The following list of the early presidents of the Mizzou Alumni Association reads like an index of University history: Lathrop, Lenoir, Rollins, Wilkes. And then there’s Guitar. Not only was Odon Guitar a member of the Board of Curators, but he was also the association’s first president starting in 1853.He served in office four times between 1853 and 1884. Then Odon Guitar Jr. got into the act and served 1912–14.

1853 Odon Guitar, BA ’46, AM ’49
1857 Walter Lenoir, BA ’49, AM ’50
1865 Odon Guitar, BA ’46, AM ’49
1869 Walter Lenoir, BA ’49, AM ’50
1870 Andrew J. Thomas, BA ’60, AM ’77, LLD ’90
1871 Alexander F. Denny, BA ’47, AM ’50
1873 Luther Collier, BA ’46, AM ’49
1874 Odon Guitar, BA ’46, AM ’49
1877 Lewis B. Wilkes, LLB ’79
1878–81 Shannon C. Douglass, BA ’70, AM, LLB ’73
1882 Alexander F. Denny, BA ’47, AM ’50
1883–84 Odon Guitar, BA ’46, AM ’49
1885–86 Robert L. Todd, BA ’43, AM ’48
1887–88 Edwin W. Stephens, BA ’67, AM ’70, LLD ’05
1889–90 Curtis B. Rollins, BA ’74, LLB ’76, AM ’81
1891–94 Gardiner Lathrop, BA ’67, AM ’70, LLD ’07
1895–96 Charles E. Yeater, BA ’80, AM ’83
1897–98 Isidor Loeb, BS ’87, MS, LLB ’93
1899–1900 North T. Gentry, BA ’84, Sur ’86, LLB ’88
1901–02 Woodson Moss, MD ’74, LLD ’01
1903–04 Luther M. Defoe, PeP, ’86
1905–07 Clarence M. Jackson, BS ’98, MS ’99, MD ’00
1908–09 John C. Leggett, BA ’83
1910–11 Earl F. Nelson, BA ’04, LLB ’05
1912–14 Odon Guitar Jr., CC ’90
1914–16 Robert B. Caldwell, BA ’03, LLV ’07
1916–20 Allen McReynolds, BA ’01
1920–22 Forrest C. Donnell, BS Ed ’04, JD ’07
1922–30 Frank Rollins, LLB ’11
1930–34 Wilber Cochel, BA ’97, BS Ag ’05
1934–38 Richmond Coburn, BA ’24, JD ’25
1938–40 Byron Spencer, BA ’15
1940–42 Allen Oliver, BA ’08, JD ’09
1942–44 Laurence M. Hyde, JD ’16
1944–48 Silas Oak Hunter, Arts ’00, Law ’00
1948–50 Don McVay, BA ’36
1950–53 Harold Niedorp, BS BA ’25
1953–55 Cullen Coil, JD ’32
1955–56 Richard Chamier, BA ’31, JD ’33
1956–57 Dutton Brookfield, BS BA ’40
1957–58 Flavius Freeman, JD ’35
1958–59 John Albert Morris, BS BA ’50, MBA ’51
1959–60 William R. Toler, BS BA ’48
1960–62 J. Gordon Blackmore, BS Ag ’39
1962–63 Eddie Sowers, BJ ’28
1963–64 Bradford Brett, BA ’33
1964–66 William Tucker, BJ ’38
1966–67 Marvin McQueen, BJ ’36
1967–69 Beauford Robinson, M Ed ’46
1969–71 Garth Landis, BS BA ’30
1971–72 Darryl Francis, BS Ag ’36
1972–73 Frank Williams, BS BA ’41
1973–74 Mitch Murch, BS BA ’52
1974–75 Cordell Tindall, BS Ag ’36
1975–76 William M. Symon Jr., JD ’49
1976–77 John Booth, JD ’37
1977–78 Doris England, BSN ’60
1978–79 Jerry Tiemann, BS BA ’50
1979–80 Barbara Houston Moore, BS Ed ’55
1980–81 Thomas Schultz, BJ ’56
1981–82 Eugene Leonard, BS Ag ’57, MS ’58, PhD ’62
1982–83 Norris Phillips, BS BA ’63, JD ’66
1983–84 Jack McCausland, BS BA ’60
1984–85 William Lenox, BA ’55
1985–86 Edward Powell, BS BA ’71
1986–87 Joe Moseley, BS ’71, JD ’76
1987–88 Eleanor Frasier, BS Ed ’61, M Ed ’65, Ed D ’93
1988–89 Carl Schweitzer, BS BA ’52
1989–90 J. Edward Travis III, BS BA ’56
1990–91 Bob Dixson, BJ ’56
1991–92 Richard Moore, BA ’54, JD ’56
1992–93 Thomas Lawson, M Ed ’61, Ed D ’70
1993–94 Gerald Johnson, BS Ag ’52, DVM ’56
1994–95 Carolyn Wiley, BS Ed ’64
1995–96 G. P. “Rusty” Jandl, BS BA ’77
1996–97 Brock Hessing, BA ’89
1997–98 Jean Snider, BS Ed ’70
1998–99 Mark Miller, BS RPA ’78, MS ’82
1999–2000 Melodie Powell, BA ’77, JD ’81
2000–01 Cordelia Esry, BSN ’55, M Ed ’57
2001–02 Dale Ludwig, BS Ag ’78, BS Ag ’78
2002–03 Steven Vincent, BS Ag ’87
2003–04 Deborah Snellen, BS Ed ’79, MA ’80
2004–05 Doug Crews, BJ ’73
2005–06 Jay Dade, BJ ’85, JD ’93
2006-07 Kim Voss, BS Ed '87
2007-08 Titus Blackmon, M Ed '88
2008-09 Craig Lalumandier, BS CoE '89, BS EE '89
2009-10 Jacqueline McEntire Clark, BA '84
2010-11 Randy Wright, BGS '87, MA '02
2011-12 Pamela M. Oberdiek, 1984 Business