AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF FRENCH
NATIONAL OFFICERS OF THE AATF FROM 1927 TO THE PRESENT

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President Vice-Presidents Secretary-Treasurer
1927 Charles Downer
(1927-28)
A.G.H. Spiers
(1927-28)
Claudine Gray
(1927)
Raymond Weeks
(1927-28)
Edmond Méras (Secretary 1927-28) Simeon Klafter (Treasurer 1927-28)
1928 Bert Young
(1928)
1929 Bert Young
(1929-31)
L.J.A. Mercier
(1929-31)
Osmond Robert
(1929-30)
C.Z. Zdanowicz
(1929-31)
S.H. Bush
(1929-32)
1930
1931 D.H. Holzwarth
(1931)
1932 Emile de Sauzé
(1932)
Arthur Bovée
(1932-33)
Edmond Méras
(1932-33)
William Schwartz
(1932-33)
1933 Louis Mercier 
(1933-35)
James Tharp
(1933-41)
1934 (East) (West) (Central West) (South)
Arsène Croteau
(1934)
William Schwartz
(1934)
Frederick Cheydleur 
(1934-37)
Edmond de Jaive 
(1934-40)
1935 A.G.H. Spiers 
(1935)
Paul Faye
(1935)
1936 Lilly Linquist
(1936)
Edith Gartland
(1936-38)
Walter Kaulfers
(1936-38)
1937 A.G.H. Spiers
(1937)
1938 Frederick Cheydleur
(1938)
Harry Kurz
(1938)
1939 Casimir Zdanowicz
(1939)
Josephine Holt
(1939-40)
Alexander Fite
(1939-40)
Edwin Place
(1939-40)
1940 Stephen Freeman
(1940-43)
1941 Leon Irvin
(1941-43)
1942 George Watts
(1942-62)
1943
1944 Casimir Zdanowicz
(1944-45)
Jacques Fernaud
(1944-45)
1945
1946 Jacques Fernaud
(1946-47)
Joseph Carrière
(1946-47)
1947
1948 Joseph Carrière
(1948-49)
William Locke
(1948-49)
1949
1950 Julian Harris
(1950-53)
C. Maxwell Lancaster
(1950-51)
1951
1952 Daniel Girard
(1952-55)
1953
1954 Henri Peyre
(1954-59)
1955
1956 Howard Nostrand
(1956-59)
Marie-Antoinette Martin
(1956-57)
1957
1958 Mary Thompson
(1958-60)
1959
1960 Howard Nostrand
(1960-61)
Jacques Hardré
(1960-61)
1961 A. Virginia Caldwell
(1961-62)
1962 Jacques Hardré
(1962-65)
Lawrence Wylie 
(1962)
1963 Bruce Gordon
(1963)
Paul Glaude
(1963-64)
J. Henry Owens
(1963-68)
1964 James Grew
(1964-66)
1965 David Dougherty
(1965)
1966 David Dougherty
(1966-69)
Leona Glenn
(1966-67)
1967 William Felt
(1967-69)
1968 Reuben Ellison 
(1968-69)
Anna Balakian
(1968-70)
1969 Evelyn Vandiver
(1969-71)
Change to Executive Secretary
F.W. Nachtmann
(1969-79)
1970 J. Henry Owens
(1970-71)
James Grew (1970-72)
1971 Edouard Morot-Sir
(1971-75)
1972 Douglas Alden
(1972-75)
Anne Slack
(1972-75)
1973 Jean-Charles Seigneuret
(1973-78)
1974
1975
1976 Anne Slack
(1976-79)
Georges Joyaux
(1976-78)
Dorothy Brodin
(1976-79)
1977
1978
1979 Jean Carduner
(1979-82)
Philip Stewart
(1979-84)
Fred Jenkins
(1979-97)

 

Change to Executive Director

1980 Georges Joyaux
(1980-82)
Rebecca Valette
(1980-85)
1981
1982
1983 Jean Carduner
(1983-85)
Helen Cummings
(1983-86)
1984
1985 Ann Tukey Harrison
(1985-90)
1986 Philip Stewart
(1986-88)
Patricia Cummins
(1986-91)
1987 Josette Smith
(1987-89)
1988
1989 Stirling Haig
(1989-91)
1990 Margot Steinhart
(1990-95)
1991 Albert Valdman
(1991-93)
1992 Rebecca Valette
(1992-94)
Michele Shockey
(1992-97)
1993
1994 Gladys Lipton
(1994-96)
1995 Albert Valdman
(1995-97)
1996 Bernard Petit
(1996-98)
1997 Jean-Pierre Piriou
(1997-99)
Jayne Abrate
(1997-)
1998 Gladys Lipton
(1998-2000)
Jacqueline Donnelly
(1998-99)
1999 Marie-Christine Koop
(1999-2001)
2000 Brenda Benzin
(2000-05)
Judith Johannessen
(1999-2000)
2001 Jean-Pierre Piriou 
(2001-03)
Margaret Marshall
(2001-03)
2002 Éliane Kurbegov (2002-04)
2003
2004 Margot M. Steinhart (2004-06) Robert Peckham (2004-06)
2005 Barbara Ransford (2005-07)
2006 William Thompson (2006-2011)
2007 Marie-Christine Koop (2007-09) Ann Sunderland (2007-08)
2008 Sister Mary Helen Kashuba (2008-2010)
2009 Steven Daniell (2009-2012)
2010 Ann Sunderland (2010-12)
2011 Madeline Turan (2010-13)
2012 Jane Romer (2012-14
2013 Mary Helen Kashuba, SSJ
(2013-15)
2014  
2015      

Honorary Presidents (discontinued in 1936)
John H. Finley (1927-31)
William R. Price (1932-35)

Honorary Vice-Presidents (discontinued in 1939)
Frederick Starr (1927-36)
Paul Van Dyke (1927-32)
Daniel Mornet (1932-37)
Paul Hazard (1932-35)
F. Baldensperger (1935-38)
Stephen Bush (1936-38)
Georges Ascoli (1937-38)

Created: October 26, 2001
Last update: January 6, 2012