The Michigan Reading Association appreciates the service of all its volunteer leaders, and especially our past-presidents. They include:

• 2022-2023: Dr. Leah van Belle
• 2021-2022: Mrs. Jill Erfourth
• 2020-2021: Mr. Colby Sharp
• 2019-2020: Dr. Theresa Hasenauer
• 2018-2019: Dr. Carol Ann Paul
• 2017-2018: Mrs. Elizabeth Gates
• 2016-2017: Dr. Sean Kottke
• 2015-2016: Dr. Lisa Rivard
• 2014-2015: Ms. Dee Halstead
• 2013-2014: Dr. Mary Howell
• 2012-2013: Dr. Grace Velchansky
• 2011-2012: Dr. Sue Ann Sharma
• 2010-2011: Ms. Kathleen Operhall
• 2009-2010: Dr. Patricia Gallant (deceased)
• 2008-2009: Ms. Lynn Bigelman
• 2007-2008: Dr. Julia Reynolds
• 2006-2007: Mr. Jeff Beal
• 2005-2006: Mrs. Cynthia Clingman
• 2004-2005: Dr. Deanna Birdyshaw
• 2002-2004: Dr. William J. Devers (deceased)
• 2001-2002: Ms. Laura Guzman
• 2000-2001: Dr. Karen White
• 1999-2000: Mr. Paul Booker
• 1998-1999: Dr. Leonie Rose
• 1997-1998: Mrs. Marlene Smith
• 1996-1997: Mrs. Jo-Ann Boepple (deceased)
• 1995-1996: Ms. Ann Laurimore
• 1994-1995: Mr. Lawrence R. DeVoogd
• 1993-1994: Ms. Marian Littman
• 1992-1993: Mr. Gregg M. Kurek
• 1991-1992: Ms. Annena Z. McCleskey
• 1990-1991: Mrs. Dee Hayes (deceased)
• 1989-1990: Mrs. Carolyn Jane Blough
• 1988-1989: Mrs. Jerri Hansen-Verhoeven
• 1987-1988: Mrs. Gwen O’Donnell Graham
• 1986-1987: Mrs. Betty Anne Rowlands
• 1985-1986: Mrs. Helen Johncock
• 1984-1985: Dr. Karen S. Urbschat
• 1983-1984: Dr. Nancy (Wiseman) Seminoff
• 1982-1983: Dr. Mary Bigler
• 1981-1982: Dr. Barbara Jacoby High
• 1980-1981: Mrs. Merri Warren
• 1979-1980: Dr. Carolyn Humphrey-Cummings (deceased)
• 1978-1979: Mrs. Marian Dygert Mongeau (deceased)
• 1977-1978: Mr. Clarence L. Brock (deceased)
• 1976-1977: Ms. Betty Childs Hilbert
• 1975-1976: Dr. Clarice Stafford
• 1974-1975: Ms. Sybil Michener
• 1973-1974: Dr. Anne D. Hughes (deceased)
• 1972-1973: Dr. Kenneth L. Carlson (deceased)
• 1971-1972: Ms. Beverly Chamberlain
• 1970-1971: Ms. Mary C. Crowley (deceased)
• 1969-1970: Dr. Eileen Denomme, IHM
• 1968-1969: Ms. Norma K. Conklin (deceased)
• 1967-1968: Dr. Dorothy J. McGinnis (deceased)
• 1966-1967: Dr. Diana Umstattd (deceased)
• 1965-1966: Sr. M. Bernetta Zietz (deceased)
• 1964-1965: Dr. William Durr (deceased)
• 1963-1964: Ms. Margaret Muir (deceased)
• 1962-1963: Professor Homer L.J. Carter (deceased)
• 1961-1962: Dr. Jean Hamilton (deceased)
• 1960-1961: Dr. Harry Hahn (deceased)
• 1959-1960: Dr. Elizabeth Drews (deceased)
• 1958-1959: Dr. Byron Van Roekel (deceased)
• 1957-1958: Dr. Gertrude Whipple (deceased)
• 1956-1957: Dr. Edgar L. DeForest (deceased)