June 1922 was an exciting time for what was then the City Managers Association (CMA). The association moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and appointed John G. Stutz as full-time executive secretary and editor of the City Manager Bulletin. Stutz also continued to serve as secretary of the Municipal Reference Bureau at the University of Kansas and as executive director of the League of Kansas Municipalities. He would serve (CMA) until 1929.

Also in 1922, Louis Brownlow, an American journalist, political scientist, and former city manager of Petersburg, Virginia, and Knoxville, Tennessee, was elected CMA president. Along with Charles E. Merriam, a highly respected member of the University of Chicago political science faculty and president of the American Political Science Association, Brownlow diligently sought foundation funding and other support for CMA.

To learn more about the many milestones in the history of ICMA, its members, and the professionalism of local government management, visit icma.org/anniversary and scroll through the anniversary timeline on the homepage. Also watch this space in PM, where we’ll highlight an anniversary moment each month.