Past Commodores / Honorary
Past Commodores
1933 Hub E. Isaacks, Texas, USA*
1934 M.J. Davis, California, USA*
1935 A.H. Bosworth, Florida, USA*
1936 M.S.A. Reichner, New York, USA*
1937 Harry Lund, Wisconsin, USA*
1938 G.Q. McGown, Jr., Texas, USA*
1939 Taver Bayly, Florida, USA*
1940 H.R. Schuette, Wisconsin, USA*
1941 Perry Bass, Texas, USA*
1942-43 C.R. Miller, New York, USA*
1944 W.G. Green, Oklahoma, USA*
1945 George Becker, New York, USA*
1946 Charles Heinzerling, New York, USA*
1947-48 Donald R. Simonds, Massachusetts, USA*
1949 Harold Griffith, New York, USA*
1950 Roy T. Hurley, Connecticut, USA*
1951 John T. Hayward, Oklahoma, USA*
1952 Owen E. Duffy, Tennessee, USA*
1953 Carl Zimmerman, Ohio, USA*
1954 Ted A. Wells, Kansas, USA*
1955 Eddie Williams, Missouri, USA*
1956 Harold L. Gilreath, Georgia, USA*
1957 Terry Whittemore, Connecticut, USA*
1958 Fred Schenck, California, USA*
1959 Alan Levinson, Indiana, USA*
1960 Edward Garfield, New York, USA*
1961 F.V.G. Penman, England*
1962 Sam W. Norwood, Georgia, USA*
1963 Floyd E. Hughes, Jr., Iowa, USA*
1964-65 A.F. Hook, Indiana, USA*
1966-67 Basil Kelly, Bahamas*
1968-69 Robert Schaeffer, California, USA*
1970 Angel Riveras, Spain*
1971 William M. Kilpatrick, Oklahoma, USA*
1972 Richard L. Tillman, South Carolina, USA*
1973-74 Ralph M. Swanson, Massachusetts, USA*
1975 Stuart L. Griffing, Ohio, USA
1976 Svend Rantil, Sweden*
1977 Dan Williams, Tennessee, USA*
1978 Bruce Colyer, Florida, USA
1979 Flavio Caiuby, Brazil*
1980 Gonzalo E. Diaz, Sr., Florida, USA*
1981 Paul F. Festersen, Nebraska, USA*
1982 Arturo Delgado, Spain
1983 Douglas DeSouza, California, USA
1984 Eugene T. Tragus, Texas, USA*
1985 Roberto J. Salvat, Argentina*
1986-87 Wayne Soares, Bermuda
1988 Jerry Thompson, California, USA*
1989 Per Ole Holm, Finland
1990 Peter Fenner, Texas, USA
1991 R. Means Davis, Georgia, USA*
1992 Fujiya Matsumoto, Japan*
1993 Terry Timm, Michigan, USA
1994 Horacio Garcia Pastori, Uruguay*
1995 Jimmie Lowe, Bahamas
1996 Giorgio Brezich, Italy
1997 Gonzalo Diaz, Jr., Florida, USA
1998 Akibumi Shinoda, Japan
1999 Lee Griffith, Pennsylvania, USA
2000 Id Crook, Canada*
2001 Bertel Bojlesen, Brazil*
2002 Birger Jansen, Norway*
2003 Brainard Cooper, USA
2004 Jiro Yamamoto, Japan
2005 Henrique Motta, Brazil
2006-07 Robert Dunkley, Bahamas
2008-09 Pedro Garra, Uruguay
2010-11 Luis Pessanha, Portugal
2012-13 Don Bedford, USA
2014-15 Ricardo Lobato, Brazil
2016-17 Gweneth Crook, Canada
2018-19 Pietro Fantoni, Italy
2020-22 Luis Soubie. Argentina
2023-24 Zbigniew Rakocy, Poland
*Deceased
Honorary Vice-Commodores
Fred Rochat, Geneva, Switzerland*
Per Skjonberg, Oslo, Norway
Dr. Antonio de Meneses, Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Antonio Ruiz Martinez, Spain
Jose Maria Lasaosa-Dilla, Spain
Jayme Teixeira Leite, Brazil
Natalie Galeppini, Italy
Dr. Michael LePivert, France
Leopoldo Geyer, Brazil*
Fernando de Avellar, Brazil
Reginald Tucker, Bermuda*
Count of Caria, Portugal*
Stephen W. Taylor, Oklahoma, USA*
Arch Higman, California*
Francis Seavy, Florida*
Katsumi Hirata, Japan*
Carlos Bosch, Bermuda*
Erling Olsen, Denmark*
Charles “Chuck” Loomis, Massachusetts*
Jan Persson, Denmark
John Broughton, United Kingdom*
Hisano Kato, Japan
Francisco Gines Perez Lopez, Spain*
Pepe Perez Morales, Spain