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Business as usual?
Dr. Marion J. Wolfe Sr. conducts business as usual at Merchants Bank, as he has done for the past 43 years.
Surprise!
It was an ordinary trip to the bank until.
Dr. Marion J. Wolfe Sr. of Bay St. Louis entered Merchants Bank and Trust Co. Monday to conduct business as usual, as he has done for the past 43 years, but this time was treated to more than a smile and pleasant conversation from the teller.
In honor of his 70th birthday, Dr. Wolfe was feted with a party by the bank staff ?right in the middle of the working day.?
A well known customer, and past president of the bank, Dr. Wolfe has been a practicing general practitioner in Bay St. Louis since 1933.
Neither the bank nor Dr. Wolfe could recall exactly when he served as president, but Dr. Wolfe knew it coincided with his ?heyday? in practice.
?Actually, I didn?t have too much to do at the bank,? he said, ?just make sure things were running smoothly and check in on them every day.?
Dr. Wolfe said his tenure as
bank president was a ?quiet, slow? period in his life. ?There were no robberies, we never came up short, and the money was always where it was supposed to be.?
In his role as longtime bank customer, Dr. Wolfe admitted that banking trends have changed. ?They keep adding more services...just making things easier on the customer.?
?In my day,? he said ?the working people didn?t have that much money to deposit, but now.that wages have gone up, there?s a lot more money flowing in.?
Dr. Wolfe, who is now ?semi-retired? goes to his office daily at 125 Carroll Ave., where he shares a suite with his son, Dr. M. J. Wolfe Jr., an optometrist.
Acknowledging that banking has changed over the years, Dr. Wolfe claims ?but patients will never change. They?ll still have aches and pains long after I?m gone.?