By: Phillip Lawless, editor Travel Back Phillip Lawless is editor of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine; he can be reached at PLawless@ GrandViewMedia.com. A graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lawless has over 13 years of professional writing and edit-ing experience. In Time Celebrating the Cleaning & Maintenance Management 50th anniversary with a visit to the archives. The old quote goes, “Those who don’t know his-tory are doomed to repeat it.” In this well-known phrase, doomed is the oper-ative word. For the professional cleaning and maintenance industry, the operations, managers and employ-ees that don’t learn from past mistakes — theirs or someone else’s — can expect much more doom and gloom than success and prosperity. In celebrating the 50th anniversary of the industry’s leading information resource, Cleaning & Maintenance Management , we’ve reached out to a number of the most important and informed professionals in the industry. Inside recent issues, they have provided infor-mation not only about this magazine, but about the development of the cleaning industry as a whole. July 2014 T for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Anniversary . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select DIRECTORY from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Technology . From Don Aslett’s gleaming museum to Gary Clipperton’s reputation for helping operations improve, these interviews, and the information they unearthed, have revealed numerous histori-cal facts about the JanSan market. This month we turned to our own archives for information. In the following section, we highlight pages from different eras of this magazine’s history. From a reader survey conducted in 1968 to a solemn article written just after 9/11, these pieces showcase this magazine’s coverage of not only professional cleaning and management but also the world our readers clean. Though the layout and design looks decidedly different (and some of the haircuts are question-able), the ideas, stories and advertisements are surprisingly similar. 8 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ®
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