History

The First Twenty Years

The A.T.I.A. was founded in June 18th 1945.
It was then called "De vereniging van Handelaren op Aruba".

The founders were:

Manuel Viana

John G. Eman

Clintond H. Whitfield

Leo Berlinski

Arturo M. Arends

Ch. Neme

H. Gottfried

A.G. Macherowski

A. in ‘t Veld

Aristides Wever

A. Sasso

Diego Willemse

L. Posner

Our first President was M. Viana who stayed on till 1947. He was followed by L. Posner who was our President for only one year, as were his successors Nat Cohen and H.D.G. Kroonenberg. In 1950 Clinton Whitfield became President and stayed on for 7 years. His successor Arturo M. Arends was President for 5 years. F.L. Scholl became President after that and stayed until 1965.

In 1964 the name was changed to "De Arubaanse Vereniging voor Handel en Industrie" (Aruba Trade and Industry Association) with the goal to promote the interest of the Trade and Industry on Aruba. It was also in that year that the code of ethics was introduced.

The other presidents:

1960	1970	1980	1990	2000
1966 G.C.A.Nouel 1967 G.C.A.Nouel 1968 G.C.A.Nouel 1966 G.C.A.Nouel	1970 G.C.A.Nouel 1971 A.B.Kuiperi (Tico) 1972 A.B.Kuiperi (Tico) 1973 E.Arends 1974 E.Arends 1975 J. S. Kroese 1976 D. Mansur 1977 D. Mansur 1978 D. Mansur 1979 B. Chemaly	1980 B. Chemaly 1981 B. Chemaly 1982 E. de Cuba 1983 G. Robles 1984 H. Henriquez 1985 H. Henriquez 1986 H. Schnog 1987 H. Schnog 1988 H. Schnog 1989 H. Schnog	1990 H. Schnog 1991 O. Toppenberg 1992 H. Schnog 1993 H. Schnog 1994 H. Schnog 1995 R. Croes 1996 R. Croes 1997 R. Croes 1998 R. Croes 1999 J.M. Lacle	2000 J.M.Lacle 2001 G. Peterson 2002 G. Peterson 2003 S. Daal 2004 S. Mansur 2005 S. Mansur 2006 2007