Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-03

banking career in Baltimore, he
soon come to the Capital.
Mr.. Jacobsen has served on many
important committees of the District
Bankers Association and at present
is a member of the Washington
Clearing House Associations Execu-
tive Committee He is a director
as we'll as an officer in the Metro
politan.
F.. E. Hildebrand, another veteran
member of the banks staff, who
was made a vice president, is
native of Maryland but has long
been a resident of the Capital. He
was educated in the public schools
here and attended National Law
School, His promotion was from
the position of an assistant cashier,
to which he was appointed in 1880.
Election of Mr.. Stokes to fill the
position of cashier was another ad-
vancement based on merit. Mr..
Stokes has been an assistant cashier.
Before his affiliation with the bank
in 1884, he was a national bank
examiner, much of the time being
located in West Virginia. He is a
Washingtonian and was educated
here.
Tribute Paid Mr.. White.
In addition to the official changes
made yesterday, the directors also
paid a glowing tribute to Mr.. White.
Resolutions praising his long career
as a financier were adopted as fol-
lows:
Resolved, That George Whiteney
White, from the time of his entrance
into the banking business in the Ma
tional Metropolitan Bank in the
year 1885, starting at the bottom of
the ladder at the age of Is years,
and rising through sheer merit to
the presidency of the bank, signal
lied each and every position he was
engaged in by unsurpassed excel
lence, and justly merited the final
goal.
His natural modesty robbed him
of the reward he so well deserved
for the charity and benevolence
which he took pains to hide from
the public gaze. To this and to his
exemplary business and domestic
life we wish to pay belated tribute
las an outstanding citizen of
Washington he did much for the
city in his wise counsel and Coop
Grafton in all civic movements that
added to the Identification and
prestige of the Capital City of the
Nation"
The Metropolitan's present board
of directors includes Louis D. Bliss,
William F. Guide, A. A. Hoehling,
C. F. Jacobsen, Charles Jacobsen,
o. H. P. johnson, r. M. Kaufman,
DR.. j. Thomas Kelley, jr, Otis b.
Kent, Major Henry Leonard, Felix
Morley, Frank F. Nesbit, Arthur A..
OBrien, C.. F. R. Ogilby, Donald
D. Shepard, Merle Thorpe, Henry
A. Willard, End, Stanley D. Willis
and w. K. Wimsatt.
Pratt Again Heads Equitable.
Walter S. Pratt, jr, who has been
connected with the Equitable Co.
operative Building Association for
80 years and president since 1885,
was reelected to that Office at the
annual meeting held late yesterday
Other officers elected included
Harry G. Meem, president of the
Washington Loan & Trust Co., vice
president; Gilbert Grosvenor, vice
president; E. L. McAleer, secretary,
and j. Harold Mcdowell, assistant
secretary.
-Four directors, whose terms of
Office expired, were reelected:
Charles H. Doing, Frank j. Stryker,
Arthur Peter and Theodore w.
Moves. The other board members
are Ralph P. Barnard Gilbert
Grosvenor, Arthur B. Heaton, Rob-
ert L. Lewis, Edward L. McAleer
Mr.. Meem. Mr.. Pratt and Wilson
L. Townsend.
Secretary McAleer reported that
assets of the company are now at the
highest point since the Equitable
was founded SO years aso, being in
excess Of $7,700,000. The association
is a member of the United States
Building and Loan League as well
as the District Building and Loan
League.