Press Photo W.L. Holley, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's vice president

W.L. Holley has been first vice president of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company since 1940, having been elected vice president in 1937. He joined the company in 1921 as general traffic supervisor and has been in St. Louis since then except for a year in the Engineering Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York. He was made general traffic manager on his return from New York in 1928. After teaching school for a few months following his graduation from Occidental College, Los Angeles in 1909, Holley joined the Bell system in 1910 when he started work in the Traffic department of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. He was in the telephone section of the Department of Naval Communications for the duration of the first World War following which he went to work in the Traffic Department of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company at Baltimore, Maryland, where he stayed until coming to St. Louis. Holley, a bachelor lives at the Park Plaza Hotel. He is a director of the Municipal Opera Association and of Boatmen's Bank and a member of Noonday, Racquet and Missouri Athletic clubs. He is known locally as a collector of painting, etchings, antique furniture and silver and he has a summer home on the Lake of the Ozarks in Central Missouri.

Photo is undated.

Photo measures 7.5 x 9.75 inches.