Presidents of the Society YEAR ELECTED 1956 Origin of the Society 1957, 1958 Kenneth Boulding 1959, 1960, 1961 Charles McClelland 1962, 1963, 1964 W. Ross Ashby 1965 Anatol Rapoport 1966 Peter J. Caws 1967 John M. Milsum 1968 Milton Rubin 1969 Lawrence Slobodkin 1970 Bertram Gross 1971 Stafford Beer 1972 Margaret Mead 1973 James G. Miller 1974 Gordon Pask 1975 Kjell_Samuelson 1976 Heinz von Foerster 1977 Sir Geoffrey Vickers 1978 Richard F. Ericson 1979 Brian Gaines 1980 Robert Rosen 1981 George Klir 1982 John N. Warfield 1983 Karl Deutsch 1984 Bela H. Banathy 1985 John Dillon 1986 Peter B. Checkland 1987 Russell L. Ackoff 1988 Ilya Prigogine 1989 C. West Churchman 1990 Len R. Troncale 1991 Howard T. Odum 1992 Ian I. Mitroff 1993 Harold_A_Linstone 1994 J. Donald R. de Raadt 1995 Ervin Laszlo 1996 Yong Pil Rhee 1997 G. A. Swanson 1998 Bela A. Banathy 1999 Peter Corning 2000 Harold_G_Nelson 2001 Michael C. Jackson 2002 Aleco Christakis 2003 Kenneth D. Bailey 2004 Enrique Herrscher 2005 Debora Hammond 2006 Kyochi (Jim) Kijima 2007 Gary Metcalf 2008 Timothy F H Allen 2009 Allenna Leonard 2010 Jennifer Wilby 2011 David Ing 2012 Alexander Laszlo 2013 Gerald Midgley 2014 Ray Ison 2015 John Kineman 2016 Ockie Bosch 2017 David Rousseau 2018 Peter D. Tuddenham Biographies If you have memories of one (or more) of these luminaries, please contribute to our body of knowledge. Printer-friendly version