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Past OSA Presidents


Year	Name	Year	Name
2007	Joseph H. Eberly	1971	Bruce H. Billings
2006	Eric Van Stryland	1970	W. Lewis Hyde
2005	Susan Houde-Walter	1969	Karl G. Kessler
2004	Peter L. Knight	1968	Arthur F. Turner
2003	G. Michael Morris	1967	John A. Sanderson
2002	Anthony M. Johnson	1966	Van Zandt Williams
2001	Richard C. Powell	1965	Seibert Q. Duntley
2000	Erich P. Ippen	1964	Richard C. Lord
1999	Anthony E. Siegman	1963	Stanley S. Ballard
1998	Gary C. Bjorklund	1962	David L. MacAdam
1997	Janet S. Fender	1961	Wallace R. Brode
1996	Duncan T. Moore	1960	James G. Baker
1995	Tingye Li	1959	John D. Strong
1994	Robert L. Byer	1958	Irvine C. Gardner
1993	Elsa M. Garmire	1955-1957	Ralph A. Sawyer
1992	Joseph W. Goodman	1953-1954	Deane B. Judd
1991	John N. Howard	1951-1952	Brian O'Brien
1990	Richard L. Abrams	1949-1950	William F. Meggers
1989	Herwig Kogelnik	1947-1948	Rudolf Kingslake
1988	William B. Bridges	1945-1946	George R. Harrison
1987	Robert G. Greenler	1943-1944	August H. Pfund
1986	Jean M. Bennett	1941-1942	Archie G. Worthing
1985	Robert R. Shannon	1939-1940	Kasson S. Gibson
1984	Donald R. Herriott	1937-1938	Roswell Clifton Gibbs
1983	Kenneth M. Baird	1935-1936	Arthur C. Hardy
1982	Robert P. Madden	1933-1934	Wilbur B. Rayton
1981	Anthony J. DeMaria	1932	Eugene C. Crittenden
1980	Warren J. Smith	1930-1931	Loyd A. Jones
1979	Dudley Williams	1928-1929	Irwin G. Priest
1978	Emil Wolf	1926-1927	William E. Forsythe
1977	Peter Franken	1924-1925	Herbert E. Ives
1976	Boris P. Stoicheff	1922-1923	Leonard T. Troland
1975	Arthur L. Schawlow	1921	James P. C. Southall
1974	F. Dow Smith	1920	Floyd K. Richtmyer
1973	Robert E. Hopkins	1918-1919	Fred E. Wright
1972	Aden B. Meinel	1916-1917	Perley G. Nutting