Gerald was a banker who was so good with his hands he could build a boat or a house. And he did both.

Gerald was born in Los Angeles in 1903. His grandfather was one of the founders of Security Pacific National Bank and it seemed predestined that Gerald ended up spending most of his working life at the bank. He was 31 when Durward Howes invited him to be one of the founding members of the Economic Round Table in 1932.

He attended Glendale High School and then UCLA. After a year, he left UCLA and fin­ished his formal education at Berkeley. He worked in New York briefly, then signed up at Security Pacific and worked there until he retired in 1968 at the age of 65.

Gerald was always interested in real estate development and he was a prime mover in getting Security Pacific to invest in agriculture. He owned dairies himself in the Norwalk area and he had other farming interests. He was a gifted woodworker and one of his major projects was the construction of a boat with his lifelong friend and fellow Rounder, Bob White Sr. The boat was a Swampscott Dory, and the two friends put in so much manual labor, they ended up calling the boat "The Chisel".

Bob White, Jr. remembers "The Chisel" very fondly. He learned to sail in it at the age of six and when he was 17, he and his twin sister won the United States Snipe Class com­petition.

When Gerald retired, he moved to Fallbrook, where he built his own home on his cit­rus ranch. He loved farming and sailing. Although he was a member of Young Republican organizations early on, he was not particularly interested in politics.

Gerald died in 1978 at the age of 75. He is survived by his daughter, Nancy Toll Harris, who lives in Newport Beach.