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Roger Bourke White Jr.
Roger Bourke White Jr. is the oldest of two sons of Roger Bourke White and Anne D. White. He was born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the US Army in Vietnam in 1968 as an Air Traffic Controller. He graduated from MIT in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemical Engineering. He graduated from the University of Phoenix with an Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Organizational Behavior in 1986.
He worked for two years on the Space Shuttle Booster, and for 15 years in the computer industry. He started ComputerLand of Salt Lake and was one of the first employees of Novell Inc.--now a billion dollar company. Mr. White is a businessman, a writer, a teacher, a salesman, a scientist, a philosopher and a story teller. He is currently on sabbatical from the computer industry. He is spending a year teaching English in Korea.
Mr. White enjoys playing many kinds of sports, but he watches few. He currently plays tennis and ice skates. His current hobbies are photography, sightseeing Korea and working with his computer.
Mr. White was married for twelve years and is now divorced. His four children and ex-wife live in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. White supports his children, and loves them dearly.
Mr. White is 190cm tall and weighs 130Kg. Since arriving in Korea he's been loosing about 1Kg a week. If this continues he will weigh about 105Kg when his teaching tour ends in October. Mr. White likes tall, young, intelligent women, and he is interested in marrage because he wants more children.
Mr. White's plans for what happens when he finishes teaching are not firm. He may return directly to the computer industry in the US, or he may stay in Korea for a while to facilitate Korean-American business deals.
Father: Roger Bourke White
Roger Bourke White graduated from MIT in Mechanical Engineering. He worked in the steel industry for many years as a technical salesman. He then started his own company, Glastic, manufacturing fiberglass electrical insulators. He was a pioneering inventor. Glastic was one of the first companies to make fiberglass electrical insulators. The company reached $20 million in sales before he sold it. He then helped start two more companies that manufactured products from fiberglass and rubber. He is now retired and an active Go (Paduk) player.
Aunt: Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke White was a pioneer in photography. She was one of the first photojournalists. She was one of the first photographers hired by Fortune magazine and later Life magazine--two of the largest circulation magazines in the US during the thirties, forties and fifties. She traveled around the world photographing news events and prominent people during the Second World War. She also spent several months photographing events in the Korean War.
Aunt: Ruth White
Ruth White was the personal secretary to the Chairman of the American Bar Association. She managed many day-to-day affairs at the ABA.
Grandfather: Joseph Edward White
Joseph White was an inventor and engineer who pioneered developments in the four-color printing press area. He was a prominent engineer in the New Jersey area, and had two daughters and a son. Only his son, Roger, had more children.
The Whites come from England, Ireland and Germany. For more information about the White side of the family see "The Biography of Margaret Bourke-White."
Mother: Anne D. White (maiden name, Meyer)
Anne White was active as a volunteer in many social groups in the Cleveland, Ohio area. She knows many prominent people in the industrial, medical, legal and cultural circles of the Cleveland, Ohio area.
The Meyers came from Germany. After the family arrived in the US, various members made their fortune in brick manufacturing and merchandising, and light bulb manufacturing.
Brother: Jonathan "Toby" Bourke White
Toby White graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1978. He worked in banking for many years, then he started a company that sells mini computers. He is married and has two children. He lives in Michigan.