Maywood Bataan Day Organization
Current President
Col. Richard A. McMahon, Jr (2004 – )
Immediate Past President
Willie C. Meeks (1998 – 2004)
Past Presidents
American Bataan Clan
Viola Heilig, Founder/President (1941 – 1942)
A. C. MacArthur, Chairman/President (1942 – 1945)
Lt. John Peterson, President (1943)
Benjamin Morin, President (1946)
William H. Slicer, President (1948 – 1950)
Mrs. Alfhild Slicer Bathje, President (1951)
Louis E. Nelson, President (1946 – 1951)
William Burns (1947)
William H. Slicer, President (1948 – 1950)
Mrs. Alfhild Slicer Bathje, President (1951)
Lester Tenney, Secretary/Treasurer/President (1957)
William Kerins, President (1957)
Maywood Veterans Council
Stephen Wayne (1950)
Josh Hooser (1951)
Stephen Wayne (1952)
George Dravo (1958)
Kenneth Wiley (1960)
Sigmund Kudlicki, President (1962)
Delbert W. Wilson (1964)
Leonard Martin (1965)
Maywood Civic and Veterans’ Association for the Preservation of Bataan Day
Jesse Jones (1979)
Donald Liedke (1980)
Richard H. Cheske (1980)
David E. White (1980-81)
Jesse Jones (1982-83)
George Dravo (1989)
Joe Pecaro (1993)
Justo O. Alamar (1992 – 1996)
Other Officers
American Bataan Clan
Helen Von Bergen, Treasurer ()
Mrs. Charles Peterson, Vice President (1943)
Mrs. Lenore Vertuno, Secretary (1943)
Mrs. Roy Vandenbroucke, Treasurer (1944)
Sylvia Kampf, Secretary (1950)
William Hauser, Treasurer (1957)
Maywood Bataan Day Organization
Jo Becker, Secretary
Edwin Walker, IV, Vice-President (1992 – 2024)
Pat Besaw, Secretary/Treasurer (2004 – 2022)
Jose Galarza, Treasurer (2015 – )