Text Appearing Before Image: Fred R. Kappel / ice President, Operation and Engineering, A. T. ^ T. Co. From the ground up accurately describes Fred R. Kappels course in theBell System. He started as a groundman with the Northwestern Bell Tele-phone Company in 1924, and held a dozen positions in the Plant, Engineering,and Commercial Departments in several States before he reached Companyheadquarters in Omaha. There he became in turn plant operations super-visor, assistant vice president—operations, and, for half a dozen years through1948, Vice President in Charge of Operations. He went to New York in1949 as assistant vice president in A. T. & T.s Department of Operation andEngineering, and in that same year became successively Vice President incharge of Long Lines and Vice President in charge of the O. & E. Depart-ment. Comprising the Plant, Traffic, Commercial, and Engineering Divisions,the O. & E. is the A. T. and T. Companys largest department. 80 Text Appearing After Image: Mervin J. KellyPresident, Bell Telephone Laboratories The concept of the most service andthe best includes the provision of steadilyimproving equipment which contributes toeconomical as well as pleasing telephoneservice. That, in essence, is the objectiveto which the whole Bell Laboratories or-ganization is devoted. Mervin J. Kelly,its head, joined the research division of theEngineering Department of Western Elec-tric—predecessor of Bell Laboratories—in1918. His assignments as director ofvacuum tube development and as develop-ment director of transmission instrumentsand electronics preceded his appointment in1936 as director of research. He becameexecutive vice president in 1944, and, inthe Spring of 1951, President of the Labo-ratories. When he joins the Mondaymorning group, he brings reports from thecountrys largest industrial laboratory. Henry T. KillingsworthVice President, in charge Long Lines From Denver on the West to At-lanta and New York on the East takesin a broad expan
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