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AMA Boston History

The Boston Chapter of the American Marketing Association was formally founded, and has been continuously organized since October 3rd, 1940.  While the (national) American Marketing Association was founded on January 1st 1937 through the merger of the National Association of Marketing Teachers (NAMT) and the American Marketing Society (AMS), there is some information that Richard Ehrich may have been an earlier President in 1935, Richard may have been connected with the NAMT or AMS in some way.

Here is a list of the chapter Presidents and their year of office below, with notes on individual years:

PAST PRESIDENTS

 

YEAR NAME
1935-1936 Richard A Ehrich
1937, Jan 1st AMA Founded
1940-1941
Elden C Shoup
1941-1942 Ross M Cunningham
1942-1943
Geoffrey L Pippette
1943-1944 Ralph R Butler
1944-1945
Gerald B Tallman
1945-1946 Wilfred E Booth
1946-1947 William Applebaum
1947-1948 Bernard Gould
1948-1949 Donald L Megathlin
1949-1950 Robert W. Reynolds
1950-1951 Richard F Spears
1951-1952 John Bidwell
1952-1953 Shea Smith III
1953-1954 Edward C Bursk
1954-1955 Charles F Coles
1955-1956 Roswell G Eldridge
1956-1957 Marvin O Campbell
1957-1958 Charles H Dufton
1958-1959 Richard M Alt
1959-1960 Albert W Warren, Jr
1960-1961 Warren T Brookes
1961-1962 Charles A McQueeney, Jr
1962-1963 Thomas V Atwater
1963-1964 Bruce P Mattoon
1964-1965 Thayer Baldwin
1965-1966 Richard F Knerr
1966-1967 Stephen A Greyser
1967-1968 Jonathan M Keyes
1968-1969 Donald A Ocker
1969-1970 Denis B Trelewicz
1970-1971 Salvatore Russo
1971-1972 Sidney Gross
1972-1973 Jon D Humphreys
1973-1974 Robert F. Finnegan
1974-1975 Robert C MacVeigh
1975-1976
Barbara J Contardo
1976-1977 Larry Sochrin (resigned)
1976-1977 Anne T. Lawson (stepped in from Pres.Elect role)
1977-1978 J. Leonard Schatz
1978-1979 Alden G Clayton
1979-1980 Charles Comegys
1980-1981 Lawrence Gulko
1981-1982 William C Bliss
1982-1983
Mary Lou Roberts
1983-1984 Diane H Schmalensee
1984-1985 Arthur J Shane
1985-1986 Neal Keefe-Feldman
1986-1987 Jayne S Talmage
1987-1988 Nan Andrews Amish
1988-1989 Memo Diriker
1989-1990 Stephen D Gelineau
1990-1991 Joby John
1991-1992 Sally K Holmes
1992-1993 James F Dawson
1993-1994 Karen L Myers
1994-1995 Merrill B Dubrow
1995-1996 Judy Melanson
1996-1997 Lee Campbell
1997-1998 Suzanne B Wholly nee Levin
1998-1999 William R Felton
1999-2000 Kenneth H Raifman
2000-2001 Same As Above
2001-2002 Derek J Archambault
2002-2003 Nancy Soisson
2003-2004 Owen Jenkins
2004-2005
Josh Mendelsohn
2005-2006John Cass
2006-2007
Steve Halling
2007-2008
Steve Halling

If you know more about the early history of the Boston AMA and would like to share your information with the rest of the chapter please contact us.

Thanks go to Shaquanna Philip, a student member of Emerson College for helping to compile some of the information for the chapter history page.

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