Past Governors & Conventions

Decades

2020

2024-2025
Name: Kim Groom
2023-2024
Name: Tom Willis
2022-2023
Name: Dustin Morrison
2021-2022
Name: Angela Burford
2020-2021
Name: Mark Petersen

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

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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