S.
KENDRICK GUERNSEY
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.
President, Rotary International 1947-48
S. Kendrick Guernsey is Executive
Vice-President of the Gulf Life Insurance Company of Jacksonville, Florida. He was born in
Orlando, Florida, and was graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Army
in World War I, he was engaged for many years in the real
estate and investment business in Orlando, where he was
President of the Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the County
School Board, and Director of the Boy Scouts and the
Y.M.C.A.
Mr. Guernsey was a charter member of the
Rotary Club of Orlando, which was organized in 1920, is a
Past President of that Club, and is now a member of the
Rotary Club of Jacksonville. He has served Rotary
International as Vice-President, District Governor, and as
committee chairman and member. He is President of Rotary
International for 1947-48.
During the first part of his year as
President of Rotary International, Mr. Guernsey made a
40,000-mile airplane tour of Rotary Clubs in Australia,
Guam, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Java, New Zealand, Singapore, Siam
and The Philippines.
Mr. Guernsey has been active in boys work for
many years, and has been Secretary of the National Boys and
Girls Week Committee for the United States since 1933. He is
Florida State President of the United Service Organization,
Chairman of the Florida Citizens Committee on Education,
Florida Vice-Chairman of the American Life Convention, a
member of the State Highway Commission, and a Director of
the State Chamber of Commerce. In Jacksonville, he is a
Director of the Children’s Home Society, Boy Scouts and the
Y .M.C.A.
An ardent sportsman, Mr. Guernsey
particularly enjoys golf, fishing and hunting.
His family consists of his wife, Edythe, and
his two daughters, Helen Elizabeth and Edythe Kendrick, who
are attending college in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
S. KENDRICK GUERNSEY
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.
President, Rotary International, 1947-48
Before retiring, S. Kendrick Guernsey was
chairman of the board of directors of the Gulf Life
Insurance Company of Jacksonville, Florida. He was born in
Orlando, Florida, and graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
He was president of the Chamber of Commerce,
chairman of the County School board, and director of the Boy
Scout Council and the Young Men's Christian Association in
Orlando.
Mr. Guernsey has been active in boys’ work
for many years and was secretary of the National Boys and
Girls Week Committee for the U.S.A. from 1933-50. He has
served as Florida vice-chairman of the American Life
Convention, as a member of the Florida Highway Commission,
as chairman of the Florida Citizens Committee on Education,
and as a member of the Board of Control of Florida. He was
Florida state president of the United Service Organization.
He has been awarded honorary degrees of
doctor of laws by Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida,
and doctor of commercial science by the University of
Florida in Gainesville, and has been decorated by the
governments of Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and
France.
He is a director of the Florida National Bank
and a past president of the Children's Home Society of
Florida. Mr. Guernsey has served as director of the Florida
State Chamber of Commerce and trustee of Wesleyan College.
He has served as a member of the Judicial Council of Florida
and of the Council on Industry and Commerce for the state of
Florida. He is a former civilian aide for Florida to the
U.S. Secretary of the Army. The state of Florida has
conferred upon him the Florida Service Award.
A Rotarian since 1920, Mr. Guernsey is a
member of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville. He has served
Rotary International as district governor, committee member
and chairman, Rotary Foundation trustee, director,
vice-president, and president.
July, 1976
