• John Pace, Pete Peyton and Dick Ridenhour new hire photos August 1981

  • July 1981 Scott Krewson (left to right); Gary Sluder, Jeff Weavil, Brenda Diggs and Will Mann (letting the photographer know they placed # 1 in the Chamber's drive for new members)

  • Ben Wright 1986

  • May 1974. Betty McDonald, Church Street office, with Dalton Ruffin. Betty was presented a framed portrait of herself -- pic taken by Karsh of Ottawa, Canada who was the photographer for Wachovia's '73 annual report

  • 1989 Arnold Palmer, Clarence Goings (thanks to Clarence for submitting this picture)

  • 1976 Ellen Ould, Mary Boaz, Robbie Caudle

  • Annie Carter, Diane Jester, Joan Perrell, 1976

  • 1994 Kathy Brandt

  • New hire photos Wayne Choplin, General Services Bill Christie, Natinal Banking Feb. 1974

  • George Hayworth 1991

  • Isaiah Tidwell 1994

  • Bill Hamlet, Gene Wood, Pete Peyton 1988

  • 1990 David Cotterill, Rob McGehee, Kathy Brandt, Jack Frost

  • Donna Hamill 1987

  • Jane McAllister, Debbie Wall 1986 Beth Bealle

  • April 1983 3 mortgage experts...Chuck Dahlgren, Joe Parker & George Hayworth

  • June 1997 Jefferson Bankshares to merge with Wachovia Bud Baker with Jefferson Bankshares Chairman Hovey Dabney, Wachovia CFO Bob McCoy and Jefferson CEO (and former Wachovian) Kenton McCartney

  • Bob Noble 1988

  • Dale Chilton 1987

  • 1975 Bob Schweitzer, Teresa Whicker New hire photos

  • Dennis Lee 1991

  • Mike Thompson, Legal, and Bill Reavis, Control 1985

  • Jan 1977 7 SVPs named Hugh Durden, Lee Swanson, Perry Turner, Bud Baker, John Ferguson, Ken Lawder, Dodson Mathias

  • 1987 Jack Meckler, Paul Boone

  • 1976 Dodson Mathias

  • 1964 Graham Dozier, Barbara Lomax, Sam Matthews, Steve Phelps, David Cotterill

  • 1993 John McLean

  • 1976 Darla Clark, a 'dog gone' good artist

  • Sandra Beeson, Dick Fox, 1972

  • Charles Reavis, 1981

  • 1986 Mike Davis and Jim Shields

  • Dan Borasch New hire photo 1976

  • Chip Mahan's new hire photo. (early 70s) (I forgot to write down the year).

  • David Cotterill 1985

  • Orville Haskett, Stan Striplin 1988

  • Charles McAnally 1989

  • Wachovia Services softball team (WN Oct 1974) (back row, l to r: Bo Brookby, Tom Johnson, Brad Niven, Bob Davis, Ken Burnett, Bill Johnson, Ken Earwood, Joe Ternavan. Front row: (from left) Sam Matthews, Ben Young, Tim Duff, Ron Humphries and Art Johnsen

  • Jackie Kiser, Betty Latham 1973 new hire photos

  • Judy Vernon, 1973 new hire photo

  • Jerry Haymore 1986

  • July 1976. Over 160 years of service shown here: Jimmy Harrington, Doris Seagraves, Gladys Wagner, Dennis Tesh, and Paul Burke

  • Alan Frazier mid 1980

  • October 1976 Ed Timberlake (Standing) --Chip Mahan (far left), and John McLean (seated on right) That might be Besty Myrick from Raleigh seated between John and Ed Is that Bud next to John? Would love help identifying others --

  • Kate Mundorf and Bill Christie 1986

  • Jim Bunn, 1972

  • John McLean 1993

  • Jean Blanton, Payroll 1988

  • Pat Micthell, Betsy Ingram, Pat Jenkins (now Meckler); 1975

  • Feb 1974 Tut Bennett displaying new savings passbook and service brochures

  • Dec 1975: Esther Rockette and Gladys Vanhoy

  • International bankers 1988 Don Carson, Marion Jones, Jack Clayton, Sam Moss

  • 1989 Mary Gallagher, Tom Hardwick, Dale Chilton, Rocky Aydlett, Ed Cooper Mary Joyner, Dave Bowdish, David Bellinger

  • 1990 Dave Cotterill, Rob McGehee, Kathy Brandt, Jack Frost

  • Robert Hunter, storage specialist 1983

  • 1985 Harry Osborne, Tom Bailey, Ron Black, Bill Scales, Muriel Reece, Bob Davis, Milt Price Seated: Janet Smith, Sue Jones, Orville Haskins, Barbara Henelt

  • Chicago office staff (missing from photo: Bob Schweitzer) L to R: Lisa Glosniak, Carolyn Eaves (now Davidson), Helen Waliczek, and Virginia Hepner.

  • 1983 Building begins on the West End Center Employees won the chance to attend ceremony. Winners include Beverly Parker, Janet Stephens, Beattie Seats, and Opal Henighan - flanked by Dave Cotterill and John Medlin

  • Feb 1991 Jim Moorefield, General Svcs; Bert Whittington, building engineer, and Stu Claassen, Operational services

  • May 1974 Wachovia Silver - a baskeball team sponsored by Wachovia, and a champtionship winner. Pics w/ the trophy are (l to r) Jeff Rumple, Perry STudivant, Harry Lankenau, Brian Kitchen, Chip Mahan, Bo Brookby, Frank Justis

  • 1993 Bill Bardin, Lindy Cockman, T Bailey, John Civils

  • Nov 1975 Bill Huffman, General Services, received a special citation from the US Postal Service for his efforts as chairperson for the WS Postal Customer Council

  • 1986 Verda Hennis, Sanford Leake, Jerry Wheeler, Joyce Gossett

  • Feb 1996 That's Isaiah Tidwell competing in a hoola hoop contest..... Tricycle race includes Rosa Still, Mary Ann Bowes and Jo Mooney

  • Jan 1983 Bond & Money Market staff - L to R: Pat Jordan, Shirley Ballance, Aldine Griggs, Gail Thomasson, Pat Palmer, Kathy Hole, Margaret Hovey, Marjorie Plowden, Sue Setser

  • 1971 Coliseum office staff L to R: Jo Ann Thomas, Brenda Diggs, Brenda Stewart, Ann Brown, and Julia Crawley

  • John Pass

  • Janice Childress Westmoreland 1976

  • David Pope, Mike Ryan; 1994

  • Harry Osborne, Bill Mustin, Jerry Gilbert 1987

  • Powell Winstead, WS; Edna Wells (Morganton office), Jim Cothran 1986

  • Freddie Marshall 1983

  • 1985 George Fain, Bill Lyerly, Darryl Reader, Betty Redmond, Bob Edwards and Larry Hunsucker

  • Clayton Boggan 1982

  • 1989 A strong team of successful bankers

  • Graham King, Pauline Hedgecock, Dave McGlothian, Debra Cunningham, Jean Holtzclaw, 1975

  • Joe Prendergast 1994

  • 1989 Sam Tallman

  • Pat McHone, Paula Nifong, Elizabeth Odgen 1973 new hire photo

  • Year not known - around '73/'74. Student Loan division: (l to r) Jerry Donaway, David Bowdish. Back row, l to r: Al Pearce, Ron Humphries, Dan Ackley and Al Mixon

  • Richard Prensner 1986

  • Gary Thompson, 1974

  • George Newsome 1985

  • Victor Harris, Dean Browder, Ken Clark 1988

  • ACH Customer Service June 1979 Front: Jamie Stable, Connie Fennell, Carol Peteritas and Terita Miller. In back: Lisa Jackson, Casey Sloan, Greg Clifton, Audrey Lamkin and Bridget Bethea

  • 1988 Ralph Strayhorn, John Warren Legal Dept

  • Nancy Wilson 1995

  • Jan 1984. Marketing Research. L to R: Carolyn Simmons, Melanie Hinson, Karen Raliski,Connie Sharpe, Pat Phelps, Beth Davis, Chuck Niedringhaus, Wilma Lowry

  • Anne Gardner (now Baldwin) 1976

  • Dec 1984 Jim Hewett, Cecil Miller, Cary Nelson and Al Pierce

  • Nov 1982 Mark Wilson, Wilma James

  • Dec 1981 Retiree party Top pic: On right -- Doris Stones. Would love to know who the lady on left is. Bottom pic: Help again. Shirley House on far right....

  • John Ferguson Rick Nicks 1993

  • Mike Tierney 1994

  • August 1982 Wachovia's legal counsel..... l to r seated: Patricia Pegram, Ralph Strayhorn, John Loughridge, Sterling Spainhour. Standing: left: Mike Thompson,; John Warren

  • Chet Nations Eden Office Executive 1976

  • Irma aka the Irmanater and Rick Winger - new hire photos. April 1974

  • Halloween 1992 Launched by the Piedmont Op Center's Research & Adj grou, and calling themselves "Hartsemas Hit Men (after Doug Hartsema) -- the staff dressed as gangsters and pitched in to rent a limo so they could arrive at work in style..The last employee to arrive was the Godfather himself - John Medlin

  • Rick Armstrong , Sara Massey 1984

  • James Gregg 1986

  • 1975 "Pardon Me Boys, Is that the Jerry Maney Choo Choo"

  • Mike Weisman, Vickie Perall, Merle Summers, Dave Hole, 1975

  • Atlanta office of Wachovia Operational Services Corp. 1984 Hector McEachern, John Hohn, Jan Walters, Steve Kelley, Tom Parrish, Charles Hartsook, Joe Lanier, Ann Watkins, Melinda McLeod, Ginger Combs, Jan Shaffer> (insert photo: Mike Morgan), Charlotte.

  • Martha Synder, 1976

  • "The Big Day" Dec. 1982 issue of Wachovia News John Medlin congratulates Dick Stone of Bond, and Martha Sechler of the Clemmons office after the surprise announcement they were the two most outstanding referrers during the year.

  • 1988

  • Wachovia Services' Oct '74 : Bill Johnson with (from left) Vicky Lewandowski, Anne-Marie Miller, Becky Lytle, Karen Prevette & Brenda Adams

  • James Crutchfield, Cathy Lanier, Jim Gross, Janice Kimel, Richard Settle, Bob Latham

  • Larry Biggs 1984

  • 1993 Jim Brewer, Ken McAllister, David Cotterill, Hugh Durden

  • 1970 Surrounding John F. Watlington, Pres. and Archie K. Davis, Chairman of the board are: L to R: Thomas W. Williams, Jr., auditor; John W. Garrett III, SVP, Personnel Administration; James H Newbury, SVP, Marketing Administration; Bland W Worley, EVP, Banking Division; James H Styers, EVP, Funds Management Div.; JFW, AKD, Edward T. Shipley, EVP Control and Ops Div.,; R. G. Page, r., SVP, Trust Div. (thanks to Clarence Goings for the picture)

  • Computer programmers....1982 Tom Bailey, Harold Ellington, Janet Smith, Mike Nelson

  • Carol Doty, National Banking 1976

  • 1964 Linda Roper, Ron Dickson, Dieneke Nieuwenhuis

  • Les Sari, 1976

  • Bill Baggett and John Civils mid 1980s

  • Jack Sickling and Kevin Murphy 1991

  • Shack McSwaim, Personal Trust, Ray Cope, Charitable Funds 1987

  • 1993 Ken Torreyson

  • Cheryl Wilson, 1984 Wachovia Services, Student Loan

  • June 1976 Doris Warpole, Clayton Lovell, Ken Torreyson

  • May 1975. Receipients of awards @ WS Jayceees 46th annual Inaugural Banquet L to r: Dave Addision (Keyman Award); Don Murfee (Blue Chip Award); Dave Roberts, (Jaycee of the Year); and Clayton Lovell, Presidential Award

  • Bill Deane, 1981

  • Dec 83. a plane crash in Nov 83 claimed the life of its pilot - and sent 194,000 checks destined for banks all over the country to have a need to be reconstructed. Pictured here are our Old Gang members Cheray Leake Hensley and Barbara Groce doing their part

  • Wilma Lowry, 1986

  • Richard Miller, Chris Gammons, Alice McNeill 1990

  • Jean Miller (now Harpe) 1986

  • Jan Walters, 1976

  • 1986 Terri Diekroeger

  • Robert McCoy 1984

  • Wachovia comes from the German word "Wachau", the name given to the tract of land settled by Moravian colonists in what is now Piedmont NC

  • Beverly Wells, Dick Snelsire 1993

  • Jim McGinnis, 1990

  • Mebane Davis and Graham Dozier 1985

  • 1991 Mindy Kutchei, Mike Stephens, Dick Snelsire, Kathy Markland

  • Hilliard Carter, Raleigh 1984

  • Mary Church, Joanna Nifong (with client John Piirotte) 1984

  • Nov 82. Wachovians across the state attending Jack Meckler's "First Friday" seminar (Jack is seen in the small photo to the left) (woman on right is a guest speaker, not a colleage) : Tom White, John Frizzell, Don Truslow, Bill Christie, Lee Williams, Linda Thompson, Pete Peyton....and I think I recognize the back of Jack Clayton, Virginia Hepner and Sara Stephens??

  • Lloyd Abbot, 1985

  • 1985 Tom Bennett, Bill Baggett, Durwood Everett, David Swann

  • John Appel, Elizabeth Sloan, Alan Johnson, 1988

  • 1986 John Frizzell, Mark Harden

  • Sept 1964 John F Watlington (thanks to Clarence Goings for the picture)

  • Jimmy Harrington 1985

  • December 1984 Sam Northrop, Frank Spence, Harvey Huffman and Pat Blankenship

  • Wachovia News Dec 1976 Wachovia National Bank's Chief Executives 1879-1882 W.F. Bowman 1882-1906 W.A. Lemly 1906-1911 James A Gray Wachovia Loan and Trust Co, 1893-1911 Col Francis H Fries Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. 1911-1931 Col Francis H Fries 1931-1956 Robert M Hanes 1956-1976 John F Watlington, Jr 1977-1993 John G Medlin *Irma's personal footnote: my grandfather, James Harvey Wilson, Sr worked for Wachovia Bank and Trust in Asheville, NC 1922-1924 - and met Col Fries on a couple of occasions.........

  • Margaret Nunn, 1982

  • June 1975 Burke Barbee, Personnel -

  • Herman Shamel, mid 1970s

  • Nov 1973.....Sharing ideas for the club's first meeting are Helen Baker (wife of Jack ), Judy Oates (wife of Rudy)and Sunny Griffin (wife of Mike) The club is an organization of wives of Wachovians in the WS area. Its chief objectives are to welcome new Wachovia families to the community, to promote pride in Wachovia, and to learn more about The Wachovia Corporation

  • 1976 Wanda Banks, Susan Parrish

  • Vernon Garrett, Raleigh 1986

  • Patti Parker 1986

  • March 1975 Nancy Jones, Gary Leonard New hire photos

  • Libba Knight, Pat Smith, Brenda Sink, Susan Sams, 1972

  • October 1993 Brokerage - celebrating 10th anniverary L to R: Ellen Sartin, Tom Callaghan, Cindy Vernon, Joan Bridges, Doris Jones

  • Darrell Newton 1994

  • 1988 L to R: Tom Thorpe, John Murray, Control; Gwen Jolley, Bill Dean, Gary Stone - Systems Dev.; Al DeForest, Sandra Mull, Control

  • Nora Williard 1976

  • Personal Banker Program wins Golden Coin Award of 1974: (l to r) John McNair, Jim Brewer, Kay Teeter, John Watlington, Jack Tischler