Honorary Chair Sir Edmund Hillary 1919-2008	President Daniel A. Bennett	Honorary President Don Walsh, Ph.D.

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ABOUT THE CLUB History Club presidents, 1905 to present Beginning with the appointment of A. W. Greely as its first president, the Club's Board of Directors appoints a new president, or reappoints the incumbent, at its Annual General Meeting. Select a president's name to view a portrait photograph. Adolphus W. Greely 1905-1906 Frederick A. Cook 1907-1908 Robert E. Peary 1909-1911 David L. Brainard 1912-1913 Robert E. Peary 1913-1916 Carl E. Akeley 1917-1918 Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1919-1922 George C. Heye 1922-1925 James B. Ford 1926-1927 George C. Heye 1928-1930 Roy Chapman Andrews 1931-1934 Walter Granger 1935-1937 Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1937-1939 Herbert J. Spinden 1940-1943 Alexander Wetmore 1944-1946 Clyde Fisher 1947-1948 James P. Chapin 1949-1950 John Tee-Van 1951-1952 Edward M. Weyer Jr. 1953-1954 Serge A. Korff 1955-1958 Charles B. Hitchcock 1959-1961 John C. Pallister 1962-1963 Serge A. Korff 1963-1965 Edward C. Sweeney 1966-1967 Walter A. Wood 1967-1971 Hobart M. Van Deusen 1972-1973 Russell H. Gurnee 1974-1975 E. Lovell Becker 1976 Virgil Kauffman 1977-1978 Charles F. Brush 1978-1981 George Van B. Cochran 1981-1985 John M. Levinson 1985-1987 John C. D. Bruno 1987-1989 Nicholas Sullivan 1989-1991 David H. Swanson 1991-1993 John Loret 1993-1996 Alfred Scott McLaren 1996-2000 Faanya L. Rose 2000-2002 Richard C. Wiese 2002-2006 Daniel A. Bennett 2006-present

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