OURPROUDHERITAGE
NAEYC Presidents and Executive Directors
Founder / Committee Chairs
1925 Patty Smith Hill Convener and Temporary Chair of Committee on Nursery Schools
1926 – 1929 Lois Hayden Meek Stolz Chair, National Committee on Nursery Schools
Presidents of the National Association for Nursery Education( NANE)
1929 – 1931 Lois Hayden Meek Stolz 1945 – 1947 James L. Hymes Jr.
1931 – 1933 George Dinsmore Stoddard 1947 – 1951 Frances Horwich
1933 – 1935 Mary Dabney Davis 1952 – 1953 Millie Almy
1935 – 1937 Ruth Andrus 1954 – 1955 Harriet Nash
1937 – 1939 Ruth Updegraff 1956 – 1958 Theodora Buckland Reeve
1939 – 1941 Grace Langdon 1959 – 1960 Edna Mohr
1941 – 1943 Amy Hostler 1961 – 1962 Glenn Rogers Hawkes
1943 – 1945 N. Searle Light
Presidents of NAEYC
1963 – 1966
Ralph Leo Witherspoon( NANE and NAEYC)
1980 – 1982 Barbara T. Bowman
1967 – 1970 Eveline Beaver Omwake 1982 – 1984 Bettye McDonald Caldwell
1970 – 1974 Evangeline H. Ward 1984 – 1986 Docia Zavitkovsky
1974 – 1976 David Bruce Gardner 1986 – 1988 David Elkind
1976 – 1978 Bernard Spodek 1988 – 1990 Ellen Galinsky
1978 – 1980 Jan McCarthy 1990 – 1992 Lana L. Hostetler
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