Background
McLendon,, Hinkle was born on January 30, 1919 in Americus, Georgia, United States. Son of Hinkle and Willie Estelle (Van Riper) McLendon.
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Hinkle McLendon
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Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, The Citadel, 1940. Grad, United States Army Command and General Staff College, 1963.
Career
Concrete inspector Harza Engineering Company, Santee-Cooper Hydroelec. Dam and Lock, South Carolina, 1940—1941. Resident engineer Vannort Engineers, Inc., Charlotte, Boone, North Carolina, 1945—1948.
Structural design engineer J.E. Sirrine Engineers, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina, 1948—1949, Westvaco Corporation, Charleston, 1949—1953. Chief design engineer and project engineer, 1953—1962. Purchasing agent, from 1962.
Major United States Army, 1941-1945, PTO, European Theatre of Operations, lieutenant colonel United States Army Reserve, 1949-1967.
Achievements
Membership
Institutional representative Coastal Carolina Council Boy Scouts America, 1960—1963. Board directors John C. Calhoun Homes, Inc. Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (past president Eastern South Carolina section), Citadel Alumni Association (past chairman board stewards and board trustees), Scottish Society Charleston (board directors), South Carolina Genealogical Society, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, North Carolina History Society, Georgia History Society, South Carolina History Society, National Society Professional Engineers (secretary-treasurer), Civil Engineers Club Charleston (past president), Reserve Officers Association (life), Brigadier, Masons.
Connections
Married Doris Irene Rogers, December 31, 1942. Children: Carol Jean McLendon Porter, James Hinkle.
