L & N President

William H. Kendall '32 has been elected President of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, one of the nation's leading soft coal carriers and the second largest railroad in the South.

Mr. Kendall is a third-generation railroad man. His father, Warren C. Kendall '99, still a railroad consultant, retired in 1949 as Chairman of the Car Service Division of the Association of American Railroads. His grandfather was Station Master at Pompanoosuc, Vt., where the station has since been named "Kendall" in honor of Warren C. Kendall, who was born there.

The new president of the L & N began his railroad career in high school days, working as a laborer for the Ann Arbor Railroad during summer vacations. After getting his engineering degree at Dartmouth's Thayer School in 1933, he went to work for the Pennsylvania as assistant track supervisor. Later he joined the Atlantic Coast Line and in 1949 he became general manager of the Clinchfield Railroad. The L & N hired him in 1954 and made him vice president and general manager three years later.