Why EMI? We recently put that question to Bernie Ehrlich, who founded TRSA’s leading educational program for textile services industry executives in 1965 with strong backing from Gerald Stempler, a retired chair of Textilease Corp. The program, whose formal title bears the names of both men, celebrated its 50th anniversary commencement program last month at the University of Maryland.
 
Ehrlich, 88, and a former longtime staff executive for UTSA, said the original EMI was designed to help rising executives from the industry’s then mostly family-owned business to broaden their knowledge and perspectives in order to better serve ...