Robert H. Woods, assistant to the president of the Southern Public Utilities Company with headquarters in Winston-Salem, has been a resident of this city for about 2 ½ years and during that time he has been identified with various movements for community benefit in a most successful way.
Mr. Woods was born in Ellicott City, Maryland, but was reared and educated in Virginia. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree of B.A. and alter graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the department of electrical engineering, that being in 1913.
Mr. Woods went with the Southern Power company in 1915, being with that company until he came here with the Southern Public Utilities Company, with the exception of the time that he was in war service. During the war he was for several months in camp in this country and for 11 months was overseas. When the war closed, he was captain in the ordnance department.
Mr. Woods is a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. He is a member of the American Legion, the Rotary Club, Twin-City Club and Forsyth Country Club.
He is a man of recognized business ability, with a wide knowledge of the electrical field in its different phases, and he has been decidedly successful in his work here for the Southern Public Utilities Company as well as in his previous connection with the Southern Power Company. He is the possessor of constructive ideas and of a decidedly pleasing personality.
Mrs. Woods was Miss Evelyn Blake of Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Woods have made many friends during their residence in Winston-Salem.
From the front page of the Twin City Sentinel, Winston-Salem, N.C., Nov. 14, 1922
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