Robert Kendall

Robert Kendall was born on a farm in Kansas and escaped the Great Depression and Dust Bowl to the Yakima Valley of Washington State. He grew up in Hermiston, Oregon, where he delivered the Walla Walla Union Bulletin and worked as a drug store soda jerk, as a school janitor helper; and as an assembler of furniture. On Butter Creek Ranch, he worked as a ranch-hand bailing and stacking hay. He graduated from College in Eugene, Oregon, while working evenings on a log pond at a sawmill. Kendall...See more

Robert Kendall was born on a farm in Kansas and escaped the Great Depression and Dust Bowl to the Yakima Valley of Washington State. He grew up in Hermiston, Oregon, where he delivered the Walla Walla Union Bulletin and worked as a drug store soda jerk, as a school janitor helper; and as an assembler of furniture. On Butter Creek Ranch, he worked as a ranch-hand bailing and stacking hay. He graduated from College in Eugene, Oregon, while working evenings on a log pond at a sawmill. Kendall earned a PhD from Indiana University in Bloomington. He was a Journalism Professor at the University of Florida for more than 20 years, where he taught Journalism, Mass Communications, and Public Relations courses. He is the author of two editions of a textbook, Public Relations Campaign Strategies. After retiring, he has pursued his long-term interest in history, particularly the Civil War. See less