Nate White

White was born on March 10, 1910, in Ohio to John S. and Grace R. White."United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLNJ-DXG : accessed 23 February 2019), Nathaniel R White in household of John S White, Union, Brown, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 23, sheet 4A, family 86, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1157; FHL microfilm 1,375,170.

He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1931.{{Cite news |url=https://dlynx.rhodes.edu/jspui/bitstream/10267/21128/2/Southwestern_News_1957_vol19_no6_complete.pdf |title=Class of 1931 |date=July 1957 |work=Southwestern News |access-date=February 21, 2019 |issue=6 |volume=XIX |page=7 |format=PDF}}{{Cite news |url=https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1bd05bz145o |title=Notices |date=July 12, 1969 |work=Christian Science Sentinel |access-date=February 22, 2019 |issue=28 |volume=71}}

White joined the Falmouth Outlook in Falmouth, Kentucky, in 1932 and rose to the position of editor.{{Cite news |url=https://newspapers.com/image/103336541/?terms=Nate%2BWhite |title=White called to Boston |date=July 7, 1937 |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |access-date=February 23, 2019 |issue=90 |edition=Kentucky |volume=XCVIL |page=10}}{{Cite news |url=https://newspapers.com/image/392381418/?terms=Nate%2BWhite |title=Column Right! |date=July 4, 1937 |work=The Dayton Herald |access-date=February 23, 2019 |issue=133 |edition=Home |volume=LVIII |page=18}} In 1936, he shared third prize for Best Editorial in a Kentucky daily newspaper from the Kentucky Press Association.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/376058067/?terms=Nate%2BWhite |title=Gracean Pedley's Lyon County Herald has best editorial in state weeklies |date=June 12, 1936 |work=The Owensboro Messenger |access-date=February 23, 2019 |agency=Associated Press |issue=119 |volume=62 |page=4}}

He moved to Boston in 1937 to be a radio news writer for The Christian Science Monitor. He was the Monitor's San Francisco correspondent in the early 1940s.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/commitmenttofree007640mbp/commitmenttofree007640mbp_djvu.txt |title=Commitment to Freedom: The Story of The Christian Science Monitor |last=Canham |first=Erwin D. |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |year=1958 |location=Boston |pages=276, 327–8, 337 |lccn=58-9055}}

White served as a navy officer during World War II from 1942 to 1945.

After the war, he was the director of information for the Committee for Economic Development from 1948 to 1955,{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/213855337/ |title=Talk of the Town |last=LaBorde |first=Adras |date=February 1, 1954 |work=Alexandria Daily Town Talk |access-date=February 21, 2019 |issue=275 |edition=Home Final |volume=LXXI |page=6}} then returned to The Christian Science Monitor as the business and finance editor. He wrote a weekly column called "Trend of the Economy." While at the Monitor, he received two Gerald Loeb Awards for Newspapers: first in 1959 for a series of articles on the problems of recession and recovery,{{Cite web |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/10/91421902.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA®ion=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=75 |title=Writers receive 1959 Loeb Awards |date=June 10, 1959 |website=The New York Times |page=75 |access-date=February 6, 2019}} and again in 1960 for a series titled "Horizons Unlimited: Freedom's Answers."{{Cite news |url=https://newspapers.com/image/229797614/?terms=Loeb%2BAward |title=Sees commanding lead over red output |date=June 9, 1960 |work=Fort Lauderdale News |access-date=February 14, 2019 |page=9-D |via=Newspapers.com}} He was a finalist for the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3CdrctE80IC&dq=%22Nate+White%22+Pulitzer+Prize&pg=PA80 |title=Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917–2000 |last1=Fischer |first1=Heinze-D |last2=Fischer |first2=Erika J. |publisher=K. G. Saur |year=2003 |isbn=3-598-30187-1 |volume=Part F/Volume 17 |location=Munich |page=80 |access-date=February 22, 2019}}

In 1958, he hosted and moderated American Issues, an 18-part television series of 15-minue debates on economic issues produced by WNET and distributed by National Educational Television.{{Cite web |url=https://licensing.wnet.org/files/2017/10/WNET-Licensing-A.pdf |title=WNET Licensing (A's) |date=October 31, 2017 |website=WNET |access-date=February 22, 2019}}

White became the editor of the American Banker in 1962.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/433397377/ |title=New Century Club to hear Nate White |date=February 2, 1962 |work=The Boston Globe |access-date=February 22, 2019 |issue=38 |edition=Evening |volume=CLXXXI |page=6}}

White became a Christian Scientist in 1927 and received his primary class instruction in 1932. He became a public practitioner of Christian Science in 1963. He held various positions in branch churches, including First Reader and chairman of the executive board.

He began serving on the Christian Science Board of Lectureship in 1969, and made a number of lecture tours around the country throughout the 1970s.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/346905993/ |title=White to give lecture |date=June 6, 1974 |work=The Post-Star |access-date=February 22, 2019 |issue=157 |volume=70 |page=17}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/66716164/ |title=Churches schedule guest speakers |date=December 2, 1973 |work=Sunday Journal and Star |access-date=February 22, 2019 |issue=103 |volume=103 |page=11E}}{{Cite web |url=https://cslectures.org/White/The%20Continuity%20of%20Good-White.htm |title=The Continuity of Good |last=White |first=Nathan Ridgway |date=November 17, 1971 |website=cslectures.org |access-date=February 22, 2019}}

White was married to Mary Carolyn Lowndes White."United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9Q7-S12 : 14 March 2018), Nathaniel R White, Tract 6E, Berkeley, Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1-156, sheet 62A, line 21, family, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 190.

He died in Palm Beach, Florida on April 25, 1984."Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVJV-R4R : 25 December 2014), Nathaniel Ridgeway White, 25 Apr 1984; from "Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," index, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : 2004); citing vol., certificate number 39212, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, Jacksonville.

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