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DUDINE, JAMES RAY. Born July 29, 1947 in Stark Memorial Hospital, Huntingburg, Indiana. Named after his father's (Charles Frederick Dudine) Navy buddy, James Ray. Charles Dudine served in the South Pacific during WW2 as a Navy Corpsman assigned to the SeaBees, and came under severe enemy fire several times particularly in the Salomon Islands. Prior to his service in the South Pacific, because of his training as a medic, he assisted victims of the tragic Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, November 28, 1942.

After the war, Charles Dudine married Bernice Volmer on June 6, 1945 in Jasper, Indiana. James Dudine was born two years later on July 29,1947. A daughter, Nancy Mae, was born November 20, 1951 completing the family. James attended Jasper High School. He was an good student, Secretary Treasurer of the Senior Class and Student Manager of the Football Team. After graduating high school, James attended Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. He graduated in 1969 with a degree in business administration and economics.

In August 1969, Mr. Dudine joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC as a trainee bank examiner. He examined community banks in Indiana and Illinois for the FDIC rising to the senior bank examiner rank and serving for a time as the acting supervisor of the Bloomington Indiana Field Office. In the spring of 1976, Dudine transferred to the Washington DC office of the FDIC assigned to the Intelligence Section in the Division of Bank Supervision.