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ROGER W. CARNEY
Success
and high position in civic and professional life come naturally to Roger W.
Carney. When he entered the real estate
business as a broker in 1947, his gross sales totaled $100,000. His firm, Carney Realty, at 900 East Las
Tunas Drive in San Gabriel, California, grossed more than $1,000,000 in the
fiscal year 1960 – 1961.
A
past president of the Alhambra District Board of Realtors, Mr. Carney has been
present for every meeting of the board and its board of directors for the past
five years. He was its first
vice-president in 1958, second vice-president in 1957 and secretary in 1956.
Mr.
Carney also has the distinction of not having missed a meeting of the California
Real Estate Association’s Board of Directors or any of the CREA conventions
during the past five years. He has been
a CREA director since 1959. He served
the CREA in 1959 as a member of the Nominating Committee and of the Convention
Committee. He was a
1960 – 1961 member of the Education Editorial Board of CREA Magazine.
Publicity
was provided the CREA by Mr. Carney in 1960 as vice-chairman of the
South-Realtor Public Relations Committee and in 1961 as chairman of the CREA
Realtor Public Relations Committee. He
worked on the CREA Membership Committee and the Constitution By-laws Committee
for 1961. Mr. Carney was unanimously
nominated by the presidents of the Alhambra, Arcadia, Pasadena, San Marino,
Monrovia, and South Pasadena Real Estate Boards, to serve as 16th
District Regional Vice-President of the California Real Estate Association for
the year 1962.
Local
government and civic organizations have also sought Mr. Carney’s capable
services. The Rotary Club of San Gabriel
elected Mr. Carney to its board of directors for 1960 – 1961. He was asked to serve as chairman of the
Finance Sub-committee of the San Gabriel Mayors’ Committee in 1959.
Mr.
Carney was chairman of the San Gabriel Heart Fund Drive for 1954, president of
the Little League in 1954, and a Scout Master of a San Gabriel Boy Scout troop
in 1950. A member of the San Gabriel
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Carney has attended the San Gabriel City Council
meetings faithfully for three years.
In
addition to his memberships in the Alhambra District Board of Realtors and the
California Real Estate Association, Mr. Carney holds memberships in the San
Gabriel Valley Multiple, the National Association of Real Estate Boards and the
National Institute of Real Estate Brokers.
Real
estate has not always been Mr. Carney’s occupation. From 1927 – 1931 he drove trucks; he worked
as a postal carrier between 1931 and 1942.
He served as a staff sergeant in the United States Marine Corps at San
Diego for three years.
One
year after he started selling real estate in 1947, he displayed his own shingle
as a real estate broker in an office at 8802 East Las
Tunas Drive in San Gabriel. He moved his
business to the present address in 1958 and now employs two persons full time.
Mr.
Carney was born on November 25, 1909, in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He is the son of Pearl and Grace Louise
(Jack) Carney. He came to California in
1916. Prior to his 1927 graduation from
Franklin High School in the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, he attended
Selma Elementary School in Hollywood, California.
Miss
Beatrice Keane became Mr. Carney’s wife on August 3, 1940, in Los Angeles,
California. Mrs. Carney, a native of Los
Angeles, is a past president and member of the Native Daughters of the Golden
West. She is a den mother of a Cub Scout
pack in San Gabriel and a member of the San Gabriel Parent-Teachers’
Association.
The
Carney’s are the parents of two sons.
George was born in 1943. Upon his
graduation from San Gabriel High School, George was nominated by California
Congressman George Kasem to the United States
Military Academy at West Point, New York.
He was also appointed to the United Sates Merchant Marine Academy at
Kings Point, New York, by Senator Claire Engle of California. He accepted the latter appointment. David was born in 1946 and is a student at
San Gabriel High School.
Mr.
Carney attends the San Gabriel First Methodist Church. He feels that the ethical code of the
National Association of Real Estate Boards is very important and that it should
be applied to personal life.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Pages 796-798, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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