Majorie Mercer Kendig Gates (1892-1981), best known as M. Kendig, American administrator, director of the Institute of General Semantics from 1950 until 1965, co-worker of Alfred Korzybski who completed his collected writings after Korzybski's death in 1950; as Education Director for the Institute of General Semantics from inception in 1938, Kendig began publication of the General Semantics Bulletin in 1949, the Bulletin considered the Institute's annual 'yearbook'; jointly with Elwood Murray she programmed the 1942 and 1950 congresses in general semantics held at University of Denver; end of 1950s among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research.
