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CHARLES KENDRICK

 

 

Charles Kendrick, corporation executive, was born in San Francisco, California.

            Mr. Kendrick is president of Schlage Lock Company of California, and president of S. O. S. Company of Chicago, and Cleanser Products Corporation of Chicago. He was trustee of San Francisco War Memorial, 1920-38; member of Advisory Committee of San Francisco Water System, 1923-26; member of San Francisco Planning Commission, 1924-30; member of San Francisco Relief Committee, 1932-34; vice president of Golden Gate International Exposition, 1938-40.

            Trustee of Phelan Foundation for the Poor; president of Board of Trustees of Mills College, 1943-46 (now honorary trustee).

            Member of the Board of Governors of San Francisco Opera Association, also of San Francisco Art Museum; member of Board of Directors of San Francisco Art Association, also of California School of Fine Arts; president of Pan America Society, San Francisco, 1942-43; member of San Francisco Civilian War Council; member of Advisory Board of War Production Board. Member of the Bohemian, Pacific-Union, and Press Clubs, Menlo Country Club, San Francisco Golf Club.

            Mr. Kendrick served as captain with the 26th Division, and later as major with the 5th Army Corps, United States Army, World War. Decorated with the Silver Star, Order of the Purple Heart (United States); Order of St. Olav (Norway); Officer of Legion of Honor (France); and Gold Medal of the Pan American Society.

            Home:  2701 Pierce Street, San Francisco, California.

            Offices:  Russ Building, San Francisco, California.

 

 

 

Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.

Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 478, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.


© 2014  Cecelia M. Setty.

 

 

 

 

 

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