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JANUARY
1982

G.R. WALTERS

S. HANSON

S.J. HATZ

PEDERSON

E.A. WOLF

D.R. OSTRAND

G.W. STEVENSON

W.D. BOWEN

W.F. LOVE

W.H. BAACK

W.J. ADDINGTON

R.W. JACOBSON

W.J. RICKERT

Correspondent
banking in
1982 is
examined by
•Community
bankers
•City bankers

fficer Salary Survey
• MABSCO Starts MMF
•Minnesota Ag Lending Pilot Project Commences

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A B A S c h e d u le s
C o n fe re n c e s

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ferences have been scheduled fo*
early weeks of 1982 by the American

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O LD EST F IN A N C IA L JO U R N A L S E R VIN G TH E C EN TR A L A N D W E S TE R N STATES
M E M B ER O F A U D IT BUREAU OF C IR C U LA TIO N •

M EM B ER BANK M A R K E TIN G A S S O C IA TIO N

FEATURES

M A B SC O starts M M F

Banks in 13 states can compete with national markets

Plan for change

Northwestern National of Minneapolis seminar report

O ffic e r salary survey

Annual study looks at total compensation paid

C orrespondent banking today

City and community bankers give their comments

DEPARTMENTS
6 Convention Calendar
8 Bank Promotions
12 Corporate News
35 Illinois
39 Minnesota
42 Twin Cities
50 South Dakota
51 North Dakota
51 Montana

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Wyoming
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Omaha
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Des Moines
Index of Advertisers

NORTHWESTERN BANKER
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Phone (515) 244-8163

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A u d ito r

Field R epresentative

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Bankers Association. A summary of
each follows:
Insurance and Protection
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An actual case brought to trial
early in 1981, whereby a bank and its
security officer were sued for failure
to provide a safe banking envir
onment, is a situation model and
part of the line of questioning for a
mock trial which will extend over a
two day period of the program for
the ABA’s first National Insurance
and Protection Conference of Finan*
cial Institutions.
Scheduled for January 25-28 at
the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans,
the three day conference will be the
first of its kind to bring together th^
risk and insurance management and
security officers of financial institu
tions. It is designed to develop a
greater communication and coopera
tion between these two disciplines. *
Telecommunications Workshop
The impact that deregulation has
on future planning for telecom
munications needs at financial in"
stitutions and the new Federal
Reserve Communications system,
“FRCS 80,” will be key topics for
the ABA’s Bank Telecommunica-.
tions Workshop, scheduled for Feb.
7-10 at the Century Plaza Hotel in
Los Angeles.
Bank Investments
Economist Arthur B. Laffer and'
Bank of America Chairman Leland
S. Prussia will be featured speakers
at the 1982 Bank Investments and
Funds Management Conference,
February 10-12, at the Hotel St.
Francis in San Francisco.
The theme of the conference is
“Being a ‘Survivor’ in Today’s
F in a n c ia l E n v iro n m e n t.” A
Wednesday panel will be aimed at
conference attendees from money
center banks and regional banks
with international as well as
domestic funding responsibilities. A
second panel that day, for regis
trants from community banks and
banks dealing primarily in domestic
funding operations, will aim at non
bank competition and asset/liability
management policies and strategies.

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Our skilled, experienced, moneyfor-business specialists can help
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consideration in today’s competitive
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Perhaps a good customer needs
more funds than you can loan.
Or, you may choose to limit your
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Convention Calendar

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ABA—American Bankers Association
AIB—American Institute of Banking
BAI —Bank Adminstration Institute
BMA—Bank Marketing Association
IBAA—Independent Bankers Association
of America
NABW—National Association of Bank
Women, Inc.
RMA—Robert Morris Associates

Sept. 19-Oct. 1—ABA National Instalment
Credit Schools, Univ. of Oklahoma,
Norman.
Oct. 16-20—ABA Annual Convention, At
lanta.
Nov. 15-19—BMA Essentials of Bank
Marketing School, Univ. of New Hamp
shire, Durham.

National Conventions & Schools

State Conventions & Schools

Jan. 17-23—ABA National Compliance
School, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman.
Jan. 25-28—ABA National Insurance &
Protection Conference of Financial Insti
tutions, Hyatt Regency, New Orleans.
Jan. 31-Feb. 3—ABA Conference for Branch
Administrators, Atlanta.
Feb. 7-9—ABA National Instalment Credit
School, Univ. of Okla., Norman.
Feb. 7-10—ABA National Trust Conference,
New Orleans.
Feb. 7-10—ABA Bank Telecommunications
Workshop, Century Plaza Hotel, Los
Angeles.
Feb. 10-12—ABA Bank Investments & Fi
nancial Marketing Workshop, Hotel St.
Francis, San Francisco.
Mar. 7-9—ABA National Credit Conference,
Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles.
Mar. 7-10—BMA Community Bank CEO
Seminar, Marriott’s Rancho Las Palmas,
Palm Springs, Calif.
Mar. 14-18—IBAA 52nd Annual Convention,
Sheraton W aikiki Hotel, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
Mar. 21-24 —ABA Trust Operation &
Automation Workshop, Hyatt Regency,
Atlanta.
Mar. 21-24—ABA National Instalment
Credit Conf., Leows Hotel, Dallas.
Mar. 22-26—BMA Essentials of Bank
Marketing School, Univ. of Georgia,
Athens.
April 3-8—BMA Management School of
Bank Marketing, Univ. of Georgia,
Athens.
April 18-24—ABA Essentials of Banking for
the Banking Professional, Univ. of
Okla., Norman.
May 23-28—BMA Essentials of Bank
Marketing School, Univ. of Colo.,
Boulder.
May 23-28—BMA School of Trust Sales &
Marketing, Univ. of Colo., Boulder.
May 23-June 4—BMA School of Bank
Marketing, Univ. of Colo., Boulder.
June 6-18—ABA Stonier Graduate School
of Banking, Rutgers Univ., New Bruns
wick, New Jersey.
June 13-16—ABA National Operations &
Automation Conference, Los Angeles.
July 11-16—ABA Natl. Advanced Ag Bank
ing School, Iowa State Univ., Ames.
July 25-30—Midwest Banking Institute,
Univ. of Minn., Morris.
Aug. 8-21—Herbert V. Prochnow Graduate
School of Banking, Univ. of Wise.,
Madison.
Aug. 16-20—BMA Essentials of Bank
Marketing School, Lake Forest College,
Lake Forest, III.
Sept. 19-22—NABW 6th Annual Conven
tion, Los Angeles Bonaventure, Los
Angeles, Calif.
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Colorado:

Feb. 14-17—CBA Consumer Credit Con
ference, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado
Springs.
Mar. 9-10—CBA Hedging Seminar, Airport
Hilton Inn, Denver.
June 3-5—CBA Annual Convention, Broad
moor Hotel, Colorado Springs.
Illinois:

Feb. 10-11 —IBA Consumer Credit Conf.,
Sheraton, St. Louis.
Feb. 24-25—IBA Marketing Conference, Lin
colnshire Marriott, Lincolnshire.
April 14-15—IBA Commercial Credit Conf.,
Peoria.
April 19-20—NABW State Conference, Hy
att Regency, Chicago.
May 11-12—Indianapolis Commercial Bank
ers of Illinois, 8th Annual Convention,
Springfield Hilton.
May 17-28—Illinois Bankers School, SIU,
Carbondale.
June 2-4—AMBI Annual Meeting, Indian
Lakes Resort, Bloomingdale.
June 6-8—IBA Annual Convention, Stouffers, St. Louis.
June 13-19—IBA Ag Lending School, ISU,
Normal.
June 16-19—IBA Advanced Ag Lending
Clinic, ISU, Normal.
June 20-26—IBA Commercial Lending
School, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign.
Aug. 8-13—IBA Consumer Lending School,
EIU, Charleston.
Sept. 15-16—IBA Ag Credit Conference,
Ramada Inn, Champaign.
Oct. 5-6—IBA Trust Conference, Raddison,
St. Louis.
Iowa:

Jan. 27-28—All State PEP Meeting, Mar
riott, Des Moines.
Feb. 8-10—IBA Marketing Conference, Mar
riott, Des Moines.
Feb. 12-13—Group I Meeting, Marina Inn,
Sioux City.
Feb. 14-15—Group II Meeting, Holiday Inn,
Burlington.
Mar. 8-10—IBA AG Credit Conference,Scheman Center, Ames.
Mar. 27-31 —IBA Annual Washington, D.C.
Trip, Four Seasons Hotel.
May 12-14 —NABW State Conference,
Marina Inn, South Sioux City.
June 7-18—IBA Ag Credit School, Ames.
July 22-24 — MB Annual Convention,
Okoboji.
Sept. 19-21 — IBA Annual Convention,
Marriott Hotel, Des Moines.
Minnesota:

Feb. 9-10—MBA Senior Bank Management
Conference, Radisson, Bloomington.

Mar. 4—MBA Marketing Conference, Holi
day Inn Downtown, Minneapolis.
May 2-4—NBAW State Conference, Rad
isson South, Bloomington.
June 14-15 —MBA Annual Convention,
Radisson Hotel, St. Paul.
July 25-30—Midwest Banking Institute,
Univ. of Minn., Morris.
Aug. 19-22—IBM Annual State Convention,
Arrowwood Lodge, Alexandria.
Montana:

Feb. 11-13—MBA Ag Credit Conference
Holiday Inn, Bozeman.
Mar. 4-5—MBA Time Management Seminar,
Ramada Inn, Billings.
Mar. 28-29—MBA Bank Presidents Con
ference, Sheraton, Great Falls.
May 20-21 —MBA Commercial Lendin
Conference, Sheraton, Billings..
June 18-19—NABW State Conference,
Colonial Inn, Helena.
Aug. 24-27—79th Annual Convention &
Membership Meeting, Banff, Canada.
Nebraska:

Jan. 20-21 —NBA Instalment Credit Con
ference, Holiday Inn, Kearney.
Feb. 4-9—NBA Bank Presidents Conf.,
Canyon Hotel, Palm Springs, Calif.
Feb. 17-18—NBA Personnel Conference
Holiday Inn, Kearney.
Mar. 24-25—NBA Ag Outlook Conference,
Holiday Inn, Kearney.
May 6-8—NBA Annual Convention, Holiday
Inn Central, 72nd & Grover, Omaha.
Sept. 13-14—NBA Ag Credit Symposium
Lincoln Hilton, Lincoln.
North Dakota:

Feb. 17-19—Bank of N.D. Mid-Winter Break,
Kirkwood Motor Inn, Bismarck.
Mar. 30-April 2—NDBA Washington Legis
lative Conference, Hyatt Regency on
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
April 7-8—NDBA Ag Credit Conference,
Kirkwood Motor Inn, Bismarck.
April 28-30—NABW Annual Convention,
Kirkwood Motor Inn, Bismarck.
May 24-25—NDBA Annual Convention,
Minot.
June 13-18—NDBA North Dakota School
of Banking, Univ. of N.D., Grand Forks.
Sept. 27 —NDBA Northeast Group Mtg.
Sept. 28—NDBA Northwest Group Mtg.
Sept. 29—NDBA Soutwest Group Mtg.
Sept. 30—NDBA Southeast Group Mtg.
South Dakota:

April 22-24—NABW State Conference,
Downtown Holiday, Sioux Falls.
May 6-7—SDBA Trust Conference, Holi
day Inn, Mitchell.
May 17-18 —SDBA Annual Convention,
Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City.
Oct. 7-8—SDBA Instalment Credit & Retail
Banking Conference, Sheraton, Yankton.
Oct. 27-28—SDBA Economics Seminar for
Young Adults, Holiday Inn, Mitchell.
Wyoming:

Jan. 19-21—WBA Western Ag Lenders Seminar, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie.
Feb. 4-5—WBA Crédit Conférence, Ramada
Inn, Casper.
May 20-22 —NABW State Conférence,
Ramada Inn, Casper.
June 9-11—WBA Annual Convention, Jack
son Lake, Moran, Wyoming.
Nov. 12-13—WBA Chief Executive Officers
Conférence, Ramada Inn, Casper.

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Bank Promotions

and other an
PROMOTIONS
nouncements have been made

by the following banks:

Commerce Bancshares, Kansas
City: The promotion of two officers
to vice president was announced
recently. Eugene L. Mahaffey will
be vice president and manager of
retail lending in the loan review
department. He joined the Com
merce organization in 1970 and had
been serving as vice president and
manager of the Bank Card Group of
Commerce Bank of Kansas City,
N.A., the holding company’s prin
cipal bank. Russell L. Koos, who had
been assistant vice president, will
continue to serve as manager of the
research and development depart
ment. He joined Commerce in 1972.
Stephen J. Freidell has been
elected assistant vice president of
Commerce Bank as manager of the
bond division’s money market
department. He had been in the
funds management of another Kan
sas City bank.
Continental Illinois Corporation,
Chicago: Directors of the holding
company and the subsidiary Con
tinental Bank have announced the
election of William L. Weiss, 52, to
the board of both institutions. Mr.
Weiss is president of Illinois Bell
Telephone Company. He served
with Bell Telephone in Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin from 1951 to 1978,
then was president and director of
Indiana Bell until assuming his pre
sent post in 1981.
Directors of the holding company
and bank also elected John E. Porta
and Caren L. Reed as executive vice
presidents. Both previously were
senior vice presidents.
Mr. Porta, 49, is head of the
m ultinational banking services
department. He joined the corpora
tion in 1974 and served as managing

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director of the merchant bank in
London until 1976. He was elected
senior vice president responsible for
the financial services department in
1977 and had been in his present
position since April, 1980. He is a
1953 graduate of Notre Dame
University and holds an MBA from
Harvard in 1955.
Mr. Reed, 47, succeeded Mr. Por
ta as head of the financial services
department. He joined Continental
Bank in 1956, was elected a group
head in the U.S. banking depart
ment in 1971 and in 1976 was
elected senior vice president and
head of the bank’s European opera
tions for multinational banking ser
vices, headquartered in London. Mr.
Reed received his BS degree from
Iowa State University in 1956.
Continental Bank has named 24
new vice presidents. They are:
Sharon A. Bond, Michael A.
Crowe, Robert B. Evans, Roger F.
Farleigh, Edward J. Halle, and Paul
F. Lawless, trust and investment
services.
Paul W. Boltz and Alan G. Jirkovsky, bond and treasury services.
James M. Karis, William J. Moser
Jr., and Don A. Resler, financial ser
vices.
Mary P. Cloonan and Neile H. Coe
Jr., general banking services.
Ronald L. Sapiro, international
banking services.
Nancy L. Kosobud, multinational
banking services.
Michael B. King, special in
dustries department.
J. Michael Baird and Jeffrey M.
Harbour, U.S. banking department.
Evan L. Evans, corporate person
nel services.
William F. Anderson, William L.
Walton, and Kent E. Westerbeck,
operations and management ser
vices.
Terry L. Francl and Daniel S.
Shook, corporate financial services.

C.L. BOUISE

D.C. RIGG

Charter Corporation as a senior
auditor in 1974, joined First Na
tional Bank the following year and
has served as comptroller sine
1979. He received his BS degree
from Rockhurst College in Kansas
City.
Mr. Rigg, who joined the accoun
ting department in 1973, is manager;
of the budget and cost accounting
department, and has been deputy
controller since April, 1977. He has
a BA degree from the University of
Missouri, Kansas City.
Miss Manne has been a First Na
tional employee since 1974, and is a
manager in the bookkeeping depart
ment. Mr. Massey has been an
employee since 1966, serving in th
transit department.

F irs t Chicago C o rp o ratio n :
Donald P. Jacobs, dean of the J.L.
K ellogg G ra d u ate School of
Management, Northwestern Univer
sity, has been
elected to the
board of d ir
ectors of the corp o ra tio n and
The First Na
tional Bank of
Chicago.
Dean Jacobs
joined N orthwestern’s faculDp JAC0BS
ty in 1957, was
appointed chairman of the finance
department in 1969 and was named
dean in 1975. In 1970, he was award
ed the Morrison Professor of Fin
ance Chair, which he relinquished in
1978 when he assumed the Gaylord
Freeman Distinguished Professor of
Banking Chair. He served as co
director of the staff of the
First National Bank of Kansas Ci President’s Commission on Finan
ty: Craig L. Bouise, Sr., has been cial Structure and Regulation (Hunt
promoted to vice president and Commission) from 1970 to 1972. He
comptroller; David C. Rigg has been was also chairman of the board of
advanced to vice president, and Amtrak from 1975 to 1979.
Michele A. Manne and Mark T.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Massey, Jr., have been promoted to
Company, New York: Herbert L.
assistant vice presidents.
Mr. Bouise joined First National Shultz, Jr., has been named presi-

At last, a look at
the unheard-of:
an actual overline ad.

You may have noticed that most
banks don’t advertise the fact that they
offer overlines to their correspondents.
But Continental Bank does. In fact,
we’re running this ad to make a bid for
overlines—from our correspondent banks,
and from a lot of other banks we’d like to
have as correspondents.
Our approach to overlines is simple.
When our correspondent values a
customer enough to lend to its legal limit,
that correspondent has every right to
expect some pretty serious consideration
from us.

You can expect fast answers, too.
At Continental, credit requests aren’t
bounced from desk to desk. They go direct
to your account manager—who can say
“yes” or “no” on most loans. You get a
decision fast. And firsthand. From the
person who made it.
Call Robert C. Vasco at (312) 828-4046
with your request. Getting you together
with an overline could earn us more of
your business. And that’s what we’re after.
It’s what you expect from a top
correspondent bank. At Continental Bank,
it’s reality.

CONTINENTAL BANK
125th ANNIVERSARY
1857-1982

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dent of the capital region and a
director of Manufacturers Hanover
N.A., a new bank being formed in
January, 1982, by the merger of
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Comp a n y /C a p ita l, M a n u fa c tu re rs
Hanover Trust Company/Central,
and Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Company/Western.
Mr. Shultz, who had been senior
vice president of Manufacturers
Hanover Trust Company/Capital,
replaces Paul W. Kremer.
Mercantile Trust Company N.A.,
St. Louis: Two new members have
been elected to the bank’s board of
directors, it was announced last
month by Donald E. Lasater, chair
man of Mercantile. They are Fred L.
Kuhlmann, vice chairman and ex
ecutive vice president of AnheuserBusch Companies, Inc., and Harvey
Saligman, president and chief
operating officer of Interco, Inc.
Northern Trust Co., Chicago: The
board of directors has promoted 10
officers to senior vice president and
eight to vice president.
The new senior vice presidents
are:
Paul D. Benda, bond department.
Kennth P. Kinney and Jeffrey F.

Ruzicka, international department.
Edward Byron Smith, Jr., ex
ecutive department.
Gilian K. Geniesse and Joseph M.
Jarosz, operating department.
H. Grant Clark, Jr., and Bernard
M. Cygan, personal banking depart
ment.
David B. Horn and Jeffrey H.
Wessel, trust department.
The new vice presidents are:
Jeffrey R. Chicoine and Quentin
C. Johnson, commercial banking
department.
Edwin C. Buchanan and Michael
J. Karr, international department.
Vincent R. DeJohn and Robert T.
Hedrick, operating department.
Walter T. Jones and Paul Schwab,
Jr., trust department.

Ms. Byers joined United Missour
in 1967 and will assist Ms. Cooper in
accounting and control. She is also
an active NABW member.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., San
Francisco: Four new vice president
have been named by the bank and
its corporate affiliates. Ronald L.
Boles was named vice president and
manager, resi
dential produc
tion operations,
in Wells Fargo
Mortgage Com
p a n y ’s S a n ta
Rosa facility. He
was with the
bank 11 years
until joining the
m o rtg a g e a f
filiate in 1980.
RL BOLES
United Missouri Bank of Kansas
Marci Rubin, 33, counsel in the
City: Claudyne V. Cooper has been bank’s legal department, and Greg
promoted to senior vice president ory O. Wilhelm, 37, an attorney in
and Roberta J. Byers to assistant the bank’s public and governmenta'
accounting officer.
affairs department, were advance
Ms. Cooper is manager of the ac to vice president.
counting and control department
Arnold T. Grisham has been pro
and has been with the bank 39 years. moted to vice president in the
She is a graduate of Kansas City Chicago regional office of Well
Junior College and is active in Fargo Corporate Services, a sub
NABW work.
sidiary of Wells Fargo & Company.
He has also been named deputy
manager of the Chicago office’s
regional banking division an
manager of a new heavy equipment
and machinery dealer/distributor
group. He joined the corporate ser
vices group earlier in 1981.

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The need for a close working rela
tionship between the EFT mar
keting professional and the opera
tions expert will be the emphasis of
the Bank Marketing Association’s
1982 conference on electronic funds
transfer, it was announced by Con
ference Chairman Patricia D. Jor
dan, senior vice president of Pay
ment Systems, Inc., Atlanta.
Designed for bank marketers and
retail and corporate EFT product;
managers, the two-and-one-half day
meeting will be held February 7-10
at the Hyatt Regency Washington
on Capitol Hill. It will focus on con
sumer awareness and the newi
technology of EFT products, the
current legal environment for EFT
services, computer home terminals current and future, service cards credit and debit, and ATM sharing
interstate and intrastate.

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the review, analysis and administra
tion of commercial finance loans
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ROMOTIONS and other an
Mr. Joerres will be responsible for Prior to joining the company, he was
nouncements have been made loan portfolio quality and client employed by Banco Financial Cor
retention through management of poration of Minneapolis as an
by the following firms:
B arclaysA m erican /B u sin ess the loan administration department. analyst. He holds a BS degree in
Credit, Inc., Milwaukee: Kenneth J. The midwest service center serves business administration from Mar
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gional vice president, manager of souri, Ohio, Illinois and portions of
loan administration in the midwest Wisconsin and Kansas. A Mil
Dawson Hail Insurance Co.,
service center here. Jim Goetz has waukee resident, Mr. Joerres joined Fargo, N.D.: James R. Dawson,
been appointed loan officer in the the firm in 1968 and holds a BS president has announced th a t
degree in economics from Carroll Charles M. Fosberg has rejoined the
same office.
staff and will be responsible for
business man
ag em e n t and
p roduction of
hail and multi
peril crop in
surance through
the firm’s 500
agents. He is a
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plan of reorganization and agree
ment of merger by which RPR
would become a wholly-owned sub
sidiary of IFG.
RPR is an investment banking
and securities firm with 24 offices in
the southwest. Its September, 1981,
year-end revenues were $78 million
and net earnings were $3.37 million.
Dain Bosworth is an investment
banking and securities firm with 44
offices throu g h o u t the upper
midwest and Rocky Mountain areas.
In 1980, IFG reported revenues of
$123.3 million and net earnings of
$7.28 million.

The W estcap Corporation,
Houston: S. David Arnspiger has
been elected chairman, it was an
nounced by Clifton Iverson, Jr.,
president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Arnspiger has moved to Westcap from Underwood Neuhaus &
Co., Inc., where he seved as first vice
president and co-manager of the
bond department.
J.S. MAPLES
E.J. SCHERRMAN
Prior to his affiliation with Under
wood
Neuhaus, Mr. Arnspiger was
A Cedar Rapids native, Mr. Map
senior
vice president of Rowles,
les is a graduate of Cornell College in
Winston
& Co.
Mt. Vernon, la., and holds a
master’s degree in marketing from
the University of Iowa. He began
his banking career at Continental Mrs. Roger Anderson Dies
MorAmerica Financial Corpora Bank in Chicago and in 1965 became
An apparent heart attack caused
tion, Cedar Rapids: Jerry S. Maples assistant vice president and trust of the sudden death of Mrs. Roger E.
has been named president and chief ficer of Jackson State Bank in Ma- (Marilyn) Anderson, 57, last month
executive officer.
quoketa, la., a holding of MorAmerica at the family home in Northbrook,
He succeeds Robert E. Johnson, Financial Corporation. Mr. Maples 111. Mr. Anderson is chairman and
who will become vice chairman of served as president of Jackson State chief executive officer of the Con
the board. Succeeding Mr. Maples Bank from 1974 to 1978, when he tinental Illinois National Bank &
as executive vice president and chief moved to Cedar Rapids as executive Trust Co. of Chicago.
operating officer is Emmett J. vice president of MorAmerica Fin
In addition to her husband, Mrs.
Scherrman.
ancial Corporation. Mr. Maples Anderson is survived by two sons,
The promotions were announced serves on the boards of the Blair and David; a grandson, Ben
by Peter F. Bezanson, chairman of MorAmerica Financial Coporation, jamin; her mother, Marie Spence,
the board, at the corporation’s an Hawkeye Bancorporation and the and a brother, John Spence.
nual meeting in Cedar Rapids.
University of Dubuque, as well as
numerous civic groups.
Mr. Scherrman joined Mor United Missouri Banks,
America Financial Corporation in Smith & Yehle Win Awards
S IN G L E IN TE R E S T
1958 as an employee of LeaseUnited Missouri Banks and its
America Corporation. He served as
IN S U R A N C E
advertising
agency, Smith & Yehle
president of that MorAmerica sub
sidiary since December 1977, and as Inc. of Kansas City won a first place
For Installment Loans
executive vice president and direc “Marconi Award’’ and a Certificate
tor of MorAmerica Financial Cor of Excellence in the Greater St.
poration since January 1981. Mr. Louis Radio Broadcasters Associa
BLA N K E T SING LE
Scherrman is also treasurer and tion Marconi Awards Competition.
The winning entries for United
director of Oak Hill Engineering
INTEREST
Missouri
and Smith & Yehle were
Company; director of MidAmerica
IN D IV ID U A L SINGLE
Mutual Fund, Inc., and American 60-second humorous radio commer
INTEREST PROGRAMS
Insurance and Industrial Fund, Inc.; cials in the national/regional
• A u to m a te d
and director of Iowa National Mutual category. Subject matter was com
• M anual
Insurance Company. Currently a lec mercial business.
There were 235 entries in the first
turer for the National Installment
annual
Marconi Awards Competi
Banking School at the Universtiy of
tion.
Five
first place Marconi
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Colorado, Boulder, Mr. Scherrman is
Awards
were
presented in the na
AGAINST THOSE PHYSICAL
also active in the American Associa
tional/regional group and five in the
DAMAGE LOSSES.
tion of Equipment Lessors.
local/retail group.
Victor B u sin ess Products,
To date th is year, U nited
CONTACT US ABOUT A
Chicago: Responsibilities for finan Missouri and Smith & Yehle have
PROGRAM FOR YOUR BANK.
cial operations have been placed won eight awards in four contests
call or write:
with Vincent Lepore, new vice they have entered, including Na
president-finance, reporting directly tional Bank Advertising Awards
to President Ed Carlson. The firm is (Trade Publication, Newspaper);
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a subsidiary of Kidde, Inc., and Mr. Kansas City Ad Club Omni Awards
W A G E N E N CO.
Lepore has served the parent com (Trade Publication, Newspaper,
524 Plymouth Building
pany the past six years as vice presi Television); National Advertising
12 South Sixth Street
dent of Kidde Consumer Durables Agency Network (Radio); St. Louis
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
Corp., a group of 29 Kidde com Radio Broadcasters (two radio
(612) 333-2261
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ee G u n d e rs o n N a m e d P re s id e n t of
P ro ch n o w G ra d u a te S c h o o l of B an king
E. Gunderson has been
L EE
named president of the Herbert
Prochnow Graduate School of
Banking at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Gunder
son, president of the American
B a n k e rs A s
sociation during
1980-81
and
president of the
Bank of Osceola,
Wis., is the se
cond banker to
head the school,
which was foun
ded in 1945. Dr.
H e rb e rt
V.
Prochnow, a co L.E. GUNDERSON
founder of the School, had been its
only director until his retirement
last September.

MH Leasing Opens
Office in Minneapolis
Manufacturers Hanover Leasing
Corporation, the world’s largest
ank-affiliated leasing and equip
ment financing organization, has
opened an office in Minneapolis.
MHLC is an af
filiate of Man
ufacturers Han
over Trust Com
p a n y , fo u rth
largest bank in
the U.S.
R ichard W.
Myers has been
named branch
m anager, and
R. MYERS
John N. Norris,
senior representative. The Min
neapolis branch, located at 1010
Pillsbury Center, will serve Min
nesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North
Dakota and South Dakota.
Manufacturers Hanover Leasing
Corporation serves virtually all in
dustries with capital equipment ex
pansion and replacements needs
through a worldwide network of 19
U.S. and 25 international offices.
MHLC provides total equipment
financing, including leases and other

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and Leasing Company, Minneapolis,
and had prior experience with IDS
Leasing Corporation here and First
debt instruments. Offices also were Bank Minneapolis.
opened last month in Miami, Fla,
Born in Des Moines, Mr. Norris
has been calling in the Minnesota
and Charlotte, N.C.
Mr. Myers, a native of Min area for MHLC since 1980. Pre
neapolis, joined MHLC in August. viously, he worked as a represen
He had been associated with tative marketing credit and cash
LeaseAmerica Corporation in Cedar management services to law firms
Rapids, la. where he was an ex- and high net worth individuals for
cutive vice president. He also was the Northern Trust Company in
vice president at Gelco Equipment Chicago.

I B AA S ta te D ire cto rs A re N a m e d
^

LECTIONS of state bank directors in 14 states were announced
by the Independent B ankers
Association of America recently.
Elections for state represen
tatives to IBAA’s executive council
are held annually in one-third of the
states in which the association has
membership. The term is three
years. The only exception this year
is the Oklahoma director who will
serve one year to fill a vacancy in
that state.
Directors are elected by mail
balloting in each state.
New directors are:
ARKANSAS: Amos David, chair
man, Caraway Bank and Bank of
Imboden, Caraway. He succeeds Joe
Siebenmorgen of Quitman.
COLORADO: Walter C. Emery,
chairman and chief exective officer,
Bank of Denver. He succeeds the
late Charles H. Starks.
CONNECTICUT: Robert H.
Foster, president, The Seymour
Trust Company, Seymour. He suc
ceeds Edward J. Cooney of Woodbridge who had served the max
imum two terms.
LOUISIANA: L. J. Folse, presi
dent and chief executive officer, Ter
rebonne Bank & Trust Company,
Houma. He succeeds John Kenaley
of Lafayette who had served the
maximum two terms.
MINNESOTA: Gordon C. Don
nelly, president, Bank of Wheaton,

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who succeeds Russell Hanson of
Benson who had served the max
imum of two terms.
NEBRASKA: Lester W. Souba,
president, David City Bank, who
succeeds Wesley D. Bowen of
Omaha who had completed the max
imum two terms.
NEW YORK: Robert B. Mac
Donald, president and chief ex
ecutive offeier, State Bank of Chittenango, who succeeds Robert H.
Fearon Jr., of Oneida, a two-term
director.
NORTH DAKOTA: Donald F.
Baertsch, executive vice president,
Farmers & Merchants Bank, Beach,
who succeeds Aron D. Anderson.
Anderson was not a candidate for
reelection.
OKLAHOMA: Jack M. Dickey,
president, First National Bank,
Custer. He was elected to fill a
vacancy created by the resignation
of N. L. McClain of Oklahoma City.
This term ends January 3, 1983.
TEXAS: Ruben H. Johnson,
chairman and chief executive officer,
United Bank of Texas, Austin. He
succeeds D.E. Benham of Morton
who was not a candidate for reelec
tion.
UTAH: Ronald A. Carnago, presi
dent, Sandy State Bank, Sandy, the
first director for his state since it
became eligible to elect a member to
the IB AA executive council by vir
tue of having at least 10 member
banks.
WISCONSIN: Henry E. Zander,
president, Bank of Waunakee, who
succeeds Theodore I. Arneson of
Barneveld, a two-term director.
Directors reelected are:
SOUTH CAROLINA: Marshall
T. Abbott, president, Bank of
Westminster.
VIRGINIA: William J. Billig Sr.,
p resid en t, N ational B ank of
Blacksburg.
Northwestern Banker, January, 1982

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researched, developed and brought
to market in just six months.
Richard E. Gandrud, immediate
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Bankers Association and president
of the Pope County State Bank at
Glenwood, was elected chairman.
William H. Crawford, president of
the Oklahoma Bankers Association
and president of the First National
Bank of Frederick, was elected vice
chairman. Acting secretary-trea
surer is Neil Milner, executive vice
president of the Iowa Bankers
Association. Robert E. Harris, ex
ecutive vice president of the
Oklahoma Bankers Association was
appointed official press spokesman.
Money Market Objectives
This first product, the American
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by the Task Force with objectives
based on the following criteria, as
described by Larry Lanie, president
of the Guaranty National Bank of
Tulsa, chairman of the AMMF Task
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money fund industry back into the
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planned to offer the AMMF in the
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as mid-February.
With this product, MABSCO has
become a viable organization of 13
state banker associations only 10
months after the initial meeting of
the interested parties. That first
meeting was held February 28,
1981. After several additional
meetings in following months, in
cluding appointment of four Task
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specific products, the association
representatives formally organized
MABSCO September 3, as reported
earlier.
The 13 state banker associations
comprising Mid-America Bankers
Service Company are: Arkansas,
Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, North Dakota, Okla
homa, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Texas was an original participant,
withdrew during 1981 and was
replaced by Arkansas; Colorado
joined during the year and signed
the September 3 incorporation.
Task Force Appointed
The product goals assigned to the
Task Forces June 1 were:
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Fund.
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3. An Ag Credit Corporation.
4.
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member banks.
After detailed evaluation of pro
posals solicited from three money
market fund management groups,
with the help of Touche Ross & Com
pany Kansas City office, the Money
Market Task Force recommended
Fidelity Management Group of
Boston. The MABSCO board ac
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noted above, during the ABA con
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and equity products.
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tire range of financial services to
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CMA, American Express/Shearson,
Prudential and Sears. MABSCO’s
AMMF, he says, “contains standard
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customized at the bank’s and/or
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bank.
AMMF Product
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kerage services through use of an
agency agreement, and other new
services as they become available.
Commercial banks participating in
the MABSCO financial package pro
gram can choose to make the ac
count as simple as linking the NOW
or DDA account to a money market
fund (AMMF) through a sweep of
the NOW or DDA account to and
from the fund as balances dictate.
“On the other hand,” Mr. Lanie
continues, “the bank can make the
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Standard Package: DDA Link to MMF

plan provides a competitive level
playing field with Merrill Lynch and(
other leaders in the financial ser
vices industry.
5. The MABSCO program pro
vides for multiple, flexible operating
systems to allow both large and
New AAMF Product
small banks to offer competitively
the service to their customers.
Mr. Lanie has explained that “the
MMF
role of MABSCO is to introduce and.
coordinate the program, to review
any new and existing products and
services, and to provide liaison to
LINE OF CREDIT
member banks from Fidelity.
♦
“The role of Fidelity is to sponsor,
the money market funds as the in
vestment advisor and the dis
DEBIT/CREDIT CARDS
♦
♦
trib u to r of the fund...prepare
marketing material and provide
significant support in the marketing^
BROKERAGE
area...provide
systems and opera
♦
♦
tions support and user training to
the commercial banks that desire to
use the program...provide a discount
account complex by evolving around come for the provision of these ser brokerage rate schedule that is com- (
the NOW account, a link to a money vices to cover the costs involved and petitive within the area.”
market fund, a line of credit, a credit a reasonable profit to the bank.”
Role of the Bank
card, discount brokerage services,
Advantages to Banks
and a bank debit card to allow the
Mr. Lanie further describes the
Significant points made in con
customer to access this account
role
of the individual bank this way:<
sidering AMMF are these:
through the use of an ATM.
“ 1. Establish a service profile and
1.
The
MABSCO
program
was
“In the current environment, the
develop an overall marketing stra
upscale customer must use several designed by bankers for banks.
2. The MABSCO program is not tegy.
institutions to acquire the services
“ 2. Determine the level of service
demanded. We feel th a t the tied to any credit or debit card just your bank wants to provide; i.e.,<
to
market
them.
MABSCO program will allow bank
3. It is for member banks of the what options you want to offer to
customers to purchase the financial
your customers.
services they now have to go to their state associations only and is a new
“3. Evaluate your operating and
fund.
commercial bank and a brokerage
service
capabilities to determine the
4. The product competes very
firm to acquire. It represents the
extent
of
your involvement in data*
first thrust on such a massive scale well with the Merrill Lynch-CMA processing.
of the commercial banking industry account and other MMFs. The addi
“ 4. develop your own pricing
fighting back against the Merrill tion of discount brokerage services strategy independently and geared
Lynch and Shearson American Ex as an option under the MABSCO to your customer base.
press juggernaut.”
“ 5. package and market the ser-1
Next Month
The investment criteria set forth
vice.
The February issue will have an up
by the MABSCO Task Force pro
date on progress of a similar type of
“ 6. train the operations and
money market fund program which
vides for high quality, short-term,
customer contact staffs at your
has been offered to 11,250 independent
fixed income obligations with
bank.
banks nationwide by Independent
maturities of one year or less and an
“7. Implement advertising and/or
Bancsystem s, Minneapolis (INDEX),
average maturity not to exceed 120
d irect mail cam paign and/or
since last fall, as reported earlier.
days. All investments are in U.S.
Organized by Independent State Bank
customer seminars.
of Minneapolis, a wholesale correspon
dollars, there are no foreign in
“ 8 Open accounts.”
dent bank organized by independent
struments purchased by the fund.
When the AMMF startup date
bankers of Minnesota, INDEX is
How can a commercial bank legal
was announced recently, Mr. Lanie
m a rk etin g its A u to m a tic A sse t
ly access a money market fund or a
Reserve Management (AARM) ac
stated, “To successfully compete in
count through Federated Group of
brokerage service? “ In all cases,”
the 1980s, commercial banks need to
Pittsburgh. Serveral hundred banks
explains Mr. Lanie, “the link to the
offer products that are better than
have joined INDEX, which also offers
money market fund and the provi
those offered by the competition.
a compliance advisory service, bank
sion of discount brokerage services
The MABSCO financial services
profit forecasting, data processing ser
vice, an advertising and marketing
through the commercial bank will be
package does this as it not only
program, and on-line, same-day invest
done through agency agreements
matches the benefits of the competi
ment and withdrawal. Details of IN
between the customer and his com
tion, but provides the personal full
D E X ’ progress will be reviewed in this
mercial bank...In both instances, we
service that only a bank can
coming article.
believe the bank can generate fee inprovide.”
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^WELCOMING guests to the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis conference were these senior officers (from left): W. James Arm" trong, pres. & c.o.o.; E. Peter Gillette, Jr., chmn. & c.e.o., and Donald G. Pederson, sr. v.p. RIGHT— Mr. Pederson (center) head of the cor
respondent bank dept., is pictured with two other Northwestern Natl. sr. v.p.’s who are former heads of that dept. — Harry G. Wahlquist
(left) and C. Paul Lindholm (right).

Northwestern Bank of Minneapolis guests told:

Plan well to meet competitive change
£

By BEN HALLER, JR.
Editor and Publisher
and
STEVE BURCH
Associate Publisher

^É É ^L A N N IN G for Profits” was
I the theme for the 17th An
nual Correspondent Banking Con
ference and Duck Dinner hosted last
month by the Northwestern Na
tional Bank of Minneapolis at the
Hyatt Regency Hotel. More than
850 bankers and spouses attended
the dinner.
A welcome was extended by E.
|Peter Gillette, Jr., chairman and
chief executive officer. He intro
duced W. James Armstrong, who
becam e p re s id e n t and chief
operating officer of Northwestern
»National la st Septem ber. As
keynote speaker, Mr. Armstrong
outlined the continuing pace of
change that is leading to a more

• I t will lead quickly to better
allocation of resources.
Mr. Armstrong then pointed out
the role of the chief executive officer
in the planning process, stating he
“must make a total commitment to
planning. It can’t be left to someone
else. It requires a commitment of
time and energy. It will require a
change in life style for some. “I t’s
your responsibility to do several
things:
“Establish a format that is clear
to your staff of what you want.
Outline parameters or constraints so
the staff will know their limitations
and opportunities. If you want to
grow at a 10% or 20% rate, then
outline the limitations.
“Outline your objectives.
“Establish a complete strategy of
what you want to do to get your cor
poration where you want it to be.
“ E sta b lish specific resp o n
sibilities for certain duties to carry
out your strategy planning and get
ting it done.

competitive environment in the
financial industry. “All of this will
require more planning,” he stated,
then listed his conceptualization of
planning:
• I t is a design of the long-term
purpose of your organization.
• It is a policy of constraints.
• It sets forth a current set of
plans and goals, with a plan to
achieve them.
• It is not a staff job but a line
task; you can’t have outside per
sonnel do it.
• It must be decision-oriented.
• I t is a process, not a system.
You must have your own unique
plan.
• It is an evolutionary matter. It
will never be as good as you
want it to be, so you keep revis
ing it as time goes by.
• I t will assure that strategic
issues for your bank are being PLAN WELL...
addressed.
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l e f t — Tom Hayden, Allison-Williams inv. firm, Minneapolis; Richard C. Storlie, v.p. and head of Northwestern Nat’ls correspondent con
tact division; Eddie Payton, Joe Senser and Bobby Bryant of the Minnesota Vikings football team, and Mr. Pederson. RIGHT — Dan
Leclerc, (center), pres, of Lease Northwest, who was one of the program speakers, visits with Carmen and Jim Campbell, pres, of United
States National Bank of Omaha, a Banco affiliate.

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ALARY increases of more than
S
9% were anticipated for 1982
over 1981 by 96.6% of the more than
200 bankers taking part in the an
nual Salary Survey conducted by
the N orthw estern B anker (Chart

Bank Officer
Salary Survey

1 ).

Question 1
In the nine states surveyed,
respondents from Montana listed
the highest anticipated average
salary increase—10.5%—while those
from Iowa turned in the lowest ex
pected salary raise—7.6%—for of
ficers. The nine-state average of
9.4% was slightly higher than the
9.2% increase anticipated for staff
members of the responding banks.

Chart No. 1
Q. Do you plan to increase the
salaries of your staff for 1982?
Yes — 96.6%
No — 3.4%
How much increase do you plan
for officers?
9.4%
How much increase do you plan
for the other staff?
9.2%

Question 2
Question 2 asked for information
for 1981 and anticipated 1982 giving
base annual pay, bonus and/or profit
sharing, insurance income (if any)
and value of other benefits (ex
cluding dividends). This information
was requested separately for #1, #2
and #3 officers, and is shown in
Chart 2.
The first two columns of Chart 2
show base salaries for 1982 and 1981
for four separate deposit size groups
— under $10 million, $10-$25
million, $25-$50 million, and over
$50 million. The third and fourth col
umns show total income for 1982
and 1981 for the same deposit
groups. In columns three and four,
the figure in parentheses on the se
cond line shows how much more per
centage wise the total income is to
the base salary for the year in
dicated. The widest variation ap
pears in the 1981 salaries paid to #3
officers in the $10-$25 million
deposit group. Their total income of
$25,728 for 1981 was 65% greater
than the base salary of just $15, 595
which the responding banks listed
for 1981. In the 1982 column for
that group, the total income is
planned to rise about $3,000, while
the salary level is being raised near
ly $7,600.
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dents were asked also to indicate
whether the officer whose salary was
being listed is a stockholder. Chart 3
gives the results of that question for
#1, #2 and #3 officers. It shows that

83.7% of the #1 officers list some
stock ownership. A few list majority1
control, a few show upwards of 20%
ownership, while most were less
than 10% ownership. That owner-

Chart No. 2
Q. What is the planned income in 1982 for the top three officers of your bank and
what is their 1981 income? (Percentage figures in columns three and four show
increased percentage over base salaries.)
#1 Officer

1982

Under
$10 million

$30,108

$10-$25
million

Base Salary
1981

Total Income
1982

1981

$27,676

$37,598
(24.9%)

$37,383
(35%)

37,655

31,707

51,528
(36.8%)

46,387
(46.3%)

$25-$50
million

50,271

45,239

60,797
(20.9%)

55,183
(22%)

Over $50
million

65,512

59,316

81,209
(24%)

73,887
(24.6%)

Under $10
million

20,135

18,426

27,283
(35.5%)

26,002
(41.1%)

$10-$25
million

29,032

25,368

34,958
(20.4%)

32,291
(27.3%)

$25-$50
million

35,193

32,080

42,094
(19.6%)

38,750
(20.8%)

Over $50
million

44,836

41,097

57,974
(29.3%)

52,547
(27.9%)

Under $10
million

14,323

13,078

19,754
(37.9%)

18,042
(38%)

$10-$25
million

23,181

15,595

28,791
(24.2%)

25,728
(65%)

$25-$50
million

29,116

26,595

34,368
(18%)

31,956
20.1%)

Over $50
million

36,773

33,397

44,228
(20.3%)

40,591
(21.5%)

#2 Officer

#3 Officer

Chart No. 3
Q. Is this officer a stockholder?
Officer #1 Yes - 83.7% No - 16.3%
Officer #2 Yes - 46.5% No - 53.5%
Officer #3 Yes - 31.8% No - 68.2%

ship figure is 46.5% for #2 officers
and 31.8% for #3 officers.
As in previous Salary Surveys, a
comparison is given between the
salaries paid the #2 and #3 officers
with the ft1 officer. These relation
ships, by the same four deposit
groups, are shown in Chart 4.
Question 3
Question 3 asked if any fringe
benefits were added by the bank this
past year, and if any are anticipated
to be added for 1982. Chart 5 shows
these results. Fewer than one-fourth
of th e
re s p o n d in g
banks
—23.6%—said new fringe benefits
were added in 1981, and only 8.8%
expect added benefits in 1982.

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to permit such an interstate pur
Chart No. 5
chase.
Q- (A) Have you added any fringe
As part of the proposed combina
benefits this past year (1981)? (B)
tion,
Exchange International will
Any new fringe benefits planned
issue $15 million of 8% Senior non
for 1982?
voting, callable, preferred stock to
(A) 1981 Yes — 23.6%
No — 76.4%
Citicorp in exchange for Citicorp’s
(B) 1982 Yes — 8.8%
$12 million of Central Series B,
No — 91.2%
preferred stock, a $2.1 million term
note of the holding company, and
Among the 13 separate benefits the cancellation of a related warrant
listed as additions during 1981, den to purchase C entral’s common
tal insurance was mentioned 19 stock. Citicorp’s $3.5 million note of
times, while life insurance was men the holding company will be paid.
tioned 8 times. Improved health Citicorp will continue its role in pro
plans and pension plans received viding services to the new entity.
several votes. Other mentioned once
Consummation of the transaction
or twice were vision insurance, stock is dependent upon approval of de
purchase plan, retirement benefits, finitive agreements by the boards of
hospital plan, disability, auto, profit directors and stockholders of both
sharing and IRA account.
enterprises and receipt of necessary
Four banks expect an improved or approvals from federal banking
new pension plan in 1982, three are authorities.
looking for increased insurance, and
two state that dental insurance will
be paid for by the bank.
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BankAmerica to Acquire
Schwab Securities Firm

Chart No. 4
Percentage relationship of income among #1, #2 and #3 officers, by deposit banks.
Under
$10 million
$10-$25
million
$25-$50
million
Over
$50 million
Aveage for
all size banks

n to #1

#3 to #1

#3 to #2

73.6%

49.3%

67.9%

67.8%

56.1%

83.8%

69.4%

57.2%

82.0%

74.2%

58.6%

78.3%

71.2%

55.3%

78.0%

E x c h a n g e N a tio n a l B ank and C e n tra l
N a tio n a l B an k A g ree to M e rg e
XCHANGE International Corp
E
oration, parent of the Exchange
National Bank of Chicago and Cen
tral National Chicago Corporation,
parent of Central National Bank in
Chicago, have announced an agree
ment in principle to merge the two
organizations. The combined asset
base of the new entity will be ap
proximately $1.2 billion.
In a joint statement, Ira J. Kauf
man, chairman of Exchange, and
Jackson W. Smart Jr., chairman of
Central National, said that Ex
change International Corporation
will be the parent company of the
new banking entity with Mr. Kauf
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J. Holland, president, who will also
be responsible for managing the new
bank. Bruce L. Dahltorp, currently
president of Central National Bank,
will assume a major role in the
management of the combined banks.
A Central National spokesperson
said Mr. Smart’s final role after the
merger had not yet been determined.
Citicorp of New York City, had
earlier made a $12 million invest
ment in nonvoting Central National
stock, loaned it $5.5 million and con
tracted to take over much of the
bank’s back-office operations, and
as part of that transaction received
a 15-year option to purchase as
much as 30% of the Central Na
tional’s voting common stock if
state and federal laws were changed

BankAmerica Corporation and
the Charles Schwab Corporation
have signed a letter of intent under
which the bank holding company
will acquire the parent of Charles
Schwab & Co., Inc., the nation’s
la r g e s t d is c o u n t s e c u ritie s
brokerage firm, for 2.2 million
shares of BankAmerica common
stock.

MGIC Offers Banker’s
Fidelity Bond Program
MGIC Indemnity Corporation, a
major writer of specialized financial
institution coverages, is entering
the commercial bank fidelity bond
market. In addition to the tradi
tional bankers blanket bond, a
separate kidnap/ransom policy and a
broad extended coverage package is
available.
In addition to writing a Form 24,
MGIC is offering a combination
policy of supplemental coverages
that address bond-related liability
exposures encountered in everyday
banking transactions. Data process
ing transit liability, stop payment,
cash letter and “all-risk” safe
deposit are among the coverages
available.
MGIC is also offering a separate
kidnap/ransom policy and excess
limits for employee dishonesty,
burglary, robbery and securities
theft.
Northwestern Banker, January, 1982

Correspondent
City bankers look at what’s ahead
A NORTHWESTERN BANKER Survey
N UPDATED look at the current and projected
A
scope of correspondent banking is provided by
comments from regional and major city correspondent
bankers in the N orthwestern B a n k e r ’s 1982 Cor
respondent Bank Survey. From their peculiar vantage
point of those who serve the correspondent needs of
community banks, and understand the needs and goals
of the banks for which they work, these veteran cor
respondent officers provide a unique insight into the
evolution of correspondent banking in the 1980s. Their
comments follow:

We’ve accomplished a great deal in the past year,
thanks to a strong operations department, internal
cost controls and competitive pricing. The equipment,
procedures and people that we have in place will enable
us to continue to meet the rapidly changing and expan
ding needs of our customers.

DONALD H. McCREE JR.
Executive Vice President
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.
New York, N.Y.
DALE S. HANSON
Vice President
First Bank Saint Paul
Saint Paul, Minn.

E ’RE VERY optimistic about the outlook for
W
correspondent banking because we believe the
strengths of our initial operations department will
enable us to meet the changing needs of the correspon
dent bank market.
For example, when Fed pricing was introduced last
August, we seized the opportunity to increase our
volume four-fold. The key to our success has been a
pricing strategy based on high volume, low unit cost.
And our customers have responded to our pricing
strategy as projected.
We have also expanded our computer services at a
time when other suppliers are backing away from the
business.
In the beginning of 1981, we made a commitment to
increase our overline volume. We backed up our com
mitment by improving the credit skills of our officers
and by giving them responsibility for credit decisions
in their territories.
More recently, we announced a new consulting ser
vice to provide operations management expertise on a
fee basis to other banks. This is meeting another need
in the market place.
The critical importance of asset/liability manage
ment has led us to develop a computer simulation mod
el and advisory service that will soon be introduced.

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HE BANKING industry has completed a decade
T
of change and faces the prospects of even more farreaching, fundamental change in the future. What is
heartening in all this is that we have not only learned
to cope with change but to prosper while doing so.
That gives me a measure of confidence about the
future.
While much of the current dialogue among bankers
and in Washington centers on the possibility of in
terstate banking, the plain fact is that the most com
pelling need right now is for legislative and regulatory
reform that would make us more effective comptetitors in today’s complex and rapidly changing finan
cial markets.
The most startling evidence of banking’s com
petitive inequality — but far from the only example —
can be seen in the growth of money market funds
which now control assets totaling some $172 billion.
Our estimates are that well over $60 billion of these
funds have been drained from banks of all sizes, simply
because antiquated regulations prevented banks from
paying fully competitive rates. Ironically, larger banks
have had to buy back these funds in the form of largedenomination CDs — at rates sometimes three times
as much as they had been allowed to pay on their core
deposits — while many smaller banks have been shut
out completely. What we see here is the growing
separation of the asset-creation function and the
deposit-gathering function.
This is creating an overhang of uncertainty in the
CITY BANKERS...
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Banking
Community bankers look at the system
A NORTHWESTERN BANKER Survey
MONG bankers reponding to
A
the
Community Banker Correspondent

When asked if they “have any
concern as to how your correspon
dent is pricing your participation re
Bank Survey, more than three- quests,’’ 50% of the under $10
fourths (77.6%) state that they million deposit groups replied,
prefer collected balances as the “Yes,’’ while only 14.3% of those
means of covering their activity from banks over $50 million
with a city correspondent, and ap deposits replied “Yes.” (Chart 4.)
proximately 18% have chosen a
Question 1
combination of collected balances
“Have
your
correspondents given
and fees. (Chart 1-B.)
you
an
option
of covering your ac
Of those who maintain collected
tivity
with
collected
balances, or
balances, 83.6% feel they maintain
high enough balances to cover such fees, or a combination? Which have
you chosen? If balances, have they
activity. (Chart 1-C.)
Among the respondents, just over been enough to cover your activity?
half (53.2%) of those from banks of If ‘No,’ what has your city cor
under $50 millions deposits are ex respondent done about the short
periencing problems with their ag fall?” Answers to first three parts
loan portfolios, while 85.7% of those appear in Charts 1-A, 1-B and 1-C.
from banks of more than $50 million Following are sample comments on
deposits acknowledge such pro what city correspondents are doing
about any shortfall:
blems.
In the area of correspondent ser
Under $10 million: There are
vice itself, 81% of the respondents times when they say we don’t have,
think their correspondents will con but it seems to me they are not giv
tinue to satisfy their participation ing us credit as quickly as they
requests. (Chart 3.) The confidence should. Perhaps they are getting the
in this cooperation from city cor collections done but are slow at
respondents ranges from a high of passing it on to our credit.
91.7% by banks under $10 million,
then on a declining scale to 71.4%
Iowa, $30 million: If Fed Funds
for banks of more than $50 million drop below 12% and requirement in
deposits.
creases, it’s better to go with bal
ances. When we’re short, re
quirements are waived.
Chart 1-A
N o rthw estern

B a n k er

Q. Have your correspondents given
you an option of covering your activity
with collected balances, or fees, or a
combination? (By deposit groups, in
millions.)
Size

Under $10
million
$10-$25
million
$25-$50
million
Over $50
million
Avg. of
all groups

Yes

enough to cover your activity?
Size

Under $10
million
$10-$25
million
$25-$50
million
Over $50
million
Avg. of
all groups

Yes

87.5%

12.5%

90%

10%

90%

10%

67%

33%

83.6%

16.4%

Chart 1-B
Size

50%

88.6%

11.4%

75%

25%

71.5%

28.5%
28.7%

Avg. of
all groups

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Chart 1-C
Q. If balances, have they been

Q. Which have you chosen?
Under $10
million
$10-$25
million
$25-$50
million
Over $50
million

71.3%

Nebraska, $6.8 million: Cor
respondent bank has allowed us to
make up balance deficiencies in
future months. We like this idea.
Minnesota, $14 million: We feel
the charges have been somewhat ex
cessive. Some correspondents
haven’t charged their bank cus
tomers.
Iowa, $12 million: Been fair...let
us make it up with future balances.
Nebraska, $22 million: We feel we
should be charged for service they
perform for us.
Nebraska, $11.5 million: Still in
phase-in period. Currently using a
three-month average, so we have a
chance to compensate for a single
month’s deficiency.
Iowa, $50 million: Balances have

Collected
Balances

Fees

Combination

50%

12.5%

37.5%

78%

19%

81%

14%

4.5%

17.9%

100%
77.6%

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been enough, but they require too
much in balances.
Question 2
“What problems, if any, are you
having with your ag loan portfolio?
How are your farm customers handl
ing their indebtedness and what
does it look like for 1982? How much
will this affect your ag lending abili
ty in 1982?“ (Chart 2.)

Nebraska, $5 million: Crops good
prices terrible - future depends on
prices.
Nebraska, $5.6 million: Large
carry-overs. We requested refinancing/paydowns and/or no further ad
vances until bank is adequately
secured. We will be reducing our
over-all ag debt.
Iowa $21 million: We are seeing
more holding of grain, hopefully for
a higher market later. This could
Chart 2
mean an extension of notes until
Q. Are you experiencing any pro
grain is sold. Over-all, our note total
blems with your ag loan portfolio?
is down as many farmers, because of
None or
high prices, have reduced spending
M inim al
Yes
Size
for machinery, particularly new ma
Under $10
chinery. It appears fertilizer costs
50%
50%
million
will be higher next year, so depen
$10-$25
ding on weather, etc., some plan to
48.6%
51.4%
million
buy
this fall (1981) with lower costs
$25-$50
and possibly lower interest rates
41.7%
58.3%
million
than what spring may bring.
Over $50
14.3%
Wisconsin, $18 million: We have
85.7%
million
plenty
of funds for ag lending, but
Avg. of
38.7%
rates we must charge are too high
61.3%
all groups
46.8%
for our farm customers to afford.
53.2%
Avg. of 3
smallest
Since pegging our CID rates to
groups
treasury’s our cost of funds is too
high for reasonable loan rates.
Minnesota, $11 million: No big
A sampling of comments follows:
Minnesota, $2.5 million: Repay problems in our ag loan portfolio.
ment is slow with mostly renewals. Those with heavy debt-loads concen
Customers are deferring purchases trated in capital improvements will
and paying off more debts except for have problems and might not sur
bank. Next year’s lending ability vive, but strong management will be
(1982) should be OK for present the key for the next year or so. With
customers but we probably will not the higher requirements of money
that the farmer needs, the smaller
take any new customers.
Iowa, $8.5 million: We need to get bank must have a good overline ar
paid down. Some customers still rangement.
Nebraska, $24 million: The big
have 1980 crop.
South Dakota, $9 million: Rates gest problem is loss of equity.
necessary to maintain profitability Farmers have been refinancing land
are too high. Generally, most far with FLB and FHA in the past sev
mers are buying very little. If rates eral years — FHA has not been in
continue, it appears that very little the market for nine months now. If
machinery exchange will occur in the markets for livestock and grain
1982. Also, there is some indication continue as they have been, I
that foundation herd sizes will be wouldn’t be surprised to see an
reduced. We will have funds unusually large number of farm
available for ag lending; will pro sales by spring.
bably be a little more selective in
Iowa $16 million: 1982 does not
types of loans approved.
look bright for agriculture; however,
South Dakota, $7.5 million: Our we do feel this is not the time to give
customers are in an extreme profit up on agriculture. Most good far
squeeze. We do not anticipate any li mers can make it through the good
quidation this year, but we also do times by themselves. It is in the bad
not expect any great paydowns times when they really need a bank’s
either. We anticipate higher loan de assistance and guidance. 1982 will be
mand in 1982 with a corresponding a challenge for both the farmer and
his banker. We feel we are in the
deterioration in debt to worth.
Minnesota, $6 million: No payoff position to help our customers in
yet. Many lines fully extended and a 1982.
Iowa, $44 million: At present we
few may be over. Our capabilities
are loaning on a short-term basis as
will be tested.
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we are not on a variable rate and this
makes for additional work. An ad
vantage is that we are seeing most
of our farmers at this time for loan
extensions and it does give us an op
portunity to review their operation.
It appears many farm borrowers will
have a hard time generating proper
cash flow, mainly due to markets.
We are seeing them take a variety of
steps. Our bank is not loaned up
very high at this time. 1982 looks
like it is going to be tough; it does
not look very profitable.
Iowa, $25 million: High costs and
low prices are going to force a num
ber of our customers out of farming.
It is a little early to tell yet but we
are guessing that many of our ag
loan customers will be beginning the
1982 season with carryover debt.
We will be requiring detailed cash
flow projections from most of our ag
loan customers. Those that can’t
show a positive cash flow may be
asked to seek some long-term financ
ing elsewhere.
Iowa, $53 million: We are ex
periencing difficulty with some ag
loans, especially young farmers and
undercapitalized farmers. Many are
having to renew their loans for
another year rather than pay them
as planned. We will be much more
conservative in extending loans to
farmers in 1982 because of the bleak
outlook that exists.
Question 3
“ Do you th in k your co r
respondents will continue to satisfy
your participation requests? (Chart
3.) A sampling of comments follows:
Iowa, $9 million: We have had no
indication that they would not meet
our needs.”
Nebraska, $8.5 million: Our cor
respondent bank has been very co
operative in handling our ag
ricultural overlines. I do not expect
Chart 3
Q. Do you think your correspondents
will continue to satisfy your participa
tion requests?
Size

Under $10
million
$10-$25
million
$25-$50
million
Over $50
million
Avg. of
all groups

Yes

91.7%

8.3%

85.3%

14.7%

75%

25%

71.4%

28.6%

81%

19%

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any problems to develop in 1982.
Chart 4
The bank is very cooperative on the
Q. Do you have any concern as to how your correspondent is pricing your participa
lines where we need the help and our
tion requests?
loan limit is sufficient for the
No Answer
No
Size
Yes
smaller operators.
Under $10
Iowa, $12 million: We have an af
41.7%
million
8.3%
50%
filiate ag credit corporaton and rare
$10-$25
million
65.7%
5.7%
28.6%
ly sell participations to cor
$25-$50
respondents. Sell some to neighbor
million
8.4%
33.3%
58.3%
ing banks and this is much more
Over
$50
satisfactory price-wise.
million
71.4%
14.3%
14.3%
Minnesota, $11 million: I t’s im
Avg. of
portant that the small, rural bank
9.2%
all groups
31.5%
59.3%
with a limited lending capacity have
a good overline arrangement with how your correspondent is pricing tion within their respective regions
its correspondent bank. If money your participation request?’’ (Chart at lower than city correspondent
conditions become very tight, the 4.) Several comments follow:
rates.
question that always arises is, will
Iowa, $52 million: One correspon
Question 5
your correspondent continue to han dent (large regional bank) always
dle your participation requests. We wants prime or prime plus on com
“What are your greatest concerns
have had no problems with the over mercial loans. Another correspon about correspondent banking now or
lines to this point, but they have not dent in a smaller town will go along in the foreseeable future?’’
been that great in number or with the interest rate we established
Some of the banks under $10
amount.
million deposits voiced these con
on commercial loans.
Iowa, $12 million: I find cor
Iowa, $45 million: No considera cerns: That the smaller banks will
respondent banks are eager to take tion for balances is given on loan fall to large institutions by further
overlines when they are looking for participations. Loans sold are at acquisitions; on again/off again
loans and then find every excuse in their “prime rate.’’
about accepting participations; that
the book not to take them when loan
Iowa, $33 million: Too high. the intermediate size banks will be
funds are tight and you really need That’s why we go to smaller banks. swallowed by the big banks and fur
them. That is why we never use cor
Montana, $50 million: They set ther strip capital from rural areas;
respondents unless we really have the required rate but are willing to passage of multi-bank holding com
to.
pany legislation (Nebraska).
South Dakota, $14 million: We accept increased collected balances
Among banks of $10-$25 million
as
an
alternative.
have had a consistent, open relation
deposits, these concerns were named
Minnesota,
$30
million:
The
cor
ship with our close-by correspondent
respondent has his formula to follow (in order of number of times men
and expect this to continue.
tioned): Willingness to take over
Iowa, $16 million: The main thing for his interest rate spread. If he lines; good service disappearing —
wants to be a “friend to the country
that bothers us about our participa bank,’’ he must also be aware that more independent; will there be con
tion program is that many times the the average country bank does not tinued service to smaller indepen
correspondent bank demands a normally charge the same rate as the dent banks; Fed; costs keep going
higher rate of interest than we are big brother in the city.
up; lack of old-time loyalty; not
charging. About the only time we
dependable when going gets tough;
Iowa,
$16
million:
We
presume
he
overline is on our good, large ac is only trying to offset his high cost lack of understanding of ag credit; a
counts and these customers object of funds and it is sometime difficult different cost of funds at correspon
to paying the higher interest rates to be critical, particularly when you dent than we have.
demanded by the correspondent need his help.
In the $25-$50 million range,
bank.
Iowa, $10.6 million: I feel our cor some of the same concerns surface:
Iowa, $40 million: Our correspon
dent has shown a general reluctance respondent depends too much on Participation inability; ability to
to become involved with participa outside markets for rates charged, continue to serve independent
tions so we have not approached rather than what their in-house banks; computer service overpriced;
them. We have found it easier to costs are. They do not hesitate to go they compete with us for our
work with other banks our size on a up with the New York prime, but lag customer deposits; could care less
about us; branching possibilities;
coming down.
reciprocal basis.
Minnesota, $14 million: They have unreliable and at a price we can af
A number of bankers commented
that they do not require participa been more than fair to us. We have ford.
Among the banks over $50 mil
tion loans. Another large number still been able to make about 1% on
lion deposits, these concerns were
commented that they seldom use ci our overlines.
Nebraska, $5 million: Requiring stated: availability of funds; fear
ty correspondents because com
balances
to be maintained on that Fed will become the clearing
munity banks within a region have
developed a sharing of participa outstanding balance of participation house again; ownership; big banks
will want to buy up rural banks and
tions at acceptable rates within that — no good. Fees are better.
will have little concern about local
Again,
a
number
of
banks
in
region.
dicated this relationship was problems; discontinuance of per
Question 4
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Chart 5
Q. Who do you consider to be your biggest threats or competition in the coming
month or years? Please list 1, 2, 3 in order of importance to you.
Govt, (agencies,
regulations and
deregulation
S&Ls and CUs
Banks & MBHCs
MMFs & other
non-financials
Interest rates
Retailers
Unknown competition
Inflation
Card chains
Earnings emph.
Inv. rates
Fed. Reserve
Non-int. exp.
Lack of prudence
Economy

1st

2nd

3rd

35.0%
18.0%
7.5%

14.0%
28.0%
24.0%

25.0%
32.0%
12.0%

35.0%
1.5%
1.5%
1.5%
—
—
—
—
—
—

28.0%
2.0%
—
—
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
—
—
—

19.0%
1.8%
—
—
—
1.8%
—
—
1.8%
1.8%
1.8%
3.0%

—
—

accounts at local level; turnover
among correspondent staffs.
Question 6
“What do you see as the greatest
strengths of the correspondent
banking system?”
Banks under $10 million listed
these: Ability to help small banks
compete; general service to country
banks; their expertise and will
ingness to help; good personnel.
Bankers in $10-$25 million banks
listed these strengths: Overlines and
expertise we can’t purchase; clear
ing, computer, checking services; ac
cessibility; competition to Fed;
knowledge of our bank and will
ingness to assist; ability to beef up
their departments to help us; per
sonal contact and less red tape.
Comments from $25-$50 million
deposit banks included: Services;
bond department; assist country
banks with needs we can’t provide;
sharing information and services;
expertise; funds available at a price;
participations; provide entry to Fed
system; financial counselor.
Banks over $50 million view these
strengths: ability to compete with
the Fed; personal contact and exper
tise; continuity — past performance;
adequate money supply; computer
and check clearing service.
Question 7
“Who do you consider to be your
biggest threats or competition in the
coming months or years? Please list
1, 2, 3 in order of importance to
you.” (Chart 5.)
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Because of the similarity of
replies from all four deposit
categories used in previous ques
tions, the answers to Question 7
have been combined. Government
(agencies, regulations and deregula
tions) ranked eqully with Money
Market Funds and other nonfinancial institutions with 35% each.
MMFs and savings & loans and
credit unions ranked equally with
22% in second place, while savings
& loans and credit unions were
ranked just ahead of government in
third place.
When considering the top four
“biggest threats” shown in Chart 5,
MMFs on a combined 1, 2, 3 basis
had 29.6% of the vote of these four
listings; savings and loans and
credit unions were the next biggest
threat with 28%; government was
right behind with 26%, and banks
and MBHCs were a distant fourth
with 16.4%.
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PLAN WELL...

(Continued from page 19)
“You’re the one who must ap
prove those plans as developed.”
Following Mr. Armstrong’s ad
dress, Donald G. Pederson, senior
vice president and head of the cor
respondent bank division, presented
the format for the afternoon pro
gram. This offered five session
topics in separate rooms si
multaneously, and these were
repeated twice so that each regis
trant could have the opportunity of
attending three of the sessions.
“Long Range Planning” was

presented by George Drakey, prin
cipal of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell
firm from St. Louis, Mo.
“ 1982 Outlook - Agricultural
Banking” was presented by Arlen
Tengwall, vice president, and Larry
Wipf, assistant vice president, both
with the host Northwestern Na
tional Bank.
“Asset/Liability Management in
the ’80s” was presented by Ron
Olson and his associate Pete Marks
from Olson Research Associates,
Inc.
“The ’81 Tax Act and Other SelfDetonating Devices” was presented
by Bob Colbert, vice president of
N orthw estern N ational’s tru s t
department.
“Bank Leasing in the ’80s” was
presented by Dan Leclerc, president,
and Perry Mead, assistant vice
president, of Lease Northwest, a
subsidiary of Northwest Bancorporation.
Practically all of these five pro
grams attracted overflow crowds.
After they were completed, guests
attended a reception, followed by
the traditional Duck Dinner. Mr.
Pederson presided at this affair,
which again featured three guests
from the ever popular Minnesota
Vikings professional football team.
Bobby Bryant, an all-time Viking
star who retired last year, running
back Eddie Payton and receiver Joe
Senser teamed up with Mr. Peder
son for a half-hour quiz show that
fielded questions from the audience
and provided good-natured banter
among the three Viking guests.
Mr. Pederson closed out the even
ing by inviting guests to return
December 9, 1982, for the next Con
ference and Duck Dinner.
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MasterCard ATM System to
Be Called “MasterTeller”
The name “MasterTeller” has
been chosen for MasterCard Inter
national’s automated teller machine
system that is scheduled to be in
troduced in the United States in
1982.
MasterCard’s ATM program will
provide cash dispensing services for
a variety of cards, including the new
MasterCard credit card, the MasterCard II debit card, the gold MasterCard card, and the proprietary cards
of participating member banks and
financial institutions.

City bankers look at what’s ahead...
(Continued from page 22)
financial markets. For the money funds have no
respondents continue to use us for many traditional
capital, no reserve requirements, no deposit insurance,
banking services, we recognize the need to anticipate
no regulatory oversight and no backup lines of credit.
and respond to the service needs being brought about
Moreover, the recycling of money by money market
by a changing banking environment which requires a
funds is costing the industry something like $5 billion
broader range of services to compete. We must be in a
position to assist our respondents cope with the
a year in additional interest expense.
In addressing the need for banking reform, the
eighties by providing consistent and dependable ser
prime question is not what is best for small banks, or
vices which will require more and better use of the sup
big banks, or even the industry generally. The prime
port departments in our bank. We anticipate a greater
question is what is best for the country in terms of in
need for consulting type services in the years ahead as
suring a growing, flexible and sound financial struc
our respondents needs become more sophisticated.
ture and financial markets. Putting the public ahead of
As to the outlook for banking next year, it will de
self-interest should be a goal around which banks of all
pend greatly on: 1) the severity and duration of the
sizes can unite. Only by doing so can we insure that our
recession, 2) interest rates, 3) any regulatory change
problems will get a fair hearing and that appropriate
and, 4) our ability and effectiveness in competing in
reform will be undertaken.
the market place against non-financials.
What I fear, though, is that the legislative and
regulatory changes that are brewing will simply patch
up the obvious rents in the financial cloth rather than
be the warp and woof of a new material. Too much
LAWRENCE H. FROWICK
hangs in the balance for a narrow-minded approach, if
Vice President
indeed it ever was appropriate.
Continental Illinois National
There is still time for the industry to influence the
coming changes, which truly represent an opportunity
Bank and Trust Company
for the most resilient among us. And I must point out
Chicago, 111.
that resiliency is not the special domain of the large
banks.
The framework that I believe will work best will be
one that supports the Federal Reserve’s ability to ex
HE ECONOMIC outlook for 1982 is not at all en
ecute a sound monetary policy, ensures the stability of
couraging. The nation is entering the New Year in
the financial system, minimizes the inefficiencies that
the midst of the eighth recession since World War II
exist by virtue of having 50 sets of banking laws, and
and, with the exception of those banks that plan
responds to the changing needs of the economy. Such a
carefully for profits, the year ahead could be very dif
framework would likely lead to interstate banking. But
ficult. Many existing problems will not be resolved
I believe that we can have interstate banking without
during 1982. Generally, these include declines in
damaging the local orientation that has been banking’s
business activity and GNP, and continuing high in
great strength in this nation.
terest rate levels. The prime rate probably will average
I am confident, moreover, that the system of cor
16% during 1982. Troublesome inflation and
respondent banking that has worked so successfully
unemployment levels, build-ups in inventory, softness
for the local banks will continue to thrive and improve.
in capital equipment spending and production,
Manufacturers Hanover will remain an industry leader
depressed farm earnings, poor housing and car sales,
in correspondent banking and will continue its
and the growing budget deficit remain serious con
substantial commitment or resources and expertise in
cerns domestically. Increasing political and economic
that area.
difficulties internationally also could disrupt the na
tional economy during the year ahead.
Beyond these factors affecting the economy as a
whole, the 1982 profit outlook for banks continues to
be influenced by such challenges as reduced loan de
mand, shrinking net interest margins, increased com
BERNARD KERSEY
petition
from bank and non-bank sources, and probable
Vice President
higher
loan
losses. Although the general economic
Iowa-Des Moines National Bank
outlook
and
the
profit outlook for banks may improve
Des Moines, la.
during the latter half of the year, there is little doubt
that the first six months of 1982 will be very difficult
indeed.
In light of the economic and profit outlooks, the
need for bank management to reevaluate opportunities
ORRESPONDENT BANKING is alive and well!
in banking has never been greater. In the environment
To date, neither Fed pricing nor deregulation have
of the 1980s, banks can no longer try to be all things to
seriously altered the strong respondent relationships
all customers. Rather, banks must identify those areas
we enjoy throughout the state. However, the nature of
correspondent banking is changing. While our
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them to uniquely deliver services at a profit, and con
centrate efforts on further development of resources on
those services. At the same time, banks must curtail or
discontinue those services which other financial in
stitutions are able to provide more advantageously.
“Business as usual” will not work in the 1980s. Through
proper planning and careful allocation of people,
management and resources, some banks will find op
portunities for continued profit and growth during the
ensuing year. Monitoring earning asset quality will
become increasingly important during the year ahead.
Although country banks historically have enjoyed a
natural advantage in knowing their customers and
their needs, they are no longer immune from outside
competitors, such as money market funds, PCAs, sav
ings and loan institutions, and others. All bankers
should recognize that borrowers no longer can be sub
sidized at the expense of depositors, and that as rate
ceilings are lifted or eliminated, depositors are becom
ing increasingly expensive. Regional banks will con
tinue to transact significant business with respondent
banks due both to proximity and to a generally lower
cost of doing business. At the same time, regional
banks will encounter increasing competition from of
fices of money center banks and from non-banking
sources. In keeping with the philosophy that banks
cannot be all things to all people, regional banks will
continue to work with money center banks when
special services - such as international introductions,
educational services and seminars, trade finance, cer
tain trust services, investment and corporate finance
consulting, large loan participations, profitable place
ment of excess overnight funds - arise.
Overall, the outlook for correspondent business and
general banking in 1982 will depend upon how well
each bank can analyze and capitalize on its specific
strengths. There will always be a market for correspon
dent services, but they will be supplied by those finan
cial institutions which can deliver them reliably and at
a competitive price. Loyalty, personal service and
trust also will continue to be important factors in deci
sions involving correspondent services.
Of course, effective planning is the key to identify
ing and capitalizing upon strengths and to profitable
allocation of resources. Continental believes in and
practives open, rational and systematic planning at all
levels of management, and it is partially to planning
that we attribute our improved profit performance dur
ing recent years. Effective, strategic planning iden
tifies important issues - including the potential profit
of particular markets and services - and addresses
them with specific, flexible action plans. Obviously,
services or markets with high future profit potential
are favored with high resource allocations. Such issues
as reasonable market growth, pricing, and risk levels
are considered in determination of market attrac
tiveness. As issues change, a process for re-evaluating
priorities must be conducted on a continuing basis.
Finally, while a one-year plan is the first step, Con
tinental has found that five- and ten-year plans are of
great importance in directing growth.
In summary, while 1982 will be difficult, those
banks which focus on planning and resource allocation
for profit maximization will not only survive, but will
prosper.
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GLEN R. WALTERS
Vice President
First Bank Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minn.

OR THE commercial banking industry, 1982 is
F
likely to be full of significant change, continuing
the momentum built up over the past several years.
The industry is almost certain to face increased com
petition from the brokerage and thrift industries for
retail business. Money market mutual funds have
grown to over $180 billion in assets, continuing to ex
pand at a rapid pace. At the same time, savings and
loans no doubt will continue to compete agressively for
retail business throughout 1982.
Some regulatory relief may be at hand for the com
mercial banking industry in the coming year. Changes
in the Glass Steagall Act which would allow the bank
ing industry to offer money market mutual funds as
well as underwrite municipal revenue bonds are possi
ble.
1982 also will challenge the industry to better con
trol both non-interest and interest costs. Strong
management versed in asset liability management will
be a major positive influence on maintaining overall in
dustry profitability.
Given the rapidly changing financial environment,
correspondent banks have a tremendous responsibility
to assist community banks in adapting to these
changes. Specifically, correspondent banks must pro
vide new support services in areas such as automated
teller machines, money market mutual funds, and the
underwriting of municipal revenue bonds. In addition,
respondents should be able to look to correspondents
for assistance in asset/liability management programs,
regulatory compliance, new technological applications,
and a wide variety of educational programs geared to
training their employees in areas such as teller opera
tions, management, and credit analysis.
Rapid change experienced over the past several
years has served to reinforce the need for a strong and
viable correspondent bank network capable of meeting
the demands of the respondent bank.

STEPHEN J. HATZ
Vice President
Security National Bank
Sioux City, la.

DIFFICULT economic environment, coupled with
A
regulations that constantly change the liability
structure of our institutions will be of increasing con
cern to every bank manager in 1982. We see our role as
one of informing, counseling, and providing the pro
ducts and knowledge that will allow our correspondent

banks to prosper in these abnormal times. An area that
has received much attention over the past couple of
years, and will be more critical in the coming years, is
asset/liability management. We have assisted our
bankers in determining their proper spreads and the
sensitivity of their balance sheets.
Aggressive check collection services and cash
management advice will continue to expand, with
availability and pricing being determining factors. Our
approach is to pass on the actual availability we
receive, and we also have established two regional
clearinghouses to aid our correspondent banks.
The importance of overlines in lending advice will
take on a greater importance in 1982. With the poor
agricultural and business economy, country banks will
be looking for more than just a supplier of capital. A
competent, service-oriented, approach to dispensing
lending and workout advice to bankers will become
vital. We feel that bankers will seek participations in
loans for expertise reasons; not just legal limit and li
quidity concerns. Agricultural credit is our specialty;
we rank as the 61st largest ag lender in the country
and we are sixth in the corn belt region, along with
significant commercial lending experience being
available.
Bankers in need of data processing services will find
a complete array of competitive and innovative EDP
services. We remain very committed to data process
ing and our product line will expand in 1982 to serve
the demands of our respondents in the future.
The traditional correspondent services will continue
to be of importance to our respondents this coming
year; however, we feel that we can be of greater benefit
to our customers in the area of counseling and advis
ing. We encourage respondents to use our correspon
dent bankers as sounding boards during what appears
to look like a very difficult year.

DON R. OSTRAND
Vice President
First National Bank of
Omaha, Nebr.

FIRMLY believe that the outlook for correspondent
Iahead
banking, as well as banking in general, for the year
and for the ’80’s will not only be challenging, but
will be rewarding, as well.
According to the American Bankers Association
1981 Correspondent Banking Survey, interbank check
collection has remained the single most important ser
vice offered by correspondent banks to their
respondents. This means, of course, that they will con
tinue to look to their correspondent bank to provide
the most efficient and best availability schedule in pro
cessing these items. Our bank is now providing an end
point analysis computer printout for our respondent
banks, which has been most helpful in analyzing their
cash letter as to sort patterns and the most efficient
means of collecting their items.
We will continue to see an increase in the need for
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bank holding companies, either to facilitate a change of
ownership, or to provide the increased capital
necessary to support bank deposit growth. Overline
and liquidity loan participations continue to be impor
tant services that we can, and do, provide.
It is my opinion that the community bank in the
future will be looking even more to its regional cor
respondent bank to provide the expertise and the
assistance in keeping up with ever-changing banking
regulations, and requirements for a variety of services
and activities not even yet on the drawing board. I feel
that, in spite of the continued pressure for a re
structuring of our banking system, even so far as in
terstate banking, that a community bank, along with
its regional correspondent, can be a viable part of
banking in the ’80’s, and will be in a position to even
better serve its customers in the future than it has in
the past.
I repeat that the future for those of us who are
regional correspondent banks will not only be challeng
ing, but can be profitable, as well.

WILLIAM F. LOVE
Vice President
LaSalle National Bank
Chicago, 111.

HE YEAR 1982 is shaping up as a hard one to fore
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cast for the banking industry. One thing is clear we bankers are glad to see interest rates coming down
at the tail end of 1981, and we hope it continues in
1982. Community banks will have to wait a few
months while high-rate, six-month TCD’s run off but,
ultimately, we and our customers will benefit from the
lower rates.
Profits likely will be flat in 1982 compared with
1981. Net interest margins will widen as interest rates
continue their decline. However, loan loss provisions
will increase (and still have difficulty keeping the bad
debt reserves replenished due to increased charge-offs)
as businesses and consumers continue to feel the lag
ging effects of the high rates of 1980 and 1981, as well
as the effects of a mini-recession we expect to last
through most of 1982. The gap between non-interest
expenses and non-interest income will get larger
without close attention by senior managers. Loan de
mand will grow at a much lower rate, as businesses
report lower profits and consumers retrench in the face
of increasing unemploymet.
Two issues will continue to dominate the thoughts
of bankers in 1982. One is the ever increasing blurring
of the separate roles that investment banks and com
mercial banks have traditionally played. We expect to
see additional progress made this year toward allowing
commercial banks to underwrite municipalities’
general obligation bonds. The second issue concerns
the barriers which have been established by the
McFadden Act and the Bank Holding Company Act to
prevent interstate banking and, again, we feel that con
tinued progress toward breaking down these barriers
will occur. However, we do not feel that either of these
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issues will be resolved in 1982; i.e., Congress will pass
no new legislation; and that both will be issues in 1983.
The correspondent banking business will never be
the same again after this year’s decision by the Fed to
become an active correspondent bank. We think the
number of banks offering correspondent services to the
Midwest will decline in 1982, as some managers decide
not to compete with the Fed.
The largest short-term issue facing correspondent
bankers today is “Are we going to stay in the cash let
ter business in light of the Fed’s attempt to mon
opolize this service?’’ Over the longer term, bankers
will have to adapt their correspondent product lines to
meet the ever changing environment. We feel a number
of new products will be made available to respondents
in the ’80’s.

ROBERT W. JACOBSON
Vice President
American National Bank and
Trust Company
Saint Paul, Minn.
CHANGES in banking, as a result of
R APID
deregulation, new legislation and the economy,

made the need for a concerned, innovative, correspon
dent bank greater than ever before. I feel very strongly
that the independent community bank not only can
survive, but prosper when backed up and supported by
a knowledgeable, correspondent bank and banker.
More specifically, I feel that there will be a need and
desire for better cash management in all banks, espec
ially community banks, thus leading the way for more
serious services to be paid for with hard dollars versus
account analysis. Besides the traditional services re
quired, such as cash letter, credit, investments, EDP,
etc., I think there will be a growing need for training
and seminars, trust services, asset and liability
management, personnel training and staffing, and
secondary markets.
In my opinion, the need for a good correspondent
banker and a good correspondent bank has never been
greater. Banking will be going through some revolu
tionary changes during the next few years, and the cor
respondent bank will be there to help make it a positive
transition.

WILLIAM J. RICKERT
Senior Vice President
National Bank of Waterloo
Waterloo, la.

F WE, as correspondents, are to keep respondents’
Icertain
balances we must be responsive to their needs. I am
that almost every bank closed at least one ac
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fects of Fed pricing made dormant balances too expen
sive to maintain.
I hope in 1982 we can get back to the business of
banking. We all spent more time on things that either
didn’t happen or turned out to be insignificant. Rules
changed so fast we weren’t always certain we were
playing the same game. The idiosyncrasies of the
D.I.D.C. has certainly kept all of us confused and
frustrated.
Help in implementing management tools to assist
banks in their daily operations is a must. Easily ar
rived at interest spread figures would be a real tool in
setting rates — not only for loans but ceilings paid on
liabilities. We will arrive at our spread by adjusting
the least interest sensitive asset or liability.
A clear, concise digest of regulations easily and
quickly read would be a real asset we could provide.
Further help in budgeting and portfolio analysis
would be high on a list of most respondents’ “want”
list.
In lending help, I feel it is of utmost importance to
have good credit documentation and complete finan
cial information, since a small overline for us is on top
of a limit loan for your respondent - and think of his
risk.
In these times we find many customers with their
backs to the wall doing things they wouldn’t have
thought possible.
If we help keep our community bankers strong they
will help us in our efforts to grow and prosper. We
want them to be the respected pillars of their communi
ty-

DONALD G. PEDERSON
Senior Vice President
Northwestern National Bank
Minneapolis, Minn.

ORRESPONDENT banking is a new ball game,
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according to Paul S. Nadler, professor of finance
at Rutgers University’s school of management. “Cor
respondent banking once was indeed steeped in tradi
tion. Now much of this has changed,” said Dr. Nadler.
The role of the regional correspondent bank has in
deed changed and today faces unprecedented scrutiny
as community banks face new competitive challenges.
This keener awareness on the part of community bank
ers will increase and the role of the correspondent
banker and the respondent bank can aptly be described
as an “evolving relationship.”
As the correspondent banker seeks to deliver pro
ducts and services through individually designed pro
grams which fulfill identified or anticipated needs, the
community banker will “shop” for services. Less empphasis will be placed on loyalty and tradition. An
evaluation of the content and quality of products and
services in meeting the respondent’s needs will evolve.
Community bankers will increasingly be required to
identify specific needs while, at the same time, plan
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dustry. The correspondent bank must implement call
ing programs which assist in identifying existing
needs and the trends for anticipated needs. It must
develop products and services which will keep pace
with the significant changes occurring within the
financial industry. As a member of the ABA’s Cor
respondent Banking executive committee I have had a
unique opportunity to survey the correspondent/respondent relationships throughout the upper
midwest and nationally. Those relationships are
changing!
Correspondent banks will assume more consultative
roles with their respondent customers. The “hard sell”
of products and services with only a “salesperson”
orientation will not be as viable in the correspondent/respondent relationship and will diminish in the
future.
The trend toward relationship banking is
augmented by the competitive changes within the
financial services industry. These trends are influenced
by the strong foundation in unit versus branch bank
ing in the region. We perceive this region will ex
perience less merger and consolidation of banks; with
continued stability in the overall number of banks.
However, increased competition from money center
banks, their subsidiaries, or non-bank firms in the de
livery of correspondent services is anticipated. This
trend cannot be ignored by banks which are currently
active in correspondent banking. This may mean
reduced market share for regional correspondent
banks and could force a given correspondent to re
evaluate both its position in the market as well as the
products and services it will offer. The evaluation of
the latter will be based on the overall profitability of a
given “product line” or service. This evaluation pro
cess may require correspondent banks to specialize in a
particular segment of the market rather than to con
tinue to provide all products and services for respon
dent banks and trying to be all things to all people.
The community banker will not be immune from
change, however. With increased competition for the
community banker’s business from traditional cor
respondent relationships, more awareness of products
and services will be required to remain competitive.
The community banker also will need to become adept
at differentiating between the benefits and features of
services now offered by a variety of vendors. In addi
tion to being faced with a variety of products and servcies from a number of sources, the community banker
may be asked to pay for those services in fees rather
than balances, as has been traditional in the industry
for so many years.
Providing products and services designed to fit the
needs of community banks, and individually “pack
aged” for a particular community bank, will
necessitate a high quality calling staff at a correspon
dent bank. The calling officers of the future will need to
be technically competent bankers, well-versed in all
facets of banking, who will be able to identify and
discuss the needs of the community bankers. As a con
sultant, the calling officer will be able to assist in
strategic planning and discuss compliance, credit,
human resource, and technological issues.
Acknowledging the evolution from salesperson to a
consultant will be beneficial to both parties. The cor
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and experienced. Calling officers will be judged by
their knowledge and ability to identify and resolve
needs.
Bankers must recognize the inevitability of change.
The relationship between correspondent and respon
dent banks is no exception. The years to come will be
an exciting period for the banking industry. Increased
competition for business will facilitate new, evolving
relationships between banks and bankers.

GARY W. STEVENSON
Vice President
First National Bank
Sioux City, la.

HE OPPORTUNITIES and challenges today and
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in the future will be many. Bankers will need better
and more sophisticated methods and procedures to
compete in the totally deregulated environment that is
fast developing. Banks will have to improve marketing
and pricing techniques to generate adequate future
earnings. A major item that can help banks in the pric
ing and earnings area is Asset/Liability Management.
A variety of Asset/Liability systems are used at in
dividual banks with varying degrees of success. The
system selected must be adapted to the individual
bank and its local environment. Changes should be
reviewed constantly to insure a flexible system that
recognizes changes on both sides of the ledger as they
occur; i.e., deposit and loan volumes, new types of
liabilities, fixed and floating rates, investments, etc.
Controllable expenses continue to be important;
however, net interest margin has developed as a single
most important item to insure overall bank profitabili
ty. A well developed Asset/Liability system should
allow banks to compete more effectively in the finan
cial market place and act more intelligently on changes
as they occur. Banks must maintain adequate earnings
to insure a viable, sound banking system to meet the
challenges of all competitors. Those banks that have
undeveloped or no Asset/Liability system at all will
probably experience earnings difficulties in the years
ahead.
Balances vs. Fees
We price the major part of our correspondent ser
vices on an analytical basis. Fees for special services
can be negotiated with the respondent requesting the
service. Balance payment for services remains the
most used method in our area.
Outlook for Correspondent Banking
First National Bank has been committed to cor
respondent banking for a number of years, and we can
see no reason to change that commitment. We are
always willing to discuss any sound transaction or ser
vice with our respondent and prospective respondent
banks. The topics we discuss most often are bank
stock financing, overline-liquidity loans, item
clearance, investments purchases/sales, rate changes,
pricing of new services and computer services.
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Ag Lending and Outlook
The basis of our economy is agriculture, so we have a
keen interest in agriculture’s health. Economic condi
tions dictate a cautious approach to ag lending in to
day’s environment. These conditions may take some
time to improve.
More frequent inspection reports, inventory of com
modities, and financial information should keep the
lender in tune with the borrower’s current and ex
pected future financial condition.
We are willing to discuss any sound agricultural
transaction. Our bank has two agricultural specialists
who are available for consultation at any time.
Summary
Community banks should continue to be sound, fi
nancial institutions, regardless of ownership, provided
adequate time is devoted by management to new
methods and systems that will deal with changes as
they occur. Earnings will be a very important ingre
dient to assure community banks of success.

WILBUR H. BAACK
Senior Vice President
National Bank of Commerce
Lincoln, Nebr.
ANY of the challenges and opportunities facing
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the correspondent banking business will also face
our respondents. The new Federal Reserve pricing,
deregulation of the liability side of the balance sheet,
and the future structure of the total financial service
industry will be among the many issues all of us in the
banking industry will need to address in 1982.
The old and established methods of doing business
will become antiquated and new, untried methods of
doing business will need to become the norm. The one
thing that will not change, however, is the responsibili
ty bank management will have to its stockholders and
customers. Bank management will still be required to
earn an adequate return on stockholder’s equity and
provide the necessary level of service to the bank’s
clientele, whether the clientele be the local community
or respondent banks.
Correspondent banks will need to place a greater
reliance on fees to pay for services and will need to ser
vice charge deficit balances. The possible sluggish de
mand for credit will impair bank profitability. The cost
of money will continue to impact all banks and, if they
simply price services from the angle of “what is my
competition doing,’’ instead of managing their own in
terest margin or determining their own cost of pro
viding the service, they will find their bank profitabili
ty deteriorating.
Correspondent banks will take on a new image in
that some services typically provided by correspon
dent banks will be done away with because of the lack
of profitability. The concept in banking of being “all
things to all people’’ will be phased out, as product
lines are designed from a bank resource and profit
perspective.

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Respondent banks will, however, still rely on prime
correspondents for aid in the following areas; check
processing and item availability, loan participations,
cash management, regulation guidance and manage
ment services.
The challenges the future will bring to bank manage
ment will be many and varied. Bankers that are
prepared to closely analyze their costs and price their
services profitably will have the successful banks in
the future.

EDDIE A. WOLF
Senior Vice President
United Central Bank of
Des Moines, N.A.
Des Moines, Iowa
I HAVE a good deal of concern with regard to
I Iowa’s number one industry — “agriculture.” In
1981 we have seen a decline in farm income while farm
production costs have continued to rise dramatically.
Despite record corn and bean crops, low prices received
for commodities and livestock, along with high in
terest rates, have contributed significantly to present
conditions. The current administration has followed
our longstanding cheap food policy which has not
helped the market price received by the farmer. As a
result, 1982 will be a year of decision for many
agricultural borrowers. Over the past few years, carry
over debt has been restructured into term debt,
primarily in the form of land mortgages. Whereas land
debt historically has been based on loan to value,
lenders are now looking at cash flow as well as col
lateral value when approving these requests.
All of us involved in ag lending want to continue to
be an aggressive supplier of funds for sound short-term
needs of farmers and ag-related business. However,
there is a definite cause for concern for loan losses for
the year 1982. The economic recession likely will con
tribute to an extension of unfavorable conditions
throughout the year, placing an even more important
premium on good management for farm and ag-related
business.
We must have in place proper collateral margins as
well as sound management and financial plans to
asssure lending institutions of the repayment capacity
and ultimate collectibility of these loans. Secondary
sources of repayment will continue to play an impor
tant role. All of this is necessary to see that loan losses
do not become a significant factor in order to maintain
soundness in both the financial and agricultural in
dustries.
It has never been more important than now to
thoroughly examine every application for credit to
make sure that it will remain a quality asset
throughout the proposed term.
Fed Funds income in 1980 and 1981 has been a big
source of income for many respondent banks. Coupled
with a diminishing demand for credit, inadequate mar
gin spreads in lending rates, and declining Fed Fund
rates, it appears that we have our work cut out for us
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The Federal Reserve implementation of hard dollar
charges for services will continue to be a factor affec
ting the cost of operations for all banks. While all of
the correspondent banks pay hard dollar charges di
rectly to the Fed, we continue to depend on our respon
dent customers to provide collected balances to cover
the additional cost under account analysis.
United Central Bank of Des Moines remains com
mitted to the needs of our respondent banks and we
will continue to be a strong supporter of community
banks and the agricultural industry through credit
facilities, cash management and data processing ser
vices.

WESLEY D. BOWEN
Senior Vice President
Packers National Bank
Omaha, Nebr.

HEN we consider the important issues and op
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portunities in the months and years ahead,
several specific areas immediately surface. Among
them are these:
1. Federal Reserve pricing and its effect on present
and future correspondent relationship.
2. Financing agricultural needs during this period
of depressed grain and livestock prices.
3. Asset/liability management.
4. Cash and investment management service.
5. DIDC and what it eventually will mean to
correspondent/respondent banking.
American statesman, Daniel Webster, once said,
“Competition comes in place of monopoly, and in
telligence and industry ask only for a fair plan and an
open field.’’ As the banking industry enters this new
decade of question and turmoil, it is becoming increas
ingly apparent that the present banking system is on
the threshold of major and dramatic change.
Senate Bill 1720 (The Garn Bill) is an attempt to
totally restructure the nation’s financial system.
Packers National Bank strongly opposes this illconceived move to disrupt and ultimately destroy the
independent banking structure. Regardless of how the
original Garn Bill may be modified, its essential thrust
will remain the same. Thrifts would move towards be
coming commercial banks and the lines between
banks, savings and loans, investment banking and the
securities industry will blend into a final scenario of in
distinguishable rules and regulations that will even
tually self-destruct independent banking as it present
ly operates.
This is our over-riding concern for 1982 and the
decade of the eighties. The politicians in Washington
in their insatiable quest to legislate monumental
changes that the public neither asked for nor wants,
are demonstrating once again their questionable abili
ty to govern. The action today is “on the hill.” I
strongly urge that all who are interested in preserving
our present independent banking system relay your
concern to your Washington representatives.

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WILLIAM J. ADDINGTON
Vice President
Marquette National Bank
Minneapolis, Minn.

HE CHALLENGES that confront correspondent
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banking today are dictated by the same challenges
facing community bankers in the Upper Midwest.
Those primary issues that we’re all concerned with are:
• General economic conditions and
• Deregulation
The economic environment has created an unusual
situation in the Upper Midwest where agriculture
plays a major role. The year 1981 produced bumper
crops in most areas of the region. As commodity prices
dropped substantially, these bumper crops did not
translate directly into cash for the farmer. Many of
these crops currently are being stored on-premise
rather than being sold. Although government pro
grams have allowed farmers to seal the crops in
storage and borrow against them, this action held little
profit for farmers and created little in the way of
deposit balances for the local banker.
Deregulation was aimed primarily at freeing the
banking and thrift industries from constraints that did
not allow them to operate in a free market environ
ment. This action, however, has affected different
segments of the banking industry in different ways.
For instance, the phasing out of Regulation Q and the
creation of new time deposit vehicles at higher interest
rates are aimed primarily at allowing banks to compete
with non-banking institutions which offer money
market funds and other high interest investment op
tions. While the large money center banks have been
able to invest in assets that offered them a return on
the high interest deposits, the community banker is
faced with a different problem.
Agricultural and small business borrowers aren’t in
a position to control the price of their products and ser
vices and, therefore, can’t afford high interest rates.
The community banker must service these customer
segments with high cost deposits through one of two
ways:
1. Pay the higher price to maintain the deposit base
and continue to service the borrowers at a smaller price
spread, or
2. Refuse to pay competitive rates on deposit in
struments and lose deposits.
But the solution will have to lie in determining the
minimum spreads necessary to profitably operate the
bank, while maintaining a strong capital base. Effec
tively managing assets and liabilities to see that this
spread is achieved and maintained will be critical.
Banking has changed and will continue to change.
All bankers need to be alert to these changes and the
methods to cope with them. The job can’t be done
alone. The best source for advice and help is your cor
respondent banker. Enlist that help and those
resources.
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America’s newest name
in banking is right
in the center of things.

Columbia Union National
Bank in Kansas City is now
called Centerre Bank.
Don’t worry. It’s only a
change of name. Not a
change of service.
All the correspondent
banking services you’ve
come to count on from this
bank are still available.
And the same experienced
people are still on hand to
provide them to you.
Centerre Bank. It’s a new
name. But we’re not
changing a thing about the
way we handle your
correspondent banking needs.

CENTERRE

MidAmericas
Bankers.

Formerly Columbia Union National
Bank & Trust Company
Member FDIC

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“We’ve asked repeatedly for the
IBA leaders to come to the table to
discuss the issues and they have
refused. This meeting as I see it is
one totally run and operated by the
IBA. We would be pleased to attend
if it was a joint meeting or one spon
sored by the ABA. AMBI already
has a consensus of members. When
they get their consensus, we’ll be
glad to meet with them.”
Robert J. Wingert, executive
director of ICBI, also headquartered
C a lls fo r Illin o is U n ity M e e tin g
in
S p rin g fie ld ,
said
his
organization’s
leadership
had
just
N AN unprecedented move to meeting, leaders of both AMBI and
unite the banking industry in Il the ICBI stated that at present they met that day (December 16) and it
linois, the Illinois Bankers Associa do not plan to attend as par was decided ICBI would not attend
formally as an organization. “Our
tion announced on December 10 ticipating associations.
members are free to attend as in
James
Watt,
president
of
AMBI,
plans for a congress of all banking
organizations in the state to be held said that although AMBI has not dividual members and take part in
in St. Louis on January 28 and 29, yet issued any formal statement on any dicussions they wish,” Mr.
the matter, it does not plan to at Wingert said.
1982.
James A. Fitch, president of the tend the IBA meeting. He recalled,
IBA and president of the South
Chicago Savings Bank said, “the
meeting will be called a Banking Fo ur R o ckfo rd A rea B anks Form H .C .
Issues Congress. As the oldest and
IRST National Bank and Trust vides that the mergers will be on the
largest banking association in the
Company of Rockford, North basis of one share of First Rockford
state, the IBA has invited the lea
Towne
National Bank of Rockford, Bancorp, Inc. common stock for one
ders of all banking organizations in
Illinois to discuss the critical bank First Bank of Loves Park and First share of First National capital stock
ing issues of the day. The IBA is Bank of Roscoe have jointly an and one share of First Rockford
soliciting many view points to nounced an agreement in principle Bancorp, Inc. common stock for two
establish common ground in a rapid to establish a multi-bank holding shares of North Towne capital stock,
company which will become the and for one and one-half shares of
ly changing bank environment.”
According to William J. Hocter, parent company of the four banks. Loves Park capital stock and for one
executive vice president of the Il Following a series of four mergers, it and six-tenths shares of Roscoe
linois Bankers Association, “topics is expected that the holding com capital stock. On the basis of these
to be discussed at the congress will pany, First Rockford Bancorp, Inc., proposed exchange ratios, approx
include federal legislative and will own all of the outstanding stock imately 494,000 shares of common
stock of First National Bancorp,
regulatory issues and state legis of each of the four banks.
The agreement in principle pro- Inc. would be issued in the mergers.
lative issues. We have invited a
The transaction is subject to
number of very prominent speakers
definitive agreements, to approval
including Murray Wiedenbaum, the
of the respective boards of directors
chairman of the President’s Council
and stockholders, and regulatory
of Economic Advisors, the members
authorities. It is expected that the
of the Congressional banking com
transaction will be completed during
mittees and senior regulatory of
the second quarter of 1982.
ficials to address the bankers.”
The First National Bank and
The invitation list of participants
Trust Company of Rockford on Sep
includes the leadership families of
tember 30, 1981, had total assets of
the Illinois Bankers Association, the
$248,427,000; North Towne Na
Independent Community Bankers of
tional Bank of Rockford had
Illinois, and the Association for
$26,088,000; First Bank of Loves
Modern Banking in Illinois, as well
Park had $13,261,000, and First
as representatives of national level
Bank of Roscoe had $9,029,000.
associations. Also included are the
The First National Bank and
chief executives of the money center
banks in Chicago and St. Louis and Brad E. Anderson (left) — pres., First Bank Trust Company of Rockford, North
directors from the Federal Reserve of Loves Park; Donald H. Pratt (center) — Towne National Bank of Rockford
Banks in these two cities.
pres., North Towne Natl. Bk.; Dennis L. and First Bank of Loves Park are
However, when contacted last Greier (right) — pres., First Bank of Roscoe, presently legal affiliates. It is an
week by the N o r t h w e s t e r n and Howard E. Bell (seated) — pres., First ticipated that the total assests of
Natl. Bk. & Tr. Co. of Rockford announced
B anker for their response to this an agreement in principle to establish a the new organization will be approx
open invitation by the Illinois multi-holding company as the parent com imately $296,805,000 when the
transaction is consumated.
Bankers Association for a joint pany for the four banks.

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Illinois News

A ustin Bank H onored

D.L. PERRY

B.A. BAUM

president and manager of the Il
linois Center Facility.

Elmhurst Elections Told
Frank C. Rathje, president of
E lm hurst N ational Bank, an
nounced the appointment of John J.
Mickevice as auditor. Mr. Michevice
began his banking career in 1975 in
instalment lending and was recently
Donald D. Thornburg, chairman audit manager with Bank of Hick
and ceo, Sears Bank and Trust Com ory Hills. As auditor he will direct
pany, has announced the following the internal auditing program of the
promotions:
bank.
Ronald
E.
Thomas F. Franklin, vice presi
K eopsel and
dent of marketing and planning, has
Daryl J. Wasbeen elected to the board of the
zak, second vice
Northern Illinois Chapter of the
presidents-trust
Bank Marketing Association.
division; Bar
bara A. Tom
czak, assistant
Joins Naperville Bank
vice presidentMichael J. Villemure has recently
operations divi
jo in e d W a sh
sion; Janice R.
ington Bank &
R.E. KOEPSEL
Cannestra and
T ru st, N ap er
ville, as assis
tant vice presi
dent. Previously
a bank examiner
with the Federal
D e p o sit
In
surance Corpora
tion, Mr. Vil
M. VILLEMURE
lemure’s respon
sibilities will include assisting in
B.A. TOMCZAK
D. J. WASZAK
daily bank operations. He is a
Elaine R. Levin, estate administra graduate of North Central College.
tion officers-trust division; Philip L.
Bykowski, data processing officer- New President and COO
information systems; Margo Jidas, Named at Rock Island
student loan administration officerCharles C. Wilson, chief executive
personal banking division; Russell officer and chairman of First Na
L. Klokkenga, trust investment tional Bank of Quad Cities in Rock
officer-trust division, and Peter A. Island, announced that Frank P.
Wooldredge, assistant trust ad Clarke has been appointed president
ministration officer-trust division.
and chief operating officer. Mr.
* * *
Wilson continues as first officer of
Henry K. Gardner, president of the bank.
Mr. Clarke joined the First Na
National Boulevard Bank, has an
nounced the promotion of Deborah tional Bank in 1977 and had been ad
L. Perry to personnel officer and vanced to senior vice president
Brent A. Baum to assistant vice before his appointment to president.

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State of Illinois, Eighty-Second
General Assembly, House of Represen
tatives passed House Resolution no. 589,
recognizing the Austin Bank of Chicago for
its 90 years of service and many achieve
ments in the Austin community. When
re p re s e n ta tiv e Law rence D iPrim a
presented Robert F. Callery, president of
the bank, with a copy of the Resolution he
noted that Austin Bank had created a
special fund of $900,000 to be used for mak
ing local home improvement loans.

THE

Northern Trust Seeks
Full Power in Florida
N orthern Trust Corporation,
Chicago, has announced that ap
plications have been filed with the
Comptroller of the Currency and the
Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System to permit Security
Trust Company of Sarasota N.A.,
one of its Florida subsidiaries, to
become a full service commercial
bank.
Security Trust Company of
Sarasota N.A., 1390 Main Street,
Sarasota, Florida 33577, was
chartered as a national bank on May
5, 1977, but at that time its organ
izers elected to limit the company’s
activities to those of a commercial
bank’s trust department. The pen
ding applications would permit the
company to amend its Articles of
Association to remove the restric
tion on its powers, thus authorizing
it to commence operations as a com
mercial bank in addition to its pre
sent trust functions.
The bank would then be able to of
fer a full range of commercial bank
ing services to its present customers
as well as to other individuals, part
nerships and corporations.

Drive-In Facility Opened
Carpentersville Savings Bank
recently opened a new drive-in facili
ty adjacent to the main bank.

Uncertainty.

These are uncertain
times. W e have been
in a serious recession,
but w e’re not sure
how deep it has been
or how fast we are
climbing out. Money
rates reached
unheard of heights,
but we don’t know
how much they will
drop or if they will drop
back to normal. Some of our
large, basic industries are in
trouble. Our economic stability is
dependent on a steady flow of
petroleum im ports which may or
may not prove dependable.
All of this uncertainty makes
business lending very difficult.

However, SLT can
eliminate some of the
uncertainty th a t lenders
face by guaranteeing
your custom ers’ inventory
as pledged collateral.
For over 5 0 years, we
have worked with
s and commercial
lenders to collateralize
loans and make lending
safer and more profitable.
Give us a call; we can eliminate
uncertainty from your
loan portfolio.

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Retires at Dawson

First Bank Hopkins
Promotes Five
The board of First Bank Hopkins
has announced the following
management changes in the opera
tions department
Jim Cory has been named vice
president,
c a sh ie r,
and
security officer.
He joined the
bank in 1979 as
a ss is ta n t vice
president in the
operations de
partment.
Kenneth

M ein e rt
has
J. CORY
been
nam ed
assistant vice president and comp
troller. Mr. Meinert has been with
First Bank Hopkins since 1959.

K. MEINERT

L. GOLDBERG

Phyllis Christianson has retired
as assistant vice president of the
N o rth w e s te rn
State Bank of
Dawson, effec
tive December
31, 1981. Mrs.
Christianson be
gan her career at
N o rth w e s te r n
Bank on May 15,
1942. In De
cember of 1948 P. CHRISTIANSON
she took a leave
of absence until December, 1952.
She has had an active part con
tinuously from December, 1952 un
til today. A “Phyllis Christianson
Day’’ was observed December 3,
1981, with coffee and cake served to
all customers.

Charles E. MacArthur, Jr. has
been named financial planning of
ficer, and community re-investment
act officer. Mr. MacArthur joined
the staff at First Bank Hopkins in
1981, and has most recently been in
stallment loan manager at First
Bank Northtown in Blaine, Minn.
Elrena H. Barlau has been named
accounting officer and manager of
accounting services. An employee
since 1956, her most recent position
Wayzata First National
has been operations officer.

Breaks Ground for Drive-In

Owatonna - Albert Lea
Merger Approved
Michael J. Pint, Minnesota Com
missioner of Banks, announced his
approval of the application to merge
Owatonna Savings and Loan Asso
ciation, Owatonna into Peoples Sav
ing and Loan Association, Albert
Lea. Concurrently, Commissioner
Pint approved the relocation of the
association’s home office from
Albert Lea to Owatonna.
The combined institutions, with
$246 million in assets, would be the
sixth largest savings and loan
association in Minnesota operating
at 15 locations in 11 southern Min
nesota counties.
The Commissioner indicated the
merger “is a voluntary consolida
tion of two well-managed, insured
state-chartered institutions. The
merger will result in a number of
operating efficiencies which will
benefit the successor institution by
reduced operating costs.’’

The First National Bank of
Wayzata has broken ground in
downtown Plymouth in preparation
for a two-phase building project.
The first phase will be the erection
of a drive-in facility.
As soon as conditions warrant,
the bank hopes to initiate phase two,
which will include the building of an
attached office building. The new
facility is located on the corner of
Vicksburg Lane and 37th Avenue
North.

Named at Owatonna
Kenneth E. Wilcox, president of
Northwestern National Bank of
Owatonna, has announced the re
cent prom otion of D avid B.
Hinsverk to assistant vice presi
dent.
Mr. Hinsverk joined the bank in
1976, and since that time has served
as a financial analyst, a commercial
lending officer and as the com
pliance officer of the bank.

Ring Retires After 40 Years
Virginia Promotions Told
C.E. MAC ARTHUR

E.H. BARLAU

Lon Goldberg has been named
a s s is ta n t vice p re sid en t and
manager of tellers, bookkeeping,
and proof. He joined the bank in
1981 and has most recently been
assistant cashier at First Bank Pro
duce in Minneapolis.

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John R. Oltmanns, president,
Northwestern Bank of Virginia, has
announced the promotion of LaVerne Skalko to teller operations of
ficer and Timothy 0 ‘Hara to person
nel officer.
Ms. Skalko became teller super
visor in 1980.
Mr. 0 ‘Hara joined Northwestern
in January, 1981, as personnel direc
tor.

John G. Ring, a vice president of
Northwestern Bank of Commerce,
Duluth, retired recently after a
banking career spanning more than
40 years.
He has been associated with
Northwestern Bank of Commerce
since 1963 and before that held ad
ministrative positions with First
National Bank, Duluth, and Piper,
Jaffray & Hop wood Co., Min
neapolis.
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If your prim ary correspondent
doesn’t answer you quickly
on loan requests, ask
First Bank M inneapolis,

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A t a tim e w h e n m a n y
c o rre s p o n d e n t b a n k s a re fin d in g
it difficult to m ak e c o m m itm e n ts
a b o u t le n d in g to th e ir re s p o n
d e n ts, we c a n m a k e several.
F o r o n e , w h e n you n e e d
a n answ er, w'e’ll get you o n e —
fast. W e’ve ev en reo rg a n iz e d
o u r a d m in is tra tiv e stru c tu re to
im p ro v e o u r resp o n se tim e .
F o r a n o th e r, w e’ve got th e
ex p ertise. O u r c a llin g officers

a re tra in e d to h e lp you w ith
all yo u r c re d it needs. A n d th e y ’re
b a c k e d by a g ro u p o f in d u stry
specialists w h o c a n p ro v id e
te c h n ic a l ad v ice a n d g u id a n c e
to you a n d y o u r c u sto m e rs.
B u t m o st im p o rta n tly ,
c re d it is av ailable. I n fact, o u r
C o rre s p o n d e n t B a n k D e p a rt
m e n t’s loan portfolio has doubled
in th e last fo u r years.
So if y o u ’re g ettin g th e

idea th a t we a re c o m m itte d to
su p p o rtin g y o u r c re d it n eed s,
y o u ’re getting th e rig h t idea.

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Minneapolis

C orresp o n d en t B anking
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M inneapolis, M N 55480
612/370-4762.

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Prior-to joining First Bank Min
neapolis he was with Continental Il
linois Bank in Chicago as manager
of trust marketing resources.
department staff at First Bank
* * *
Saint Paul, were announced last
month by Dale S. Hanson, vice
N o rth w e st B a n c o rp o ra tio n
president.
recently promoted F. Randall
Czeswik and Dean H. Hoppe to vice
presidents in the human resources
division and also
nam ed
Jean
Powers investor
relations officer.
Mr. Czeswik
has been with
B anco
since
The Mid America State Bank of 1979, most re
Highland Park at 2004 Ford Park cently serving as
T.L. MORK
A.M. WAGNER
way in St. Paul officially changed its a ss is ta n t vice
Mr. Mork will serve correspon name as of January 1, to The p r e s i d e n t
in
F.R. CZESWIK
dent banks in E astern North Highland Bank which reflects its human resources
Dakota, Northwestern and West location and principal trade area,
Mr. Hoppe joined Iowa-Des
Central Minnesota. He had four stated John D. Turner, president.
Moines National Bank, a Banco sub
years of banking experience, pri
Organized in 1946 as The High sidiary, in 1970 and moved to Ban
marily in correspondent banking, at land Park State Bank, the name was co’s corporate office in 1974. His
American National Bank and Trust changed in 1973 to reflect an affilia most recent position at the cor
Co. of St. Paul before joining First tion with Mid America Bancorpora- porate office was assistant vice
Bank Saint Paul recently. He joined tion, which no longer exists. Mid president in the human resources
that bank in 1977 after graduation America Insurance Agency, which is division.
As investor relations officer, Ms.
from St. Olaf College.
located at the same address, has also
Ms. Wagner-Hauser will work changed its name to The Highland Powers acts as liaison between the
with A ssistant Vice President Agency, Inc. The Mid America corporation and financial analysts in
James A. Russell serving banks in drive-in bank at 1979 Ford Parkway the investment community. She
the greater metropolitan Twin City has been renamed the Highland Con joined Banco in 1980 as a financial
area. She has been with First Bank venience Bank.
analyst.
Saint Paul more than three years
* * *
and last spring was promoted to
James Van Valkenburgh has
lending officer in the commerical
joined First Bank Minneapolis as an
real estate division.
In announcing these appoint a ss is ta n t vice
ments, Mr. Hanson said the staff ad president in the
ditions were made to expand the marketing ser
department’s service to correspon vices d e p a r t
dent banks in a six-state area. He ment. He is mar
said this will create a new territory keting manager
defined as Eastern North Dakota/ for the trust, ex
J. POWERS
D.H. HOPPE
Northwestern Minnesota, which Mr. ecutive and pro
Northwest Bancorporation also
Mork will serve. This will decrease fessional bank
has appointed John R. Kerr to its
the size of the remaining four areas ing, and first
corporate communications staff as
served by the department, allowing asset m anage
staff officers to keep pace with a m en t d e p a r t-JVANVALKENBURGH manager of media relations, a new
position.
significant increase in business. ments.
HE appointments of Thomas L.
T
Mork and Ann M. WagnerHauser to the correspondent bank

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Other field assignments now are:
Michael T. Mishou, assistant vice
p resid en t, and Julie Hanson
Wisconsin, Michigan-Upper Penin
sula and Iowa.
Donald R. Lindeman, assistant
vice president E astern South
Dakota and Southern Minnesota.
Kenneth A. Cain, correspondent
banking representative Central and
Northeastern Minnesota.
Rick Carey, correspondent bank
ing representative Montana and
Western South Dakota and Western
North Dakota.
* * *

If you think your correspondent
bank is stringing you along,
maybe its tim e you severed the ties.
Sometimes, getting the answers you need from
your correspondent banker can be a frustrating
experience. One that consumes too much of your
valuable time. And one that could contribute
to your loss of a customer.
At Midland National Bank, we won't string
you along. Because most of our business
as a bank comes from dealing with businesses
and other banks. So, frankly, we're willing
to put a lot of effort into making
our relationship with you work.
We've organized our bank
in a way that allows you to
deal directly with a decision
maker, rather than having
to go through several review
committees. Our correspondent
team is dedicated to responding to
your needs quickly. And, our
expertise with small and mid-sized
businesses puts us in a unique
position to understand your
customers' needs.
So the next time you feel like
your correspondent bank is giving
you the business, call the Midland
National Bank correspondent team,
toll free at 1-800-752-4200.* And see
how the bank for business can
go to work to improve yours.
*In North and South Dakota, call 1-800-328-8678.

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bank

national

Of Minneapolis

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Main Bank
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Mr. Kerr formerly was public rela
tions manager at the Toro Company,
a Minneapolis-based manufacturer,
and before that worked with Gross
& Associates and other public rela
tions agencies in New York City.
* * *
The Federal Reserve Bank of Min
neapolis, recently announced it ap
proval of the applications by
Farmers Investment Company, Inc.,
Eyota, to acquire control of: First
Dover Investment Company, Elgin;
First State Bank of Dover, Dover;
Elgin Investment Company, ElginMillville State Bank, and Elgin
Financial Services, Elgin.
* * *
William J. Wallman, senior vice
president and trust officer, Midland
National Bank of Minneapolis, has
been e lected
president of the
Corporate Fidu
ciaries Associa
tio n of M in
nesota, accord
ing to David H.
W illard
of
N o rth w e s te r n
National Bank
of Minneapolis,
outgoing asso- W. J. WALLMAN
ciation president.
E le c te d
a s s o c ia tio n
vice
presidents were James G. Lethert,
Northwestern National Bank, St.
Paul; Robert M. Fischer, First Na
tional Bank of Duluth, and Welles
B. Eastman, First Bank of Min
neapolis.
Raymond E. Midthun, North
western National Bank of Min
neapolis, was elected secretarytreasurer and John T. Phillips, First
Bank Minneapolis, was elected
chairman of the executive commit
tee. Halsey H. Halls, Northwestern
National Bank of Minneapolis; Paul
D. Schliesman, First National Bank
Minneapolis, and Donald L. Sodman, Northwestern National Bank
of M inneapolis, were elected
members of the executive commit
tee.
* * *

through the acquisition of the First
Mid America Bank of Coon Rapids.
* * *
Sallie M. Lilienthal has recently
rejoined First Bank Minneapolis as
an assistant vice president in the ex
ecutive and professional banking
department.
Ms. Lilienthal, having joined the
bank in 1976, left to accept a senior
consultant position with Control
Data Business Advisors, Inc., in
1981.

S.M. LILIENTHAL

F.A. MANGER

Northwestern National Bank oL
Minneapolis has
announced the
addition of Den
nis W. Fischer
as geologist and
project finance
representative in
the Energy/Natural Resources
Division. In his
new p o sitio n ,
D.W. FISCHER
Mr. Fischer is
responsible for business develop
ment and the management of min
ing accounts.
* * *
Alan I. Blaisdell, recently was
promoted to branch manager of the
Apache Plaza office of First Securi
ty State Bank of St. Paul.
* * *
W. Merton Dresser, president of
Northwestern National Bank South,
has announced the promotion of
Donald L. Hansen to the position of*
senior vice president and cashier,
and Willard E. Rohde to the position
of senior vice president - loan ad
ministration.

Also, at First Bank, was the re
cent addition of Fredrick A. Manger
as assistant vice president in the
Latin American division of the inter
national banking department.
He started his banking career in
1973 at First Wisconsin National
Bank, Milwaukee, in their interna
tional banking department.
* * *
The Federal Reserve Bank of Min
neapolis, acting under authority
delegated by the Board of Gover
nors of the Federal Reserve System,
today announced its approval of the
application of Milan Agency, Inc.,
D. HANSEN
W.RHODE
Milan, to become a bank holding
company through the acquisition of
Mr. Hansen joined Northwestern
the Peoples State Bank of Milan.
Bank South in 1958. He has been
* * *
cashier since 1971.
Willard Rohde joined N orth-1
The board of Northwestern Na
tional Bank of St. Paul recently an western Bank South in 1967 after
nounced the election of Susan A. graduation from the University of
Finn as assistant vice president in Wisconsin. He is designated as the
investment services and Karl J. bank’s senior lending officer.
* * *
Ostby as assistant vice president in
N o rth w e st B a n c o rp o ra tio n
financial services, according to
Larry D. Buegler, chief executive of reported December 21 it has agreed
ficer and chairman.
to exchange 452,875 shares of its
common stock for approximately.
$17 million aggregate principal
amount of its 7-3A% sinking fund
debentures due 2003 and 5-%%
The Federal Reserve Bank of Min
debentures due 1990, with Salomon
neapolis, acting under authority
Brothers, Inc.
delegated by the Board of Gover
Banco expects to realize a tax-free
nors of the Federal Reserve System,
gain of approximately $7 million, or
last month announced its approval
approximately 27 cents per share,
of the application by First State
from the transaction, which will be
Holding Company, Coon Rapids, to
reported in Banco’s fourth quarter^
become a bank holding company
S.A. FINN
K.J. OSTBY
results.
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Bill Langford
Speaks Investments
Repo’s, term Fed funds, rapidly fluctuating
interest rates. These are just a few of the in
vestment challenges faced by the community
banker today.
A good way to face them is to have access to
someone who understands investments and
who cares about community banks. That’s Bill
Langford, and that’s American.

We are particularly sensitive to the needs and
pressures faced by independent community
banks. We believe in cooperation, not competi
tion for your customers.
We want to be your partner and help you solve
your problems. It’s easy to put an American
correspondent banker to work for your bank.
Just call (612) 298-6331.

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BA N K

• S A I N T

PAUL

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Minnesota News

1st St. Paul discusses Bond Swapping
By BEN HALLER, JR.
Editor and Publisher
and
STEVE BURCH
Associate Publisher
OND SWAPPING and Interest
B
Rate Futures were featured
topics for a special investment
seminar conducted by First Bank
Saint Paul last month at the
Radisson St. Paul Hotel, and attend
ed by more than 150 bankers from
upper midwest states.
Charles E. Arner, chairman and
chief executive officer of the host
bank, extended a welcome and made
comments on events of the past year
in the financial industry. Two
distinct trends stand out, he said —
the erosion of the difference between
commercial banks and other finan
cial institutions, and deregulation of
financial institutions.
Mr. Arner said within this con
text, banks have had three things
going for them, but no more: 1. An
exclusive product franchise; i.e.,
checking accounts, but no longer is
this true. 2. A protected geographic
franchise. 3. Limits on rates paid to
savers.
“We have to start turning our
thinking to the future,” he said.
“Within the competitive environ
ment in the future, whether you are
an optimist or a pessimist, you must
be a strategist.”
With the keynote point in em
phasizing strategy, Richard C.
Swanberg, vice president of the in
vestment services group, introduced
the three speakers for the afternoon
program, who spoke following the
luncheon opening the program.
Doug Melina, vice president of
First Trust Company, discussed the
“Outlook for Interest Rates.” He
projected first quarter business
down modestly 1% or 2%, recover
ing in the second quarter and star
ting back in the third quarter. He
believes the consumer’s financial
position is strong enough to start a
comeback. Also, he noted that in
ventory accumulation is not as
severe as in other periods. Mr.
Melina believes that with lower
rates and a large tax cut at mid-year,
we should see a pickup in consumer
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Elected to Board

C. Charlotte Lohmann has been
elected to the board of the First
Northwestern National Bank of
spending. Other factors include oil Hoyt Lakes. She is presently
imports down about 4% from their employed as a records coordinator
peak, mortgage rates backing off at Erie Mining Company.
slightly and having a positive effect
on inflation. He forecast 90-day CDs Elected at Wayzata
trending modestly lower, with bank
The board of Wayzata Bank &
CDs at 12%. He doesn’t feel short Trust Company recently elected
rates will go down more because he B ra d ley
C.
thinks the Fed, although it has Krohn as vice
eased a bit, will want to avoid its er p resid en t and
ror of 1980’s second quarter when it administrator of
made a sharp reversal of policy.
the commercial
John F. Mullen, senior vice presi and instalment
dent in the investment division, loan portfolios.
gave the address, “A Banker Looks
He was named
at Interest Rate Futures.” He gave to the position
his analysis of this technical currently held
management tool and how it might by Robert M.
B.C. KROHN
be something banks would want to Weiss, who was
examine in the future to lock in pro elected president and ceo of the Min
fits.
netonka State Bank. Prior to joining
The Bond Swap Workshop was Wayzata Bank & Trust, Mr. Krohn
conducted by Ira A. Joseph, a CPA held the position of vice presfrom Atlanta, Ga., a specialist in ident/m anager of F irst Bank
bond swaps. Each registrant was Systems loan participation alloca
furnished a package of information, tion department.
forms and charts for this technical
workshop.
Wolfe Named Vice President
A reception at 4:45 p.m. conclud
The board of First National Bank
ed the afternoon workshop, which is of Owatonna has elected James B.
one of a continuing series conducted Wolfe vice president in charge of
by First Bank Saint Paul invest bank operations.
ment division for its correspondent
He began his banking career in
banks in surrounding states.
1971 as an assistant auditor, and
most recently was regional internal
audit officer in charge of First Bank
Retired Banker Passes Away Systems’ eleven regional internal
Paul O. Pearson, age 75, died auditors.
December 1, 1981, at the Weiner Remodeling Completed
Memorial Hospital in Marshall. He
began his banking career in Baker,
The State Bank of Hanska held an
Mont., in 1941 and retired from Em open house last month to display its
pire Bank in Cottonwood in 1972.
newly remodeled banking facilities

S ta te B ank of G re e n w a ld C o m p le te d

CONSTRUCTION has recently been completed and the State Bank of Greenwald was able
to move into its new two-story, 7,200 sq. ft. facility on Nov. 30, 1981. The new building,
located sw of the former bank, and featuring drive-up lanes and additional safe deposit
boxes, was designed by Vosejpka Associates Inc. of Chaska.

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and drive-up and walk-up addition.
Refreshments were served through
out the day and free gifts given
away.

Two Promoted in Pierz
The board of Farmers & Mer
chants State Bank, Pierz, has an
nounced the recent promotions of
Marilyn Kruschek to personal bank
ing officer and Judy Fyten to
auditor and assistant cashier.

M.KRUSCHEK

J. FYTEN

Bloomington Bank Receives
Best of Print/1981 Awards
Northwestern National Bank
Southwest, Bloomington, recently
was presented two Bank Marketing
Association “Best of Print/1981”
'awards at the BMA’s annual con
vention in Washington, D.C.
Nearly 600 ads were entered in
this first annual print competition.
Northwestern National Bank South
w est c a p tu red a “ C onsum er
Magazine Award” and a “Direct
Mail” award. Both award winning
ads were created for the bank by
Chance-Nelson and A ssociates
Creative Communications, Eden
Prairie.

Gives $500,000 to
NYU Graduate School
Henry Kaufman, managing direc
tor and member of the executive
committee of Salomon Brothers
Inc., New York, has contributed
$500,000 to the New York Universi
ty Graduate School of Business Ad
ministration.
The funds will be used to es
tablish a director’s chair in honor of
Sidney Homer and Charles J. Simon
at NYU’s Salomon Brothers Center
for the Study of Financial Institu
tions. The Center conducts a wide
range of research and educational
activity focusing on the needs of the
financial industry.
Sidney Homer and Charles
Simon, both retired partners of
Salomon Brothers, were the guests
of honor at the luncheon.

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Crookston First National’s
100th Year Comes to a Close

Joins First National, Duluth

The First National Bank of
Crookston concluded its 100th year
last month by publishing a fourpage insert in the Crookston news
paper, covering activities held
throughout the year.
The slogan “ 100 Years Working
For You” was adopted by First Na
tional for its centennial celebration,
and a special luncheon was held to
honor the staff and former em
ployees. Pioneer Days were held in
June with a recognition banquet
honoring the bank for 100 years of
service to the community of
Crookston.
To conclude the year, the bank
sponsored “Up With People,” a
musical production consisting of
100 young men and women re
presenting the United States and 15
foreign countries. The event took
place in November with cast mem
bers staying with local families.

Gordon D. Swenson has returned
to First National Bank of Duluth as
trust representative after 18 years
as co-owner and
operator of the
Kohlbry, Swen
son and Asso
ciates, Inc., real
estate firm in
D uluth, presi
dent Dennis W.
Dunne announc
ed recently.
Mr. Swenson,
whose real es G.D. SWENSON
tate career spans more than 30
years, will be involved in financial
planning and business development
in First National’s trust depart
ment.
He served as real estate loan of
ficer and appraiser for First Na
tional Bank of Duluth from 1953 un
til entering the real estate business
in 1963.

Two Elected in Stillwater

Anderson Joins Crosby Bank

Northwestern State Bank of
Stillwater has announced the recent
election of Rae Luck as human re
sources officer. She joined North
western State Bank in 1978.
Arnold W. Lindall has been
elected to the board of Northwestern
State Bank announced James C.
Graham, president. Dr. Lindall is
president of Immuno Nuclear Cor
poration, an organization specializ
ing in medical diagnostic kits.

Leo Anderson has joined First
National Bank of Crosby as ex
ecutive vice president and chief
operations officer, announced Kit
Svee, bank president.
Mr. Anderson had been with First
National Bank of Verndale and
Forest Lake State Bank before his
most recent position as a field under
writer for New York Life Insurance
Company. He has also been a na
tional bank examiner.

V illa rd O ffic e N o w O p en

GLENWOOD State Bank recently held a four-day celebration in honor of the grand opening
of its new Villard Community Office. The 34 x 38 foot structure, which replaced a temporary
facility that had been in operation for about a year, contains three offices and offers
customers two teller windows and a drive-up window.
Northwestern Banker, January, 1982

In Check Collection,
We're Setting the Pace

Our people, know-how, and
processing equipment
give you a clear advantage.
We start by saving you time and money in proof
and transit operations by eliminating pre-sort
reguirements. Then we work with you to develop
the best possible schedule for check clearing based
on your deposit activity, and available delivery
systems. Finally, we maintain a well-staffed
operations center with a high speed, state-of-the-art
com puter for handling each item efficiently.
O ur people, know-how and eguipm ent enable
us to meet deadlines and keep costs low.
For example, we were able to substantially
reduce the one and two day float for a Twin Cities
bank with early afternoon and evening sendings.
We established a new check clearing relationship
with a correspondent in another city which handles

checks for nine other banks. Now all banks in that
city are available overnight, a float reduction of
one day.
In another instance, our correspondent officer
checked with airlines, postal authorities, and
couriers to learn the most efficient means of
delivering late evening items. The result? Several
correspondent banks are now getting overnight
clearings on Twin Cities items and have reduced
float on RCPC items from two days to one. These are
just a few examples of how we're setting the pace
in correspondent banking.
If you're not getting that type of service from
your correspondent, check with us at 612-291-5585.

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Correspondent Banking Division
332 Minnesota Street
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
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Promoted in Aberdeen

South Dakota

Dennis W. Walsh has been pro
moted to agricultural loan officer at
the Downtown Aberdeen Main
branch, First N ational Bank of.
Aberdeen.

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J. M. Sch wartz, exec. m g r . , Pierre

Miller Promotion Told
Howard J. Peterka, president of
First Bank Miller, recently an
nounced the promotion of Roger D.
Mallberg to vice president. He began
his banking career with First Bank
Miller in 1973.

teller in 1949 and joined First Bank,
then known as Aberdeen National
Bank, in 1955. His most recent pro
motion to assistant vice president
came in 1976.

First Natl., Black Hills
Sponsors Activities

The First National Bank of the
Black
Hills recently sponsored two
Lynn Tjaden, assistant vice presi
community
activities.
dent in charge of real estate and
The
First
Annual Senior Citizen
commercial loans, has been elected
Arts
&
Crafts
Show and Sale invited
to the board of the Deuel County
area senior citizens to exhibit and
National Bank, Clear Lake.
sell arts, crafts, talents and hobbies
for the day in Rushmore Plaza Civic
Promoted at Sioux Falls
Center Arena. Some 165 exhibitors
U nited N ational Bank, Sioux displayed their work to over 3,500
Falls, recently announced the pro people who attended.
motion of Col
The First National Bank’s Fall
leen Dather to
Racquetball Round-Up resulted in
real estate loan
the largest tournam ent ever in
officer; Elaine
South Dakota. It was held at the
A n d e rs e n to
Supreme Courts in Rapid City and
operations
drew 185 entrants from surrounding
officer, Viborg
areas, including Gillette and Casper,
branch, and the
Wyo.
addition of Mike
Hanzlik as in
Sisseton Bank Opens
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stalment loan of
C. DATHER
Insurance Office
ficer, Rapid City
First State Bank, Sisseton, recent
branch.
ly opened a full service insurance
Northwestern National Bank office. It is managed by Maurice
Voss, who has 15 years of insurance
Announces Staff Changes
experience.
C.P. "Buck” Moore, president,
Northwestern National Bank of Pierre Appointment Told
Sioux Falls, has announced the fol
First National Bank in Pierre
lowing staff changes.
has
announced the appointment of
Eric D. Hohman, personal loan
Leotta
vice president, to the
representative, was named personal positionFrazee,
of
compliance
She
loan officer at the Westwood branch began her banking careerofficer.
with
First
and Jon A. Veenis, operations spe
in 1954 and will be mar
cialist, was named operations officer, National
keting
and
personnel officer in addi
administrative group.
tion to compliance duties.

Tjaden Elected to Board

National Bank of South
Dakota Elections Told
The board of the National Bank oU
South Dakota has announced the
election of John Vanderboom as vice
president and m anager, Huron
branch. Mr. Vanderboom joined the.
bank in 1977 and was named vice
president and manager, Presho
branch, in 1979. Prior to joining
the bank he had worked for banks
in North Dakota, Minnesota and,
Alaska.
Also elected were Stephanie Mundhenke as pension trust officer in
Sioux Falls and Dwight Bordewyk
as assistant vice president and as-<
sistan t m anager in Wessington
Springs. Newly elected were Charles
Bergeleen to loan officer and Jo Ann
Doering to operations and personnel
officer, Wessington Springs, andj
Jean Meadows as instalment loan
officer, Hot Springs.

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Retires in Aberdeen
George Blando, assistant vice
president, recently retired from
First Bank of Aberdeen, after more
than 32 years in banking.
He began his banking career as a
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Promoted at Dell Rapids
Sharon Bittner has been promoted
to customer service representative
at Northwestern National Bank,
Dell Rapids.

Polish Reassumes Position
At Deer Lodge

North Dakota
T. A . Roney, p r e s . , Carrin g to n
H. J. Arg u e , exec. d i r . , B is m a rc k

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Promoted in Bismarck
Stephen Stenehjem has been pro
moted to assistant vice president in
he commercial loan department at
Dakota Northwestern Bank, N.A.,
Bismarck.

State Bank Promotion Told

member of the trust department
staff. Before joining the bank, Mr.
Brokaw was employed as accounting
manager of Safeco Insurance Com
panies in Seattle.

Fargo Auto Banks Open

Robert J. Polish has recently reas
sumed his position as president of
Deer Lodge Bank and IVust Com
pany, Deer Lodge. Majority own
ership of Deer Lodge Bank and TVust
Company, the oldest financial in
stitution in Deer Lodge, has revert
ed to the Polish family following the
withdrawal of an application to pur
chase the bank.
Mr. Polish joined Deer Lodge
Bank and TVust Company as execu
tive vice president in 1966 when his
father, Rudy Polish, became the
bank’s principal stockholder. He was
named president in 1979 following
the death of the elder Mr. Polish. Mr.
Rudy Polish’s widow, Estella, con
tinues to serve as vice chairman of
the board of Deer Lodge Bank and
TVust Company.
Mr. Polish began his banking
career with the First National Bank
of Eagle, Colorado and later worked
at M arquette National Bank in
Minneapolis before returning to
Montana.

Auto banking services recently
Bismarck State Bank, Bismarck, began 'at First National Bank’s two
has announced the promotion of new Fargo locations — the main
Elaine Balzer from head teller to bank site at First Avenue south and
customer service representative. Fourth street, and the west office at
She has been with the bank since 13th Avenue south and 25th street.
1978. Linda Morast has replaced Ms.
Both banks were to open early in
Balzer as head teller.
1982 and offer all the services cur
rently available at the bank at 15
Brokaw Joins Trust Staff
Broadway. Prompted by customer
Duane W. Sorensen, president of demand, the west side auto bank
First National Bank & TVust Co., opened earlier than scheduled. First Poison Promotion Told
Williston, recently announced the National Bank is an affiliate of
William L. Funke, chairman of
addition of Gordon Brokaw as a new Northwest Bancorporation.
First Citizens Bank, recently an
nounced the pro
motion of Rick
E. Skates to vice
president and as
a director.
Mr. S k a te s
joined the bank
in 1976 as assist
ant vice presi
R. L. Reiquam, pres., Miles City
dent and manag
J. T. Cadby, exec, v.p., Helena
er of the instal
R.E. SKATES
m ent loan de
partment. His new duties will in
clude managing the commercial
Great Falls Holding Company quire approval by state and federal loan department and acting as per
sonnel officer and security officer. He
regulatory authorities.
To Acquire Bank in Malta
replaces James E. Cowan who re
Charles W. Rubie, president and
signed recently.
chief executive officer of Bank of
Montana System, Great Falls, and Elected at Great Falls
Jeffrey C. Mortensen has been Advanced in Billings
Paul K. Kropp, chairman of the
board of First Security Bank of elected cashier of Central Bank of
A1 Winegardner, president of First
Malta have announced the signing Montana, Great Falls, according to Northwestern National Bank, Bil
of an agreement to exchange the an announcement made by William lings, has announced the election of
stock of the Malta bank into the E. Thorndal, president.
Vida Poling as personal banking
Mr. Mortensen began his banking officer.
holding company.
BMS stock will be exchanged for career in 1977 and served as cashier
80% or more of the stock of First at Midstate Bank of Montana in
Security Bank. It has been es Lewistown until his recent election. Lattin Elected President
Harry E. Lattin, executive vice
timated that approximately 60,000 All of the banks in which he has
BMS shares may be involved in this served are affiliates of Bank of Mon president of First Interstate Bank of
Kalispell, has been elected president
transaction. The exchange will re tana System.

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and chief executive officer of the
bank. His election was in anticipa
tion of the retirement of Eugene O.
Gillette, chairman, president and
chief executive officer, on February
1, 1982, after a 29-year career with
the bank.
Mr. Lattin, who also will become
chairman of the board on February
1, 1982, joined the bank as adminis
trative vice president in 1973. He
was elected executive vice president
in 1977. Before joining First Inter-

state Bank, Kalispell, he spent 18
years with the F irst In terstate
system at Bank of Nevada, which
merged into First Interstate Bank of
Nevada in 1979. At Bank of Nevada,
Las Vegas, Mr. Lattin worked in all
phases of banking and was elected
vice president of personnel in 1971.
Mr. G illette, 62, joined F irst
Interstate Bank of Kalispell as a
teller in 1952 and has been chair
man of the board and president the
last 14 years.

Sheridan; Membership Chairman —
Maxine Hill, vice president and loan
officer, First Wyoming Bank, Cody;
Public Relations Officer — Karen
Lambertsen, auditor, Rollins Na
tional Bank, Rollins, and Confer
ence Chairman for 1982 — Betty
Smith, assistant vice president,
First Interstate Bank, Casper.

Casper Officer Named
Paul K. Kinner has joined the
Bank of Casper as assistant vice
president in the loan department,
according to Donn H. D orsett,
president.

Pioneer Bank Now Open

New President Named
Bob Crocker has been named
managing officer of the First State
B ank at Shoshoni, announced
Joseph R. Lyman, chairman. He suc
ceeds Joe Barber who recently re
signed to accept a managing position
with a local growing business. Mr.
Barber had held the position as pres
ident since the bank opened in 1978.
Mr. Crocker, who has been with
the bank since 1979, was previously
assistant vice president at the First
National Bank in Thermopolis.

Board Member Named
W. R. Reiman, chairman of First
Wyoming Bank, N.A., Cheyenne,
has announced the appointment of
Blair J. Tfautwein to the board.
Mr. TVautwein is an attorney with
the law firm of Hathaway, Speight
and Kunz.

Elected to Board in Hanna
Bob Shepherd, owner and man
ager of the Jade drive-in and pack
age liquors, was recently appointed
to the board of directors at First
Wyoming Bank of Hanna, according
to John Martin, president.

Lander Officer Named
Marv Hubbs has been named vice
president and cashier at Yellowstone
State Bank, Lander, announced
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ployed as business manager for
Vidakovich and Pappas Enterprises.

Appointed in Casper
Hilltop National Bank, Casper,
has announced the appointment of
James E. Coles to the board. Mr.
Coles is currently owner and presi
dent of Wyoming Peterbilt, Inc.

Wyoming Bank Women
Form Spin-off Groups
A recent meeting of the Wyoming
Association of Bank Women brought
about a restructuring of the organi
zation and the formation of nine
individual spin-off groups, according
to Winona Flower, state council
chairman.
Each of the nine groups elected
officers from their respective geo
graphic areas, and will meet at least
quarterly to discuss issues and ideas
specific to their area.
Meetings for the combined group
will be held in the spring and fall,
with the state conference scheduled
for May 20 in Casper.
Each group is expected to report to
the executive council whose mem
bers are: State Council Chairman —
Winona Flower, vice president, Jackson State Bank, Jackson; Education
& Training Chairman — Nina Wood
ward, vice president, First Inter
state Bank, Casper; Awards & Schol
arship Chairman — Coralee Davis,
executive secretary, Security Bank,

The Pioneer Bank, located on
Front St., recently opened as Evan
ston’s newest full service banking
facility. Harry Palmer will serve as
president with 20 years of banking
experience behind him. Other direc
tors and organizers include Larry
Lehman, a local attorney, and Larry
Proffit, an Evanston businessman.
Other officers include Van John
son, vice president and Jeanette
Wagstaff, cashier. A perm anent
home for the bank is scheduled for
construction next year and will be
located adjacent to the present
quarters.

MHT Markets New
Benefit Payment Systems
The trust division of Manufac
turers Hanover has introduced a
new Benefit Payments System
which represents a significant exten
sion of its Master Trust operational
capabilities.
According to Joseph Jasionowski,
vice president in charge of the in
stitutional asset services sector of
the trust division, the new system,
which was developed by Manufac
turers Hanover, will provide for elec
tronic funds transfers after the first
quarter of next year.
“The new system considerably
enhances the flexibility and detail of
reports available to customers,” he
said. “However, the most signifi
cant change will be the introduction
of a direct transfer capability. It is
clearly far more convenient for in
dividuals to have one source point
for their funds because it eliminates
the need to physicallv do something
to manage deposits.”

Heads New Bank
George B. McKinley, president
and chief executive officer of Central
Bancorporation, Inc., announced re
cently that Raymond L. Guerrie has
been chosen to be the president of
First National Bank in Battlement
Mesa, a new subsidiary bank which
is in formation and pending regula
tory approval.
Mr. Guerrie has been with First
National Bank of Glenwood Springs,
a subsidiary of Central Bancorpora
tion, Inc., in various lending capac
ities since 1965.
Upon receipt of further approvals,
First National Bank in Battlement
Mesa is expected to open in a tempo
rary facility soon after the end of the
year.
Mr. McKinley also announced pre
liminary approvals have been re
ceived from the office of the Comp
troller of the Currency for two
national bank charters: Central
Bank of Inverness, N.A. and Central
Bank of Highlands Ranch, N.A.
Both banks are located in devel
oping business complexes south of
Denver surrounded by growing resi
dential areas.

was most recently manager of the
accounting department for Colorado
National Bank.

Agreement Reached to
Acquire Exchange National
Bank
Colorado National Bankshares,
Inc. has announced th a t it has
reached agreement in principle with
Mountain Banks Limited for the
acquisition of the Exchange Nation
al Bank, Colorado Springs. The
agreement provides for a total pur
chase price of approximately $38
million, payable in cash and subject
to certain adjustments at closing.
The contract is subject to approval
by the boards of both parties, by
Mountain Banks, Ltd. shareholders
and regulatory authorities.

Named to Littleton Board
James E. Gammon, president of
Jim Gammon and Associates, Inc., of
Littleton, Colo., has been elected to
the board of directors of The First
National Bank of Southglenn, ac
cording to R.K. McCoy, chairman
and president.

Three Elected at Northglenn

Aurora Officer Named

The board of The First National
Bank of Northglenn has named Bere
S. Neas, Alvin C. Vasicek and Diane
L. Dyer as assistant vice presidents,
according to Wesley J. Watson,
president.

Ritzi MacKenzie has been elected
operations officer at First National
Bank of Aurora, according to Melvin
E. Emeigh, president. She joined the
bank in 1980.

Three V.P.’s Elected at First
Will F. Nicholson, Jr., president of National of Denver

Nicholson Named Senior VP

Colorado National Bankshares, Inc.,
The board of The First National
announced that James L. Basey has Bank of Denver has named three
been elected senior vice president, new vice presidents, according to
finance, of Colorado National Bank- Robert E. Lee, president and chief
shares, Inc.
executive officer.
Mr. Basey joined Colorado Nation
Kathleen J. Wichern has been
al Bank in 1970. His job respon elected vice president of corporate
sibilities have primarily centered in banking after joining First of Den
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senior vice president, chief financial
officer and treasurer of Government
Employees Financial Corporation.
John G. Cronen, Jr. has been pro
moted to vice president in the ener
gy department after serving six
months as senior petroleum en
gineer. Before joining First of Den
ver in June, Mr. Cronen was a senior
petroleum engineer with Security
Pacific Bank.
John A. Miller joined First of Den
ver last November as vice president
of m a n a g e m e n t in fo r m a tio n
systems.

Witty Promoted to V.P.
Michael Witty has been promoted
to vice president-cashier at East
Bank of Colorado Springs, according
to Thomas P O’Rourke, president.

Puckett Elected to Board
C. Gale Sellens, chairman and
chief executive officer of Denver Na
tional Bank recently announced the
appointment of Robert E. Puckett to
the bank’s board of directors.
Mr. Puckett is managing partner
of Puckett Energy Co., an oil and gas
exploration company and of Puckett
Resources Co., a lease brokerage
service company.

Accepts Littleton Position
John Bateson, vice president of
First State Bank, Scottsbluff, Nebr.,
recently accepted a position with
United Bank of Littleton as a com
mercial loan officer. Mr. Bateson
had been with First State for three
years.

Two Promoted, Nine New
Officers at Central Bank
The board of Central Bank of Den
ver recently announced the promo
tions of Mae Jean Bucklin and
Martha S. Graves to assistant vice
presidents. Miss Bucklin joined the
bank in 1958 as a teller. Ms. Graves
joined Central Bank in 1979.
Seven new employees were elected
to officer positions. They are: Miles
C. Bloom, retail lending officer; Wil
bur A. Glass, services officer; John
C. Golden, retail lending collections
officer; David W. Kerschen, retail
lending officer; Marcus Mitchell,
commercial loan officer I; David L.
Swan, commercial loan officer I, and
Karen L. Tbnso, senior petroleum
engineer.
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apart from all those other banks.
It has nothing to do w ith our looks.
Or our clothes. It shows up in the way
we do our jobs. The extra care and
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"It's our com m itm ent to serve you
better that shows up in countless little
ways. W hether we're making loans to
buy banks. Or participating w ith you on
loans to your customers. Or helping
to manage your liq u id ity through
federal fund transactions or check
collection. O r sharing our expertise on
things like ATM s and VISA® Or a
variety of services, such as EEO plans
for human resources. O r m unicipal leasing.

" If you're a bank not currently w orking
w ith us, we invite you to call.
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You'll discover, like our hundreds of
other banking friends, that we have a
genuine interest in correspondent banking.

"And you'll find out that better
banking is a lot more than just a slogan
on a button"

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Celebrates 100th Year
The First National Bank of Wisner concluded its 100th anniversary
year of service in 1981. In observ
ance the bank sponsored "The Pied
Piper Family Comedy Theatre” for
the children of the community and
the musical "The Fantasticks” was
presented for the patrons. The
First National Bank was formed in
July, 1881.
The 1100 square foot brick struc
ture
will be built along the west side
Former Broken Bow State Bank
of
the
lot and feature two drive-up
President Samuel P. Bailey, 65, died
lanes,
a night depository and two
recently at the Jennie M. Melham
teller
windows
inside.
Memorial Medical Center.
Retiring as bank president in De
cember, 1978, Mr. Bailey was still Board Member Named
serving as a director at the time of
Dr. Gerald Luckey has been elect
his death.
ed to the board of First National
Bank, David City, announced John
C. Klosterman, chairman and James
Elected to Norfolk Board
Burton E. Nixon, president of Howe, president.
Dr. Luckey is presently engaged in
Simpson Structures Inc., has been
a
family
practice of medicine at the
elected to the board of directors of
Butler
County
Clinic, PC..
Northwestern National Bank, Nor
folk, according to Tbm F. Finnigan,
Appointed in Laurel
president.
Richard Erwin has been appointed
to the board of Security National
Schuyler Directors Named
Jack Peters, owner of Schuyler Bank, Laurel, according to Richard
Insurance and Real Estate Agency, Adkins, Jr., chairman. Mr. Erwin is
has been named a director of First presently engaged in farming.
National Bank of Schuyler.
He replaces L.F. Reinecke, who
was named the first honorary direc Joins Bank in Papillion
Bank of the Midlands, Papillion,
tor of the bank. Mr. Reinecke has
has announced the recent addition
served on the board since 1952.
of Robert E. Wolf as a loan officer, to
its staff.
Approval Announced
He was previously employed by
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kan Packers National Bank, Omaha, in
sas City has approved the applica its management trainee program.
tion for Gray Bancorp, Incorporated
of Coleridge, to acquire 100% of the
shares of the Coleridge National Appointed in Albion
Faye Becker has been appointed
Bank, Coleridge.
assistant personnel director of the
Albion National Bank, Albion, ac
Joins Citizen’s State
cording to Gary Kruse, executive
Mike VanCleef, son of Lloyd vice president.
VanCleef, president, has joined Citi
Mrs. Becker has been employed at
zen’s State Bank, Carleton, as a the bank since 1976 and will con
trainee. He will be learning overall tinue to serve as head teller.
operations and will attend courses at
the American Institute of Banking.

Former President Dies

Atkinson Officer Named

Construction Started
Last month construction was
started on a new drive-in facility for
Farm ers & M erchants National
Bank, West Point, to be located at
the corner of Lincoln and Sherman
streets.

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The First National Bank of Atkin
son has announced the election of
David L. Draeger as a loan officer on
the bank’s staff. He was previously
employed by Cones State Bank,
Pierce, and has spent the past two
years as a state bank examiner.

Elected President
Janice Swindell, assistant cashier
and assistant secretary at First Se
curity Bank in Holdrege, has been
elected president of the central Ne
braska chapter of the Bank Admin
istration Institute for 1981-82.
As president, she will represent
the central district consisting of 15
counties.

Ground Broke for Drive-up
F irs t N a tio n a l B ank, T h e r
mopolis, recently held groundbreak
ing ceremonies for a new drive-up
facility to be located at Fifth and
Broadway, next to the bank. The
new drive-up will accommodate 5
lanes with the possibility for six and
is expected to be completed in April
of this year.

West Point Director Named
First National Bank, West Point,
has armed Mary Lauritzen as mar
keting director with responsibilities
in public relations and promotional
advertising. She had previously
worked at departm ent stores in
Chicago and Phoenix.

Bellevue Officers Told
The Bank of Bellevue recently
announced the promotions of Bill
Henning to vice president of loans
and Barb Plott to assistant cashier.
Mr. Henning joined the bank in
1980 with ten years of banking expe
rience and Ms. Plott, previously
head teller, joined in 1976.

Former Vice President Dies
Samuel Floyd Curry, former vice
president of Security State Bank in
Holbrook, passed away recently at
the age of 83. Mr. Curry began his
banking career in 1920 at Security
State Bank and continued there un
til the bank was sold in 1978.
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58
banks with capital and surplus o
more than $3 million. Mr. Acker wa
elected to his first term by member
banks with capital and surplus of
$l-$3 million. Their terms began
January 1.

Banco Mortgage Expands

ohn D. Woods, chairman and
J
chief executive officer of Omaha
National Bank has announced the
following appointments:
Promoted to vice president were
George M. Brady, Marcus H.
Ford, Jr. and John A. Ostrowski.
Promoted to second vice president
were William A. Legenza, Gloria
Menard and M. Scott Newberry.
Other officer appointments include
John E. Nahas, loan officer; Alice
H. Skultety, trust officer; Ronald J.
Favara, assistant marketing offi
cer; Linda D. King and Jean M.
Paul, assistant operations officers;

Russell J. Kreikemeier, assistant
trust officer, and David Sugimoto,
assistant investment officer.
Mr. Brady, currently senior com
mercial banking officer, joined the
bank in 1974, as an a ssistan t
auditor.
Mr. Ford joined the bank in 1968
as security chief, named director of
loss prevention in 1973 and second
vice president the following year.
Mr. Ostrowski joined the bank in
1978 as head of collections and
named second vice president in
1979.
Mr. Lhgenza, presently manager
of the bank’s Empire Park office,
joined in 1971. Ms. Menard joined as
consumer teller supervisor in 1975
and is currently manager of person
al banking. Presently a correspon
dent bank-ag loan officer, Mr. New
berry joined the bank in 1972 as an
assistant manager in demand de
posit accounting.
***
John M. Shonsey, chairman of
American National Bank, Omaha,
has announced the election of
Donald G. Kirby as assistant vice
president.
Mr. Kirby has been active in bank
data processing for the past fifteen
years and in his new position he will
manage the bank’s computer center.
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John D. Woods, chairman and
chief executive officer of the Omaha
N ational Bank, and Duane C.
Acker, president of Kansas State
University in Manhattan, have been
elected directors of the Federal Re
serve Bank of Kansas City
Mr. Woods was unopposed in the
election for his second term as a
director by Tfenth District member

Banco Mortgage Company, th
nation’s third largest mortgage
banker, is creating a new division
within the company to develop in
novative, conventional, multi-family
financing programs. The new divi
sion will focus on what Banco Mort
gage sees as “emerging oppor
tunities to respond to recent
changes in th e m u lti-fam ily
markets.’’
Also as part of the reorganization,
Banco Mortgage, a subsidiary of
Northwest Bancorporation, is con
solidating the mortgage orginination offices of its Insured Projec
Division (government-insured pro
jects) and Income Loan Division
(long -term financing for income pro
ducing properties).
The two divisions have ha
separate mortgage origination of
fices in many of the cities where
Banco Mortgage maintains field
operations. Those loan origination
offices now will be consolidated a
part of the Income Loan Division.
The combined offices will offer a
broader range of services, according
to Banco Mortgage.
The new division will be heade
by Jennifer Cheatham, senior vice
president. Neil Hammitt, senior vice
president, will continue to manage
the Income Loan Division.
Banco Mortgage President Davi
W. Beal said the increased emphasis
on new multi-family financing
vehicles should enable Banco Mort
gage to attract additional sources of
investment capital while serving the
changing needs of apartment devel
opers and owners.
He pointed out that the Economic
Recovery Tax Act of 1981 is ex
pected to result in an improved in
vestment climate for real estate.
He added that while Banco Mort
gage sees the possibility of a re
duced emphasis on governmentinsured multi-family programs, the
company will not diminish its tradi
tional expertise in that area.
Banco Mortgage currently ser
vices more than $5.4 billion in mort
gages.

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od Steinacher was recently
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and the others are "a welcome an
significant increase to the company’s
reserves and cash flow.”
The discovery wells are:
The 35-1 Herboldsheimer,
Cheyenne County, Nebr., SE/4-S35
14N-53W. In an 8-hour swab test,
the well swabbed at a rate of 345
barrels of clean oil per day.
The 35-2 H erb oldscheim er,
NE/4-S35-14N-53W. In an 8-hou
swab test, the well swabbed at a rate
of 150 barrels of clean oil per day.
Both wells appear to constitute a
new field discovery, and appear to
part of the same trend as the South
west Potter Field, which has pro
credit insurance accounts in eastern duced more than 7 million barrels of
oil, and 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas.
Nebraska and western Iowa.
Production is from the J-Sand
***
5,622 feet. Five additional wells ar
George A. Frampton, 87, retired planned.
Of the other four wells, three are
president of Cornhusker bank, died
recently. He was the bank’s presi in Kansas and one in Tfexas.
dent from 1948 to 1975, remaining
as its vice president and chairman
until his death.
Hayes Center Observes 75th
His daughter, Alice M. Dittman,
The First National Bank of Hayes
is currently president of the bank.
Center, having acquired its National
Mr. Frampton, who began his Charter in 1906 under the name of
banking career in Denton in 1914, Farmers State Bank, observed its
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Moines in 1941 and served as its ty, this past year. The bank cele
president until December, 1946. He brated with a three-day open house.
later moved to Lincoln.
* * *

others promoted, by the board of
National Bank of Commerce, Lin
coln. Mr. Steinacher has been with
the bank since 1979, and was pres
ently serving as personal banking
manager.
Promoted to assistant vice presi
dents are Robert G. Block, Mike
Donnely, Tom Henning and James
T Hitt.
After joining the bank in 1977 in
the management trainee program,
Mr. Block assumed a position in the
mortgage loan division. Mr. Donnel
ly started with National Bank in
1977 and was promoted to employee
benefit trust administrator in 1978.
Mr. Henning previously held the
Loren R. Anderson, executive
position of correspondent bank offi vice president of National Bank of
cer after joining the bank in 1980. Commerce in Lincoln, has been
Mr. Hitt has been employed in the elected president of Mid America
trust investments department since Clearinghouse Association, head
joining in 1979, and promoted to quartered in Kansas City, Mo.
trust investment manager in 1981.
Mr. Anderson, who has been with
Newly elected officers are Lovie the bank since 1949, directs the
Broadus, personnel officer and administrative services group.
Jerry D. Slominski, trust adminis
tration officer.
Two New Oil Wells
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Denver Western Petroleum Corp.
announced last month th at two
wells in a new field in Nebraska are
among six new wells added to the
company’s list of properties either
producing or under completion.
F. Lee Robinson, president, said
the Nebraska discovery wells have
combined swab test rates of 495
barrels of oil per day. The company
has a 35% working interest in these
two wells and the surrounding 1,300
acres that it farmed out to Cougar
Petroleum Corp., a privately-held oil
and gas company in Denver.
M. Robinson said these two wells

RMA Schedules 2nd CEO
Loan Management Congress
Robert Morris Associates is spon
soring its second “CEO Congress on
Loan Management,” January 21-24,
at La Posada Resort Hotel, Scotts
dale, Ariz. Developed by RMA’s
policy division, this program has
been designed especially for CEOs
of RMA member banks in the
$150-$750 million asset range.
Registration on a first-come, firstserved basis will be limited to 60
CEOs from RMA member banks.
During the Congress, participants
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banks in the 1980s: (1) availability,
training and compensation of
lenders; (2) the use of microcom
puters; (3) determining the right
retail banking strategy; and (4)
maintaining bank resources amid in
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Edward E. Furash, president,
Furash & Company, and profes
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Analysis Center, Inc., Washington,
D.C., will serve as program coor
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IB A Id e n tifie s L e g is la tiv e Issu es
EN Legislative issues of concern
to the Iowa Bankers Association
have been identified and positions
prepared for the second session of
the 69th Iowa General Assembly.
^ The 33 members of the IBA legis
lative committee
re p re s e n t all
areas of Iowa
banking and inplude
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sentatives of inf
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ban and rural J.B. MERIWETHER
b a n k s. B ruce
Meriwether, president of the First
National Bank in Dubuque, is chair
man of the legislative committee.
IBA staff members working with
the committee are Neil Milner, ex
ecutive vice president; Wes Ehrecke,
director of government relations,
hnd Richard Thornton, legislative
counsel.
The 10 issues identified in a
special mailing prepared for IBA
members, and the IBA positions
fetated, are:
1. Coalition Bill. The issue: Needed
changes to usury, consumer credit
code and real estate mortgage lend
ing. Eight industries directly related
With this language helped draft the
bill they all support. Position: Sup
port the Coalition Bill.
2. Due-on-Sale. Issue: In recent
legislative sessions, provisions were
passed pertinent to due-on-sale
language on mortgage loans. Sec
ondary market investors nationwide
have expressed deep concern about
investing funds in Iowa due to the
restrictions imposed upon enforce
ment of due-on-sale. Position: Sup
port federal language that favors
elimination of a prohibition on dueon-sale. Also, to support the coali
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at the state level — a separate bill.
3. Title Insurance. Issue: To allow
title insurance to be sold in Iowa.
Iowa is the only state that does not
authorize sale of title insurance,
although it is the standard form of
title protection. Position: To sup
port the sale of title insurance in
Iowa; to be offered on an optional
basis.
4. Public Funds. Issue: Savings and
loans continue to seek authority for
public treasurers to deposit public
monies in s&ls. Position: IBA
against any move that would give
other non-bank financial insitutions
such authority.
5. EFT. Issue: Deposits in EFT ter
minals throughout the state. There
are feelings in the rural community
banks that the deposit restriction to
terminals should be removed and
allow deposits to be made from any
terminal in the state. Position: Sup
port for anywhere in the state, but
not across state lines.
Issue: Terminal placement limited
to metropolitan complex. Discus
sion by the EFT Task Force was
given to allowing a financial institu
tion to establish a terminal in the
county, the corner counties, the con
tiguous counties of its principal
place of business and in a metro
politan complex where a branch of
fice is operated, instead of only in
the metropolitan complex of the
main office or detached office.
Would allow service of the unincor
porated areas which cannot be ser
viced at this time. Position: Recom
mend not to do anything with the
terminal placement restriction at
this time; continue further study
and get a position before legislative
session commences.
6. 8% Deposit Limitation. Issue:
Determine if there is a need to in
crease the 8% deposit cap that ap
plies to bank holding companies for
Iowa holdings. Position: The IBA,

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at this time, opposes any change to
the 8% deposit language of the cur
rent statutes.
7. Money Market Mutual Funds.
Issue: MMFs offered by non-financial institutions have drained $1
billion deposits from Iowa financial
institutions. Issue: Are they hurting
the people who borrow from banks
and deposit money in banks? Issue:
Such MMFs should be regulated on
same basis as financial institutions.
Position: IBA recognizes little can
be done at state level; will continue
to strive for competitive equity with
the unregulated entities offering
banking services.
8. Prohibition of Sale of Real Estate
within Banks. Issue: The Realtors
Association could again make it a
high priority to take bankers out of
the real estate business, which could
ultimately lead to prohibition of the
sale of insurance also. Position: IBA
strongly opposes this bill and any
others which would restrict banks
from providing insurance, real
estate or other services to their
customers.
9. BankPac ’82. This is not a
legislative issue, but a supportive
endeavor to the legislative commit
tee’s work; puts in place an organ
izational drive to obtain needed
BankPac funds from every bank in
the state in a 30-day campaign.
10. S&Ls Converted to Stock Com
panies. Issue: Iowa is one of four
states that currently do not allow
S&Ls to be converted into stock
companies. Comments: Special IBA
Task Force assigned to study issue.
Position: IBA will continue to
monitor the issue and formulate a
position prior to the 1982 session. □

Hansen Named Chairman
Governor Robert Ray has named
Oliver Hansen, president of Liberty
Trust and Sav
ings, Durant, as
the new chair
m an of th e
A g ric u ltu ra l
Promotion
Board of the
Iowa Develop
ment Commis
sion.
Mr. Hansen,
who has been a
member of the nine-person board
since 1973, is a past president of the
Iowa Bankers Association and
former Iowa Superintendent of
Banking.
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Iowa News

G roup 1 M e e ts Feb. 12-13 in S io u x C ity
HE Marina Inn in South Sioux
T
City will again be headquarters
for the annual meeting of Iowa
Bankers Association Group 1. The
meeting is scheduled there February
12-13 and business sessions will be
presided over by Group 1 Chairman
Harold H. Harms, president, First
State Bank, Brunsville, and senior
vice president, LeMars Savings
Bank. He will be assisted at the
meeting by Group Secretary Bruce
M. Kolbe, president, Valley State
Bank, Sioux City.
The reception Friday night,
February 12, will be hosted by the
Sioux City Bankers Association.

H.H. HARMS

B.M. KOLBE

President of that group and official
host this year is Leslie H. Olson,
president, Toy National Bank.
Guest speakers will be Donald L.
Raitt, vice president and economist,
Northern Trust Company, and Newt
Hielscher, humorist from Shreve
port, La. The complete program
follows:
Friday, February 12
P.M.
6:00 Registration desk open —
Marina Inn.
8:00 Social hour and hors
d ’oeuvres courtesy Sioux Ci
ty Bankers Association.
Saturday, February 13
A.M.
9:00 Registration — Marina Inn.
Exhibits open.
11:30 Ladies’ Luncheon and style
show — Marina Inn. Bus
service available between
the Hilton Inn and Marina
Inn.

11:30 D elagates’ Luncheon —
Marina Inn.
Presiding — Howard Logan,
chairman, Group 1.
Report of nominating com
mittee and election of of
ficers.
IB A Activities — Tom C.
Dunlap, president, Iowa
Bankers Association; presi
dent and chairman, Sout
Story Bank & Trust, Slater.
Remarks — Neil Milner, ex
ecutive vice president, Iowa
Bankers Association.
Remarks — Thomas H
Huston, Iowa Superinten
dent of banking.
Speaker — Donald L. Raitt,
vice
p re s id e n t
and
economist, Northern Trus
Company, Chicago.
Speaker — Newt Hielscher,
humorist, Shreveport, La.
P.M.
2:30 Adjournment
6:30 Social Hour
7:30 Banquet.
E ntertainm ent — Mearl
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Sioux City Bankers
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Leslie H. Olson, president, Toy
National Bank, was elected presi
dent of the Sioux City Bankers
Association at the annual meeting i
mid-December. He succeeds Richard
C. Taylor, president, First National
Bank.
The new vice president is Stanley
W. Evans, president, Northwester
National Bank.
Sue F. Packard, correspondent
bank officer at Toy National, was
named secretary-treasurer.

Oelwein Bank to Expand
The First National Bank of Oel
wein recently announced its pur
chase of the three-story, Mont
gomery Ward Building downtown.
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Waukon Promotions Told
Farmers & Merchants Savings
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promotion of James L. Rathbun
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dent, Robert N. Erickson from assis
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ITS Opens Second Retail POS at Hy-Vee

ware and programming to make th ^
system work were developed by late*
summer. The first installation was
completed in Des Moines in Sep
tember and results to date show the
POS system is getting good reception«
from customers.
Mr. Dooley said the pilot project
is expected to continue through the
first quarter of 1982 and will then be
expanded to any other cities and re»
tail outlets who desire the service. □

Mason City Officer Named
The board of the First National
Bank of Mason
City announced
the recent elec
tion of Daniel J.
Zitelman as agriADDITIONAL POS units were placed in operation recently in the pilot project conducted in
cultrual loan of
Des Moines by the Iowa Transfer System to test Point-of-Sale units in retail stores. Shown
ficer.
above cutting the ribbon for the event at West Des Moines Hy-Vee Food Store are, from left:
Mr. Zitelmen
Dale Dooley, ITS exec, dir.; Mitch Christensen, sr. oper. off., John Sikkink, exec, v.p., and
George Milligan, pres., all three with lowa-Des Moines Natl.; Darrell Vore, Hy-Vee store
began his bank
mgr.; Jim Schulte, dist. mgr.-financial, and Bruce Hayes, acct. mgr. of Hy-Vee acct., both
ing career in
with NCR Corp.
June, 1980, with
D.J. ZITELMAN
less than the time needed to write a the F irst Na
x p a n s i o n of its pilot project
to test Point-of-Sale units in check or pay cash and wait for tional Bank of Mason City as an
retail food stores in the Des Moines change. As noted in an earlier story agricultural credit trainee. His train
area was announced November 30 about the first POS units in Des ing involved bank operations and
by the Iowa Transfer System. The Moines, the merchant’s account also agricultural lending.
new POS units were placed in opera is automatically credited for the
tion at West Des Moines Hy-Vee amount of the purchase.
Two Elected to Board
This electronic check writing
Food Store in mid-November as part
Dick Lomen, president of Waukon
of the test program that began in balances all accounts instantly,
State
Bank, Waukon, recently an<
September. It is believed to be the eliminating float, paperwork and
nounced the election of Jack Duffy
reducing bad check problems.
first of its kind in the nation.
ITS Executive Director Dale and William M. Regan to the board.
The heart of the new system is
Mr. Duffy is area manager in
NCR’s 255-2/8255 cash register Dooley expects the project to catch
Waukon
for Interstate Power Com
which performs electronic scanning on in other retail environments. He
pany,
and
Mr. Regan and his family
of customer purchases. To accom said, “ I expect high volume stores
operate
Regancrest
Farm.
pany this newest equipment and to utilize the debit card system
make it possible for customers to before it evolves to restaurants and
pay for their purchases with their hotels. Eventually, I think this Appointed in Fort Dodge
bank debit card carrying the ITS system will be used by all types of
United Central Bank and Trus
logo, NCR has installed a PIN pad retailers. The advantage to con
and card-swipe unit at each check sumers is that electronical financial Co. in Fort Dodge has appointed
out station at Hy-Vee. Instead of service means their transactions are Robert Anderson to a ssistan t
cashier, and as a full-time agri
writing a check to pay for the going to cost them less.”
His assessment is supported by cultural representative at the bank’s
groceries, the customer may enter
{
William
R. Monroney, president of Harcourt office.
his or her personal identification
Mr. Anderson has been employed
number (PIN) on the pad situated the Electronic Funds Transfer Asso
for complete privacy, then run the ciation, who said in a recent New by the bank in a farm management
debit card through the card swipe. York Times article, “within five to program.
The card does not leave the ten years, setups like this (the ITS
*
cash register project) in retail stores Joins Burlington Bank
customer’s hands.
Douglas S. Grinde, president of
The debit card transaction is run will be the norm, not the exception.”
After ITS initiated research into Hawkeye Bank and Trust, Burl
through the in-store processor in the
back room, transmitted to the ITS the feasibility of retail POS debit ington, announced recently that
central switch, routed to the correct card environment earlier this year, Russ Larson has joined the bank as<
bank where the customer’s checking consultations were held with James assistant manager at the New Lon
account is immediately debited, and Schulte, NCR Corp’s district man don office.
He had previously been vice
a return signal is given to the store ager-financial in the Des Moines
clerk that completes the transac district office. Mr. Schulte took the p resid en t-treasu rer of C entral
tion. The entire procedure currently project to NCR headquarters in States Investment Company in Ft.<
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Peoples’ Opens West Roads Office

THE new West Roads Office of the Peoples’ Trust & Savings Bank of Indianola recently

held its grand opening. Located west of West Roads Shopping Center on Highway 92, the
new bank office offers a full range of financial services, including three drive-up lanes and
three lobby windows. Kim Tierney, a loan officer at the bank, is manager of the new West
Roads office.

First Bank System Proposal to Buy
Banks of Iowa Hits Snag in Iowa Law
HE OFFER of First Bank
System, Inc. Minneapolis, to
purchase Banks of Iowa, Inc., Des
Moines, probably will be contested
by the State of Iowa unless at
torneys for FBS can convince state
officials the proposed purchase does
not violate Iowa law.
FBS attorneys, who met in De
cember with Thomas H. Huston,
Iowa superintendent of banks, and
were told by Mr. Huston that the
transaction “would appear” to
violate Iowa statutes, were sched
uled to present formal documents to
Mr. Huston in early January to sup
port their position.
The First Bank System offer was
made December 9 and was reviewed
in detail in the December 14 issue of
the N orthwestern B anker Weekly
Newsletter. It was announced by
Holmes Foster, president of B of I,
and Donald Grangaard, chairman of
FBS. Under terms of that agree
ment, which runs for 15 years, FBS
will purchase Banks of Iowa and its
subsidiaries “when interstate bank
ing enables ownership of Iowa banks
by First Bank System. At the pre
sent time, such sale is not legally
permissible and no legislation is pen
ding which would permit such sale.”
The proposed agreement calls for
FBS to purchase B of I at a min
imum price of IV2 times share
holders’ equity at the end of the
month preceding purchase. That
equity last September 30 was $43.71
per share. The price could be ad
justed upward to 2lA times share
holder equity according to a formula
based on earnings performance. It
also provides the possibility of ad
justing the price at time of acquisi
tion to an amount which would be
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determined by independent ap
praisal.
FBS also entered into a separate
agreement to purchase 499,046
shares, or about 21% of B of I
outstanding common shares, from
Ben Schwartz, a director of Banks
Iowa, and his family interests for
IV4 times book value at the end of
the month preceding sale. FBS pro
poses to consummate that purchase
within the new few months. It is
conditioned upon B of I share
holders approval for conversion of
the shares purchased from Mr.
Schwartz into non-voting, Class B,
common stock. The dividend on that
stock would be three times the B of I
common dividend rate for the first
three years, 2.75 times such divi
dend rate for the next two years, and
thereafter the higher of 12% of the
purchase price of FBS’ equity in
vestment or the common share divi
dend then being paid. The current B
of I dividend is $1.44 per share.
Based on these figures, FBS pro
poses to purchase the Schwartz
stock at $54.64 per share, for a total
purchase price of $27,267,873. FBS’
dividend the first three years, based
on the existing $1.44 per share rate,
would be $4.32, which would be
$2,155,878.70 on the 499,046 shares,
and a three-year total of $6,467,636.
At the 2.75 rate for the next two
years, the dividend of $3.96 would
bring $1,976,222.10 per year and a
two-year total of $3,952,444.20. The
guaranteed minimum rate of return
of 12% for the remainder of the
15-year contract (10 years) on the
purchase investment of $27,267,873
would be $3,272,144.70 per year and
a 10 year total of $32,721,447.
The dividends from these three

time frames would total at the end^
of 15 years $43,141,527, a 15-year
gain of $15,873,654 or $1,058,243
per year, giving a yearly return on
the initial purchase of the Schwartz
stock of 3.88%.
The Iowa legislature in 1972
passed a Multi Bank Holding Com
pany Bill that authorized formation
of such companies in Iowa by Iowa
banks, and grandfathered in the law|
the Northwest Bancorporation of
Minneapolis. It limits holding com
panies to holding no more than 8%
of the bank deposits in national and
state banks in Iowa. Chapter 524,i
Section 1805 was written after con
siderable debate over non-domiciled
holding companies, and apparently
was written to permit Banco to con
tinue to operate as a holding com-1
pany in the state, but preclude fur
ther entry by non-domiciled holding
companies. Language of the section
says such authorization is not given
“unless such bank holding company
was on January 1, 1971, registered
with the Federal Reserve Board as a
bank holding company, and on that
date owned at least two banks in
this state.”
In addition, that law requires that
any offer to shareholders of a bank
holding company must be extended
to all shareholders for the same price
and all other terms, Mr. Hustom
noted.
Mr. Huston said he will be glad to
listen to the presentation by the
FBS attorneys and will make his in
terpretation based soley on Iowa*
law, with the help of the Attorney
General’s office if that is needed.
Banks of Iowa has 10 banks in as
many Iowa cities, with Merchants.
National Bank of Cedar Rapids as*
the flagship bank. Total assests on
September 30, 1981, were $1.4 bil
lion.
First Bank System, Inc., has 92.
banks and trust companies in Min
nesota, N orth D akota, South
Dakota, Montana and Wisconsin,
and a trust company in Arizona. It
has several service subsidiaries.
Total assets on September 30, 1981,
were $14.4 billion.

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been promoted to executive vice
president. Both have been with
State Bank 20 years and head the
agricultural loan division and com
mercial loan division, respectively.
Iowa News

Waterloo Changes Announced ment, assisting with estate work
R. Scott Fetner, president of The
National Bank of Waterloo, has an
nounced the election of Timothy J.
Brodahl to trust
ffice r.
Mr.
Brodahl joined
the bank in 1981
as administrator
in the trust deartment.
A lso
an
nounced by Mr.
Fetner was the
recent combinT.J. BRODAHL
ng
of
th e
marketing and community relations
departments. Lorenzo D. Creighton,
community relations director, will
expand his duties in the field of
mrketing headed by Greg E. Stibal,
marketing director.

and specialize in income tax and ac
counting services.

Sac City Appointment Told

Russell Spearman, president of
Citizens Savings Bank, recently an Board Member Elected
nounced the appointment of Harold
Leon J. Dietzenbach, vice presi
Glass as manager of the Citizens
dent
& cashier of Citizens Savings
Savings Bank Insurance Agency in
Bank, Hawkeye, was recently
Sac City.
Nine years in the insurance elected to the board. He will com
business, Mr. Glass completed his plete the unexpired term of R.L.
requirements for his Career Life Donohue of West Union who recent
Underwriter (CLU) designation this ly resigned.
past year.

Smith to Retire as Chairman

Richard L. Smith, chairman and
chief executive officer of The State
Bank, Fort Dodge, wil take early
retirement in mid-1982.
Mr. Smith, who has been with the
Sibley Appoints Officer
State Bank 11 years, moved to Fort
Leo Carlson, president of the Dodge from the Central National
irst National Bank of Sibley, has Bank, Des Moines. His banking
announced the recent appointment career also includes three years with
of Ronda L. Hollensbe, CPA, as the Jefferson State Bank.
trust officer.
Robert D. Clawson, executive vice
In her new position, Mrs. Hol- president, has been elected as the
ensbe will be responsible for bank’s new president, and Joe D.
establishing an active trust depart Lawler, senior vice president has

Elected Vice President
First National Bank of Council
B lu ffs
has
re c e n tly
an
nounced the electio n of R ita
Uhlhorn as vice
president.
Mrs. Ulhorn
has been with
the bank for two
years in the cor
porate services
R. UHLHORN
department and
received her degree from Nebraska
Wesleyan

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ROMOTION of the following of
P
ficers in the commercial banking
division has been announced by Her
man C. Kilpper, president and chief
executive officer of Bankers Trust:
Promoted to vice president are
Ronald H. Bishop, Robert V. Bren
nan, and Bradley L. Burt.
Mr. Bishop joined Bankers Trust
in March, 1980, as assistant vice
president from Morton Grove Bank,
Morton Grove, 111., where he served
as vice president.
Mr. Brennan, who joined Bankers
Trust as assistant vice president in
August, 1979, came from First Na
tional Bank of Southwestern Mich
igan, which he served for six years,
and Continental Bank, Chicago.
Mr. Burt, who also moves up from
assistant vice president, joined
Bankers Trust in December, 1974.

R.H. BISHOP

J.G. JACOBS

R.V. BRENNAN

D.E. KUNKLE

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Prior banking experience includes
two years with First National Bank
of Davenport.
Mr. Kilpper also announced the
promotion of three commercial
banking division personnel to the
position of assistant vice president.
They are Joseph J. Bustin, Steven
G. Jacobs and Douglas E. Kunkle.
Mr. Bustin joined Bankers Trust
in March, 1981, as credit officer,
moving from BancOhio National
Bank, Columbus, where he was loan
officer and manager, credit research
and risk management division.
Mr. Jacobs assumes his new post
following one year as commercial
loan officer and two years as real
estate loan officer. He joined
Bankers Trust as a management
trainee in May, 1977.
Mr. Kunkle has served in various

A new centralized marketing and(
sales division has been formed at
Hawkeye Bancorporation, with re
sponsibility for developing the sales
and marketing packages for those
financial services which will be<
marketed on a company wide basis.

S.L. JONES

S. BARGER

Stephan L. Jones, vice president
in financial relations, will have the
expanded responsibility for this
division in addition to investor and
financial relations. Mr. Jones has
been with Hawkeye for nine years in
related areas.
Steven B. Barger has joined the
staff as director of marketing. The
newly created position will service
the corporate and subsidiary mar
keting needs with strong emphasis,
in the areas of sales, training and
advertising support. Mr. Barger has
been with the company since 1978.
* * *

B.L. BURT

L.H MAC KAY

positions with Bankers Trust, most
recently as commercial loan officer.
He has been with the bank since
June, 1973.
Mr. Kilpper also announced two
additions to the bank’s staff.
.
Named assistant vice president,
commercial banking division, was
Linda H. MacKay. She presently
serves as secretary of the Iowa State
Senate. Prior banking experience in-i
eludes seven years with Merchants
National Bank & Trust Company,
Indianapolis, where she was lending
officer in the U.S. corporate divi
sion.
,
Appointed assistant auditor was
Christine R. Rice. She joins the bank
following four and a half years with
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Com
pany, where she was auditor in<
charge of audits in finance, in
surance and government.
* * *

C.R. RICE

Christine L. Sands, 73, died of
cancer recently at a Sun City, Ariz.
hospital. Her husband, Neal Sands,
was president of Valley National
Bank of Des Moines from 1960 to,
1972 and was a director until 1977,

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at which time they moved to Litch management of Iowa corporate
field Park, Ariz. Mrs. Sands was a business.
native of Bloomfield, la.
Bernard H. Kersey has been
named vice president and manager
-financial institutions. Included in
Eugene G. Precht, chief executive his responsibilities will be relation
officer of the Iowa-Des Moines Na ships with all Iowa financial institu
tional Bank, recently announced the tions.
following promotions:
R. Jack Lytle, named vice presi
John L. Bailey, named national dent and manager - metropolitan
officer, joined
banking, will be responsible for the
th e Iow a-D es ;
small business banking department
Moines in May
-I as well as the metropolitan commer
as
n a tio n a l HP
cial lending department.
banking repre- ' I p ^
p
Walter W. Pimot has been named
se n ta tiv e and
^
7
senior vice president - domestic
was most recent
banking and will be responsible for
ly with United
jlg p
the management of the national ac
Airlines.
T ic ‘
counts, financial institutions and
Frank J. Kopmetropolitan banking departments.
pold has been
Pierre J. Herzdorfer has joined
named second
J- BAILEY
the bank as vice president and
manager of international banking.
He was most recently a vice presi
dent in the international division of
Union Commerce Bank, Cleveland,
Ohio.

GAN Vie, Compagnie Française
d ’Assurances sur la Vie (“GAN
F. KOPPOLD
Vie’’), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
L. LITTLE
GAN which is a French stock in
surance group, and Hawkeye Bancorporation announced plans
December 21 to make a cash tender
offer for all of the stock of Hawkeye
National Life Insurance Company, a
Des Moines based company. The an
nounced tender price is $11.56 per
share for the 506,154 Hawkeye Na
tional shares outstanding, or a total
B. KERSEY
J. LYTLE
purchase price of approximately
$5,851,140. The tender offer is ex
pected to be the first step in the
development of an ongoing relation
ship between GAN Vie and Hawkeye Bancorporation.
GAN Vie, which will be acquiring
95.1% of Hawkeye National shares
tendered, has assets in excess of
$2.2 billion. The GAN group is
engaged in insurance operations in
W. PIRNOT
P. HERSZDORFER
Europe, the United States and a
vice president and manager, collec number of other countries and has
tions. He joined the bank in 1969 as assets in excess of $4.4 billion. The
co llectio n s s u p e rv iso r-M a ste r acquisition of Hawkeye National
Charge and was named collections will be GAN’s first step in develop
officer and manager in 1979.
ing a life insurance enterprise in the
J. Lanier Little, named vice presi U.S.
Hawkeye Bancorporation, which
dent and manager - regional and na
tional banking, will be responsible will be acquiring 4.9% of Hawkeye
for the management of what was National shares tendered, is a Des
previously the national accounts Moines based multibank holding
department in addition to the company which owns and operates
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28 Iowa banks and is engaged in a
number of banking related financii®
activities. Hawkeye Bancorporation
and its subsidiaries have combined
assets in excess of $1.3 billion.,
J. Lock Macomber, president of
Valley National Bank, has an
nounced the election of James A
Bishop as vice president in tl^j
operations division, and Mark
Kempkes as assistant vice presi
dent, loan administration.

J.A. BISHOP

M.J. KEMPKES

Mr. Bishop was previously vice]
president and cashier at Capital City |
State Bank.
Mr. Kempkes was employed by |
Kensington Mortgage and Finance
Company in Texas and Georgia]
before coming to Valley Bank.

New Auditor Named
Carole A. Story recently joined j
the Central State Bank, Muscatine,
as auditor, announced John B.
Rigler, president.
Ms. Story has had nearly fiv^
years experience at the First Securi-1
ty Bank and Trust Co. in Charles Ci
ty, and most recently was senior !
auditor with United Central Banc-|
shares Inc., Des Moines.

Sioux City Officer Awarded
Farm Manager Title
Dick L. Coffman, assistant vie?
president of First National Bank ini
Sioux City, was awarded the title ofl
Accredited Farm Manager by the!
American Society of Farm ManJ
agers and Rural Appraisers at their
recent annual meeting in Louisville,|
Kentucky.
This highly regarded title is given|
only to Society members, who have
demonstrated expert knowledge;]
competency and high ethical stand
ards in professional farm manage-1
ment. Mr. Coffman joined First Na-|
tional’s farm and ranch manage
ment department in 1975.

PARTICIPANTS in the 1982 Iowa Business Trends Conference were, from left to right:
eated —Helen J. McLane, v.p., Heidrick & Struggles, Inc., Chicago; Eugene G. Precht,
chmn. & ceo, lowa-Des Moines National Bank, and Richard E. Rice, corp. v.p., Syntex Corp.,
Des Moines. Standing—Jon H. Kneen, chmn., Iowa Mfrs. Assn., Ottumwa; Kenneth A.
Macke, pres., Dayton Hudson Corp., Minneapolis; Jude Wanniski, pres., Polyconomics,
Inc., and George F. Milligan, pres., lowa-Des Moines National Bank.

t Iowa Business Trends conference —

Business Speakers Cautious About 1982
By BEN HALLER, JR.
Editor and Publisher
NOTHER record crowd exceed
ing 650 businessm en and
Aankers
attended the 23rd Annual
owa Business Trends conference
osted last month in Des Moines by
he lowa-Des Moines National
ank. The morning program feaured four business executives of
ompanies having a direct interest
n Iowa and the noon luncheon
eatured a political economist.
Eugene G. Precht, chairman and
ief executive officer of the Iowaes Moines National Bank welomed the overflow crowd. Commening briefly on the great volume of
ajor construction that is underway
nd has taken place in downtown
es Moines, Mr. Precht said, “It is
vident there is a major commitent to the community by Des
oines business firms.
The host bank president, George
. Milligan, referred to changes takng place in the economy and in
anking, and stated, “We feel the
hoice is clear...guarding the status
uo or managing change. We, as
art of the Iowa business communiy, have elected to manage change.
Te will continue to be aggressive,
nd th a t’s a promise!’’
Jude Wanniski, president of
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advisor to President Reagan during
the 1980 presidential campaign, ad
vocated at the noon luncheon ser
ious consideration for returning to
the gold standard, at least on a par
tial basis. As the man who coined
the term “supply-side economics,’’
Mr. Wanniski took Budget Director
David Stockman to task for “chang
ing his approach once he became Di
rector of the OBM; for example, pro
claiming in an article last March
that he’s a budget cutter first and a
tax-cutter second.’’ Referring to Mr.
Stockman’s latest embarrassing
episode of taping for a Washington
newspaper reporter his comments
critical of Reagans’s policies, Mr.
Wanniski said, “I t ’s the first time
we’ve been trickled on by a Trojan
horse.’’
Mr. Wannaski traced a historical
perspective that set the stage for his
preference for the gold standard. He
referred to the 1969 statement by a
Canadian economist that moving
from the gold standard to floating
currencies world-wide would create
inflation that would be out of con
trol by 1980.’’ He says that “since
the government produces the cur
rency it shouldn’t ask us to take the
risk. When we were on the gold stan
dard and people bought government
bonds, they had a guaranty that
they would be repaid full value in
dollars backed by gold.’’

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He labeled as a failure the at
tem pt by Treasury Secretary
Donald Regan to blend supply-side
theorists with m onetarist be
lievers, for they pulled in two dif
ferent ways — one trying to bring
growth, the other trying to wring
out inflation with a recession. He
blames the Fed because it “doesn’t
know any better today than it did 10
years ago what the money supply
is...it guesses at the money supply.
If it’s up three points one day and
down three points another day, then
on average it did right, but it’s bad
news for retailers who lose both
days.’’
“With gold,’’ he stated, “you are
given the signals daily and eventual
ly you wind up with true interest
rates based on risk alone...Stockman
joined the monetarists and Volcker
that the best way to stop inflation is
to keep people from borrowing to
have a recession. We are punishing
ourselves unnecessarily by a policy
that started a decade ago and was
doomed to failure from the outset.’’
Mr. Wanniski said Iowa Senator
Roger Jepsen and Rep. Neal Smith
are interested in the gold approach.
Beryl Sprinkel, Undersecretary for
Monetary Affairs at the Treasury,
“got the committee appointed and it
was stacked with about 13 anti-gold
men out of 15 on the committee.’’
“All it takes is a call from the
President to the Secretary of the
Treasury to reestablish the gold
standard,’’ Mr. Wanniski main
tained. “President Nixon cancelled
it in 1971. President Reagan can
reverse it...The 1980s depend on
policy and I think it will result in
dancing in the streets.’’
“Agriculture” in 1982 will have
“good news and bad news,” accord
ing to Richard E. Rice, corporate
vice president for Syntex Corp., Des
Moines. The bad news, of course,
revolves around low market prices,
“that are not expected to rise
significantly on the immediate
horizon,” increased taxes based on
increased land values, high interest
rates, high input costs and reduced
“farm buying power.”
The good news, he stated, is that
crops are huge, farm land is pre
dicted to go up further in price, ad
vances are being made in technology
of animal health as well as in
agriculture itself. He said the $200
million that will be spent on animal
health research this year will be “a
tremendous investment for the
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future.” Mr. Rice also spoke about
the positive potential in genetic
engineering, both for animals and
plants.
“Personnel Management” was
addressed by Helen J. McLane, vice
president of Heidrick & Struggles,
Inc., Chicago, specialists in ex
ecutive search. “Effective human
resource management is essential
for survival,” she told the audience
of business managers. “Money is no
longer the motivator, even increas
ingly at the executive level. More
and more bright, talented, welleducated people are saying ‘No!’ to
power, prestige and pay if it means a
transfer, longer hours or any other
threat to their personal lifestyle.
Nobody outside the recruiting field
today would believe how difficult it
has become to identify and attract
qualified candidates for $50,000,
$100,000 or even higher positions.”
She said workers want more feed
back from management on its goals,
how to get there, what they are ex
pected to do to achieve it. They want
a chance to be heard by manage
ment. They want a humanized work
environment that preserves in
dividual dignity and initiative.
“Maunufacturing” was the title
for Jon H. Kneen, chairman of the
Iowa Manufacturers Association,
Ottumwa. He said, “The average
plant and equipment in Iowa is in
excess of 20 years old. Compare that
to an average of 12 years in Ger
many and six years in Japan. This
points up the fact that prospects for
capital equipment purchases by
Iowa manufacturers should be a
reality in the foreseeable future if
economic conditions improve and we
are able to provide a favorable
climate (with tax incentives) in Iowa
for companies to update equipment,
expand facilities, or bring new
manufacturers to our state.”
Mr. Kneen sees a 1982 pickup in
sales after the first quarter, with
“back to normal production” by
year-end. The years following 1982
will be “growing years for us.”
Segments of manufacturing related
to farming will be “slow during all of
1982 and show improvement in
1983.”
“Retailing” was covered by Ken
neth A. Macke, president of the
Dayton Hudson Corporation, Min
neapolis. Pointing to low auto sales,
home sales and reduced farm in
come, Mr. Macke said, “With condi
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tions like these, it is hard for
retailers to expect strong sales gains
in 1982. But the news isn’t all bad.
The second income tax cut, sched
uled for July, should put more spen
dable dollars back into our
customers’ pockets.
He pointed out how social and
life-style changes — such as two in
come families — are affecting retail
store operating and sales methods.
With this he listed the continued
emphasis on value, less customer
loyalty, and continuing advances in
technology.
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Iow a a g ric u ltu ra lly re la te
businesses, including the Harla
National Bank of Harlan, Iowa, and
the First National Bank of Missouri
Valley, Iowa.

To Join Knoxville Bank

Dean Hicks, senior vice president
of Brenton State Bank of Jefferson,
has submitted his resignation, effec
tive February 1, to become e
ecutive vice president and managing
officer of Community National Bank
& Trust Company of Knoxville. The
Knoxville bank is the 18th and
latest acquisition of Brenton Bank.
Sioux City Promotions Told
Inc.
Mr. Hicks, associated with Bren
William F. Kabourek has been
promoted to senior vice president in ton State Bank since 1974, was
charge of lending administration elected vice president of the_
and loan policy and Stephan J. Hatz agricultural department in 1975,
has been named department head of named senior vice president in 1980,
the correspondent banking division, and elected to the bank’s board of
according to Gene Hagen, president directors a year ago.
of Security National Bank, Sioux Ci
tyElected to Board
John S. Zdychnec, president and
chief executive officer of the First
National Bank of Ottumwa, recently^
announced the election of Judy A.
Blommer as a member of the board.

Wellman President Named
Daniel H. Doyle has recently bee
named president and Roger Borup
B. KABOUREK
S. HATZ
advanced from senior vice president
Along with his new duties, Mr. to executive vice president at
Kabourek, who joined the bank in Wellman Savings Bank, Wellman.
1977, will continue to head the com Stanley R. Barber, president of th
mercial banking division. He also bank for 25 years, remains as chair
serves on the board of directors of man.
Mr. Doyle, who earned an MBA in
the Iowa Business Development
finance and banking in 1977, was
Credit Corporation.
Prior to assuming his new respon previously a commercial loan office
sibilities, Mr. Hatz was vice presi with the First National Bank in St.
dent in the correspondent banking Louis.
division. He has also served as an of
ficer in personal banking, operations Named to Perry Position
and as a senior correspondent bank
Gregory D. Peck been named
ing officer.
assistant vice president and branch
manager for the Federal Land Bank
of Perry, where he will supervise the
Thurman Bank Sold
association’s lending operations i
William J. Grotenhuis and James Dallas and Guthrie counties.
W. Grotenhuis have announced the
Mr. Peck previously served as a
sale of the Thurman State Bank, loan officer with the Federal Land
Thurman, to an investment group Bank Association in Carroll.
headed by Mike L. Keim, of Omaha.
According to Mr. Keim, no staff
changes are planned, and the bank Elected to Board
Dudley Priester, president of
will continue to serve Thurman and
Priester Construction Co., has been
the surrounding community.
Mr. Keim has been an officer and elected to the board of the Nortl
director of several Nebraska and west Bank & Trust Co., Davenport.

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Over 700 Attend Success Seminar
SUCCESS SEMINAR recently
held at the Conway Civic
A
Renter, and attended by over 700
eople was sponsored by the
Waterloo Savings Bank, Waterloo.
J e s s ic a S a v itc h , NBC Corrspondent/anchor was the featured
peaker for the evening.
The seminar began with three
separate workshops conducted by:
M a rg a re t A n d e rse n B u k a tz ,
econom ic adisor to Gover.: ¡
or Robert Ray,
who presented
‘Investment in
th e
’8 0 ’s ” ;
iaren J. Kiloren,
field
underwriter for
New York Life
HHH
Insurance, who
M.A. BUKATZ
iscussed “Risk
Management,” and Kathy Fisher,
director of human resources for
Iowa Bankers Association, who pre
sented “Your Greatest Asset.”
Seminar participants then lis
tened to Jessica Savitch discuss “In

Pursuit of Excellence,” a sharing of
ideas on what excellence means to
her.
Organizers for the seminar, Anita
Ward, auditor; Deon Senchina, con
sumer loan officer; Diane C. Kupferschmidt, personnel director, and
Betty M. Runyan, assistant cashier,
developed plans for the seminar
after Dale DeKoster, president,
issued a public relations challenge to
reach to women of the community.
Although some of the promotion
for the seminar was aimed at
women, the seminar was meant for
professionals of either sex.
“ I t’s what anybody would do to

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Jessica Savitch shares what excellence

means to her.

be s u c c e s s fu l,” s ta te d M r.
DeKoster, who added he hoped it
would be an annual event.

Ames Bank Notes Changes
First National Bank, Ames,
recently announced the promotion
of John Tillo, Kent Fidlar and Scott
Leland to assistant cashier.
Mr. Tillo will be working in the
operations area and Mr. Fidlar in
the loan and savings area. Mr. Le
land is presently manager of the
North Grand office.
Mary Freed, assistant cashier,
has recently retired from First Na
tional Bank.

Acquisition Announced

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The Federal Reserve Board has
recently approved the formation of
Kellonto Bankshares Corporation,
Elgin, which has acquired 85% of
the outstanding shares of the Elgin
State Bank.

Hawkeye Plans to Acquire
Ankeny National Bank
Majority shareholders of Ankeny
National Bank, Ankeny, and Hawkeye Bancorportion, Des Moines,
have reached an agreement whereby
the bank will be acquired by
Hawkeye Bancorporation according
to a joint announcement by Duane
Spicer, president of the bank and
Paul Dunlap, president of Hawkeye.
Terms of the proposed cash acquisi
tion is subject to Federal Reserve
approval. Ankeny National Bank
with assets of $24 million will
become the 29th affiliate bank of
Hawkeye Bancorporation.

Board Member Named
Keith A. Roeper, executive vice
president of Security National
Bank, Sioux City, has been elected
to the board. He has been with the
bank since 1974 and elected to the
board of the Security National Corp.
in 1980.

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Upper Midwest Bankers Attend RMA Conference

AMONG the more than 2,000 people attending the 67th Annual Fall Conference of the Robert Morris Associates in New Orleans recently

were these four groups from upper midwest states. RMA is the national association of bank loan and credit officers. Left to right in each
photo are: UPPER LEFT— Chicago Chapter officers and spouses. Pres, and Mrs. Vincent C. Yager, pres., 1st Natl., Blue Island; 1st V.P.
and Mrs. John A. Greathouse, adm. v.p., Amalgamated T&S; 2nd V.P. F. Dean Long, 2nd v.p., Northern Trust, and Treas. and Mrs. Jon H.
Laubscher, v.p., Harris Bank, all of Chicago. Joining them was Central Illinois Group Chmn. Sally B. Robinson (far right), credit off., Springs
field Marine Bank. UPPER RIGHT— Two Siouxland Group officers. Chmn. and Mrs. Robert W. Krumwiede, v.p., Security Natl., Sioux City,
la., and Vice Chmn. and Mrs. Truman Phelan, Northwestern Natl., Sioux Falls, S.D.
LOWER LEFT— Missouri Valley Chapter members. Pres, and Mrs. Robert A. Morris, sr. v.p., Overland Natl., Grand Island, Nebr.; 1st V.P.
and Mrs. Bradley L. Burt, a.v.p. Bankers Trust, Des Moines; Kansas City Gp. Vice Chmn. and Mrs. John A. Taylor, sr. v.p., Commercial Natl.,
Kansas City, Kan.; Midlands Gp. Chmn. and Mrs. William H. Keeffe, v.p., American Natl., Omaha; Central Kansas Gp. Vice Chmn. and Mrs.
James L. Wooldridge, sr. v.p., 1st Natl., Wichita, and RMA natl. bd. member Robert B. Priest, sr. v.p., Merchants Natl., Topeka, and guests
Karen Dougan. LOWER RIGHT— Minnesota Chapter members. Chapter Pres, and Mrs. John J. Olson, pres., Banco Financial Corp., Min
neapolis; Immed. Past Chapter Pres, and Mrs. David M. Hyduke, sr. v.p., American Natl. B&T, St. Paul, and Chapter bd. member and Mrs.
Bernhard Loewen, sr. v.p., Citizens State, St. Louis Park.

District Director Named
J. Harold Sears has been named
district director
of the Cedar
Rapids district
office of the
Small Business
Administration.
Mr. Sears was
employed from
1972-1980 as the
Des
Moines
district director
of SBA and
since 1980 as district director of the
Lower Rio Grande office in Harl
ingen, Texas.

Appointed as Officer
David Thielke has been appointed
commercial loan officer of North
west Bank & Trust Co., Davenport.
He is a former bank examiner for the
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Manly Officer Named
John Gallegher has recently
joined First State Bank, Manly, as
loan officer. He has served in bank
ing since 1977, moving to Manly
from Ackley State Bank.

Banco Financial/Lease N orthw est.....................................11
Bankers Tr. Co., Des M oines...............................................62
Barclays American/Business C redit................................ 12
CADO Systems Corp........................................................
Centerre Bank, St. Louis.....................................................34
Central Bank of Denver...................................................54-Í
Continental Bank, Chicago................................................
Drovers Bank of Chicago..................................................... 79
Essex Inn, Chicago..............................................................10
First
First
First
First
First

Nat'l Bk., Lin co ln ....................................................
Nat’l Bk., M inneapolis........................................... 40-41
Nat’l Bk., Om aha..........................................................59
Nat'l Bk., St. Paul...................................................48-4
Nat’l Bk., Sioux C ity ...................................................6

New Trust Officer Named

Gross, Kirk Co., W aterloo................................................... 69

Bryant Goodall, has been ap
pointed trust department officer at
First National Bank of Moline.

Heller, Walter E................................................................
Iowa Bankers Insurance & Services..............................
lowa-Des Moines Nat’l Bk..............................................
Kooker, E.F. & A ssociates................................................... 70
Merchants Nat’l Bk., Cedar R apids..................................... 2
Midland Nat'l Bk., M inneapolis......................................... 43

INDEX OF
ADVERTISERS
January, 1982
Acorn P rinting......................................................................15
American Express, Travelers Cheques............................... 3
American Nat’l Bk. & Tr. Co., St. Paul..............................45
Associates Com m ercial....................................................... 5

National Bank of Commerce, Lincoln............................... 56
Northwestern Nat'l Bk., M inneapolis............................
Northwestern Nat'l Bk., Sioux C ity ................................... 71
Office Concepts, W aterloo................................................. 77
St. Louis Terminal Warehouse........................................... 37
Security Nat’l Bk., Sioux C ity ............................................. 66
Travelers Express Co........................................................... 16
United Central Bank of Des M oines..............................
U.S. Check Book Co., Om aha............................................. 64
Van Wagenen, G.D., M inneapolis....................................... 14

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