Flashback

It was 1989 when then-publisher Dean Laux, president of The Laux Co., bought Insurance Conference Planner from George Lowden, owner of Bayard Publications, Stamford, Conn. (He purchased ICP along with Convention World, which was to become Association Meetings; and the Religious Conference Management Association's newsletter, which we turned into a magazine). We already published Medical Meetings, so with the addition of ICP and the others, we