Nathaniel ("Nate") Ridgway White was an award-winning journalist known for his business and financial reporting at The Christian Science Monitor. He received the second and third Gerald Loeb Awards for Newspapers, the most prestigious award for business journalism.
White served as a navy officer during World War II from 1942 to 1945.[7]
After the war, he was the director of information for the Committee for Economic Development from 1948 to 1955,[7][8] then returned to The Christian Science Monitor as the business and finance editor.[7] He wrote a weekly column called "Trend of the Economy."[7] 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,[9] and again in 1960 for a series titled "Horizons Unlimited: Freedom's Answers."[10] He was a finalist for the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.[11]
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.[12]
White became a Christian Scientist in 1927 and received his primary class instruction in 1932.[3] He became a public practitioner of Christian Science in 1963.[3][14] He held various positions in branch churches, including First Reader and chairman of the executive board.[3]
He began serving on the Christian Science Board of Lectureship in 1969,[3] and made a number of lecture tours around the country throughout the 1970s.[14][15][16]
^"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.
^"Class of 1931"(PDF). Southwestern News. Vol. XIX, no. 6. July 1957. p. 7. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
^White, Nathan Ridgway (November 17, 1971). "The Continuity of Good". cslectures.org. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
^"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.
^"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.