Historic Moments: A timeline of SPJ’s development Compiled by SPJ member Jennifer Peebles
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1912-13 Laurence H. Sloan 1913 Chester Wells 1913-14 Sol Lewis 1914-16 Roger F. Steffan 1916-19 Robert C. Lowry 1919-20 Felix M. Church 1920-21 Lee A. White 1921-22 Kenneth C. Hogate 1922-23 Ward A. Neff 1923-24 T. Hawley Tapping 1924-25 George F. Pierrot 1925-26 Donald H. Clark 1926-27 Roy L. French 1927-28 James A. Stuart 1928-29 Robert B. Tarr 1929-30 Edwin V. O'Neel 1930-31 Franklin M. Reck 1931-33 Charles E. Snyder 1933-34 Walter Humphrey 1934-35 John E. Stempel 1935-36 Carl P. Miller 1936-37 Tully Nettleton 1937-38 Ralph L. Peters 1938-39 George A. Brandenburg 1939-40 Elmo Scott Watson 1940-41 Irving Dilliard 1941-43 Palmer Hoyt 1943-45 Willard R. Smith 1945-46 Barry Faris 1946-47 George W. Healy, Jr. 1947-49 Luther Huston 1948-49 Neal Van Sooy 1949-50 Carl R. Kesler 1950-51 John M. McClelland, Jr. 1951-52 Charles C. Clayton 1952-53 Lee Hills 1953-54 Robert U. Borwn 1954-55 Alden C. Waite 1955-56 Mason Rossiter Smith 1956-57 Sol Taishoff 1957-58 Robert J. Cavagnaro 1958-59 James A. Byron 1959-60 V.M. Newton, Jr. 1960-61 E.W. Scripps II 1961-62 Buren McCormack 1962-63 Walther Burroughs 1963-64 Theodore F. Koop 1964-65 Ralph Sewell 1965-66 Raymond L. Spangler 1966-67 Robert M. White II 1967-68 Staley McBrayer 1968-69 William B. Arthur 1969-70 Frank Angelo
1970-71 Robert W. Chandler 1971-72 Guy T. Ryan 1972-73 William C. Payette 1973-74 Ralph Otwell 1974-75 William Small 1975-76 Robert McCord 1976-77 Richard Leonard 1977-78 Alf Goodykoontz 1978-79 Phil Dessauer 1979-80 Jean Otto 1980-81 Howard Graves 1981-82 Charles R. Novitz 1982-83 Steven R. Dornfeld 1983-84 Phil Record 1984-85 Frank Sutherland 1985-86 Robert Lewis 1986-87 Robert H. Wills 1987-88 James F. Plante 1988-89 Paul M. Davis 1989-90 Carolyn S. Carlson 1990-91 Frank Gibson 1991-92 Ernie Ford; Georgiana Vines 1992-93 Georgiana Vines 1993-94 Paul McMasters 1994-95 Reginald Stuart 1995-96 G. Kelly Hawes 1996-97 Steve Geimann 1997-98 Fred Brown 1998-99 Wendy S. Myers 1999-00 Kyle Niederpruem 2000-01 Ray Marcano 2001-02 Al Cross 2002-03 Robert Leger 2003-04 Gordon “Mac” McKerral 2004-05 Irwin Gratz 2005-06 David E. Carlson 2006-07 Christine Tatum 2007-08 Clint Brewer 2008-09 Dave Aeikens 2009-10 Kevin Smith 2010-11 Hagit Limor 2011-12 John Ensslin 2012-13 Sonny Albarado 2013-14 David Cuillier 2014-15 Dana Neuts 2015-16 Paul Fletcher 2016-17 Lynn Walsh 2017-18 Rebecca Baker 2018-19 J. Alex Tarquinio 2019-20 Patricia Gallagher Newberry 2020-21 Matthew T. Hall 2021-22 Rebecca Aguilar 2022-23 Claire Regan
Chester C. Wells: His True Life Story
