ROBERT HENDRIX BECOMES CHAIRMAN OF ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER BOARD

Robert B. Hendrix, a member of the St. Francis Medical Center's Board of Directors since 1980, has been elected to succeed Maurice Sandfort as chairman of the board.

Sandfort resigned from the position earlier this summer after announcing he was leaving Cape Girardeau to take a job in West Plains.

Hendrix, who has served as vice chairman of the board of directors for seven years, has been president of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce since coming to Cape Girardeau in June 1972.

Before coming to Cape Girardeau, he was manager of the Washington, Mo. Chamber of Commerce, executive manager of the Hannibal Chamber of Commerce and director of legislative and civic affairs with the Springfield Chamber of Commerce.

A native of Washington, Mo., Hendrix is a graduate of Westminster College in Fulton and served in the Navy.

Hendrix holds memberships in the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce Executives, the Southern Industrial Development Council, the American Development Council and the Missouri Industrial Development Corporation.

Among his civic activities, Hendrix is a member of the Cape Girardeau Lions Club, chairman of the Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School Board of Advisers, co-chairman of the Diocesan Development Fund Drive and president of the St. Francis Continuing Care Center.

He and his wife, Rosemary, have four children and three grandchildren.