neuenhaus
    Mexico City, MX
    1967-1993

     






    Nancy Peel
    Detroit, MI
    1981-1998





    Richard (Dick) Whaley
    Issaquah, WA
    1966-1977

  • Westin Alumni Association

    History

    Thanks to the foresight of C.R. "Bob" Lindquist and William H. "Bill" Ellis who thought it important to keep track of and stay in touch with those retiring or otherwise leaving Westin we have WAA. Early on Larry Dustin was enlisted to provide a typed list which he later expanded into a database. For many years Larry and wife Penny took responsibility for copying, collating and mailing copies of this database to fellow alums around the world.

    Later an organization was formed in 1991, a board installed and officers elected to manage the business of the entity. Over those 28 years Larry has maintained the vital database and William D. "Bill" Ellis has managed the association's finances.

    In 2005 Ray Sylvester launched the WAA website, and in 2015 the Westin Alumni Facebook page was published.

    Ray Sylvester followed Larry Dustin as president in 2018, and Michael Horrocks became treasurer following Billl Ellis' 27 years with WAA.

    At the Westin reunion in 2019 Penny and Larry Dustin were acknowledged for their 28 year leadership contributions, and for their continuous management of the member database.

    Three Westin Alumni global reunions have been held:

    • 1996: The Westin Bellevue, Washington
      • 228 alumni and guests
      • event coordinator: Ray Sylvester
    • 2016: The Venetian & Palazzo Hotel Resort, Las Vegas
      • 89  alumni and guests
      • event coordinator: Ray Sylvester
    • 2019: The Venetian & Palazzo Hotel Resort, Las Vegas
      • 78 alumni and guests
      • event coordinator: Ray Sylvester

    Purpose

    • The Westin Alumni Association (WAA) was established in 1991, and is dedicated only to maintaining an accurate database of former Westin colleagues who meet a membership criteria as mentioned under "eligibility". There is no cost attendant with membership, however, goodwill contributions are welcome and help to defray costs for maintaining the web site and member database. 

    Privacy

    • The WAA database is confidential and is not for sale or distribution to outside sources.


    Eligibility*

    Those individuals employed by Westin (and its affiliated companies) for 5 or more years from 1930-1998 (1998 is selected as that was the year the Company ceased and Westin became a brand of Starwood)

    (1) Surviving spouses/ partners of former members


    * Eligibility requirements updated from 1991, March 11, 1018
    effective April 1, 2018

    Volunteer WAA Officers & Board
     

    Current  Officers

    President: Ray Sylvester
    Treasurer: Michael Horrocks


    At Large Board Members
     

    Larry Dustin: Immediate Past President
    Bill Dougherty (U.S.)
    Andrew Jones (Asia)
    Bill Moyer (U.S.)
    Jorg Neuenhaus (Mexico & Central America)
    Nancy Peel (U.S.)
    Dick Whaley (U.S.)



    Past Board Members

    Sue Brush
    Pat Carey: Past President (FD) (D)
    Charles D. Comstock: Past President (FD) (D)
    William D. Ellis: Immediate Past Treasurer (FD)
    Wm. H. (Bill) Ellis: Founding Director (Deceased)
    Denis Forristal
    Christine Gildow
    Doug Hales
    J. Wm. (Bill) Keithan: Past President (FD) (D)
    C.R. (Bob) Lindquist: (FD) (D)
    Dan McClaskey (FD)
    Chris Marker
    Russ Nickel: Past President
    Cherie Ohlson
    Ron Spellecy

     

    (FD) Founding Director
    (D) Deceased

  • 100 Club 

    The 100 club was formed in 2019 to allow WAA members an opportunity to conribute to the project of digitizing the collection of FRONT Magazines, ranging from the 1940 through the 1990s.
     


    Join with the other 88  Westin alums in support of the project to digitize the collection of FRONT Magazines, making their content available  on line for any interested party. Nothing captures the history of the company and its people better during its 68 year history.


    Send your check in the amount of $100 or more, made out to WAA, to: 5130 Chevy Chase Drive Houston, TX 77056 or you can also make that contribution on line by clicking on the "donate" button upper right side of this homepage.

    You'll have the satisfaction of contributing to the legacy of our outstanding Company.

     

    "I am thrilled to be able to do something for our beloved Westin Alumni Association and make a donation to this great project" Susan Bray

    "Great project! Congratulations to this idea".Ulrich Schwartz


    Project Update: Tuesday September 1, 2020

    All the Front magazines through 1963 have been scanned and with be uploaded “soon” with some other scanned material.   There are a lot of librarian hands touching this project, so it will move slow.  My guess it is librarians being librarians added to the mix that during Covid and budget cuts everyone wants to show what work they have contributed.. (Dr. Mark Young, Hospitality Industry Archives)

     

    Project Update: Monday October 14, 2019
    The library has completed from my understanding a test scan of the different Front formats.  I am to go over later today or tomorrow to make sure I like their work.  I am sure it is fine and better than I could do.  They probably want to show me how the images in the Front come out in a scan depending on the gloss of paper, the paper quality, and the amount of text nearby. 

     

    I get the sense that they may be physically finished scanning by the time of the Las Vegas meeting.  They will then add the Mehta data, re-scan any images that did not come out right, I will write a description of what Front is and its historical significance.  Then they will up load it to the UH Digital Library.  When that date will be I am truthfully not sure .  I would think before Christmas, but this is the university and I would not bet money. 

     

    I told the digital library people I do want some images of the scanned Front’s to show in Las Vegas and I will get images to show the magazine in the process of getting scanned and all the other things they do to it to prepare the images for uploading to the Digital Library. (Dr. Mark Young)


    90 Members as of November 28, 2019

     

    A

    Giovanni Angelini

    B

    Jon Ballard
    Charlotte Behnke
    Peter Blyth
    Wayne Bodington
    Susan Bray
    Hans Bruland
    Sue Brush

    C

    Eugene Carlson (son of Edward Carlson)
    John Ceriale
    Chuck Chambers
    Kim Chappell
    Tony Cherone

    D

    Michael David
    Hanne Dittler
    Bill Dougherty
    Tom Dupar (The Dupar Foundation)
    Larry Dustin

    E

    David Evan
    Jerry Evans

    F

    Dick Ferris
    John Finamore
    Jeff Flowers 
    Denis Forristal
    Jim France

    G

    Jack Gaines
    Victor / Kathryn Gielisse
    Christine Gildow
    Thomas  Gurtner

    H

    Doug Hales
    Brian Handley
    Bob Hawes
    Richard Helfer
    Tom Hosea
    Phil Hughes

    J

    Greg Jacobson
    Andrew Jones

    K

    Howard Kemball
    Walt Ketterling
    David King

    L

    Didier Le Calvez
    Nancy Lebrecht
    Ena-Marie Lemke
    Terry Losh
    Lorraine Luongo

    M

    Larry Magnan
    George Markantonis
    Chris Marker
    Lou Martinelli
    John Mavros
    Dan McClaskey
    Tony McDonald
    Bruce McNish
    Michael Miketti
    Bill Moyer
    Pat Mullin
    Philllip Murelaga

    N

    Zahid Nana
    Jorg Neuenhaus
    Russ Nickel

    O

    Rod Odegaard

    P

    Nancy Peel
    Jerry Pokocky

    R

    Birgit Radin
    Christine Rankin
    Paul Ross
    Laurie Rounds

    S

    Steve Schnoor
    Ulrich Schwartz
    Peter Smith
    Jean Spaulding
    Tom Stanfield
    Tim Steckbeck
    Philip Stoy
    Hart Sugarman
    Ralph Swain
    John Swaney
    Linda Swearingen
    Ray Sylvester

    T

    Sherrie Tossell (daughter of Severt Thurston)
    Byron Trafton
    Jim Treadway

    U

    Rick Ueno

    W

    Catherine Walker
    Ulrich Wall
    Jerry Wolsborn
    Richard Whaley
    Robert Wilhelm

    Z

    David Zeuske
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