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| The Melville Society Past Presidents |
The Society's president, a distinguished Melvillean not occupying any other society office, serves a one-year term and is a voting member of the Executive Committee. The following list extends back to the Melville Society's founding year, 1945.
Carolyn Karcher, 2008
Andrew Delanco, 2007
Gail Coffler, 2006
Edgar Dryden, 2005
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, 2004
Christopher Sten, 2003
Robert K. Wallace, 2002
Douglas Robillard, 2001
Thomas Farel Heffernan, 2000
Harrison Hayford, 1999
Sanford E. Marovitz, 1998
Elizabeth Schultz, 1997
Lea Bertani Vozar Newman, 1996
Stanton Garner, 1995
Marvin Fisher, 1994
H. Bruce Franklin, 1993
Harrison Hayford, 1992
Hershel Parker, 1991
Donald Yannella, 1990
Walter Bezanson, 1989
Joyce Sparer Adler, 1988
Jay Leyda, 1987
William B. Dillingham, 1986
John Seelye, 1985
Milton R. Stern, 1984
Warner Berthoff, 1983
G. Thomas Tanselle, 1982
Edward Rosenberry, 1981
Henry A. Murray, 1980
Walter D. Kring, 1979
Robert G. Newman, 1978
Lewis Mumford, 1977
Jay Leyda, 1976
Hennig Cohen, 1975
Robert Penn Warren, 1974
[none], 1973
Nathalia Wright, 1972
Leon Howard, 1971
Harrison Hayford, 1970
Howard P. Vincent, 1969
[no record], 1968
Walter Bezanson, 1967
Henry A. Murray, 1966
Merlin Bowen, 1965
Merlin Bowen (in absentia), 1964
William B. Stein, 1963
Merrill Davis (deceased), 1962
Richard H. Fogle (served 2 years), 1961
Tyrus Hillway, 1960
Lawrence Barrett, 1959
Wilson L. Heflin, 1958
Howard C. Horsford, 1957
Nathalia Wright, 1956
Harrison Hayford, 1955
Walter Bezanson, 1954
Merton M. Sealts, Jr., 1953
Willard Thorp, 1952
Howard P. Vincent, 1951
Elizabeth Foster, 1950
F. Barron Freeman, 1949
William Braswell, 1948
Luther S. Mansfield, 1947
Charles R. Anderson, 1946
[none], 1945