Marc A. White
June 8, 1921 - April 1, 2017
WHITE, Marc A., of Cambridge, MA, died peacefully, surrounded by family members, in hospice care at the Veteran’s Affairs Hospital in Brockton on Saturday, April 1.
Born June 8, 1921 in Rochester, NY, the second of four children of Francis Xavier White and Josephine Mary (Rafter) White, he was an avid baseball player through his grade school and high school years. He graduated from Arlington (MA) High School in 1939 as class valedictorian.
Mr. White attended Harvard College, where he matriculated in the fall of 1939 as a member of the class of 1943. He took summer courses in order to graduate early in 1942 so he could join the war effort with the U.S. Navy.
After attending Midshipmen’s School at Columbia University and Mine Warfare School in Yorktown, VA, Mr. White served as Supply Officer, Gunnery Officer, Communications Officer, Navigator, Executive Officer and Commanding Officer on Navy minesweepers in the Caribbean and, by the war’s end, in the Pacific.
After leaving the Navy as a Lieutenant in 1946, Mr. White attended the University of Virginia School of Law. After graduating in 1948 with an L.L.B., he took a position as a clerk for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice James J. Ronan. After two years in Chicago as a trial attorney with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (now the IRS), Mr. White moved to Washington D.C. in 1951 and went into private practice, focusing on corporate finance law.
In 1953, Mr. White met Mary LaBonté at a party in Georgetown. They married on January 2, 1954 in her hometown of Ithaca, NY and returned to Washington D.C.. From 1958 to 1967, Mr. White was General Counsel of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). In the following years, he served as a partner in three law firms, and regularly took on securities law cases for the SEC and the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
From 1979 until 1993, he served as an independent director of Merrill Lynch funds and split time between corporate and administrative law practice in Ithaca, NY and Washington, D.C.. From 1995 until 2002, Mr. White served as a federal administrative law judge for the Office of Hearings and Appeals in New York before moving to Cambridge, where he continued to practice law. He was a member of the Bar of Massachusetts, Illinois, the District of Columbia, New York and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. White is survived by his wife Mary L. White, his children Hope A. White, Marc A. White, Jr. (and Stephanie), Peter L.White (and Mary), Christopher L. White (and Sofi), Nicholas B. White (and Max), and eleven grandchildren. His son Gregory L. White is recently deceased (survived by wife Hunter and their five children).
A Funeral Mass will be held at 12Noon on Saturday, April 8 at St. Paul Church, 29 Mt. Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138. Mr. White’s burial will be held in the spring at St. Genevieve’s Cemetery, Shoreham, VT next to his son Gregory.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Mr. White’s memory to Perkins School for the Blind, 175 North Beacon St., Watertown, MA 02472; and to The Keewaydin Foundation in Memory of Gregory L. White, 950 West Shore Rd., Salisbury, VT 05769 or http://keewaydin.org.