Stuart D. Root

Background

Root, Stuart Dowling was born on October 14, 1932 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States. Son of Elton Albert and Virginia Saxton (Dowling) Root.

Education

Ohio Wesleyan University (Bachelor of Arts, 1955). Columbia University (Bachelor of Laws, 1960).

Career

Worked at Tompkins & Root. Admitted to the bar, 1960, New New York 1965, United States. Claims Court.

Member, White House Conference on Thrift Industry, 1982.

Executive Director, Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, 1987-1988. Author: "Trading System for Mortgages Must Clear Securities and Exchange Commission Restrictions," Securities and Exchange Commission 1974 (New York Law Journal, co-author, Thomas A. Russo).

"All-Savers: Quo Vadis?" American Banker, January 29, 1982. "Savings: Today"s Economic Rosetta Stone," Outlook (of the FHLBB), July/August 1985 at 28.

"A Conventional Mortgage Market: Necessity or Fantasy," Outlook, July/August 1986 at 28.

"FSLIC"s 1988 Transactions—A Reprise," Texas Lyceum Journal, Winter 1990/1991 at 6. "Suitability—The Sophisticated Investor—and Modern Portfolio Management," 1991 Colonel.Bus.L.Rev. Number. 3; "Bank Capital, Asset Liquidation and the Credit Crunch," 1992 Colonel.Bus.L.Rev.

Number.

2; "The Three C"s of Bank Capital: Convergence, Conundrums and Contrariness," 1994 Colonel.Bus.L.Rev.

Achievements

• Stuart Dowling Root has been listed as a reputable Lawyer, banker and government official by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman board directors Harlem School Arts, New York City, 1974-1983, trustee emeritus, since 1984. Board directors Open Space Institute, 1976-1980, 84-87, 89—, National Choral Society New York City, 1981-1986, Canterbury Choral Society, New York City. Trustee New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1981-1985.

Public interest director Federal Home Loan Bank New York, New York City, 1985-1987. With United States Army, 1955-1957. Member Century Association (New York City).

Interests

• Avocations: liturgical music, fly fishing, golf.

Connections

Married Jean D. Youse, December 28, 1957 (divorced January 1972). Children: Bryan, Kathleen, Timothy, Todd. Married Patricia Stoneman Graff, April 24, 1976.

Father:

Elton Albert Root

Mother:

Virginia Saxton (Dowling) Root

Spouse:

Jean D. Youse

Spouse:

Patricia Stoneman Graff

child:

Bryan Root

child:

Kathleen Root

child:

Timothy Root

child:

Todd Root