(..includes direct-forerunner organizations of the PSO)
1924-27 |
John S. Morris (PSO for a time; renamed Portland Orchestral Society) |
1927-32 |
none (PMO operated under the aegis of Portland Music Commission) |
1932 |
Benjamin E. Haskell (died in office, December - 1932) |
1933 |
Clinton W. Graffam, Sr. (died in office, November - 1933) |
1933-37 |
Percy D. Mitchell |
1937-42* |
Harold M. Lawrence |
1942-46 |
Clinton W. Graffam, Jr. |
1946-51 |
Harold M. Lawrence |
1951-54 |
Norman C. Balabas |
1954-56 |
Lawrence Hatch |
1956-59 |
Jean Gannett Williams |
1959-61 |
Horace K. Sowles, Jr. |
1961-63 |
Mrs. Sidney W. Thaxter |
1963-66 |
Leonard M. Nelson |
1966-68 |
Jeremiah Newbury |
1968-70 |
Louis Benoit |
1970-72 |
Harold E. Woodsum, Jr |
1972-74 |
Bernard J. Lewis |
1974-76 |
Curtis Scribner |
1976-78 |
Harold Pachios |
1978-80 |
Philips Lewis |
1980-82 |
Peter Plumb |
1982-84 |
Joan Woodsum |
1984-86 |
Joel C. Martin |
1986-87 |
Edwin R. Nelson |
1987-89 |
Charles A. Harvey, Jr |
1989-91 |
John I. Riddle |
1991-93 |
Mary P. Nelson |
1993-95 |
Jean Ginn Marvin |
1995-96 |
L. Kinvin Wroth |
1996-98 |
Vincent E. Furey, Jr |
1998-00 |
Donald L. McDowell |
2000-02 |
Karen Foster |
2002-04 |
Peter Haynes |
2004-06 |
Jeffrey Kane |
2006-08 |
Deborah Galarneau |
2008-11 |
Gordon Gayer |
2011-13 |
Debby Hammond |
2013-15 |
Sam Parkhill |
2015-16 |
Harper Collins |
* Mr. Lawrence was often away from Portland on U.S. Army duties during the '39-’42 period.
--Board minutes make frequent, but not always continuous, references to him then presiding at meetings