Nickolaus Groh SOM’13, 2023-Present

Alexander Michaud DC‘17, 2022–2023

Brian D. Hoefling ES‘12, 2018–2022

Jennifer Madar SM‘88, 2015–2018

Rob Greenly SOM‘83, 2013–2015

Maria Lopez-Bresnahan SM‘78, 2011–2013

Glenn Murphy CC‘71, 2009–2011

Murray Wheeler, Jr. SY‘62, 2007–2009

Nabil El-Hage BK‘80, 2005–2007

Mary-Elise Connolly SM‘84, 2003–2005

Rich Bowen TC‘70, 2001–2003

Margaret Chen ES‘90, 1999–2001

Martin Padley ES‘64, 1996–1999

William H. Baker TD‘68, 1995–1996

Murray Wheeler, Jr. SY‘62, 1993–1995

Irving Levy ‘41, 1991–1993

Philip G. Boyle SY‘71, 1989–1991

Jon E. Steffensen MC‘68, 1987–1989

Linus Travers SM‘58 GRD‘59, 1984–1987

D. Patricia Nelson SPH‘46, 1983–1984

John C. Kane, Jr. PC‘67, 1981–1983

Richard C. Clay PC‘64, 1979–1981

Frederick W. Clapp ‘54, 1977–1979

Kenneth H. Burt ‘53, 1975–1977

Earle B. Kaufman ‘43, 1973–1975

Fredrick C. Rozelle, Jr. ‘48E, 1971–1973

William T. Glidden ‘44, 1969–1971

Ernest F. Stockwell, Jr. ‘45, 1967–1969

P. Stokes Gaither ‘29, 1966–1967

Alexander Ellis, Jr. ‘44, 1964–1966

Melville Chapin ‘40, 1962–1964

George Wells ‘29, 1960–1962

John L. Cooper ‘35, 1958–1960

Howard Gambrill, Jr. ‘29S, 1956–1958

Horace W. Cole ‘26, 1954–1956

David Livingston ‘35S, 1952–1954

Roger C. Damon ‘29, 1951–1952

James W. Moss ‘21S, 1950–1951

Samuel L. Gwin ‘30, 1949–1950

Nicholas W. Danforth ‘28, 1948–1949

Joseph T. Walker, Jr. ‘18, 1947–1948

George R. Blodgett ‘16, 1946–1947

Frederick McG. Bundy ‘21, 1944–1946

Harold D. Hodgkinson ‘12S, 1942–1944

Frederick H. Lovejoy ‘18, 1941–1942

Harvey H. Bundy ‘09, 1939–1941

Stuart C. Rand ‘09, 1936–1938

Charles F. Mills ‘09S, 1934–1936

John L. Hall ‘94, 1933–1934

William P. Graves ‘91, 1932–1933

Walter G. Resor ‘97, 1930–1932

Hon. Marcus Morton ‘83, 1929–1930

Rev. Ashley D. Leavitt ‘00, 1927–1929

Mortimer A. Seabury ‘09, 1925–1927

Alfred L. Ripley ‘78, 1924–1925

Willard B. Luther ‘02, 1922–1924

Richard P. Strong ‘93S, 1921–1922

Col. Dr. Harvey Cushing ‘91, 1920–1921

A Note from the Historian:

The Yale Club of Boston does not have a continuous, unbroken tradition of recording the names of its presidents. As a result, the foregoing list is compiled from several sources. A copy of the Boston Blue Book, published by the club in 1998, contains a list of the presidents going back to 1925, which remains consistent with the other sources we’ve been able to find as far back as 1947. In resolving inconsistencies among sources for earlier dates, we have favored the most contemporaneous materials. These include the Yale Club’s own paper archives from the 1940s and 1950s, and the collected papers of Yale University Presidents Kingman Brewster and Charles Seymour as well as those of Yale Club of Boston Presidents Howard Gambrill (who in 1957 compiled an invaluable list of former presidents still active in the club) and Harvey Cushing. These sources have together been sufficient to populate our list of presidents for the last hundred years. Our records are spottier between 1866 and 1920, further complicated by a period of coexistence between a Yale Alumni Association of Boston and a Yale Club of Boston; the two were merged in the early twentieth century, and the current organization encompasses them both.

Where known, we have included the residential college, graduate school, or professional school affiliation(s) of the presidents. An undergraduate affiliation may be assumed if not otherwise specified. A class year followed by the letter “S,” as in Howard Gambrill’s case, indicates a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School.

Among those whose residential colleges are known, Silliman is in the lead with four presidents to date, followed by Ezra Stiles with three. As far as we are aware, Branford and Jonathan Edwards remain unrepresented as of 2023, as do the newest colleges, Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin.

Pat Nelson SPH’46 has the twin distinctions of being the first woman to serve as president and the first president whose primary Yale affiliation was a graduate rather than an undergraduate degree.