This photo was taken in 1987, during the Carpet & Rug Institute’s (CRI) Biennial President’s Council in Washington D. C. Ned Hopper, left, coordinated the two-day event for the CRI, which was attended by 82 industry executives. Representing a contingent from the West Coast was Murray Hall, center, executive director of the Carpet Manufacturers Association of the West, and Phil Wexler, CMAW president and president of Bentley Carpet Mills.