William Kilborn Kendall ’68
William Kilborn Kendall ’68 died on January 8, 2014. Born in Augusta, Maine, and raised in Lewiston, Maine, Bill was the oldest of eight children. He attended Edward Little High School, where he met his lifetime love and future wife, Nancy Akerley. He was a member of the Key Club, captain of his ski team and state record-holder in the 1-mile outdoor track event, a record that stood for more than a decade. Bill was president of his high school class of 1964. At Dartmouth Bill won the Donald J. Cook Award, presented to the outstanding freshman skier of the year. He was a four-year member of the ski team, DOC and ROTC and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He was inducted into the Casque & Gauntlet. Bill majored in economics and graduated as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His first posting was in the South Pole, as a recreation specialist for the research scientists at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Shortly thereafter, Bill earned a position on the U.S. biathlon team and spent three years in Alaska training and competing nationally and internationally, including in the World Games in Sweden in 1970. Bill and Nancy returned to Maine, where he first joined his father at Veribest Systems, a business forms and check printing business. From there, he ventured out on his own to establish the nation’s first electronic bill-paying service, Payment and Transfer Services Inc. Bill and Nancy had children Katherine, Nicholas and Maxwell and two grandsons, who all survive.
