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Past Presidents

Leaders Through the Years!

Since PPA’s founding, the leadership of many men and women has helped shape the destiny of our organization and pave the way for our future. PPA is grateful to each individual for this guidance and we encourage others to become involved in their professional association and follow in their footsteps.

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Past Presidents at the 2018 Annual Conference

Seated, left to right: Coleen Kayden, RPh; Bill Ferri, RPh; Donna Hazel, RPh;

Sharon Abayasekara, RPh; Michele Musheno, RPh

Standing, left to right: Dan Hussar, PhD; Richard Centafont, RPh; Eric Pusey, RPh; Rob Frankil, RPh; J. Scott Himler, RPh, David Smith, RPh; Ed Bechtel, RPh; Eric Esterbrook RPh;

Nick Leon, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP; Gregory Shaeffer, RPh

2020 Decade Presidents

Christopher Antypas 2024

Patrick Lavella 2022-2023

Thomas Franko 2021-2022

Charles Kray 2020-2021

2010 Decade Presidents

Richard Demers 2019-2020

Lauren Simko 2018-2019

Nicholas Leon 2017-2018

Eric Pusey 2016-2017

Donna Hazel 2015-2016

Eric Esterbrook 2014-2015

Joseph Scott Miskovsky 2013-2014

Rob Frankil, 2012-2013

Adam Welch 2011-2012

Mark Rabinowitz 2010-2011

2000 Decade Presidents

Sherri Lee 2009-2010

Gregory Shaeffer 2008-2009

Sharon Abayasekara 2007-2008

Michele C. Musheno 2006-2007

George Haynes 2005-2006

Bruce Sigman 2004-2005

Scott Himler 2003-2004

Coleen M. Kayden 2002-2003

David M. Smith 2001-2002

Robert W. Piavis 2000-2001

1990 Decade Presidents

David W. Leach 1999-2000

Theresa Talbott 1998-1999

Richard A. Centafont 1997-1998

Edward J. Bechtel 1996-1997

William T. Ferri 1995-1996

Joseph P. Lech 1993-1994

Ida May Englehart 1992-1993

William R. Seitzinger 1991-1992/1994-1995

Eugene A. Schwartz 1990-1991

Paul Zanowiak 1989-1990

1980 Decade Presidents

John P. Mariani 1988-1989

Ronald M. Daugherty 1987-1988

William L. Greene 1986-1987

Ronald S. Nighswander 1985-1986

Robert V. Stanek 1984-1985

Sidney H. Brown 1983-1984

John E. Gillespie 1982-1983

Pauline R. Montgomery 1981-1982

Richard T. Englehart 1980-1981

Alan J. Vogenberg 1979-1980

1970 Decade Presidents

Charles D. Ditchfield 1978-1979

Irwin Reich 1977-1978

David M. King 1976-1977

Daniel A. Hussar 1975-1976

George S. Maggio 1974-1975

Carmen A. DiCello 1973-1974

David P. Rosenfield 1972-1973

LaRue Lunger 1971-1972

James B. Leedy 1970-1971

Charles L. Sellars 1969-1970

1960 Decade Presidents

Philip Seltzer 1968-1969

Reynold R. Clouse 1967-1968

Bernard J. Schiller 1966-1967

Henry E. G. Burhenn 1965-1966

Roger H. Shultz 1964-1965

Webster B. Canning, Sr. 1963-1964

Edwin S. Roswe, Jr. 1962-1963

Lester S. Saylor 1961-1962

Frank C. Falchek 1960-1961

Joseph F. Palchak 1959-1960

1950 Decade Presidents

Edward W. Hall 1958-1959

John M. Wyble 1957-1958

Otto L. Koenigh, JR. 1956-1957

William H. Whitman 1955-1956

John P. Kely 1954-1955

Daniel L. Wertz 1953-1954

Richard M. Bitner 1952-1953

Michael Pachuta 1951-1952

Ray T. Peffer 1950-1951

1940 Decade Presidents

L. A. Heckler 1949-1950

Willard Allen 1948-1949

S. B. Alloway 1947-1948

John Deans 1946-1947

Martin Bambrick 1944-1946

George L. McMillin 1943-1944

W. Thomas Senseman, Jr. 1942-1943

John J. Hughes 1941-1942

L. Gilbert Rhoads 1940-1941

1930 Decade Presidents

Preston A. Paul 1939-1940

Nathan Zonies 1938-1939

George F. Young 1937-1938

Henry V. DeHaven 1936-1937

Harry E. Wertz 1935-1936

Frank P. Kelly 1934-1935

Robert R. Gaw 1933-1934

John C. Walton 1932-1933

Henry Brown 1931-1932

C. Leonard O’Connell 1929-1931

1920 Decade Presidents

George O. Yohe 1928-1929

Wilbur B. Goodyear 1927-1928

Joseph W. England 1926-1927

George F. Lee 1925-1926

Ambrose Hunsberger 1924-1925

P. Henry Utech 1923-1924

H. J. Metzer 1922-1923

Josiah C. Peacock 1921-1922

W. J. Sturgeon 1920-1921

1910 Decade Presidents

Robert P. Fischelis 1919-1920

Charles R. Rhodes 1918-1919

W. H. Knoepfel 1917-1918

Adolph Schmidt 1916-1917

Theodore Campbell 1915-1916

Edgar F. Heffner, Sr. 1914-1915

Richard H. Lackey 1913-1914

Louis Saalbach 1912-1913

Joseph L. Lemberger 1911-1912

Charles H. LaWall 1910-1911

1900 Decade Presidents

John C. Wallace 1909-1910

Lucius L. Walton 1908-1909

Clement B. Lowe 1907-1908

George A. Gorgas 1906-1907

Daniel J. Thomas 1905-1906

Julius A. Koch 1904-1905

William O. Frailey 1903-1904

Charles L. Hay 1902-1903

William L. Cliffe 1901-1902

Samuel K. Hammond 1900-1901

1890 Decade Presidents

Charles N. Boyd 1899-1900

Mahlon N. Kline 1898-1899

Jacob H. Redsecker 1897-1898

Joseph P. Remington 1896-1897

Hugh N. Coxe 1895-1896

Willoughby H. Reed 1894-1895

William McIntyre 1893-1894

William H. McGarrah 1892-1893

John F. Patton 1891-1892

Jacob H. Stein 1890-1891

1880 Decade Presidents

John W. Miller 1889-1890

William Harris 1888-1889

William L. Tuner 1887-1888

James A. Myers 1886-1887

Charles T. George 1885-1886

Charles H. Cressler 1884-1885

Jesse B. Duble 1883-1884

Alonzo Robbins 1882-1883

George A. Kelly 1881-1882

George W. Kennedy 1880-1881

Charles A. Heinitsh 1878-1880

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