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degree in accounting and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA). He had also previously served FPP as an accountant and the Editorial Manager. Both of the previous FPP Directors chose to also serve as the IFSTA Executive Director. Upon Hannan’s hire, he and CEAT Dean Carl Reid agreed that the roles should be split and Mike Wieder was recommended to, and approved by, the IFSTA Executive Board to serve as the IFSTA Executive Director. This more evenly split the roles of these two duties. At the time of this report, both were still handling those positions. Wieder had the dual role of FPP Associate Director/Managing Editor (as well as IFSTA Executive Director) until 2018 when Colby Cagle assumed the role of Managing Editor. Wieder maintained his role as Associate Director of FPP and Executive Director of IFSTA. Fire Protection Publications Today
As much as the IFSTA organization grew and changed based on need, so has Fire Protection Publications (FPP). The first OSU fire program, Fire Service Training (FST), was originally organized within the Oklahoma State Department of Vocational Education in 1931 and by 1933 it was moved to its present home in OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology (CEAT). The first office was located in the OSU Industrial Arts building. This is where FPP was first located when it was started in 1934. Following completion of the Campus Fire Station (CFS) in 1938, all of the fire programs were moved to that facility. They would remain there until FPP and FST were moved to Quonset #2 on the OSU Campus in 1965. These Quonset huts were located on land that is now behind the CEAT Advanced Technology Research Center (ATRC) where the ramp to the lower level of Boone Pickens Stadium is located. The Fire Protection and Safety degree program would remain housed in the CFS until a move to Cordell Hall in 2003 and later on to Engineering North. In 1976, a modern facility was built in the Technology Park on the northwest part of the OSU campus (Figure 10) . This facility, called the Fire Building, would house all the offices of FPP and FST, as well as the warehousing operation for the books and materials. By 1980, it was necessary to build a stand-alone warehouse immediately west of the Fire Building and covert its old space to offices (Figure 11) . The warehouse would receive significant additions including high-rack storage in 1985 and again in 1995. Today, it boasts nearly 30,000 square feet of space, much of it high-rack storage (Figure 12) . The spectacular growth of FPP through the 1980s required the construction of new and larger office facilities. A modern two-story office building, known
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