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David R. Goode is the retired Chairman, President, and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corporation . Other directorships: Caterpillar Inc.; Delta Air Lines,... Inc.; Georgia-Pacific Corporation; Norfolk Southern Railway, and Texas Instruments Incorporated. Goode has been a director of Caterpillar since 1993. He is also on the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines. He attended Duke University and Harvard Law School. He was chosen as the Railroader of the Year by industry trade journal Railway Age for 1998 and again in 2005. The Norfolk Southern office building in midtown Atlanta was named in his honor in 2005. He is also known for ending the steam program of the Class J 611 and Class A 1218 in 1994.
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Walter Eugene Massey is an educator, physicist, and business executive. He is the current President of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago... and the former Chairman of Bank of America, replacing Ken Lewis on April 29, 2009. He is also the former President of Morehouse College and the former Director of the National Science Foundation. Massey was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1938 and graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 with a BS degree in Mathematics and Physics, and also became a member of the Psi chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Massey went on to receive his Ph.D. in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966. Massey formerly served as Vice President for Research and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, Director of the Argonne National Laboratory, Dean of the College and Professor of Physics at Brown University, and Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois. He was also the Director of the National Science Foundation from 1991 to 1993, was the 9th President of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007, and was the Senior Provost of the University of California System.
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Gerald Grinstein is the former CEO of Delta Air Lines, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia. Grinstein came to the position in 2004, after CEO Leo F. Mullin... stepped down amid a controversy over executive retirement and cash bonus plans that were deemed excessive. He is succeeded by Richard Anderson, a former Northwest Airlines executive, although Grinstein expected one of his two deputies for the top job. Grinstein and his wife Carolyn live in Seattle, Washington. Grinstein received a BA from Yale University in 1954 and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1957. From 1985 to 1995 Mr. Grinstein was also CEO of Burlington Northern Railroad . In this position he helped form the corporate entity that resulted in BN's merger which formed the BNSF Railway. Previously, Grinstein served as CEO of Western Airlines. When Western and Delta merged in 1987, he was appointed to Delta's Board of Directors and has remained on the board since then. He took over as CEO at a time when Delta was in a deep financial crisis.
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