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Portrait photograph of Francis John Chesterman. Technology Review, March 1943, p. 246. Original Credit Line: Phillips Studio

Original Caption: "10/41".

Original Caption: "For President . . . of the Alumni Association of the M.I.T., the National Nominating Committee this year has designated Francis J. Chesterman, '05, of Germantown, Pa., Vice-president for operations of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and the Diamond State Telephone Company, with headquarters in Philadelphia. A life member of the Institute Corporation, Mr. Chesterman served the Alumni Association as vice-president in 1929-1931 and is also past president of the M.I.T. Club of Western Pennsylvania. He joined the engineering department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in Boston in July, 1905, going thence to the New York Telephone Company in 1907, and to the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania in 1920, where after holding various executive engineering posts he became vice-president for operations in 1941. Mr. Chesterman, who holds the honorary degree of doctor of engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a member of the Army Ordnance Association and the Franklin Institute. His directorships include the Bell Telepone Company of Pennsylvania, the Diamond State Telephone Company, the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Philadelphia Council, Boy Scouts of America, and of the Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania."