The Stained Glass Quarterly Summer 2014 | Page 7

1903 CA RI I N ED G STA L TH E 1903-1906 1907-1908 1909 1910 1911-1912 1913 1914-1915 1916 1917-1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924-1925 1926 1927-1928 1929-1930 1931-1937 1938-1941 1942-1943 1944-1945 1946-1947 1948-1949 1950-1951 1952-1953 1954-1955 1956-1957 1958-1959 1960-1961 1962-1963 1964-1965 1966-1967 1968-1969 1970-1971 1972-1973 1974-1975 1976-1977 1978-1979 1980-1981 1982-1983 1984-1985 1986-1987 1988-1989 1990 1991-1992 1993-1994 1995-1996 1997-1998 1999-2000 2001-2002 2003-2004 2005-2006 2007-2008 2009-2010 2011-2012 2013- F ON O AME TI S ASSOCIA AS Joseph E. Flanagan Karl Steward E. W. Smith W. G. Speier H. H. Jacoby Karl Steward Charles Donaldson Frederick Lamb Henry Hunt A. H. Rossbach A. J. Schuler D. H. Swinton W. E. Ford A. W. Klemme George Mueller Henry Hunt Fred Oppliger Nicola D’Ascenzo Charles Connick Wilbur H. Burnham Henry Lee Willet Harold W. Cummings Harold Rambusch Orin Skinner Rupert Schmitt George Hunt Karl B. Lamb Wilbur H. Burnham, Jr. John D. Weaver, Sr. George D. Spiers John A. Riordan E. Crosby Willet Otto C. Winterich Stephen Bridges Harold L. Hollman A. W. Klemme, Jr. James Helf Patrick White Helen Hickman John Kebrle Bill Laws Gerhard Hiemer Elizabeth Perry Walter Judson Florence Welborn Paul Pickel Truett George Gary Helf Kirk Weaver James Whitney Dennis Harmon Karen Hendrix Andrew Young B. Gunar Gruenke Jack Whitworth Jerome R. Durr Susan Shea The President’s Page Honoring the Past “Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.” – Theodore Roosevelt Rupert Schmitt (1950-1951) was very concerned about the “trend of our craft toward commercialism…” and for “paying more attention to higher standards of workmanship and improved ethics in the craft.” Bernard O. Gruenke, who was Rupert Schmitt’s partner, purchased the renowned national art studio (now Conrad Schmitt Studios) from the Schmitt estate, after Rupert’s death in 1951. George Hunt (1952-1953) sponsored a joint committee for the American Stained Glass Craft, including the SGAA and the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, who were also suffering from unfair tariffs on overseas products. George Hunt, with his brother, Jim, built Hunt Studios into one of Pit