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Past Presidents

Meet the people who helped lead DCBA throughout the last century.


Adam Fitzpatrick

2023-2024

Travis West

2022-2023

Kyle Engelke

2021-2022

Cathleen Dettmann

2020- 2021

John Laubmeier

2019-2020

Laura McFarlane

2018-2019

Eric Ryberg

2017-2018

Jordan Corning

2016-2017

Sarah Walkenhorst

2015-2016

Sarah A. Zylstra

2014-2015

Lis Shea

2013-2014

Josh Kindkeppel

2012-2013

Valerie Bailey-Rihn

2011-2012

Daniel J. LaRocque

2010-2011

Dan Gartzke

2009-2010

Teresa Kobelt

2008-2009

Marta Meyers

2007-2008

John R "Jack" Sweeney

2006-2007

Marsha Mansfield

2005-2006

H. Dale Peterson

2004-2005

Michael Davis

2003-2004

Kathleen Reiley

2002-2003

Kevin Palmersheim

2001-2002

Jim Fullin

2000-2001

Mary Beth Keppel

1999-2000

Paul G. Kent

1998-1999

Alison TenBruggencate

1997-1998

Thomas E. Dixon, Jr.

1996-1997

Bruce F. Ehlke

1995-1996

Gerald Mowris

1994-1995

Linda Clifford

1993-1994

Marjorie Schuett

1992-1993

Ralph Cagle

1991-1992

Margaret J. Vergeront

1990-1991

Michael J. Julka

1989-1990

Stuart A. Schwartz

1988-1989

Gerald C. Nichol

1987-1988

Fred Gants

1986-1987

Daphne Webb

1985-1986

Robert O. Burr

1984-1985

Stuart G. Gullickson

1983-1984

Donald L. Heaney

1982-1983

Earl Munson Jr.

1981-1982

Daniel W. Hildebrand

1980-1981

Harry V. Hill

1979-1980

Thomas G. Ragatz

1978-1979

C. Vernon Howard

1977-1098

William T. Rieser

1976-1977

John D.Winner

1975-1976

John Walsh

1974-1975

Roy B. Hovel

1973-1974

Milo Flaten

1972-1973

Henry A. Field

1971-1972

James C. Geisler

1970-1971

Joseph G. Werner

1969-1970

John Bruemmer

1968-1969

George Scholotthauer

1967-1968

John B. Brickhouse

1966-1967

George G. Blake

1965-1966

Warren H Stolper

1964-1965

Edwin C. Pick

1963-1964

James E. Doyle

1962-1963

Frederic E. Risser

1961-1962

Jack R. DeWitt

1960-1961

Kenneth M. Orchard

1959-1960

Lyall T. Beggs

1958-1959

John H. Esch

1957-1958

Gordon Sinykin

1956-1957

Frederick C. Suhr

1955-1956

William J.P. Aberg

1954-1955

Paul Griffith

1953-1954

James J. McDonald

1952-1953

Perry J. Armstrong

1951-1952

Ritchie D. Lewis

1950-1951

Walter Bjork

1949-1950

Ward Rector

1949 (resigned ca. May 5, 1949)

G. Burgess Ela

1948-1949

Leon E. Isaksen

1947-1948

William L. Woodward

1946-1947

Adolph J. Bieberstein

1945-1946

Emmert L. Wingert

1944-1945

Arnold R. Petersen

1943-1944

W. Wade Boardman

1942-1943

San W. Orr

1941-1942

Lawrence E. Hart

1940-1941

Clifford G. Mathys

1939-1940

Glen H. Bell

1938-1939

D.V.W. Beckwith

1937-1938

William H. Spohn

1936-1937

Robert M. Rieser

1935-1936

Glenn W. Stephens

1934-1935

Frank W. Lucas

1933-1934

Oscar T. T oebaas

1932-1933

Vroman Mason

1931-1932

Harry H. Thomas

1930-1931

Charles E. Buell

1929-1930

Frank L. Gilbert

1928-1929

Chauncey E. Blake

1926-1928

Rufus B. Smith

1924-1926

William R. Bagley

1920-1924

Harry L. Butler

1913-1920

Burr W. Jones

1906-1913

Unknown

1903-1906

J.H. Carpenter

1879-1903

Thomas Hood

1858-? (elected August 2, 1858)

Chauncey Abbott

1858 (elected July 12, 1858)

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