Geological Society of America - Past Presidents, Treasurers and Executive Directors

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GSA Past Treasurers and Executive Directors

† = deceased

Past Treasurers

1889-1891	Henry S. Williams†
1892-1906	Israel C. White†
1907-1917	William B. Clark†
1918-1944	Edward B. Mathews†
1945	Joseph T. Singewald Jr.† (Acting Treasurer)
1945-1948	William O. Hotchkiss†
1949-1963	J. Edward Hoffmeister†

1964-1972	Robert E. King†
1973-1976	August Goldstein Jr.
1977-1982	William B. Heroy Jr.
1983-1992	Robert L. Fuchs
1993-2001	David E. Dunn
2002-2006	John E. Costa
2006-	Robbie R. Gries

† = deceased

Past Executive Directors

Name	Incumbency	Official Title
John J. Stevenson†	1888–1890	Secretary
Herman L. Fairchild†	1891–1906	Secretary
Edmund O. Hovey†	1907–1922¹	Secretary
Charles P. Berkey†	1923–1940²	Secretary
Henry R. Aldrich	1941–1959³	Executive Secretary
Frederick Betz Jr†	1960-1961	Executive Director
Agnes Creagh	1962–1963	Executive Director
Joe Webb Peoples†	1962–1964	Secretary to Council⁴
Agnes Creagh	1965–1967	Secretary to Council⁴
Raymond C. Becker†	1964–1969	Executive Secretary
Edwin B. Eckel†	1970–1974	Executive Secretary
John C. Frye†	1974–1982	Executive Director
F. Michael Wahl	1982–1994	Executive Director
Donald M. Davidson Jr.	1994–1999	Executive Director
Sara S. Foland	1999–2001	Chief Executive Officer
David A. Stephenson	2001	Acting Executive Director
John W. Hess	2002–	Executive Director

¹ For most of 1915–1917, Charles P. Berkey was Acting Secretary while Hovey was on an ice-bound exploratory ship off Greenland.
² James F. Kemp was Acting Secretary during most of 1925 while Berkey was in Mongolia.
³ Aldrich was the first full-time salaried Secretary; he was also Editor-in-Chief from 1934 until his retirement February 28, 1960.
⁴ This position, with no management responsibilities, was necessary because the Bylaws required that the Secretary to the Council must be an elected Councilor.

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