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Commodores

ST. PETERSBURG YACHT CLUB

1916-1918Frank C. Carley

1938Eugene S. Bennett

1923A.P. Avery

1939J. Clark Coit

1927-1928Tom J. Heller

1943J. Shirley Gracy

1932-1933Leon D. Lewis

1947Weyman Willingham

1921Lew B. Brown

1925A.L. Gandy

1941D.C. Robertson

1930L.L. McMasters

1945-1946Robert B. Lassing

1936Al D. Strum

1949George M. McCleary

1919-1920George S. Gandy Sr. Crowds gather along the seawall, circa 1922. St. PeterSburg MuSeuM of HiStory

1924Arthur L. Johnson

1940H.M. Shaw

1929J. Frank Houghton

1944Tom S. Pierce

1934-1935E.C. Robison

1948William S. Howell

1922A.W. Fisher

1926L. Chauncey Brown

1942A.B. Fogarty

1931Howard O. Newman

1945Oscar DeLano

1937Paul V. Reese

1950John L. Wilhelm

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Commodores

ST. PETERSBURG YACHT CLUB

1951G.W. Rifley

1967Otto E. Krauss Jr.

1955John F. Knowlton

1969Bruce W. Watters Jr.

1959Richard W. Winning

1973Peter E. Dawson, D.D.S.

1963Oscar S. Gower

1977R.E. “Bob” Lee

1953W.W. Jennings, D.C.

In April 1959, from left, Rear Commodore O.S. “Bud” Wittmer, Vice Commo-dore Mel G. Irwin, immediate Past Commodore J. Lee Ballard and Commodore Richard W. “Dick” Winning show their flags. St. PeterSburg tiMeS arcHive

1957Milton H. Corson

1971Joseph W. Fleece Jr.

1961O.S. Wittmer

1975William E. Allison

1965Thomas R. Downs

1979R. Huston Babcock, M.D.

1952Stanley C. Shaver

1968Jack Clark

1956Charles A. Robinson

1970Earl R. Fox, M.D.

1960Mel G. Irwin

1974Louis C. Showe

1964William M. Bussey

1978William C. Ballard

1954George A. Pearson

1958J. Lee Ballard

1972L.J. Hennesy

1962Bruce Watters Sr.

1976Blanchard E. Jolly

1966Theodore E. Tolson Jr.

1980John L. Green Jr.

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Commodores

ST. PETERSBURG YACHT CLUB

1981Langston Holland

1997Frank I. Mendelblatt, M.D.

1985Robert V. Workman

1999William C. Welch, M.D.

1989Frank M. Scarritt

2001Wayne “Skipp” Fraser

1993John Wm. Barger Jr.

2007C. Fred Deuel

1983R. Donald Mastry

1987Lloyd E. Williams Jr.

1991David H. Knowlton

2003David S. Cox

1995William R. Hough

2005James A. Montgomery Jr.

1982Howard W. Nix Jr.

1998Donald J. Bogue

1986John W. Jennings, D.C.

2000Patricia H. Seidenspinner

1990Richard G. Jones Jr.

2002Joseph W. Fleece III

1994Thomas E. Allison

2008Robert L. Johnson

1984James T. Lang

1988A.C. “Toby” Krayer Jr.

Commodores Knowlton, Scarritt and Jones christen the pool during the club's reopening in 1992. SPyc arcHive

1992Harry M. Moorefield

2004Donald J. Krippendorf, D.C.

1996Thomas D. Wilson

2006Frederick L. Bickley Jr.