Ivan Taylor Call, 85, passed away on April 28, 2020. He earned his Bachelors of Science Degree in Finance and Banking from Brigham Young University in 1958. During this period he served for two years in the U.S. Army stationed in Fulda, Germany. He was a bandsman in the army and played the trumpet. In 1958 he moved to Bloomington, Indiana to study at the Indiana University Graduate School of Business where he earned his MBA degree in 1961 in Banking and Finance and began working on his doctorate degree. He then went to work for the Valley National Bank in Phoenix, Arizona and also taught at ASU. In 1963, he joined the faculty at BYU as Assistant Professor. In 1966, he returned to Indiana University for one year as a Faculty Lecturer and worked on his doctorate degree, which was awarded in 1969. Following his return to BYU in the fall of 1967, he was appointed Associate Professor and in 1976 he was appointed as a full Professor. He served as Chairman of the Business Management Department from 1968 to 1983.

Ivan served from 1979 as a member of the Investment Committee of the Deseret Mutual Benefit Association and from 1980 as a member of the Investment Securities Committee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He was also part of a small group of businessmen who founded the Far West Bank of Utah and the Far West Bankcorp in 1975, and he served as a member of the Board of Directors for both organizations from their founding. In February of 1997 he was elected Chairman of the Board for both organizations. 

Ivan is survived by his wife, Sharleen, three sons, one daughter, 14 grandchildren, 38 great grandchildren and two brothers. He was preceded in death by a son and two sisters. Funeral services were streamed live on Friday, May 1, 2020 at Walker Sanderson . They can also be viewed after the completion of the services on the same website. (Source: ASU Foundation)