Welcome Chuck Schneider!
The AIHS is proud to announce that CHUCK SCHNEIDER has joined the Society as East Coast Executive Editor. 
Chuck Schneider is a retired CE veteran executive turned popular freelance writer. Chuck has worked the retail sales floor, been a major chain store buyer, a manufacturers’ rep salesman and rep firm principal spanning 45 years in the industry.
Chuck has won awards for his work in trade publications. He has written for Gatehouse Media, various travel publications and recently the CEA. He is currently Contributing Writer for CE Pro magazine, the first and only freelance writer to ever appear on the masthead in that publication’s twenty year history.
He is a cum laude graduate of Boston University with a major in history and was inducted into the Delta Mu chapter Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society. As a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire, Chuck pioneered the genre of Oral History as an acceptable thesis format.
For six weeks every year, Chuck is a certified Real Bearded Santa Claus bringing joy to private parties and charitable organizations. For the rest of the year Chuck works for Kathy, his wife of 35 years, in her long established antique business. They exhibit all over the Northeast. They have two grown children.
All content with topics originating east of the Mississippi will be submitted to and reviewed by Chuck prior to publication. Please join us in welcoming him aboard!
Chuck can be reached at kschnei962@aol.com.
As another retired x-audio guy just wanted to send my best wishes for a fun and healthy retirement.
Also, your remembering your first buying group meeting really brought back memories of all the retail pioneers, some of which I knew and worked with, as well as the retail operations that are no longer. One of the biggest tragedies I can remember is the demise of Lechmere. So very sad.