Abstract:
On October 15, 2011, Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, one of North Carolina's most famous names fades away, to be replaced with Wells Fargo & Company signs. Wells Fargo purchased the bank in 2008. John Grimes Medlin, Jr., who joined Wachovia in 1959 and who was CEO of the bank for sixteen years, recalls his days with the bank and what made Wachovia an outstanding bank.