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William S. Vaughn
William S. Vaughn (1903–1996) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He served as the President of Eastman Kodak () from 1960 to 1967, and as its Chairman from 1967 to 1970.
==Early life==
William Scott Vaughn was born on December 8, 1903 in Kansas City, Missouri.〔(Vanderbilt University: The Vaughn Home )〕〔Kenneth N. Gilpin, (William Vaughn, 93, Who Led Kodak in a Period of Expansion ), ''The New York Times'', September 26, 1996〕 His grandfather, William J. Vaughn, was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and later at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee; the Vaughn Home on the Vanderbilt campus is named after him.〔 His aunt, Stella Vaughn, pioneered women's athleticism at Vanderbilt University.〔 His father, Harry Vaughn, worked as a dentist in Kansas City until he moved back to Nashville to become a businessman and bird collector; his bird collection was later donated to the Adventure Science Museum (previously known as the Nashville Children's Museum or the Cumberland Science Museum).〔〔 William, his parents, and his two brothers, Charles and Houghton, lived on 24th Avenue, a few street away from his paternal grandfather's home.〔 Later, they moved to a farm in the affluent suburb of Brentwood, Tennessee.〔
He was educated at the Robertson Academy, where he skipped the eighth grade, and at the Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville.〔 He went on to graduate from Vanderbilt University in 1923, where he studied German and Mathematics and he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Class Poet.〔 He was then a Rhodes scholar at the Christ Church, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics.〔〔
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