117 in our economic world”. A resolution was also passed allowing the Board to appoint independent public accountants to perform certain auditing duties. In May of 1979, by-laws were changed to set a mandatory retirement age of 75 for new Board members (the present Board members were grandfathered). Mr. McGehee was elected President, succeeding Mr. McWilliams, Sr. Mr. McWilliams, Jr. was promoted to Executive Vice President. In August of 1979, Mr. Burch resigned his Board seat and the decision was made to raze the Russell house for $6,000. In 1980, Mr. McGehee resigned from the Presidency on May 1st. Mr. A. Garland Williams was elected President. Word was received on July 22, 1980 of the death of Mr. Moore. The Board responded with a memorial resolution: Whereas, in the early evening of Tuesday, July 22, 1980; the members of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Clarke County became aware of the departure from our midst of E. Blackburn Moore, their Chairman and most valuable Director; he having answered the final summons on this earth of our Merciful Heavenly Father; and Whereas, the Bank of Clarke County has sustained a great loss in the death of its highly esteemed Chairman of the Board of Directors, E.Blackburn Moore, who served the Bank with astuteness from the 25th day of August, 1932, as a Director, and as its Chairman of the Board from the 8th day of January, 1970 until his demise; and Whereas, we the Directors who survive desire to make and record this formal expression of our lamentation at his departure from our midst; our testimony to his character and usefulness to this Bank; and our knowledge of the late E. Blackburn Moore; and Whereas, we who commiserate with each other in the passing of his most unusual Gentleman; we feel it is fitting to record an observation of a sustaining factor in the successful life of this individual in his many fields of endeavors. Dorothy Parker Moore, wife a E. Blackburn Moore, never faltered in causing her life to harmonize with his dedication of service to this Commonwealth of Virginia and the demands of his many varied business interests, plus the Most Important Assignment of All to him and Mrs. Moore, the raising successfully of three very attractive daughters, namely: “Dottie”, now Mrs. Dorothy M. Cash; “Louise”, now Mrs. Bruce K. Nelson, and “Peggy”, now Mrs. William H. Lawrence, III, and Whereas, we the survivors of this Board of Directors of which the late E. Blackburn Moore was a member for over 47 years as heretofore noted desire to focus pardonable pride on a factual matter that the people of this Community of Clarke, who were then members of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Clarke County and have now gone on to their reward; were appraised early and recognize the sterling qualities and unusual abilities of this Gentleman who was to become known as “The Boy From Clarke” and who was later to graduate to The Speaker of the House, of this Commonwealth of Virginia, about whom reams have