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Past Presidents

The NSDKC Past Presidents have met annually for many years to extend a warm welcome, support, and encouragement to our incoming President. We meet at the River Club in downtown Kansas City overlooking the Missouri River. Our picture is taken in front of the spectacular Thomas Hart Benton painting, Trading at Westport Landing, inside the River Club. Westport Landing is located very close to the River Club, just north down the hill. It is where Kansas City started in 1838, then called the town of Kansas.


2023 Annual Past Presidents Luncheon

Seated (Left sofa front to back) Norm Besheer (2011), John Hess, Jr. (2016), John Hess, Sr. (2002). (Right sofa front to back) A. J. Cameron (1990), Whitney Kerr (our host), Steve Noll (2018). Standing (left to right) Ross Marshall (2014), John Dillingham (2003),Linn Mills (2021), John Dunnewind (2022), Christy Chester (2024 President Elect), Diane Boos Pickman (2017), Nancy Elder (2019), Ray Elder (2023), Gary Hicks (2010).

2022 Annual Past Presidents Luncheon

Standing (l-r) Steve Noll (2018), Dan Creasy (2005), Nancy Elder (2019), A. J. Cameron (1990), Linn Mills (2021), Ray Elder (2023), John Mura (1986), Diane Boos Pickman (2017), Dan Sturdevant (2009), Gary Hicks (2010), Whitney Kerr (our host). Seated (l-r) John Dunnewind (Acting President after President Karl Roscoe passed away last summer), Norm Besheer (2011), John Dillingham (2003), John Hess, Jr. (2016), John Hess, Sr. (2002) and Joe H. Vaughan, Jr. (1998). (Ross Marshall (2014) took the picture)

2021 Annual Past Presidents Luncheon

From the Left: Ross Marshall (2014), John Hess Jr. (2016), John Hess, Sr. (2002), John Dillingham (2003), Gary Hicks (2010), Nancy Elder (2019), incoming 2022 President Karl Roscoe, Linn Mills (2021), Steve Noll (2018), Joe Vaughan, (1998), A. J. Cameron (1990), Diane Boos Pickman (2017) and Dan Creasy (2005)

2020 Annual Past Presidents Luncheon

Standing (left to right) are John Hess, Jr. (2016), Nancy Elder (2019), incoming 2021 President Linn Mills, Joe Vaughan (1998) and Gary Hicks (2010).  Seated clockwise from left are Host Whitney Kerr, Steve Noll (2018), Norm Besheer (2011), Carl DiCapo (2015) and Ross Marshall (2014).  We usually have several more in attendance, but this was the COVID-19 year!

2019 Annual Past Presidents Luncheon

Seated left to right: John Hess, Jr., John Hess, Sr., Norman Besheer, Steve Noll, Whitney Kerr (Luncheon Host),
Carl DiCapo. Standing left to right: Ross Marshall, Dan Creasy, Jim Bernard, Diane Boos Pickman, Ted Seligson,
Richard Retrum (Incoming President), Nancy Elder, John Dillingham, Gary Hicks, Joe Vaughan.

2018 Annual Past Presidents Luncheon

Seated Left to Right: Whitney Kerr (Our host for the luncheon), Carl DiCapo,
Norman Besheer, Dan Sturdevant, Diane Boos Pickman, Dan Creasy,
Standing Left to Right: Ross Marshall, John Hess, Sr., John Hess, Jr.,
John Dillingham, Ted Seligson, Steve Noll, Nancy Elder, Chuck Eddy,
A J Cameron, Gary Hicks, Joe Vaughan, Jim Bernard

2017 Annual Past Presidents Luncheon

Seated Left to Right: Whitney Kerr (Our host for the luncheon), Gary Hicks,
Norman Besheer, Dan Creasy, Joe Vaughn, Howard Hendricks
Standing Left to Right: Ross Marshall, Dan Sturdevant, Dorothy "Dot" Benner,
John Dillingham, Ted Seligson, Steve Noll, Diane Boos Pepper, Chuck Eddy,
John Hess, Jr., John Hess, Sr., Carl DiCapo

Past Presidents
*Deceased
 

2023
Ray Elder

2022
*Karl Roscoe
John Dunnewind

2021
Linn Mills

2020
*Richard Retrum

2019
Nancy Elder

2018
Steve Noll

2017
Diane Boos Pickman

2016
John F. Hess, Jr.

2015
*Carl J. DiCapo

2014
Ross Marshall

2013
*Charles A. Eddy

2012
Dorothy “Dot” Benner

2011
Norman O. Besheer

2010
Gary L. Hicks

2009
Dan C.D. Sturdevant

2008
*Thomas E. Sims

2007
Eileen S. Sullivan

2006
*Bill Cross

2005
J. Dan Creasy

2004
Jim Bernard, Jr.

2003
John A. Dillingham

2002
John F. Hess, Sr.

2001
Ray S. James

2000
*Bruce C. Pennington

1999
*William ‘Dick’ Fickle

1998
Joe H. Vaughan, Jr.

1997
*Thomas J. Skates

1996
Robert A. Millard


 

1995
*Robert W. Berrey III

1994
*Eugene R. Shores

1993
*Dale Helmers

1992
Steven H. Goodman

1991
*Roy C. Ranck

1990
A.J. Cameron

1989
*Theodore Seligson

1988
Howard K. Hendricks, Jr.

1987
*Donald L. Erie

1986
John A. Mura

1985
*Patrick L. Hughes

1984
*Harley Wyatt, Jr.

1983
*John J. Foster

1982
*Arthur H. Bowen

1981
*Leroy E. Campbell

1980
*Don M. Jackson

1979
*Glen L. Whitaker

1978
*George E. Hicks

1977
*Richard M. Ong

1976
Henry F. McElroy

1975
*L. Goodman Simonds

1974
*Ralph C. Hedges

1973
*Robert A. Closser

 

1972
*Sanford W. Stuck

1971
*Paul L. Kartsonis

1970
*Robert S. O’Keefe

1969
*Howard H. Hayden

1968
*William M. Frick

1967
*Woodford C. Taylor

1966
*Paul S. McGinnis

1965
*Bert M. Hall, Jr.

1964
*Charles E. Waldron

1963
*Sterrett S. Titus

1962
*John J. Doohan

1961
*Charles F. Rouse

1960
*Norton Adler

1959
*Samuel P. Quarles

1958
*Lyle B. Cooke

1957
*Samuel J. Callahan

1956
*William G. Austin

1955
*Edward C. Wright, Jr.

1954
*Francis G. Foster

1953
*Thomas J. Gavin

1953
*Ward C. Gifford

1952
*Donald H. Latshaw

1951
*Searcy Ridge

1950
*Paul H. Baker

1949
*Dr. George E. Halley

1948
*William L. McPherrin

1947
*Francis ‘Brick’ Wornall

1946
*George Fuller Green

1945
*Webster Withers, Jr.

1944
*E.B. Garnett

1944
*J.F. O’Sullivan

1943
*Cornelius Murphy, Jr.

1942
*Herman H. Kube

1942
*Byron R. Cecil

1941
*Arthur T. Brink

1940
*Flavel Robertson

1939
*Flournoy Quest

1938
*Herman L. Traber

1937
*Samuel A. Dew

1936
*Pierre R. Porter

1935
*Baron J. Fradenburg

1934
*William O. Thomas

1933
*John T. Opie

1933
*A. Standford Lyon

1932
* D. Ralston Spalding


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