Pioneers of Alaska
Pioneers of Alaska
Past Grand Presidents

Year President
1907 P.H. Watt*
1908 Dr. J.J. Chambers*
1909 George A. Diamond*
1911 Phil Ernst*
1912 Joseph R. Matthews*
1914 Frank Aldrich*
1915 William H. McPhee*
1916 J.G. Herd*
1917 Cecil H. Clegg*
1919 M.H. Lynch*
1920 Thomas N. Nelson*
1921 Alva Eames*
1922 Joseph Ulmer*
1923 Roy G. Southworth*
1924 Richard Rothenburg*
1925 John T. Spickett*
1926 Anthony J. Dimond*
1927 H.R. Shephard*
1928 Erik Forss*
1929 Paul J. Ricket*
1930 Cal M. Brosius*
1931 Percy G. Charles*
1932 George A. McQuarrie*
1933 Alfred J. Lomen*
1934 Andrew Nerland*
1935 T.J. McCroskey*
1937 Charles W. Carter*
1938 Dr. Will H. Chase*
1939 Arthur G. Thompson*
1940 Martin Knuppe*
1943 Henry Roden*
1945 Edgar Kerr*
1947 Antonio Polet*
Nome
1949 John Reck*
1951 Earnest B. Collins*
1953 Gerrit Snider*
1954 M.J. Walsh*
1955 Fred Kirkland, Sr.*
1956 Sidney Raynor*
1957 Robert N. DeArmond*
1958 Otto Koppen*
1959 Arthur Lutro*
Lester O. Gore*
1960 Carl F. Lottsfeldt, Sr.*
1961 James M. Jorgensen*
1962 Edward C. Sweeney*
1963 Sol J. Urie*
1964 Robert W. Korn*
1965 Waino Hendrickson*
Year President
1966 Robert Gore
1967 William Stolt*
1968 Adolph Stock*
1969 Donald Ingalls*
1970 Francis Bowden*
1971 Herman Leirer*
1972 Norman Swanson*
1973 Patrick Lloyd
1974 Axel Edman*
1975 William Race*
1976 Robert Hanson
1977 Robert Hufman
1978 William Hoskins*
1979 Grant Nelson
1980 Ernest J. Anderes
1981 William McIlroy*
1982 Richard Beissner*
1983 Louis Odsather*
1984 Harold Stephan*
1985 Max Wells*
1986 A. “Swede” Wasvick*
1987 Clyde Geraghty*
1987 Edwin Klopp
1988 Maurice Ingman
1989 Kenneth L. Kareen
1990 Edward G. Barber, Jr.
1991 Joe H. Ashby*
1992 Douglas B. Colp*
1993 Donald H. Dinkel
1994 Charles Karges*
1995 Delmore Schmidt*
1996 James Fleming*
1997 Frank Morris*
1998 Bert Sharp
1999 David R. Wells
2000 Earl Fosse*
2001 Walter Kopp*
2002 Larry Bivins
2003 Mike Race
2004 James Herrick
2005 Wesley Perkins
2006 William Church
2007 Russell Braun
2008 Ed Johnson
2009 Frank McGilvary
* Deceased