Introduction
We would like to introduce the NAEP Chronicle. The overall
objective of this chronicle is to provide an admittedly fragmentary
record of the people and happenings that have shaped the National
Association of Educational Procurement and its relationships with
the E&I Cooperative and other organizations. This will be done
by providing an informal year-by-year record of significant, interesting
and occasionally even humorous events in the history of the
Association.
One of our goals is to have at least one entry for each calendar
year. We have begun to collect bits and pieces of information that
may help readers better understand the part NAEP and its members have
played in the support of higher education and the evolution of the role
of purchasing on campus. We have adopted an open-ended and
hopefully user-friendly format designed to facilitate the inclusion of
additional items at any time by the initial team or others and to
provide easy access.
Although we know of no members able to provide personal recollections
from the first two decades, we would welcome personal recollections from
anyone who had been actively involved with NAEP over the years. At
the end of each summarized decade, we have provided a link to the
detailed history for that decade. This gives our readers
the option of reading it on-line or downloading it for print.
Please Note: The detailed history
documents for each era are in PDF format.
Fortunately, we have located several sources of very useful
input. To date we have relied mainly on letters and documents
found in files apparently preserved by Bert C. Ahrens prior to his
retirement in 1972. At that time, the Board invited Bert to
prepare a history of the Association. Although he declined the
file survived. Generally we have used these documents as we found
them. You will no doubt notice some variance from current usage in
abbreviation and other details.
In addition to these files, we have copies of the Proceedings of the
NAEP Annual Meeting covering many years and we expect to review them in
due course. Finally, we have Minutes of NAEP Board meetings
covering more recent times. Both of these are important sources of
information.
In every respect, this is a DRAFT, a work in progress, and we invite
comments, corrections and contributions!
This chronicle was developed at the suggestion of
Richard D. Scharff, C.P.M.. All data was compiled by Neil D.
Markee at the invitation of NAEP CEO Doreen Murner, beginning September
25, 2001.
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