Kem Plastic Playing Cards Inc. introduced the word “KEM” to commerce in 1934; advertised KEM cards as germ resistant in 1937; and showed KEM cards at the New York World’s Fair of 1939. This cardboard ...

In 1946, KEM Cards purchased the 27-acre John Flack Winslow property — now the northern section of the Marist College campus — that was a private estate from 1867 through 1926.