Past Presidents 1903-2026

President	Notes
1903-04 Lucy M. Salmon	History Professor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1904-05 James H. Van Sickle	Superintendent of Baltimore Schools, Baltimore, MD
1905-06 Charles Andrews	History Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1906-07 James H. Robinson	Columbia University, New York, NY
1907-08 Chessman A. Herrick	Girard College, Philadelphia, PA
1908-09 Eleanor L. Lord	Wells College, Aurora, NY
1909-10 James Sullivan	Boys High School, Brooklyn, NY, State Dept. of Education, Albany, NY
1910-12 Herman V. Ames	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1912-13 Edgar Dawson	Hunter College, New York, NY
1913-14 Albert E. McKinley	Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, History Teachers’ Magazine
1914-15 Henry Johnson	Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
1915-16 John M. Vincent	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1916-17 Jessie C. Evans	Simon Gratz High School, William Penn High School, Philadelphia, PA
1917-18 Marshall S. Brown	New York University, New York, NY
1918-19 Livingston Rowe Schuyler	College of the City of New York, New York, NY
1919-20 Daniel C. Knowlton	New York University, New York, NY, Lincoln School of Teachers’ College
1920-21 Albert K. Heckel	Lafayette College, Easton, PA
1921-22 Raynor W. Kelsey	Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1922-23 J. Montgomery Gambrill	Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
1923-24 Fayette E. Moyer	DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City, NY
1924-25 John L. Latane	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1925-26 James Lynn Barnard	Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
1926-27 William E. Lingelbach	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1927-28 Harry J. Carman	Columbia University, New York, NY
1928-29 Kathryn E. Carrigan	Atlantic City High School, Atlantic City, NJ
1929-30 Carlton J.H. Hayes	Columbia University, New York, NY
1930-31 Charles A. Beard	New Milford, CT
1931-32 Mildred M. Coughlin	Western High School, Baltimore, MD
1932-33 Roy F. Nichols	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1933-34 Frances Morehouse	Hunter College, New York, NY
1934-35 William G. Kimmel	Managing Editor, The Social Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
1935-36 Donald L. McMurray	Russell Sage College, Troy, NY
1936-37 Ella Lonn	Goucher College, Towson, MD
1937-38 George H. Ryden	University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1938-39 Amanda Streeper
1939-40 Robert I. Adriance	East Orange High School, East Orange, NJ
1940-41 John A. Krout	Columbia University, New York, NY
1941-42 Richard J. Purcell	Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
1942-43 Wesley M. Gewehr
1943-44 Jeanette P. Nichols	Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1944-45 Erling M. Hunt	Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
1945-46 Arthur C. Bining	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (on track to be president 45-46)
1945-46 Harry Bard	Baltimore Department of Education, Baltimore, MD (listed in 45-46 brochure as president)
1947-48 Morris Wolf	Girard College, Philadelphia, PA
1948-49 Paul O. Carr	Wilson Teachers College, Washington, D.C. (now part of the University of the District of Columbia)
1949-50 James B. Ranck	Hood College, Frederick, MD
1950-51 Robert H. Reid	Committee on International Relations, National Education Association, Washington, D.C.
1951-52 Leonard S. Kenworthy	Brooklyn College, New York, NY
1952-53 Eleanor W. Thompson	William Penn High School, Philadelphia, PA
1953-54 Franklyn L. Burdette	University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1954-55 George I. Oeste	Germantown High School, Philadelphia, PA
1955-56 Ralph W. Cordier	State Teachers College, Clarion, PA
1956-57 William H. Hartley
1957-58 John N. Niemeyer
1958-59 Muriel Hoover
1959-60 Edna R. Carter
1960-61 Charles W. Ray
1961-62 Florence Benjamin
1962-63 Maud N. Austin
1963-64 Leonard M. Skinner	Social studies teacher, District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC
1964-66 Theodore J. Adams
1966-68 Dorothy Allen
1968-70 Raymond Polin
1970-72 Eloise R. Godfery
1972-74 Gisbert Flanz
1974-76 Edward J. Reilly
1976-78 Thomas P. Ryan
1978-80 David A. Pierfy	Social Studies Education Professor, Rider College, Lawrenceville, NJ
1980-82 Billie A. Day	Social studies teacher, District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC
1982-84 Robert “Bob” N. Bliss	Social studies teacher, New Jersey
1984-86 Robert S. Smith	Social studies teacher, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD
1986-87 Bernice Samalonis	Social Studies Education Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY
1987-88 Alfred F. Myers	Social Studies curriculum specialist, Pennsylvania Department of Education, PA
1988-90 Shirley J. Johnson	Social studies teacher, Prince Georges County Public Schools, MD
1990-92 Robert K. Taylor	Pennsylvania
1992-94 Anne Jordan	Catholic nun and social studies teacher at a catholic school, NJ
1994-96 Tina Fortson-Rivers	Social studies teacher, Prince Georges County Public Schools, MD
1996-98 Bernard Cohen	Social studies teacher, New York, NY
1998-00 Daniel Sidelnick	Social Studies Assessments company in PA
2000-02 Ruth Staas	Social Studies publishing representative, Glencoe
2002-04 Eileen Wilkerson	Principal, Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Flourtown, PA
2004-06 Joseph MacDonald	Social Studies Supervisor, Cecil County, MD
2006-10 Maria Sanelli	Social Studies Education Professor, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
2010-12 Rebecca Herndon	Elementary teacher, District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC
2012-14 Mary Davis	Social Studies Resource, Anne Arundel County, MD
2014-16 Marcie Taylor-Thoma	Social Studies Consultant, Maryland Department of Education, Annapolis, MD
2016-18 Donna Olszewski	Social Studies Consultant, Maryland Department of Education, Annapolis, MD
2018-20 Scott Abbott	Director of Social Studies, District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC
2020-22 Carolyn vanRoden	Social Studies teacher, Harford County Public Schools, Bel Air, MD
2022-24 Karla Wienhold	Social Studies teacher, Harford County Public Schools, Bel Air, MD
2024-26 Jennifer Ingold	Social Studies teacher, Bay Shore Union Free Schools, Bay Shore, NY

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