About WESTPEX – The First 50 Years · the source for this site’s history pages · ↑ History overview
The history pages on this site are adapted from a single source — a 198-page book published by WESTPEX, Inc. in 2010. This page tells you about the book and how the web version was made.
The Source, 2010
WESTPEX – The First 50 Years
By Kristin Patterson
Published in 2010 by WESTPEX, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America by API Print Productions, Atlanta, Georgia
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010903096
ISBN: 978-1-4507-0785-5
© 2010 by WESTPEX, Inc. — all rights reserved.
Patterson combed through fifty years of WESTPEX archives — meeting minutes, Council Courier reports, programs, photographs, and the recollections of long-time committee people — over two and a half months of writing. In her preface she gave special thanks to Nestor Nuñez and George Shalimoff for editing and final proofing, and to Bill Lenarz and Dick Salz for additional proofreading. The book is dedicated to the more than two hundred volunteers who made the first fifty years of WESTPEX possible.
About the Web Version
The web pages under /history/ adapt Patterson’s chapters for screen reading rather than reproducing them verbatim. The voice, facts, dates, and notable quotations are hers; the connective narrative around them has been tightened, sub-headings added, and print-only artifacts (figure numbers, page references) removed. Direct quotations from committee members, chairmen’s program greetings, and committee statements are preserved word-for-word.
Image captions adapt the descriptive content of the book’s figure captions but drop the original “Fig. X.Y” numbering. Photographs of WESTPEX youth activities are presented as group or activity scenes without identifying individual children, in line with current expectations of online privacy.
Each chapter of the book maps roughly to one page on this site:
| Book chapter | Web page |
|---|---|
| Chapters 1–4 — Life Before WESTPEX, the Name, the First Show, Early Shows | Origins (1940–1969) |
| Chapter 5 — The 1970s | The 1970s |
| Chapters 6–8 — The 1980s, 25th Anniversary, Late 1980s | The 1980s |
| Chapters 9–10 — The 1990s, 1997 hiatus | The 1990s |
| Chapters 11–13 — Turn of the Century, the Big Move, 2005–2009 | The 2000s |
| (post-book era) | The 2010s |
| (post-book era) | The 2020s |
| Chapter 14 — The WESTPEX Chairmen | Chairmen |
| Chapter 15 — Exhibits and the People Who Judge Them | Exhibits & Judges |
| Chapter 16 — The Bourse | The Bourse |
| Chapter 17 — Youth Activities | Youth |
| Appendices A, B, C — Volunteers, Grand Award Winners, Jury List | Honors |
Most of the links above point to pages that don’t exist yet — they’ll come online as we publish each one. The 2010s and 2020s pages are stubs, to be filled from WESTPEX’s own show programs since the book ends in 2009.
Acknowledgement
This online adaptation is published with the permission of WESTPEX, Inc., the copyright holder. All credit for the underlying work belongs to Kristin Patterson and the volunteers, committee members, and proofreaders she names in her preface. Questions, corrections, or additions for any of the history pages can be directed to WESTPEX, Inc. through the contact page.
WESTPEX – The First 50 Years by Kristin Patterson, © 2010 WESTPEX, Inc. · ↑ History overview