Wesley Warren Snyder

Background

Snyder, Wesley Warren was born on June 4, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Warren Elmore and Grace Elizabeth (Gray).

Education

Bachelor of Science in General Speech, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1958. Student, Chicago Art Institute, 1964.

Career

Furniture sales trainee Heywood Wakefield Company, Chicago, 1960-1962. Medical space planner and designer V. Mueller & Company, 1962-1963. Manager wholesale showroom Charles L. Orr, Inc., 1963-1968.

Owner, president, principal designer Cristies of Chicago, Inc., 1968-1981. Instructor interior design Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, 1981-1982. Division manager Commercial Designs by Saba, 1983.

Senior designer Lambert Interiors, 1983-1984. Sales representative Wagner Office Furniture, Tampa, Florida, 1984-1985. Vice president and design director Office Design and Supplies, Inc., Sarasota, 1985-1987.

Owner Cristies Design Group, 1988—1998. With Kane's Furniture of Sarasota, 1998-2000. Owner Wes Snyder American Society Of Interior Designers, since 2000.

Member Landmark Preservation Council of Illinois, 1972-1979, executive vice president, 1974, member city house preservation fair founding committee City of Chicago, 1979. Member Institute Bus Designers, Chicago, 1973-1984, president Chicago Regional chapter, 1978-1979, national trustee, 1979-1981. Vice chairman Sarasota County Arts Council, 1986-1989.

Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Wesley Warren Snyder has been listed as a noteworthy interior space planner and designer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member advisory board Institute Psychiatry, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 1975-1981, Chrysalis Learning Center, 1977-1980. Active Oak Park Music Theatre, 1967-1972, American Cancer Society Bid for Bachelors, 1987, Jail and Bail, 1991. Member alumni steering committee Speech School, Northwestern University, 1970-1981, Chorus of Keys, Society for Preservation Barbershop Quartet Singing in American.

Chairman annual show, 1984, 85, vice president membership committee, 1985. Graduate Leadership Sarasota, 1986, co-chairman alumni program steering committee, 1989, chairman Arts Day, 1986-1990, member steering committee, 1990. Member American Institute of Architects (affiliate 1983-1989), American Society Interior Designers (member steering committee Florida chapter 1982-1996, vice president North Florida chapter 1985, 89-90, chairman design resource show 1985-1991, local chairman 1986, 89-90, Presidential citation 1986, Special Recognition award 1989-1990, Service awards 1991-1996, 98-2002, Florida West Coast chapter formation committee 1999-2003, member long range planning committee, nominating committee, and budget committee N.Fla. chapter), Sarasota County Chamber of C. (chairman ambassador and consul program 1986-1988, member board 1987-1991, vice chair membership 1989, chairman Sarasota AM-Monthly broadcast event), Northwestern Alumni of Chicago (board directors 1978-1979, newsletter editor), Kiwanis (vice president Sarasota Sunrise chapter, board directors, program chairman 1985-1986, newsletter writer 1987-1988, Special award 1985, Bell award 1986, Editors award 1987), Masons, Northwestern University Alumni Club (program chairman 2000-2001, president Sarasota/Manatee 2001-2005), Delta Tau Delta (member alumni house board, Special Service award 1981).

Interests

• Singing, entertaining at retirement residences, writing, gardening, reading.

Connections

Son of.

Father:

Warren Elmore Son

Mother:

Grace Elizabeth (Gray) Son