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• TRAINS AS ACCOUNTANT AND LAWYER
• GOODE PUT ON FAST TRACK TO EXECUTIVE SUITE
• GOODE SEES NORFOLK SOUTHERN'S FUTURE AT STAKE
• KEY COMMODITY MARKETS EVENLY SPLIT
• OTHER ACTIVITIES
• SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Chairman, president, and chief executive officer, Norfolk Southern Corporation

Nationality: American.

Born: January 13, 1941, in Vinton, Virginia.

Education: Duke University, AB, 1962; Harvard Law School, JD, 1965.

Family: Son of Otto Goode (owner of a small department store and later a real estate broker) and Martha (a homemaker; maiden name unknown); married Susan Skiles (a...