[Oe List ...] Businesses started by and operated by ICA staff for ChronHist

Beret Griffith via OE oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Wed Sep 6 16:08:12 PDT 2017


Please look over this list and add or suggest changes. The formatting
happens when David enters the data into the master document.


Thank you, Beret


*Businesses started by and operated by ICA staff. Businesses provided staff
support.*

*(Looking here for ICA run businesses, not permeation jobs) *

CHANGES 9/6/2017


• Brussels: Ken Whitney, the American Handiman from 1977–1979, with help
from Clare Whitney and occasionally Paul Schrijnen, earned enough to pay
off old bills, pay stipends, and send all staff members to Chicago for
summer programs (Clare Whitney, July 17, 2015).


•Fifth City Business School, held Fifth City adult night classes. Started
in 1976 or 1977


•Fifth City Business Careers (1980), a spin-off of the downtown Chicago
Training, Inc. which began in 1979.

•  Chicago: Horizons Unlimited handled travel from 1983–1986.

•  Chicago: Access Unlimited provided word processing services.

• Chicago (1982–1984)—LENS International consultants included Sherwood
Shankland, Lee Early, Cynthia Vance, Rick Loudermilk, Jack Gilles, Pat
Tuecke and others.


• Houston: Income earned from LENS courses and consultancies: Don Clark,
Dick Whanger, Linda (Sunny Walker) Jones and others.

•  Jakarta, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1975-1982)

•  Kingston, Jamaica (1986-88) Operated as a LENS program consulting team:
Sherwood Shankland, Eunice Shankland, David Rebstock, Ellen Rebstock,
Winston Davis

• Lamego, Portugal (1982–1984)—teaching English to people working in port
wine companies.


• Los Angeles: (July 1985) Milan and Linda Hamilton founded Food For All to
raise funds for anti-hunger projects.

•  Majuro (1973) Larry White had an accounting firm where Sunny Walker
worked. The Trans Atoll Service Corporation (TASC) was this an ICA Business
ICA? Small businesses were run as a part of the Human Development Project:
chip factory, farm, shark fishing, Alele Baskets.

• New York: Scott and Doris Morris and others did programming, consulting,
and training as Computer Paradigm.


• Sydney?????????????


• Toronto: PEOPLEnergy— first launched in 1985 by Jan Sanders and Ian
Graham. At various times Robert Rafos, Bill Staples, Jo Nelson, Richard
Kitney, Deanna Hickey, and others were hired as consultants. In 2017 it
continues as a self-support business, at times working in collaboration
with other organizations. PEOPLEnergy joined with Ian Gilmore’s Technology
Transfer on several contracts.


• Washington, DC: Stan Crow, and Linda and Lester Knudsen sold Kaypro
computers and did programming, consulting, and training as Computer
Paradigm.


• Note: Throughout the years, LENS consulting and training activities
(initially Living Effectively in the New Society and later Leadership
Effectiveness and New Strategies) provided ICA staff self-support in
locations not mentioned.


Training, Inc. Timeline

1975      Training, Inc. DuPage/Oak Brook

1979      Training, Inc. Chicago  #1

1980      Fifth City Business Careers

1981     Training, Inc. Indianapolis

1981      Training, Inc. Word Processing Chicago

1984     Training, Inc. Boston

1985     STEP  Sellersburg, Indiana  (supported by Indianapolis)

1986     Training, Inc. Newark

1986      Training, Inc. National Association formed

1988      Training, Inc. Pittsburgh

1988      Training, Inc. Washington, DC

1989     Training, Inc. Guatemala (goes into the Addendum)
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