Individual Jaycees “age out” when their membership year ends following their 41st birthday. In the past, the friendly term “Exhausted Rooster” was used for such individuals, who had completed their Jaycee careers. Some remain available to assist their former organizations through advising on request, acting as a trainer, and being present at organization functions.
Notable U.S. Jaycee “Exhausted Roosters”
- Larry Bird – Boston Celtics
- Warren E. Burger – Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
- Bill Clinton – President of the United States
- Ken Coon – Little Rock psychologist, former Arkansas Republican state chairman, former Arkansas state Jaycee president
- Russell B. Cummings – President of Houston Jaycees, 1960, later Texas State Representative
- Gerald Ford – President of the United States
- Wendell Ford – U.S. Senator, Governor of Kentucky, also served as US Jaycees President
- Bill Gates – Chairman of Microsoft
- Al Gore – Vice President of the United States
- Eric W. Harris – Founder of original Louisiana chapter of Jaycees, 1939
- Larry Holmes – Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion
- Rogers Hornsby – Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player
- Howard Hughes – Industrialist
- Hubert Humphrey – Vice President of the United States
- Bradley Joseph – Composer/recording artist
- Patrick LeBlanc – Louisiana businessman, president of LCS Correctional Services, Inc.
- Charles Lindbergh – Aviator
- Tom Monaghan – Domino’s Pizza
- Walter Mondale – Vice President of the United States
- Richard Nixon – President of the United States
- Lani Rae Rafko-Wilson – Miss America 1988
- Ronald Reagan – President of the United States, Actor
- Dan Quayle – Vice-President of the United States, Dan was a second generation Jaycee (Joined in 1984) as his father, James, was chapter president 1950-1951 in Huntington, IN
