from the August 4, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle<\/p>\n
Norwich, VT \u2013 G. Walter Woodworth, the Leon E. Williams Professor of Finance and Banking Emeritus at Dartmouth\u2019s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, died Friday, July 16 in Norwich after a long illness.\u00a0 He was 90.<\/p>\n
An authority on money, finance and banking, Professor Woodworth began his teaching career in 1925 as an instructor of economics at the University of Michigan.\u00a0 In 1930 he joined the Tuck School faculty as assistant profefssor of finance, and was promoted to full professor in 1938, teaching at Tuck until 1952.\u00a0 From 1952-59 he was a professor of finance at the University of Michigan, and 1959-1962 served as the F.M. Bailey Professor of Finance and Banking at the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n
He returned to the tuck School from 1962-1968 as the Williams Professor of Finance and Banking, and concluded his teaching career as a visiting professor of banking and finance at the University of Oregon in 1969-70.\u00a0 Woodworth was born on March 1, 1903 in Delphos, Kansas.\u00a0 He was elected to Phi beta Kappa honor sociery and received a bachelor\u2019s degree from Kansas Wesleyan University in 1924; he also earned a master\u2019s degree from the University of Kansas in 1925 and a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1932.<\/p>\n
In 1950, Woodworth received an honorary doctor of business administration degree from Kansas Wesleyan.\u00a0 He married the former Elizabeth (Betty) Cunningham on Sept. 4, 1926 in Mankato, Kansas.\u00a0 The Woodworths supported a foster child in the Philippines, Jonathan Sanchez; Woodworth was also the long time guardian of George Sampson, who lived in the Woodworth\u2019s home.\u00a0\u00a0 Active in community and civic affairs in Hanover and Norwich, Woodworth was the senior member of the Hanover Rotary Club and in 1992 became a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.<\/p>\n
He was a member of the finance committee, the board of directors and chairman of the Norwich Development Association; and was a trustee of The Dartmouth Savings Bank.\u00a0 He was a longtime member of the Norwich Congregational Church.\u00a0 He was a member of the American Finance Association, serving on its board of directors in 1957-58, and of the American Economic Association.\u00a0 He served as public interest director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston in 1951-52.<\/p>\n
Among his publications are four books: Principles of Money and Banking (1937); The Monetary and Banking System (1950); The Detroit Money Market (1956) and The Money Market and Monetary Management (1965).\u00a0 Woodworth is survived by his wife, of Norwich; and a sister, Helen Schopp, of San Luis Obispo, Calif.\u00a0 Memorial contributions may be made to the Norwich Congregational Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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