Walter Evans Hoadley

Background

Hoadley, Walter Evans was born on August 16, 1916 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Walter Evans Senior and Marie Howland (Preece) Hoadley.

Education

Bachelor of Arts California, 1938. Master of Arts, University California, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, 1946.

Degree in communications science, Franklin Marshall College, 1963. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Golden Gate University, 1968. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Pacific, 1979.

Degree (honorary), El Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico, 1974.

Career

Collaborator, United States Bureau Agricultural Economics, 1938-1939; research economist, California Governor's Reemployment Commission, 1939; research economist, California Governor's State Planning Board, 1941; research economist, teaching fellow, University of California, 1938-1941; supervisor industrial management war training office, University of California, 1941-1942; economics adviser, University of Chicago Civil Affairs Training School, 1945; senior economist, Federal Reserve Bank Chicago, 1942-1949; economist, Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1949-1954; treasurer, Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1954-1960; vice president, treasurer, Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1960-1966; director, Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1962-1987; senior vice president, chief economist, member managing committee, Bank of America Northwest Territories & SA, San Francisco, 1966-1968; executive vice president, chief economist, member managing committee, member management advisory council, chairman subsidiary, Bank of America Northwest Territories & SA, San Francisco, 1968-1981; retired, 1981; senior research fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University, since 1981. Deputy chairman Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, 1960-1961, chairman, 1962-1966. Chairman Conference Federal Reserve Chairman, 1966.

Faculty School Banking University of Wisconsin, 1945-1949, 55, 58-66. Adviser various United States Government Agilysys. Wright International Board Economics and Investment Advisors, since 1987.

Special adviser United States Congressional Budget Office, 1975-1987. Member public advisory board unites states department Commerce, 1970-1974. Member White House Review Committee for Balance Payment Statistics, 1963-1965, Presidential Task Force on Growth, 1969-1970, Presidential Task Force on Land Utilization, Presidential Conference on Inflation, 1974.

Governor Committee on Developing American Capitalism,1977-, chairman, 1987-1988. Director Product Lifecycle Management International, 1989-1997, Transisco Industries, Inc., 1981-1995, Davis/Selected/Venture Advisors, 1981-1996.

Achievements

• Walter Evans Hoadley has been listed as a noteworthy economist, financial executive, lay worker by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Methodist Church Commission on World Service and Finance Philadelphia conference, 1957-1964, chairman investment committee, 1964-1966. Board directors, executive committee International Management and Development Institute, 1976-1997. Trustee Pacific School Religion, 1968-1989.

Adviser National Commission to Study Nursing and Nursing Education, 1968-1973. Trustee Duke University, 1968-1973, president's associate, 1973-1980. Trustee Golden Gate University, 1974-1994, chairman investment committee, 1977-1993.

Trustee World Wildlife United States Fund The Conservation Foundation, 1987-1990. Member periodic chairman administrative board Trinity United Methodist Church, Berkeley, California, 1966-1984. Member administrative board, advisor Lafayette (California) United Methodist Church, since 1984.

Member board overseers visiting committee Harvard College Economics, 1969-1974. Chairman investment committee California-Nevada Methodist Foundation, 1968-1975, member, 1976-1991. Member California Governor's Council Economic and Business Development, 1978-1982, chairman, 1980-1982.

Co-chairman San Francisco Municipal Advisory Committee, since 1996, member 1981-1996. Trustee Hudson Institute, 1979-1984. Chairman Bay Area Economic Advisers, since 1982.

Special. adviser Presidential Cabinet Committee Innovation, 1978-1979. Member California State International Advisory Committee, 1986-1994. Regent University California, 1990-1991.

Member advisory council California Environmental Technology Ptnrship., 1993-1994. Member economic advisory council California Institute Federal Policy Research, since 1994. Trustee International House University California, since 1991, Development Committee, since 1994, chairman, 1995-1997.

Fellow American Statistical Association (vice president, board directors 1952-1954, president 1958), National Association Business Economists (San Francisco chapter executive committee since 1989), American Finance Association (board directors 1955-1956, president 1969). Member Conference Business Economists (chairman 1962), Atlantic Council of the United States (board directors since 1985), International Academy Management, since 1980. United States Council for International Business (senior trustee since 1992), Commonwealth Club of California (president 1987, chairman public affairs-committee committee since 1995), American Economic Association, American Marketing Association, American Bankers Association (chairman urban and community affairs committee 1972-1973, member economic advisory council 1976-1978), National Bureau Economic Research (board directors 1965-1981), Western Economic Association (board directors, member steering committee 1966-1994, 97—), University California Alumni Association (president 1989-1991, president class of 1938 since 1988, chairman investment committee 1983-1989, 94-96, Alumnus of Year 1993, Chancellor's Highest award 1999), United States National Committee on Pacific Economic Cooperative (vice chairman 1984-1989, member executive committee 1989-1994), Caux International Roundtable (chairman steering committee 1993-1997), St. Francis Yacht Club, Commonwealth Club, Pacific Union Club, Bankers Club, Silverado Country Club, Phi Beta Kappa Associates (board directors 1986-1995), Kappa Alpha.

Connections

Married Virginia Alm, May 20, 1939. Children: Richard Alm, Jean Elizabeth (Mistress Donald A. Peterson).

Father:

Walter Evans Senior Hoadley

Mother:

Marie Howland (Preece) Hoadley

Spouse:

Virginia Alm

child:

Richard Alm Hoadley

child:

Jean Elizabeth Hoadley (Mistress Donald A. Peterson)