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Our Club's History
Past Presidents of
Rotary Club of Norfolk
1914-1915 ..................................................*T. Gray Coburn
1915-1916.................................................. *Robert Johnson
1916-1917 ..............................................*P. Morgan Fussell
1917-1918 ............................................*Al. Von Nyvenheim
1918-1919 ............... ...........................................*Moe Levy
1919-1920 .............................................*William S. Bensten
1920-1921............................................. *Alexander P. Grice
1921-1922................................................ *James A. Blainey
1922-1923 ....................................................*Frank S. Sager
1923-1924 .............................................*Robert S. Johnston
1924-1925 ................................................ *Frank W. Evans
1925-1926 ........................................................*S. H. Bright
1926-1927 .................................................. *Jacob Kraemer
1927-1928 .....................................................*Frank R. Ford
1928-1929.................................................. *J. Watts Martin
1929-1930 ...............................................*Winder R. Harris
1930-1931 ............................................. *Eugene L. Graves
1931-1932 ............................................... *Millard P. Doyle
1932-1933 ............................................... *Robert M. Davis
1933-1934 ............................................... *William McC. Paxton
1934-1935 .........................................*D. Hill Hollomon, Jr.
1935-1936 ..............................................*Elton D. Peterson
1936-1937 ............................................... *Alfred Anderson
1937-1938 ...........................................*James R. Peake, Sr.
1938-1939 .................................................*Joseph H. Baker
1939-1940 ............................................*William T. Monroe
1940-1941 ..............................................*W. Garland Jones
1941-1942 ...........................................*Edgar T. Henderson
1942-1943 .............................................. *Campbell Arnoux
1943-1944 ............................................ *George H. Bowers
1944-1945 ............................................. *L. Brooks Woody
1945-1946 .................................................. *Leslie E. Jones
1946-1947 ............................................. *E. T. Gresham, Sr.
1947-1948 ........................................... *Thomas J. Donovan
1948-1949 .............................................*C. Elmer Rudolphi
1949-1950 ..........................................*Gordon E. Campbell
1950-1951 ....................................... *J. Rives Worsham, Sr.
1951-1952............................................ *James R. Peake, Jr.
1952-1953............................................... *Robert A. Barnes
1953-1954 ...........................................*Charles B. Kello, Jr.
1954-1955 ..................................................*M. Kilgo Dixon
1955-1956 ................................................*William R. Maul
1956-1957 ....................................... *Beverly A. Armistead
1957-1958 .......................................... *Lewis W. Webb, Jr.
1958-1959 .........................................*George H. Burton, Jr.
1959-1960 .............................................*William G. Ashman
1960-1961 ................................................ *Henry B. Hunter
1961-1962 .............................................*R. Braxton Hill, Jr.
1962-1963 ..................................................*Ray P. Edwards
1963-1964 ................................................... *Jack H. Mason
1964-1965 .....................................*Webster M. Chandler, Jr.
1965-1966................................................* Charles E. Horton
1966-1967 ...................................................*Wells Gresham
1967-1968 ..........................................*D. Hill Hollomon, III
1968-1969................................................... Clyde F. Hill, Jr.
1969-1970...................................................* Rex A. Bradley
1970-1971 ...............................................R. Kenneth Weeks
1971-1972.....................................................*Louis W. Cross
1972-1973 ..............................................Jerome E. Adamson
1973-1974 ..........................................*Charles W. Anderson
1974-1975........................................... J. Walton Grandy, III
1975-1976 ............................................. *George B. Haycox
1976-1977.....................................................*Lewis Shulman
1977-1978 ...............................................*Joseph M. Norton
1978-1979..............................................* James W. Batcheler
1979-1980 ...............................................Kenneth F. Palmer
1980-1981 ...................................................* Albert L. Ayars
1981-1982 ....................................*Thom W. Henderson, Jr.
1982-1983..................................................... Terry A. Ritter
1983-1984 ............................................Charles E. Vogan, Jr.
1984-1985 ...................................................Robert A. Heely
1985-1986 ................................................Joseph P. New, Jr.
1986-1987.................................................. John C. Brangan
1987-1988 .....................................................James P. Baker
1988-1989 ..................................................Paul A. C. Sykes
1989-1990 ........................................... *George H. Curtis, III
1990-1991 .............................................. *Oscar W. Smith, Jr.
1991-1992 ......................................................Mark B. Shaw
1992-1993........................................................ John A. Lynn
1993-1994....................................................... Robert L. Ash
1994-1995............................................ Robert H. Powell III
1995-1996 ..................................*William P. Edmondson, Jr.
1996-1997 ............................................Linwood D. Beckner
1997-1998 ..............................................*Robert M. Latimer
1998-1999.............................................. *Theodore Baker, Jr.
1999-2000 ...............................................Richard M. Coradi
2000-2001 ..........................................*Morgan N.Trimyer, Jr.
2001-2002 ....................................................Kay A. Kemper
2002-2003............................................... John C. McLemore
2003-2004 ................................................Jeremy D. Starkey
2004-2005.................................................. James P. O'Brien
2005-2006................................................ Charles H. Spence
2006-2007 ...........................................A. Ray Pentecost, III
2007-2008 .......................................................John D. Scott
2008-2009...........................................W. Sheppard Miller, III
2009-2010.....................................................Julie A. Keesling
2010-2011.........................................................C. Ben Mason
2011-2012..........................................................John Padgett
2012-2013.........................................................Lisa Chandler
2013-2014............................................................Susan Donn
2014-2015........................................................Sigur Whitaker
2015-2016................................................Sally Kirby Hartman
2016-2017...........................................................Bryce Burton
2017-2018..........................................................Gary Boswick
2018-2019.........................................................Pamela Tubbs
2019-2020.......................................................Lorna Cochrane
2020-2021....................................................................Jim Kitz
2021-2022..................................................Michael Desplaines
* Deceased
District Governors From the Rotary Club of Norfolk
Frank W. Evans -- 1926-27
William McC. Paxton -- 1935-36
William R. Maul -- 1957-58
George H. Burton Jr. -- 1966-67
Ray P. Edwards -- 1974-75
Kenneth F. Palmer* -- 1989-90
Paul A.C. Sykes -- 1992-93
John D. Padgett -- 2017-2018
*Was a member of Rotary Club of Virginia Beach when serving as district governor but had led the Norfolk club as president in 1979-80.