Current & Past Chairs

The Club's volunteer chairs have helped sustain a Milwaukee Christmas giving tradition since 1917.

Generations of volunteer leaders have kept this Christmas tradition alive.

Read the recent chairs from 2020 onward and explore the historical year-by-year list of chairs from 1917 through 2019.

This leadership archive preserves names and spellings as published by the Club.

2027 — Courtney H Houfek

2026 — Zacree Houfek

2025 — Leah Davis

2024 — Steve Hoch & Leah Davis

2023 — Sam Morris

2022 — Charlie Wroblewski

2021 — Janine Kolbeck

2020 — Chrissy Wabiszewski

2019 — Sally Vliet

2018 — Daniel Vliet

2017 — Charles (Chuck) Boaman

2016 — Kurt Krueger

2015 — Kelley Seibel

2014 — Beth Giese

2013 — Joe Caruso

2012 — Rebecca Bieri

2011 — Jack Price

2010 — Melissa J. Utschig

2009 — Lorrette Russenberger

2008 — Bill Maxon

2007 — Ronald Clayton

2006 — Harvey Kurtz

2005 — Jim Jermain

2004 — John D. Williams

2003 — James T. Barry, III

2002 — Alex C. Chou

2001 — Julie Pedretti

2000 — Stephen H. Schneider

1999 — James Petersen

1998 — Kathryn Coates Buono

1997 — Roderick Holloway

1996 — William C. Ihlenfield, III

1995 — L. Richard Kinney

1994 — Paul W. Sweeney

1993 — Joseph C. Branch

1992 — Robert J. Frisch

1991 — Jay Lauck

1990 — Maurice P. Nielsen

1989 — Bruce G. Arnold

1988 — Peter T. Barry

1987 — George F. Roth

1986 — Jean A. McKey

1985 — James H. Welsch

1984 — Ronald C. Zingler

1983 — Glenway Maxon, III

1982 — William J. Kalmer

1981 — Daniel J. Minahan

1980 — Arvid R. Tillmar

1979 — Thomas O’Byrne

1978 — Frederick A. Muth

1977 — Bernard J. Westfahl

1976 — M.D. Hepburn

1975 — Merrit R. Hayes

1974 — Charles H. Herrick

1973 — Donald M. Gerlinger

1972 — John W. Dersde

1971 — John T. Seaman

1970 — Walter A. Carlson

1969 — Lauren E. Meyers

1968 — James E. Sweitzer

1967 — Douglas E. McKey

1966 — Roy E. Bellin

1965 — George W. Bollin

1964 — Harold W. Hibscher

1963 — Peter C. Friend

1962 — George Evans

1961 — Donald E. Porter

1960 — Jack P. Henry

1959 — Raymond W. Jones

1958 — Kenneth W. Jacobs, Jr.

1957 — Joseph R. Filacheck

1956 — Philip W. McCurdy

1955 — Wm. J. Sprarling

1954 — A.L. Merriman

1953 — H. Wingfield Richter

1952 — Burleigh E. Jacobs

1951 — Lawson Adams

1950 — William C. Messinger

1949 — William R. Pollock, Jr.

1948 — O.W. Carpenter

1947 — Robert L. Feind

1946 — William Sparling

1945 — Raymond F. Newman

1944 — Walter Steimke

1943 — W.B. Marshall

1942 — Philip Nolte

1941 — Joseph Tolan

1940 — G. Kenneth Viall

1939 — William H. Pryor

1938 — John E. Brennan

1937 — Clyde Fuller

1936 — Avery Sherry

1935 — Brinton Welser

1934 — Charles Ray McCallum

1933 — Mackey Wells

1932 — Brandlee Van Brunt

1931 — Mackey Wells

1930 — Donald L. Herrick

1929 — Stanely Stone

1928 — Richard M. Jones

1927 — Richard M. Jones

1926 — Anson Eldred

1925 — Anson Eldred

1924 — J. Tracy Hale

1923 — Charles Vogel

1922 — James Blake

1921 — George W. Smith

1920 — Douglas F. McKey

1919 — Douglas F. McKey

1918 — Douglas F. McKey

1917 — Douglas F. McKey