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Past Presidents

1959-61 -- Lauris B. Whitman
1988-90 -- James D. Davidson~ Jr.
1962-64 -- Walter Kloetzli
*1990-92 -- Wade Clark Roof
1965-66 -- Paul Mundy
1992-94 -- Peggy L. Shriver
1967-70 -- George W. Kaslow~ Jr.
1994-96 -- Benton Johnson
1971-73 -- Thomas M. Gannon
1996-98 -- Carl S. Dudley
1974-75 -- Earl D.C. Brewer
1998-00 -- Edward C. Lehman~ Jr.
1976-77 -- Ross P. Scherer
2000-02 -- Doyle Paul Johnson
1978-79 -- Barbara J.W. Hargrove
2002-04 -- Nancy Nason-Clark
1980 -- Dean R. Hoge
2004-06 -- Daniel V. A. Olson
1981 -- G. Douglass Lewis
2006-08 -- C. Kirk Hadaway
1982 -- David O. Moberg
2008-10 -- Keith Wulff
1983 -- Jackson W. Carroll
2010-12 -- John P. Bartkowski
1984 -- William McKinney
2012-14 -- Joy Charlton
1984-86 -- Constant H. Jacquet
2014-16 -- Jack Marcum
1986-88 -- Hart M. Nelsen
2016-18 -- Scott Thumma
2018-20 -- Patricia Wittberg
2020-22 -- Melinda Denton
2022-24 -- Elaine Howard Ecklund

Names with links above indicate that person’s Presidential Address is available on this site. These papers are in Adobe .pdf format. To view these files you will need the Adobe Acrobat reader. If you do not have this software, it is available free to download from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.

*note: Presidential Addresses were not presented prior to 1992.

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