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Show Named After Connie Mack INTRODUCING . . .Sugar House's Bank Manager The "Mr. Hanking" of Sugar House, C. G. "Neal" White, has a record of faithfulness to duty that is hard to beat. In 30 years in the banking business, Neal White has only been off i ... ' , v t . . 4 & - .-. i I I i - - -A ISANKKK C ; "Nt'iil" Whili',. subject of this week's "Introducing ..." Glenn's Stuido. . the job six days . . . and that includes in-cludes time he spent getting in and out of the U. S. Army in World War I. In three years as a member of the local citizenry, he has earn-, ed a reputation of friendliness,! honesty and an unusual willing- ness to meet things better than ; half way. j Son of a Welch convert to the l.US Church and an English-' born mother, Neal White was born April 16, 1895 in a house which still stands across from, West High school. His father'! was a wholesale meat dealer by trade and operated a slaughter slaugh-ter house at 6lh West and 21st South. The father, John II. I White, came to the U. S. from Wales about 1873. He returned to the British Isles some years I later as a Mormon missionary.! There he converted an English I girl, Clara Keveryear, whom he later married. Messenger Hoy in 1913 Neal White attended school at Union grade school (where West High now stands), Washington Wash-ington and West High school from which he graduated in 1912. In February, 1913, he got a job as messenger boy at $45 a month at the old Ueseret National Na-tional Bank. He's been a banker bank-er ever since. As a banker. Mr. White has held every position from messenger mes-senger to manager and has worked in every department. He has been transit clerk, bookkeeper, book-keeper, head of the bookkeeping bookkeep-ing department, teller, new account ac-count desk and on September 1, 1945, he took over the managerial manager-ial reigns of the Sugar House Branch, First National Bank. Hank Practically Doubled In his three years in the community com-munity Neal White has made an enviable record for the institution institu-tion he manages and for himself. In those three years the bank has practically doubled. In 1945 there were eight employes. Today To-day there are 15. A complete installment in-stallment loan department has been installed. A new collection department and a safety deposit department has been added. Facilities Fa-cilities have been increased by the adition of two paying-receiving tellers. Since the bank was renovated in December at a cost of S25,000 (two times the original cost of the building) it can handle at least twice the number of customers cus-tomers as it formerly did. "And," says Mr. Wliite, "We can double that amount and still handle them with our new facilities." notarial! and Chamber Member Neal White was recently reelected re-elected to the office of treasurer and board member of the Sugar House Rotary Club which he joined in September, 1945. He is also a member of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the American Institute of Banking and represents repre-sents the Sugar House bank asi delegate. For two years he was bank consul for ALB at the old Deseret. He holds a certificate of graduation from AIB, having completed numerous courses in such subjects as: commercial law, negotiable instruments, bank management, banking analysis In June, 1919, he married the former Valerie Morley of this city. They have four children: .Tenalyn (Mrs. Ernest D. Fox), Robert M., Marilyn (U. of U. senior) sen-ior) and Claudia (Roosevelt Jr. High). The Whites are also ' grandparents. In fact, on the fourth of July grandpa himself is going to have the honor of naming his latest . . . baby Gayle Fox who was born June 6. Oldest Old-est grandchild is three-year-old Dee Ann Fox, Robert Neal White, eight months, completes the roster. Church Worker Neal White is an active member mem-ber of the Wasatch LDS ward, has been for the last 30 years, and holds the office of high priest. Though he is very fond of two sports, he has long unce concluded con-cluded that he is "too busy to have a hobby." He loves to fish, but only manages to get away once or twice a year. He does have a couple of favorite haunts if he's pinned down; Tryol Lake in the Granddaddy's and Mack's Inn, Idaho. Baseball Authority There is no mistaking the authority au-thority in the man when he gets talking about baseball And when he takes off on the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Athletics,' brother, stand back . . . and thereby hangs a tale. The "C" in C. G. White stands for Cornelius . . . Neal White was named after baseball's base-ball's immortal Connie Mack, the irrepressable Cornelius McGil-licuddy McGil-licuddy himself. Though he is pretty proud of the A's of today, to-day, he swears that the "best aggregation in baseball history" was the great pennant-winning team Philadelphia fielded in 1911-'12-'13 . . . Home Run Baker, Bak-er, Chief Bender, Eddie Plank ... he knows them all. He used to play as a younger and less busy man. He played second base at West High and for two years was captain of the old Deseret National Bank team which sported such men as Jerry Leaver, Melvin Barnes, Charlie Gardner and Oscar Knudsen. Drafted in 1918 He was drafted in the spring I of 1918 and was released in Feb-1 Feb-1 1, ruary, 1919. He saw duty in Ft. Leavenworth, Camp Kearny and tile Presideo. It is interesting to i note that even a hitch in the army did not break up his outstanding out-standing attendance record in his banking career. He worked right up until noon on the day he left for basic training and he went back to work at the bank the same day he arrived from the Presidio. So his record ofi "on a steady payroll for 35 years" stands. Neal White's pride and faith in his associates at the bank is strong. Without reservation he states, "I think they are the finest, most loyal group of people peo-ple working in any bank anywhere." any-where." It is just like "one big family." He believes that Sugar House has the brightest future of any commuity in the state. He "anticipates" "an-ticipates" that Sugar House will show a steady growth with the population of the city. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Loves his home at 1454 Harrison where he and his wife have lived for 29 years and believes his neighborhood neigh-borhood to be "the most wonderful won-derful neighborhood in the world" . . . Doesn't care for gardening, "In fact, I dislike it" . . . Enjoys light reading at home . . . prefers mysteries . . . He's wary of movies, but enjoys a good one. He never goes to one, though, "unless I've heard from two or three other people that it's a good one . . . He rates I as tops "Mutiny on the Bounty," and "State Fair" . . . Believes i that a good name is one's greatest great-est heritage. . . the wages he paid each employe. Besides each name he writes the worker's social security number. The Social Security Administrations Administra-tions gets the figures from these 1 reports. |