Past Governors

Decades

2020

2024-2025
Name: Kim Groom
Club: Aurora
Theme: Growing Together
2023-2024
Name: Tom Willis
Club: Addison
Theme: Make A Difference
2022-2023
Name: Dustin Morrison
Club: Collinsville Sunrise
2021-2022
Name: Angela Burford
Club: Kewanee
Theme: Essential Pieces of the Kiwanis Family
2020-2021
Name: Mark Petersen
Club: Moline
Theme: Kids Need Kiwanis

2010

2019-2020
Name: Charles Smith
2018-2019
Name: Alan Arbuckle
2017-2018
Name: Terry Cunefare
2016-2017
Name: Richard Poulton
2015-2016
Name: Penelope Linneweh
2014-2015
Name: Albert Dooley
2013-2014
Name: Patricia Heath
2012-2013
Name: John Moreland
2011-2012
Name: John Vanderheyden
2010-2011
Name: Larry Forsberg
Theme: Good for you, good for me, great for our community

2000

2009-2010
Name: Kevin McConnell
2008-2009
Name: Gary Heath
2007-2008
Name: Judy Sunderland
2006-2007
Name: Kenneth Whitmore
2005-2006
Name: Amron Buchanan
2004-2005
Name: John Hall
2003-2004
Name: Lawrence Spone
2002-2003
Name: Mary Manning
2001-2002
Name: James Rochford
2000-2001
Name: Rae Rupp-Srch

1990

1999-2000
Name: Jeffrey Wallace
1998-1999
Name: John Curielli
1997-1998
Name: William Piper
1996-1997
Name: James Hall
1995-1996
Name: Richard Srch
1994-1995
Name: Paul Palazzolo
1993-1994
Name: William Milligan
1992-1993
Name: Brian Cunat
1991-1992
Name: B Nordberg
1990-1991
Name: James Reed

1980

1989-1990
Name: Patrick Nelson
1988-1989
Name: Robert Evans
1987-1988
Name: Robert Wegner
1986-1987
Name: Larry Kuppler
1985-1986
Name: Alfred Provasi
1983-1984
Name: John Sundberg
1982-1983
Name: Leo Cardelli
1981-1982
Name: Charles Edwards
1980-1981
Name: James Renz

1970

1978-1979
Name: Robert Sinn
1977-1978
Name: Don Miller
1976-1977
Name: Arthur Renier
1975-1976
Name: Robert Reed
1972-1973
Name: T Trogdon

1960

1969
Name: Verle Dollahan
1968
Name: Elmore Knaack
1965
Name: Thomas Hill
1964
Name: Roy Davis

1950

1957
Name: George Fischer
1950
Name: Cecil L. Morris
Club: Springfield Downtown
Slogan: Eternal Vigilance – Protect Our Freedom

1940

1949
Name: Lawrence Spuller
Club: Ravenswood
Slogan: Preserve Individual Freedom
1948
Name: James D. Carpenter
Club: Dubuque, IA
Slogan: Active Citizenship and Unselfish Service
1947
Name: Hugh I. Conn, M.D.
Club: Newman
Slogan: Vitalize Our Freedoms
1946
Name: Marion G. Kudlick
Club: Northwest Town
Slogan: Emphasize Our Freedom of Opportunity
1945
Name: J. Walker Foraker
Club: Harvey
Slogan: Service to Others
1944
Name: J. Louis Fifer
Club: Joliet
Slogan: Action
1943
Name: Harry C. Fulks
Club: Peoria
Slogan: In Peace of War, Kiwanis Service
1942
Name: Donald T. Forsythe
Club: Carthage
Slogan: Follow Thru in ’42
1941
Name: Harry S. Himmel
Club: Southtown
Slogan: Get it Done in ’41
1940
Name: Horace Batchelor, DD
Club: Mattoon
Slogan: Meet Today’s Challenge

1930

1939
Name: C. Paul White, MD
Club: Kewanee
Slogan: Fellowship for Leadership in Citizenship
1938
Name: Clarence L. Valentine
Club: Aurora
Slogan: Let’s Continue to go Forward
1937
Name: Jacob W. Myers
Club: Harrisburg
Slogan: Forward in Kiwanis
1936
Name: Raymond S. Blunt, Sr.
Club: Southtown
Slogan: Be Loyal
1935
Name: Corwine E. Roach
Club: Springfield Downtown
Slogan: Sell Kiwanis
1934
Name: George H. Alfs
Club: Burlington, IA
Slogan: Our Aim – Better Citizenship
1933
Name: George W. Fleming
Club: Hyde Park
Slogan: Fellowship, Faith, Vision and Service
1932
Name: George B. Franks
Club: Champaign/Urbana
Slogan: I Can’t, You Can’t, We Can
1931
Name: Henry A. Domeyer
Club: Lakeview
Slogan: Let’s Personalize Our Kiwanis
1930
Name: A. Copeland Callen
Club: Champaign/Urbana
Slogan: Count on Me

1920

1929
Name: Richard N. Howes
Club: Clinton, IA
Slogan: Come Back to Kiwanis
1928
Name: Kaywin Kennedy
Club: Bloomington
Slogan: Individual Responsibility
1927
Name: Frank P. Hammond, MD
Club: Southeast Area
Slogan: Education + Efficiency = Success
1926
Name: Nic LeGrand
Club: Rock Island
Slogan: Every Club a Major Community Objective
1925
Name: Horace W. McDavid
Club: Decatur
Motto: Every Club Functioning
1923-24
Name: Daniel S. Wentworth
Club: Chicago
Motto: Every Member Co-operating
1922
Name: George A. Scurtleff
Club: Peoria
Motto: No Slogans Were Adopted Until 1923
1920-21
Name: Victor M. Johnson
Club: Rockford
Motto: No Slogans Were Adopted Until 1923
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Feeding people matters What we do matters!! Illinois Eastern Iowa District Convention 2025 is in full swing! Day one was a service project with River Bend Food Pantry. Why? Because doing stuff that matters is what we are all about. Serving others in our hometown, our county, our state, our country or our world, we are feeding all of our children.Image attachmentImage attachment+3Image attachment

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7.19.25 Kiwanis Club of Aurora hosted its 3rd annual Pickleball Charity event. A huge THANK YOU to Picklr of Wheaton for the last minute change to indoor use of their facility due to inclement weather! Another successful year filled with fun, healthy competition and the hard work of the Aurora pickleball community, our Kiwanis club of Aurora members and sponsors to make it a wonderful event! Thank you to my LT Gov from Div 12, Nick Connell, for coming out to witness the workings of it all! He even won a couple raffles🥳💙All money raised benefits the children in our community and our district Kiwanis Neuroscience Research Foundation.Image attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment

7.19.25 Kiwanis Club of Aurora hosted its 3rd annual Pickleball Charity event. A huge THANK YOU to Picklr of Wheaton for the last minute change to indoor use of their facility due to inclement weather! Another successful year filled with fun, healthy competition and the hard work of the Aurora pickleball community, our Kiwanis club of Aurora members and sponsors to make it a wonderful event! Thank you to my LT Gov from Div 12, Nick Connell, for coming out to witness the workings of it all! He even won a couple raffles🥳💙All money raised benefits the children in our community and our district Kiwanis Neuroscience Research Foundation. ... See MoreSee Less

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