Presidents
According to the society's official website, the Presidents of the Society have included:
- Henry Hiz (1976)
- Eugen Baer (1977)
- Thomas G. Winner (1978)
- Max H. Fisch (1979)
- Allen Walker Read (1980)
- Richard Bauman (1981)
- Harley C. Shands (1982)
- Irmengard Rauch (1983)
- Thomas A. Sebeok (1984)
- Donald Preziosi (1985)
- Michael Riffaterre (1986)
- Naomi S. Baron (1987)
- Jonathan Culler (1988)
- Bennetta Jules-Rosette (1989)
- Robert Scholes (1990)
- Linda Waugh (1991)
- Nancy Armstrong (1992)
- (David Savan - died before taking office 1993)
- Michael Shapiro (1993)
- Richard Lanigan (1994)
- Eugen Baer (1995)
- Roberta Kevelson (1996)
- Myrdene Anderson (1997)
- Jean Umiker-Sebeok (1998)
- Floyd Merrell (1999)
- William Pencak (2000)
- John Deely (2001)
- Paul Perron (2002)
- Vincent Colapietro (2003)
- Cary William Spinks (2004–2005)
- Joseph Brent (2006)
- Nathan Houser (2007)
- Robert Hatten (2008)
- Thomas Broden (2009)
- John Coletta (2010)
- Frank Nuessel (2011)
- Isaac Catt (2012)
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)