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W illia m C. Wheeler Leads
AIB As New President
Pledging that the American In
stitute of Banking will continue to
# ie e t the changing educational needs
of America’s Full Service Bankers,
William C. Wheeler began his term
as 1982-83 president of AIB during
the American Bankers Association’s
#vIB Conference in Dallas June 2.
Mr. Wheeler is vice president and
auditor of the United Counties Trust
Company, Linden, N.J.
He succeeds Ronald G. Wilson, as
sista n t vice president of Valley Na
tional Bank, Phoenix.
“ AIB as an organization has un
dergone incredible changes in recent
years,” Mr. Wheeler said, referring
S o the three-year reorganization plan
adopted by the membership in 1980.
“ This year, we’ll follow through on
implementing and fine-tuning recent
changes and break new ground when
S eed ed .”
Under the reorganization plan, to
be completed in June 1983, A IB ’s
structure will be more closely aligned
^vith that of both its parent organiza
tion , the ABA, and the 52 state bank
ers associations.
Roy E. “ Ned” Huddle, Jr., ex
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STERN
No. 1426

89th Year

JULY 1982

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OLDEST FINANCIAL JOURNAL SERVING THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN STATES

ON THE COVER
Extensive reports and picture coverage of five state banker association conven
tions are presented in this issue and 1982-83 officers elected at these conven
tions are pictured on the front cover of this issue by N o r t h w e s t e r n B a n k e r
cameras. At top left are Wyoming officers, shown against the magnificent
backdrop of the Grand Teton mountain range at Jackson Hole, Wyo. (page 57). At
top right are Minnesota officers, photographed at the convention in St. Paul (page
36). At middle right are Illinois officers at their convention in St. Louis (page 27).
At bottom right are Colorado officers, framed against the background of the
stately Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs (page 64). At lower left are North
Dakota officers. From left, are: Pres.—John McGinley; Pres.-Elect— Darold
Petersen; Vice Pres.-Treas.— Robert Westbee; Past Pres.—Tom Roney, and Exec.
Dir.— Harry Argue (Page 53).

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Convention Calendar
V
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

National Conventions & Schools
July 11-16—ABA Natl. Advanced Ag Bank
ing School, Iowa State Univ., Ames.
July 19-20— IBAA Spread Analysis and
Asset/LiabiIity Management Workshop,
Denver, Colo.
July 25-30— Midwest Banking Institute,
Univ. of Minn., Morris.
July 25-Aug. 6— BAI School for Bank Ad
m in is tra tio n , Univ. of W is c o n s in ,
Madison, Wis.
Aug. 2-3— IBAA Spread Analysis and
Asset/Liability Management Workshop,
Lake Tahoe, Nev.
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.
Aug. 22-25— IBAA Seminar/Workshop on
the One-Bank Holding Company, San
Francisco, Calif.
Aug. 29-Sept. 3— IBAA 22nd Seminar for
Senior Bank Officers, Boston, Mass.
Sept. 19-21 — IBAA Commodity Marketing
Seminar, Chicago, III.
Sept. 19-22— NABW 6th Annual Conven
tion, Los Angeles Bonaventure, Los
Angeles, Calif.
Sept. 19-Oct. 1—ABA National Instalment
Credit Schools, Univ. of Oklahoma,
Norman.
Oct. 10-15— IBAA Bank Executive Develop
ment Seminar, Muncie, Ind.
Oct. 16-20—ABA Annual Convention, A t
lanta.
Oct. 24-27— BMA 67th Annual Convention,
Phoenix Civic Plaza, Phoenix, Ariz.
Oct. 31-Nov. 3— RMA 68th Annual Fall Con
ference, Sheraton, Bal Harbour, Fla.
Oct. 31-Nov. 3— IBAA Seminar Workshop on
the One-Bank Holding Company, New
Orleans, La.
Nov. 14-17— BAI 58th National Convention,
Hyatt Regency, Houston, Tex.
Nov. 15-16— IBAA Spread Analysis and
Asset/Liability Management Workshop,
Dallas, Tex.
Nov. 15-19— BMA Essentials of Bank
Marketing School, Univ. of New Hamp
shire, Durham.

State Conventions & Schools
Colorado:
Sept. 15-18—Colorado Independent Bank
ers Association Annual Meeting and
Convention, The Lodge at Vail, Vail.
Illinois:
Aug. 8-13—IBA Consumer Lending School,
EIU, Charleston.

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Sept. 15-16— IBA Ag Credit Conference*
Ramada Inn, Champaign.
Sept. 29-Oct. 1—AMBI Retail Banking Con
ference, Indian Lakes Resort, Bloomingdale.
Oct. 5-6—IBA Trust Conference, Radisson,
St. Louis.
Nov. 14-18—AMBI Commercial Lending In
stitute, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign.
Iowa:
J u ly 22-24 — 11B A n n u a l C o n ve n tio n ,
Okoboji.
Sept. 19-21 — IBA Annual C onvention,
Marriott Hotel, Des Moines.
Minnesota:
July 25-30— Midwest Banking Institute,
Univ. of Minn., Morris.
Aug. 19-22— IBM Annual State Convention,
Arrowwood Lodge, Alexandria.
Montana:
Aug. 24-27—79th Annual Convention
Membership Meeting, Banff, Canada.

Nebraska:
Sept. 13-14— NBA Ag Credit Symposium,
Lincoln Hilton, Lincoln.
North Dakota:
Sept. 15-17 — Independent C om m unity
Banks of North Dakota Convention, Holi
day Inn, Jamestown.
Sept. 27— NDBA Northeast Group Mtg.
Sept. 28— NDBA Northwest Group Mtg.
Sept. 29— NDBA Soutwest Group Mtg.
Sept. 30— NDBA Southeast Group Mtg.
Oct. 26-27— NDBA Bank Women’s Con
ference, Jamestown.
Nov. 17-18— NDBA Consumer Credit Con
ference, Mandan.
South Dakota:
Oct. 7-8—SDBA Instalment Credit & Retail
Banking Conference, Sheraton, Yankton.
Oct. 27-28—SDBA Economics Seminar for
Young Adults, Holiday Inn, Mitchell.
Wyoming:
Sept. 23-24—WBA Installment Loan Con
ference, Hitching Post Inn, Cheyenne.
Nov. 12-13—WBA Chief Executive Officers
Conference, Ramada Inn, Casper.

L etter to the Editor
“Frank Warner is gone. On M a y 11 the
dean o f Iowa hankers m oved on to a new
field. When I started banking hack in
1925, one o f the first men I m et was
Frank Warner; I believe it was at a group
meeting at Lenox, Iowa. To me, Frank at
once became Mr. Iowa Banker. H e had
only one thought and that was the promo
tion o f Iowa bankers.
“.B eing secretary during that time was
not an easy task. H e was to see many of
his banker friends pass from the picture
as their banks failed during the depres
sion. Each closed bank was a personal
loss to Frank; he knew all those men that
had been in those banks.

“I g ot to know Frank better than so/r®
because I would see him quite often. M y
uncle, E.C. Fishbaugh, was on the State
Banking Board at that time and he had to
go to board meetings each month in D es
Moines. Sometimes, I would drive him ^
the meeting. Each time we would stop
and see Frank and he would be cheerful
and praising the Iowa bankers. I t was at
the state conventions that Frank really
showed his quality. Each convention that
he hosted was outstanding. H e got tlW
best speakers and Iowa was the envy of
all other states. Over the years I have at
tended many national conventions and
not one o f them was ever up to the high
quality o f those conventions that Fran£
organized.
“I can hear Frank yet. H e would look
out over the crowd and say: T f you
please —’ and then would give a concise
and accurate account o f what was hai^
pening in the banking field. H is a d vitt
was always sound and he was always
ahead o f the banking trends.
“Frank was an idealist and he did more
to prom ote sound banking than any
banker or group o f bankers in the sta t&
‘So, Frank let me say your service o f 50
years to the Iowa Bankers can never be
duplicated. I was right back in 1925 when
I looked upon you as Mr. Iowa Banker.
That is an accomplishment that will
hard for anyone else to match. ”
C.W. Fishbaugh,
Fifty Year Banker—
and a friend.
Security Trust and Savings Ban \£
Shenandoah, la.

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may want to enlist that person’s help in put
ting together an inexpensive program that
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The idea is to give birthday parties for the
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Casual conversation or a quick check
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For the price of a few balloons, stream
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Bank Promotions
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ROMOTIONS and other an
nouncements have been made
by the following banks and holding
companies:
Bank of America, San Francisco:
Executive Vice President Lawrence
E. Nerheim will head a new world
wide unit providing services for cus
tomers having highly specialized
banking, securities, investment
management and financial planning
needs, President Samuel H. Armacost has announced.
Appointed to executive vice presi
dent to succeed Mr. Nerheim as
head of the bank’s trust department
was Clyde R. Claus.
The board of directors announced
these four senior level appoint
ments:
Senior Vice President John O.
Wilson, 44, director of economicspolicy research, appointed chief
economist for the bank.
Allen W. Sanborn, 40, formerly
group vice president and head of
credit and marketing at B ofA ’s Lon
don Branch, designated senior vice
president and head of corporate
banking for California division.
Irwin L. Gubman, 40, vice presi
dent and associate general counsel
in the legal, legislative and bank tax
department, named senior vice pres
ident.
Timothy Warner, 43, senior vice
president and manager for asset and
liability management, appointed
senior vice president for trust in
vestments and executive vice presi
dent for fixed income management at
BA Investment Management Cor
poration, BAIMCO, a subsidiary of
BankAmerica Corporation.
Continental Illinois National
Bank and Trust Company of Chi
cago: Richard P. Keigher has joined
the bank’s trust and investment ser
vices department to head the asset
management group for employe ben
efit plans.
Mr. Keigher most recently was
vice president and head of the in
vestment management group of
Mellon Bank, N.A. in Pittsburgh.
William H. Grove, vice president
in the loan administration division
of Continental Bank’s corporate
financial services department, re
tired June 30 after more than 46
years of service.

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Mr. Grove, of Homewood, 111.,
joined Continental in 1935 as an of
fice boy. He worked in various divi
sions within the bank before joining
the commercial banking services de
partment, where he was elected an
assistant cashier in 1955, a second
vice president in 1960 and a vice
president in 1964. He was named
group head of the national division
in 1969 and called on the correspon
dent banks in Illinois, Indiana and
Iowa until joining the bank’s loan ad
ministration division in 1975.
He is a 1960 graduate of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin and a 1969
graduate of the University of Illinois
executive development program.
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kan
sas City: The Federal Reserve Sys
tem has approved the application of
Commerce Bancshares to permit af
filiation between it and Plaza Banc
shares, Inc., a one bank holding com
pany, with controlling interest in the
Plaza Bank & Trust Co.
The affiliation will be effected by
a merger to be voted on in the next
60 days by the shareholders of Plaza
Bancshares. Upon completion of the
affiliation process, Plaza Bank
would be the 40th affiliate bank of
Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
Commerce Bank of Kansas City,
N.A., Kansas City: Ernest A. Yake
has been named senior vice pres
ident and manager of the corre
spondent department. He will be re
sponsible for the bank’s more than
900 correspondent account relation
ships nationwide. He previously
served as president and chairman of
the board of Commerce Bank of
Moberly.
Mr. Yake joined the Commerce
organization in 1978. Prior to that,
he served in senior management po
sitions with two Kansas City area
banks from 1972 to 1978.
H.D. (Joe) Hale, Robert E. Har
mon and Lamson Rheinfrank, Jr.,
have been elected to the board of
directors. Mr. Hale is president of
ADM Milling Company, Shawnee
Mission. Mr. Harmon is chairman of
the board and president of SAB
Harmon Industries, Inc., located in
Grain Valley, Mo. Mr. Rheinfrank is
president of Standard Havens, Inc.,
Kansas City.

First Midwest Bancorp, Inc., St.®
Joseph, Mo: Roger A. Hegarty, chair
man of the board, has announced the
following addition and promotions
at the First National Bank and the
First Stock Yards Bank in St.®
Joseph.

J.R. SCHATZ

C. BIERI

S. WALSH

J. BROWNE

James R. Schatz, cashier at the
First Stock Yards Bank since 1977,
has joined the staff at First National
Bank as assistant vice president,
commercial loan and real estate loan*
officer. Before coming to St. Joseph,
Mr. Schatz had served as cashier at
the Bank of Riverside in Riverside,
Mo., 1972 through 1977.
Carolyn Bieri has been promoted*
to assistant vice president compli
ance officer and security officer at
the First Stock Yards Bank. Mrs.
Bieri began her banking career in
1971 at the First Stock Yards Bank^
as secretary, and in 1977 she was
promoted to assistant cashier and
real estate loan officer.
Shirley Walsh was promoted to
assistant vice president and facility
manager at First Stock Yards Bank,
King Hill Facility. Mrs. Walsh has
been employed at First Stock Yards
Bank since 1949 and has worked in.
general bank operations and as a '
teller until her promotion to assis
tant cashier in 1975. She also is a
personal banker and the dimension
60 coordinator at the facility.
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Jolene Browne, former operations
officer in charge of bookkeeping,
transit and teller operations at the
First Stock Yards Bank, has been
promoted to assistant vice presi- <
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10
years holding various positions as
bookkeeper, supervisor, and oper
ations officer.
First National Bank of Kansas Ci
ty: J.M. “ Pete” Buckley has been
promoted to investment officer. He
recently joined the funds manage
ment division staff, where he is re
sponsible for the sale of short-term
taxable securities and money mar
ket instruments to the correspon
dent banks.
Harris Bank, Chicago: Plans to
merge the national and metropolitan
banking departments into a single
department have been announced.
The major restructuring, largely
an outgrowth of the bank’s recent
strategic planning activities, will be
conducted in phases and completed
by year-end.
The new banking department will
be headed by Ben T. Nelson, exective
vice president and former head of the
metropolitan banking department,
and John A. Sivright, executive vice
president, who was responsible for
the national banking department.

J.A. SIVRIGHT

B.T. NELSON

While the two will share admin
istrative duties of the department
with various groups reporting to
each, primary executive responsibili
ty will be assumed by Mr. Nelson.
The restructuring involves a re
alignment of groups and divisions.
Chairman Charles M. Bliss said
the decision to restructure banking
activities came after about a year
and a half of intense strategic plan
ning, during which the bank exam
ined ways to best position itself for a
deregulated banking environment,
increased competition from banking
and non-banking sources, and to
provide better service to banking
customers.
Five corporate banking groups
and one staff group will report to Mr.
Nelson and Mr. Sivright. They are:
U.S. Banking Group I, Randall B.
Becker, vice president; U.S. Banking
Group II, Charles H. Davis, vice
president; Midwest Banking Group,
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president; Cash Management Group,
Roger A. Molzahn, vice president;
Corporate Finance Group, Peter D.
Morris, vice president, and Banking
Department Staff, P. David Hub
bard, senior vice president.
Six corporate special industry
groups report to the newly desig
nated special industry groups man
ager, Edward K. Banker, senior vice
president, who, in turn, reports to
Mr. Nelson and Mr. Sivright.
These six groups and their man
agers are: Agribusiness Group and
Commodities Group, both led by
Bruce F. Osborne, vice president;
Asset-Based Lending Group, Neal D.
Elkin, vice president; Commercial
Real Estate, Patrick B. Davis, vice
president; Energy Group, H. Charles
Becker, senior vice president, and
Financial Institutions Group, J.
David Cox, vice president.
Mr. Nelson will continue to over
see the bank’s consumer banking and
charge card business. International
banking will continue to report to
Philip A. Delaney, executive vice
president.
Thomas F. Jones, Jr., has been
named president of Harris Trust
Company of Arizona, subsidiary of
Harris Bankcorp, Inc. Mr. Jones,
who was senior vice president in the
personal trust group of Harris Bank,
assumed his new duties July 1 at the
Scottsdale-based trust subsidiary.

fitability, service requirements,®
growth potential and Manufacturers
Hanover’s position in 15 selected
markets.
Specific realignments include:
•International—Douglas E. Ebert®
and Donald G. McCouch to executive
vice presidents, succeeding Dwight
G. Allen, who retired July 1. Mr.
Ebert is responsible for Europe/Mid-^
die East/Africa and Mr. McCouch for®
Asia/Latin America. Bruce F. Hen
derson, Morgan B. Procter and John
J. Simone were elected senior vice
president and deputy general mana-g
gers.
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•Retail Banking Division—Ed
ward D. Miller to executive vice
president in charge for all nationwide
retail banking activity, including the^
more than 200 New York area bran
ches and the 411 offices in 27 states
of Manufacturers Hanover Con
sumer Services Inc.
•Metropolitan Corporate Banking^
Division—Lindsay Macarthur and
Frank C. Wright to senior vice presi
dent and deputy general managers.
Edward A. Farley, executive vice
president, continues to lead the new-®
ly constituted division.
• N a tion a l
D iv is io n — T h ree
distinct lending groups: Banking,
corporate and energy, with Merrill O.
Burns to senior vice president and®
deputy general manager in charge.
Energy group, with Conrad P. Albert
to senior vice president and deputy
general manager. Corporate group—
John J. Sullivan, senior vice presi-®
dent and deputy general manager.
Donald H. McCree, Jr., executive
vice president, continues in charge of
the newly structured division.
•Operations division—Howard P. ®
Sorgen, senior vice president and
general manager to head a new
wholesale global operations unit.
John J. Evans, executive vice presi
dent, continues to head the division. ®

Harris Trust and Savings Bank,
Chicago: Jon S. Brightman has re
cently joined the bank as vice presi
dent and head of the trust depart
ment’s institutional asset servicing
division, focusing primarily on mas
ter trust operations.
He previously served as vice pres
ident and manager of the Milwaukee
office of Meidinger, Inc., employe
benefit consulting firm.
Susan E. Davis has also joined
the bank as vice president and head
National Boulevard Bank of
of the trust department’s personal
trust development division. In the Chicago: Robert Bain was named
post, she is in charge of sales of trust assistant vice president and man
ager of the teller division and ®
services to individuals.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Company, New York: A series of
senior management appointments re
flecting a realignment of several ma
jor divisions, part of a continuing ef
fort to place greater emphasis on pri
ority market segments, have been an
nounced by John F. McGillicuddy,
chairman and chief executive officer.
He said, “ These changes are the re
sult of a two-year review of the pro

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Pamela Ruschmeyer became a cor
respondent banking officer.
Mr. Bain joined National Boule
vard after six years with Unity Sav
ings Association.
Mrs. Ruschmeyer joined the bank
as a correspondent banking repre
sentative, having previously been
employed as a senior account ana
lyst in the surety division at
Travelers Indemnity Company.
The Northern Trust Company,
Chicago: The board of directors re
cently announced the following pro
motions and new appointments:
Promoted to vice president were:
Isidor Fischer, Linda H. Higinbotham, William H. Miller and Linda A.
Rinner in the operating department;
Ronald C. Kok-Alblas and William
E. McClintic in the trust depart
ment, and Michael M. Ellis and
Jorge L. Viera in the international
department.
Promoted to second vice presi
dent were Richard H. Brown, Steven
C. Brown, Philip R. Gilboy and Har
ry G. Kluender in the bond depart
ment and Orrin J. Bargerhuff and
Edward J. Malysiak, Jr., in the trust
department.
Northern Trust Corporation, Chi
cago: Announcement was made of
the recent purchase by Northern
Trust Corporation, parent of the
Northern Trust Company of O ’Hare
Banc Corp., a one-bank holding com
pany for O ’Hare International
Bank, a nationally-chartered bank.
Northern Trust paid $32.61 per
share, or about $20.1 million, for the
$166 million asset O ’Hare Bank.
Following the acquisition and
pending regulatory approval, North
ern Trust Corporation plans to
change the name of the bank to
Northern Trust Bank/O’Hare N.A.
This new name should be effective
July 1.
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., San
Francisco: L. Lance Johnson has
joined Wells Fargo A g Credit’s Den
ver headquarters as senior vice
president, loan administration. In
his new position, he will be responsi
ble for the approval of all new and

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John J. Crotty, Jr. (right), sr. v.p., at Drovers Bank, adds a 228th pin, depicting the Uptown
National Bank of Moline (III.), to his map of Drovers’ correspondent customers. Frank IA
Farrar, president of Uptown Bancorp, Inc. of Moline, owner of Uptown National, looks on.

Drovers Bank Adds 228th Respondent
ROVERS Bank of Chicago re
cently signed Uptown National
Bank of Moline as its 228th respon
dent bank. This tops the all-time high
of 227 correspondent relationships
set by Drovers Bank in 1974, accor
ding to John J. Crotty, Jr., senior
vice president and head of corre
spondent banking.
Drovers Bank, with $285 million
in assets and operated by the ColeTaylor Financial Group, is among
the ten largest correspondent banks
in Illinois with correspondent bal
ances of more than $22 million.
“ Throughout its history, Drovers
always has been known as an inde
pendent bank with a substantial
reputation and position as a cor
respondent bank,” said Mr. Crotty.
At the time Cole-Taylor assumed

ownership of Drovers in 1978, t h #
bank’s number of respondents had
dropped to 65. “ Since then, we have
been able to almost quadruple that
number and return Drovers to it
ranking as one the top corresponden#
banks in the state,” said Mr. Crotty.
He attributes that success to the
fact that correspondent banking is a
primary, not a secondary aspect of
Drovers’ business.
d
In addition to the Drovers Bank of
Chicago at 47th Street and Ashland
Avenue, Cole-Taylor Financial Group
also operates Main Bank of Chicago
at 1965 Milwaukee Avenue and h a ^
received final approval from the
Federal Reserve System’s Board of
Governors for the acquisition of the
Bank of Yorktown at the Yorktown
Shopping Center in Lombard.
®

renewal loans and the supervision of
workout loans. In addition, he will
oversee the firm’s collateral control
department.
Mr. Johnson’s banking experi
ence includes 16 years with Colorado
National Bank, Denver, where he
most recently was vice president in
charge of the correspondent banking
and agricultural departments and
the national and international areas.
Laurence G. (Lon) O ’Neil has been
elected a vice president of the Wells
Fargo Bank. He is in the interna-

tional banking group personnel de
partment. Mr. O ’Neil, formerly an^
assistant vice president, joined the^
bank in 1981, with seven years ex
perience in personnel and social ser
vices.
Joseph E. Duncan has joined^
Wells Fargo Realty Services as vice
president, operations, according to
James V. Marmorstone, president of
the Pasadena-headquartered firm.
Mr. Duncan was formerly division 0
operations manager for Allstate In
surance Company.

Paint a brighter
earnings picture.
The Northern Trust
can help your bank
generate more profits.
The Northern Trust has a
reputation for providing out
standing assistance to corre
spondent banks. Expertise in
areas most crucial to your earn
ings built that reputation. Inno
vation and the closest personal
attention to detail maintain it.
Our safekeeping expertise
can help make your portfolio
easier to manage. Our cash let
ter service will help you take
better advantage of overnight
money markets. Both rank
among the fastest, most accu
rate systems available any
where.

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The Northern Trust’s prom
inent position in primary and
secondary bond and money
markets can give you and your
customers greater selection and
ready liquidity. We’ll also pro
vide in-depth portfolio analysis
and advise you on investment,
tax and related asset and liabil
ity planning.
For planning short- and
long-term profitability, The
Northern Trust’s consulting
services are unique among
Chicago banks. We have the
capability and experience to find
first-hand answers to any ques
tions about banking you may
have.

You’ll find every officer of
The Northern Trust is a trained
specialist in correspondent ser
vices who has the authority to
act fast. If you’d like to profit
from our experience, contact
Curtis E. Skinner, Senior Vice
President, The Northern Trust,
50 South La Salle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60675. Tele
phone (312) 630-6000.
Member F.D.I.C.

The more you want
your bank to do,
the more you need
The Northern.

The
Northern
Trust

Just about any correspondent bank can lend you money. What you usually can't
get is responsiveness and service. Especially from a majority of downtown city
banks. Correspondent banking isn't as important to them as it was ten or twenty
years ago. They've got other irons in the fire, like the Fortune 500 companies
they cater to, and multi-million dollar deals.
We added 42 correspondent banks at Drovers Bank of Chicago in 1981 and these
relationships are important to us. And that makes you important to us. At Drovers
Bank, you deal with quick-thinking people who expedite and faithfully follow
through on any and all correspondent services you want and need. Our people
have specialized knowledge in every service area of correspondent banking. You
get the benefit of top level thinking and top level service every working day.
Call John Crotty toll-free at 800-621-8991 (in Illinois, 800-572-2498). Put our
mental and financial resources to work for you. They're yours for the asking.

The Responsive Correspondent

Drovers Bank of Chicago
47th & Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60609, 312-927-7000

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P I G H T I N G BACK against unregulated money
™ I market fund competitors who have drained sub
stantial deposit totals from community banks has be
come an exciting, profitable venture for a Nebraska
community banker.
^
When Raymond G. Tiedje, president of the $22 mil
l i o n asset Bank of Norfolk saw the inroads that major
money market fund operators like Merrill Lynch were
making into available funds from residents of his trade
area, he decided to strike back. Accomplishing that—
^ given the fact that he lived in Norfolk, a town of only
w 19,000 people in northeast Nebraska, and that the so
phistication of Wall Street firms was unchallenged be
cause they were unfettered by restrictive banking
regulation—seemed highly unlikely. None the less, “ in^novation is the answer, survival is the goal.”
With that in mind, this small community banker has
devised a legitimate way for other community bankers
to join in his campaign to ‘ ‘fight back” and, in the pro
cess, preserve the nation’s community banking sys0 te m .
Mr. Tiedje has developed a Cash Management mon
ey market fund for his bank, as well as a method of
buying, selling and trading securities and precious
metals for customers. Has it worked? Since January,
0 1 9 8 2 , when he began direct marketing of the new con
cept to people in his area, through May, Bank of Nor
folk has drawn in a little over $2.9 million in money
market fund sales alone. “ About 50% of this money
has come back from brokers and s&ls,” Mr. Tiedje
0 notes, “ and the rest has come from various types of in
struments our customers had in other accounts here.
“ We make a 2V2% spread on funds, justified by dayto-day Fed Funds, and we pay 1% under the Money
Market CD rate. All funds stay local for use here. We
• think it’s better then M ABSCO.”
Getting into his cash management program took
startup time that Mr. Tiedje now shares with other
community bankers by membership in the Indepen
dent Communtiy Bank Network, Inc. “ Through micro• computers and telephone modem switching, each fran
chise bank will be able to provide management of Mon
ey Market Funds, as well as the method for buying,
selling or trading securities and precious metals for its
customers,” Mr. Tiedje emphasizes. “ As a result of the
• Monetary Control A ct of 1980, which will eliminate
Reg Q in six years, MMMFs have been coming on
strong, and community banks must provide these ex
panded products and services to compete. ICBN gives
the community bamk that expanded ability,” he
® belives.
After reading of the dramatic successes made by
various MMMF operators 18 months ago, Mr. Tiedje
made a trip into Chicago to look at a plan there with
the thought of using it in his bank. “ It was way too ex• pensive for us,” he recalls, “ well over $200,000.” After
returning home he continued to mull the problem and
potential solutions in his mind. “ I thought at first we
could do a ‘ sweep’ for our accounts through our old
_ NCR Postronic machine in the office,” he said, “ but
^ our young people talked me out of it. We continued
anaylyzing the problem, the possible solutions and set
goals for what we wanted to do.
“ I decided that to compete, we needed two things:
^
“ *A Cash Management account, and
“ •Ability to buy, sell and trade securities and
precious metals.

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Small Nebraska bank -

Fights back, sco re s with
cash m an agem en t M M F

A N orthw estern B anker
interview with
RAYMOND G. TIEDJE
President
Bank of Norfolk
Norfolk, Nebr.

After reviewing capabilities of the new micro-com
puter, we invited an area Catholic priest, who had con
siderable experiecne with these computers, to do a soft
ware program for us. Fr. G. had created other marke
table software programs designed for secondary educa
tion curriculum, grading and scheduling. He made two
or three visits to our bank in July, 1981, to confer on
specific banking terminology and applications. In Au
gust, he brought in an Apple II floppy disc with the
program. We changed the program once in October,
showed it to a group of CPAs about that time, tested it
in the bank on our micro-computer, and began the di
rect marketing last January.
“ We operate our precious metals program through
the First National Bank of Chicago. We are presently
working on a securities agreement with First Mid
America Inc. of Lincoln and Omaha on a discount fee
to the banks involved. This is sold through the ICBN.
“ Through our software program we get into MMMFs;
through the phone modem hookup on micro-computer
we’re into the securities.”
Other community bankers saw immediately the val
ue of what Mr. Tiedje had developed at the Bank of
Norfolk, so development of the Independent Communi
ty Bank Network, Inc., was a logical followup. This is
not a franchise operation, to avoid any conflicting pro
blems with the SEC and state regulations, so is sold
entirely on a membership basis.
“ We will make arrangements for the computer to be
purchased and installed,” Mr. Tiedje states, “ but we
suggest that the bank get its own computer locally
whenever possible so it can obtain any needed service
locally. Our people install the software program and
train the bank employees’ on its use. At present, the
program costs $5,000 for hardware and $2,000 for the
software. Once the securities portion is in place, the en
tire software and membership concept will go to $5,000
and each participating bank will be a member in
ICBN.”____________________________
,
NEBRASKA BANKER FIGHTS BACK...
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Iowa firm offers
multiple sites
for bank EDP
Frank Marinelli, on the left, chairman and
president of North American Financial Ser
vices, Ltd., with Bill Carr, executive vice
president, and Jack Oberding, vice chair
man of the board on the right.

T TAKES one kind of expertise to
provide financial services. It takes
a wholly different kind to provide
electronic data processing. Only the
very largest financial institu
tions—those with assets of $300 mil
lion and more—can afford to at
tempt both.
That, in summary, is the guiding
philosophy of North American Fi
nancial Services, Ltd., a holding
company for eight computer centers
that serve 60 financial institutions
in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Delaware,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana,
Florida, Tennessee, Missouri, Vir
ginia, Georgia and Kentucky. North
American headquarters in Daven
port, la.

mits projections of data processing
expenditures for two years beyond
the normal period provided by other
outside service bureaus. This, in an
inflationary period like the present,
is very attractive.
Perhaps of even greater impor
tance, however, is the fact that the
North American subsidiaries offer
their users all of the inherent advan
tages of realtime and online memo
processing. Nothing is done in batch
mode.

Users Retain Own Documents
As a result, users retain all of their
original documents. Since nothing is
transported physically, nothing can
get lost in transit or mixed with the
work of someone else. In addition,
Adding New Clients
experts from the computer centers
The numbers are probably out of provide user personnel with training
date even as they are written, for in bulk filing, remote job-entry tech
North American’s subsidiaries are niques and many other operationsadding clients at an accelerating related areas.
pace. Several of the institutions for
The North American system uses
merly had in-house operations. By two data streams. One is for online
abandoning that route, they relieved communication by administrative
themselves of having to keep pace and teller window terminals and
with technological innovations, A T M ’s, the other is for distributed
North American executives noted.
processors at the user site for the
“ They can also go home at 5:30 high speed transmission/reception
now and know that we’ll take care of of data.
any problems that come up,” a
Both data streams are transmit
spokesman added. “ They no longer ted over a single, dedicated phone
get any of those anxious phone calls line for maximum economy. The
at 2 and 3 o ’clock in the morning.
cost is well within the reach of even
Another selling feature, no doubt, a small institution, a North Amer
is a three-year contract, which per ican spokesman stated.

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Equipment Usage
Computer center clients are free^
to use any proofing mode they wish,
either multiple-designation or sin
gle-pocket POD. Some, using NCR
7750 units, are able to capture all
data at that point on tape cassettes^
or by transmission from in-houseW
processors.
More commonly, however, after
all documents have been proofed
and fully MICR-encoded, they are a
taken to an 11-pocket NCR 675
reader-sorter, which is online to an
in-house, 128K NCR 1-8257 proces
sor with 10 to 20 megabytes of mag
netic disk storage. This approach q
utilizes the hardware vendor’s MiniVIPS (Variable Item Processing
System).
In all cases, the users are free to
determine their own endpoints for £
checks, that, coupled with the new
Federal Reserve charges for process
ing, can have a significant impact
upon profits.
This can be paired, a North 0
American spokesman said, with an
important benefit of users doing
their own remote job entry.
Next-Day Availability
Since client banks can handle ®
misreads and exception items as
they occur, they can get next-day
availability on 85% of their funds,
versus only 25% when documents £
must be sent out for data-entry
preparation.

Let’s all get together
at this year’s
Iowa Bankers Convention.

Jerry Pearson

Bob Stenbeck

Jerry O'Connor

Deborah Wilson

Ed Kennedy

Hubert and his team of Harris Bankers for Iowa
look forward to greeting their old friends and
meeting new ones. We’ll see you at the Iowa
Bankers Association Convention in Des Moines
from September 19th through 21st.

HARRIS
BANK.
Harris Trust and Savings Bank, 111 W. Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60603.Member F.D.I.C., Federal Reserve System.

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18
“ This is of obvious value to any
financial institution seeking to in
crease its marketing leverage with
local businesses,” the spokesman
stressed.
Among the many reports provid
ed by the computer centers, he sin
gled out one in particular as being of
critical value to top management.
This report, taking into account
periodic changes and deposit rates
and the prime rate, shows how the
fluctuations affect the profitability
of loan portfolios and time deposits.
Firm Started in 1976
What is now North American got
its start in 1976 when Frank Marinelli, now chairman and president of
the holding company, and Jack
Oberding, its vice chairman of the
board, formed Mid-America Finan
cial Services, Ltd. Both have exten
sive experience in financial data pro
cessing. Their first customer was
Northwest Bank of Davenport, la.,
which then has assets of $85 million.
Two years later, Mid-America
won a project development contract
from the Iowa Bankers Association.
The job entailed providing a turnkey
operation for the Iowa Transfer
System (ITS), the nation’s largest
electronic funds transfer (EFT)
system. It was also the first of its
kind entailing checking accounts,
follow in g only the pioneering
savings-and-loan effort in Nebraska.
Using software supplied by the
NCR Corporation, ITS went live in
February 1979. Mid-America, achiev
ing an average uptime of 99.8%, Mr.
Marinelli and Mr. Oberding reported,
hired and trained all personnel, and
then turned everything over to the
client in March of 1980.
Expanding Its Base
Meantime, the company was ag
gressively selling its services to
other banks as well as beginning an
acquisition program. It wrote a mul
tiple correspondent bank contract
with a Chicago bank in 1979. At
about this time, North American
formed Southern CIF Services, Inc.,
in St. Petersburg, Fla. In May, 1980,
Southern began processing its first
bank. As of this writing, Southern is
in the process of converting its 14th
institution, including several Sav
ings & Loans. The acquisition of
Computer Resources Corporation in
Fayetteville, Ark., and the forma
tion of Remote Financial Services, in
Lake Charles, La., followed in May
1981. Mid-West CIF is now procesf
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ing in the Chicago area, and addi
tional companies are beginning pro
cessing in Missouri, Kentucky, and
Tennessee.
This expansion of the customer
base resulted in increased manage
ment needs. William C. Carr, a for
mer bank officer and president of a
Chicago based computer company,
was elected executive vice president
of North American in March, 1980.
Glen E. Geiger, an employee since
1978 and former NCR district sys
tems manager, was elected vice pres
ident of all program engineering and
development. The president of
Southern CIF Services, David W.
P PPPPIB

Mr. Marinelli pointed out, have well®
over 450 years of combined exper
ience in banking and data process
ing. In a similar vein, the holding
company stresses its concern for
customers.
®
“ We are small enough to listen,
and large enough to respond,” Mr.
Marinelli explained.
Besides the on-line training pro-^
vided for user personnel, the com
pany conducts schools and work
shops and holds regular user meet
ings. In all, Mr. Marinelli says, the
objective is to take the mystery ou t^
of data processing.
^
One aspect of that is to acquaint

North American utilizes the latest in data processing equipment

Cox, is also vice president of users with the true costs of data pro
marketing for North American.
cessing. “ It used to be,” Mr. Ober
Among them, the eight compan ding said, “ that costs were split £
ies now process for more than 1 about equally between hardware and
million DDA savings, instalment, software. But today, software and
mortgage and commercial loan ac people costs account for close to
counts. All of the computer compan two-thirds of the total outlay.”
ies provide full-scale on-line central
Banking Is Separate Business
#
information file services. They also
Back
in
the
beginning,
a
lot
of
do trust, expanded financial accoun
ting, and a full range of manage small and medium-sized banks got
into data processing with the
ment reporting.
All told, the companies serve thought that they’d defray a portion
more than 1,250 on-line admini of the costs by doing work for local'
strative and teller machines, inclu businesses,” Mr. Marinelli added.
“ Since that time, they’ve learned,
ding a shared ATM network.
For all of their applications the often to their sorrow, that banking
North American computer compan is one business and data processing
is another. Many of the large banks 1
ies use NCR Software packages,
with custom ized m odifications. which used to sell their surplus
Their hardware has been supplied by capacity have dropped out of the
the same vendor. The mainframe field. They learned it just wasn’t
processors include the latest NCR profitable.
“ We can provide our services at a
Criterion family.
profit because we’re specialists. Un
Human Resources Important
like many other service bureau oper
Despite its concentrations of pro ations, we don’t try to be all things
cessing power, North American pla to all people. W e’re professionals in (
ces greatest emphasis upon its hu our field, and that field is the servi
man resources. Its key personnel, cing of financial institutions. ’ ’
□

If you've
financed one holding company,
you've financed them all.
O rh ave you?

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Let’s face it. Holding
com panies aren’t always alike.
So if your correspondent bank
thinks all holding com pany financing
is the same, maybe it’s time to look
for a different correspondent bank.
Like Continental Bank. At
Continental, w e hold no preconceived
notions about what a holding company
in your situation might need. We put
together a credit especially made for
a holding com pany of your size, in
your state, and in your circumstances.
With the combination of terms your
individual situation calls for. And
with any necessary regulatory
modifications, evaluation analyses,
and even negotiation assistance
you might require.
That’s the sort of flexibility you
, a expect. A nd deserve.
f t'
You expect decisiveness,
" > too. At Continental, you get it.
Y rv Credit requests don’t go from
committee to committee. T hey
go directly to your account
m anager—the person w h o can
say “yes” or “no” on most loans.
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research conducted nationally by®
BCS indicates a strong consumer
market potential and a well-defined
consumer profile. The survey showed
40% of respondents expressed an in
terest in obtaining a debit card, in-®
eluding current card holders. Con
venience was cited most frequently
by the 40% segment—because they
perceive MCI I as being easier to use
than writing a check and to eliminate®
carrying large amounts of cash.
The interested respondents range
basically from 18 to 54 in age, have
an income of $25,000 or more, write
more point-of-sale checks, have more®
IVE seminars detailing the ad changing merchandise, if necessary. bank and store credit cards, have ed
vantages of MasterCard II were Should a credit be issued, the cus ucation beyond high school, and are
conducted recently by Banco Card tomer merely enters the credit married, white collar/professional
Services, a subsidiary of the Iowa- amount in the checkbook in the persons in a two-income household. _
Des Moines National Bank. More same manner as a deposit to keep
Ms. Ganzel reported that since®
than 500 persons attended the sem the checkbook balanced. Along with Iowa-Des Moines National introduced
inars in Minneapolis, Des Moines, the printed receipt from the mer MCII in its trade area in April, re
Billings, Rapid City and Omaha.
chant, the customer also receives a sults have exceeded projections. The
Response to well-planned mar descriptive transaction reporting on bank is continuing to receive ap-^
keting efforts throughout the upper the statement from the bank.
proximately 100 applications a week®
midwest has been highly satisfac
In addition to offering card access for the new debit card. She also re
tory, it was reported at the meet to transaction accounts with mer viewed the pricing and promotion
ings.
chants worldwide at MasterCard lo strategies offered by BCS.
Thomas N. Hammelman, presi cations, and having access to exist
Details of the operation su p p orts
dent of Banco Card Services and ex ing ATMs, the customer is provided for the new program were reviewed W
ecutive vice president of Iowa-Des with overdraft protection, according by K. David Elgena, senior vice
Moines National Bank, Des Moines, to Deborah L. Ganzel, vice presi president and general manager of
said BCS is the 20th largest card dent-marketing services of Banco BCS, headquartered in Des Moines.
company in the United States, now Card Services. The line of credit for The rules for participation by indi-^
serving 600,000 accounts and this protection is arranged in ad vidual banks, as well as costs per
900,000 individuals through 650 fi vance with the card issuing bank. bank and card member, were part of
nancial institutions, and supporting She said cash advance capabilities his presentation.
their credit card operations. He said are available at any MasterCard
Mr. Hammelman also offered a fiMasterCard II is the sixth stage de financial institution.
velopment of card services that
In her market analysis presented M ASTERCARD II...
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started in the early 1960s—“ the at the seminars, Ms. Ganzel said (Turn to page 69, please)
payoff of 20 years of work.”
MasterCard II, Mr. Hammelman
said, is a debit card that may be used
throughout the nation and worldwide
at all business establishments that
accept MasterCard credit card. As
opposed to the credit card, however,
MasterCard II accesses the custo
mer’s checking account for the
amount of the purchase, the same as
if a check has been written. Also, it
may be used in ATM s to get cash
and to make routine checking and
savings account transactions.
Merchants handle debit transac
tions just like credit card transac
tions and also have their debit tran
sactions guaranteed automatically.
The customer receives the same kind
of receipt as from a credit card tran
saction, then deducts the amount of
that transaction from the checking
balance. Similarly, the receipt serves PRESENTATION of MasterCard II information on product, marketing and financial details
was made by this Banco Card Services team at recent seminars (from left): Deborah L.
as a vehicle for returning or ex Ganzel, K. David Elgena, Thomas N. Hammelman and William E. Clark.

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marketing its
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MABSCO initiates a
new source of
ag lending funds
NEW source of ag lending funds
for bankers in 13 midwestern
states will become available this
month with the activation of
MABSCO Agricultural Services, Inc.
It is the second subsidiary of
MABSCO, formed last year by 13
state banker associations to provide
specialized services to the 6,700
member banks in the 13 state area.
The first service, American Money
Market Fund, provides a competitive
tool for banks in the Money Market
Fund arena.
The new subsidiary’s principal
goal, according to M ASI President
Edward L. Tubbs, “ is trying to as
sure a supply of funds at a reason
able price so our ag lending banks
know they have funds when they are
needed. Many of our small banks
say that although they receive a
great deal of support from larger
banks in times of plenty, those larg
er banks have to pull back in hard
times because their problems in a
money crunch are similar to ours.’ ’
“ Through M A SI,’ ’ Mr. Tubbs con
tinued, “ ag lending banks may con
tinue their traditional relationship
with correspondent banks, but are
also assured availability of funds
and at a reasonable cost.” The pro
gram is structured to provide cor
respondent banks and holding com
panies access to the funding source
if it is advantageous to do so.
Mr. Tubbs is chairman of Maquoketa State Bank in Maquoketa, la.,
and was elected president of M ASI
at a recent organizational meeting in
St. Louis. He has headed the M A B
SCO Task Force formed to create
the new ag credit subsidiary. Two
other MABSCO Task Forces are
studying the feasibility of forming
subsidiaries to offer insurance and
secondary mortgage market servi
ces to members; however, these have
been put on the back burner while
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gressively developed and marketed.
Other officers of the M ASI board
include William Crawford, presi
dent, First National Bank & Trust
Co., Frederick, Okla., chairman;
Harry Argue, executive vice presi
dent, North Dakota Bankers Associ
ation, Bismarck, vice chairman, and
Leslie Peterson, president, Farmers
State Bank, Trimont, Minn., secre
tary-treasurer. The 12-member board
is comprised of prominent ag bank
ers from the 13-state MABSCO
region.
Jim C. Potter has been named ex
ecutive vice president of M ASI and
is chief operating officer, with head
quarters in Des Moines. He has been
employed as a consultant in plan
ning and developing the new com
pany under Mr. Tubbs’ leadership.
He was formerly a second vice pres
ident-investments for Equitable Life
Insurance Company of Iowa and
vice president of its Equitable In
vestment Services, Inc.
Mr. Tubbs said late last month an
agreement was being finalized with
Rabobank Nederland, located in
Utrecht, The Netherlands, with $45
billion in assets and an A A A com

mercial paper rating. Mr. Tubbs saic^
Rabobank, with more than 3,000 of
fices in its home country, handles
90% of all ag lending in that small
nation. It opened a New York office
within the past two years, looking f o ^
a conduit for financing of American
agriculture.
“ This affiliation with Rabobank,”
Mr. Tubbs points out, “ brings mon
ey into American agriculture and®
doesn’t involve foreign ownership in
any way. We have set rigid stan
dards for our lending procedures and
our dealings with Rabobank.”
Under those lending standards®

E.L. TUBBS

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local banks will continue to nego
tiate their own ag loans as they have
in the past, Mr. Tubbs points out.i
Banks in MABSCO states who want
to sell a loan to M ASI or seek an
overline participation can call the
M ASI office. Mr. Potter will review
that application immediately and is^
authorized to approve up to $250,000,
and it is anticipated that this will be
same-day approval. For amounts in
excess of that, Rabobank’s New
York office will be called for ap
proval.
“ In this trial phase, starting
hopefully by mid-July when initial
loans will be ‘walked through’ the
process with Rabobank, we will be
committing up to $10 million,” Mr.
Tubbs commented. “ After this we
will review the procedure to see if
any adjustments need be made. Our (
agreement then calls for such pro
cedural review after each $100 mil
lion loan volume is reached. Our
three-year commitment with Rabo
bank is viewed at this time as being
$500 million. If the plan works as we
feel it will, then it’s anticipated we’ll
go beyond that total if the capital
demands of agriculture increase as
projected.”
Mr. Tubbs said MABSCO repre
sentatives contacted a number of ma
jor banks and insurance companies
in the United States, then foreign
banks expressing an interest, and
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process. Our domestic banks were
reluctant to commit themselves to
this service, although one major
bank now wishes to pursue it further
with us,” he said.
State association member banks
in any of the 13 state MABSCO
states may participate in this credit
source by an initial investment in
M ASI that will depend upon the in
dividual bank’s deposit base. A par
ticipating bank will purchase a de
mand capital note from M ASI for a
minimum amount of $3,000 to a
maximum of $12,750, depending
upon footings. M ASI service will be
available to city banks and corre
spondent banks as well for ag lend
ing. Correspondent banks will be re
quired to invest an additional $1,000
for each originating bank for which
it processes loans to MASI.
The originating bank will be re
quired to retain a minimum of 20%
of the loan, Mr. Tubbs noted, since
Rabobank will not purchase more
than 80% of the credit. The origi
nating bank accepts the first 20%,
and by the agreement with MASI
that 20% will be the last out on the
loan. Some people have expressed
the fear or criticism that M ASI
would become a “ dumping ground”
for poor loans. Mr. Tubbs points out
this 20% requirement to counter
that, stating that M ASI and Rabo
bank obviously will not accept ques
tionable loans.
Participating banks will be able to
obtain rates good for loan terms of
30 days, six months and one year.
Rates will be based upon term Fed
Funds. Rabobank will add 125 basis
points and will publish rates daily to
MASI, Mr. Tubbs said. “ Generally”
he added, “ the M ASI rate would fre
quently be below the national prime
rate by 1%. During the past year,
using our formula, the rate would oc
casionally have been below the
FICB rate, and from mid 1980 to the
end of 1981 our rate would have
been below the PCA rate more times
than it would have been above.
“ Consequently, we know that
through M ASI our member banks
can be competitive with favored
government agency lenders. We
took the formula we are now using,
plotted a graph for the past two
years and found we would have been
consistently below prime and com
petitive with the Farm Credit
System.”
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tain its operation.
As an example, if M ASI obtains
funds from Rabobank at 14.75%, it
puts the money out to participating
banks at 15%. If a bank submits a
loan for $100,000, it retains $20,000,
and M ASI would accept $80,000 for
Rabobank. If the local bank is charg
ing 16% on the first $20,000 it re
tains, and gets 1% differential on
the $80,000, then the local bank is
getting a four point return on the re
tained portion, according to Mr.
Tubbs. The customer deals directly
with the local bank.
Mr. Tubbs points out that the
pending deregulation of banking
means “ we’re looking at the reality
of competing in the market place.
Two things can happen: First, an ero
sion of our deposit base. In this
event, local banks can obtain ag lend
ing funds from MASI. Second, if
local banks do pay the market cost to
keep those funds in their banks, their
costs go up and they aren’t compet
itive, so they can borrow from MASI
to hold down those costs.
“ It looks to me like deregulation
will raise the cost of funds, so banks
could become brokers of funds and
have to seek out other sources.”
M ASI will rely on the 13 state as
sociations to decide on the best
means of reaching their member
banks. An audio-visual presentation
and seminars will be provided by
MASI. “ This is a cooperative bank
effort,” Mr. Tubbs noted, “ through
which we’re trying to bring out the
best in bankers by helping them
serve their customers and they can
make M ASI the best of what it can
be.”
□

Five Contest Prizes Awarded
By Collateral Control
In a six-state contest conducted
over an 18-week period by Collateral
Financial Services, Inc., a subsid
iary of Collateral Control Corpor
ation of St. Paul, Minn., 170 bankers
submitted entries based on a series
of questions pertaining to equip
ment leasing. All five cash awards
went to Iowa bankers, based on
their accurate answers to the ques
tions presented each week.
In making the announcement, Ed
ward Ames, senior vice president for
Collateral Control, who heads the
six-state area in which the contest
was conducted, said, “ These bank
ers have demonstrated their profes
sional abilities and knowledge about
leasing transactions during the con

test and are now well prepared to a s-#
sist their customers with their leas
ing needs.” Mr. Ames said the con
test was offered as a means of assis
ting the many banks who are now of
fering leasing due to higher yields#
available to the bank, and as a
means of better serving their cus
tomers’ needs.
The five winning bankers and the
prize money they were awarded are:#
First—Thomas N. Buelow, vice pres
ident, First National Bank, Du
buque, $500. Second—Darrel Bau
man, assistant vice president, Brenton Bank and Trust, Adel, $200.#
Third—Jeffrey Horn, assistant vice
president, Brenton Bank and Trust,
Adel, $125. Fourth—John Bruce,
Holstein State Bank, Holstein, $100.
Fifth—Daniel Mead, assistant vice®
president, Fidelity Brenton Bank
and Trust Company, Marshalltown,
$75. Each winner was also presented
a wall plaque.
The six-state area served by Mr.®
Ames’ division included Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa,
northwestern Illinois and south
western Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin Manager Wins
American Express Award
Paul Andrus, the American E x
press senior district manager for*
Wisconsin, has been selected as this
year’s recipient of the American E x
press® Travelers Cheques Presi
dent’s Award. The award is pre
sented annually to the top American{
Express Travelers Cheque district
manager who has demonstrated su
perior service, both to financial insitutions and the many retail estab
lishments that accept American E x-(
press Travelers Cheques.
Last year, Mr. Andrus earned a
Certificate of Achievement at the
American Express Travelers Cheques
annual sales meeting, but this is the
first time he has received the Presi
dent’s Award. Mr. Andrus has been
employed by the American Express
Company since 1970, and worked in (
Chicago prior to his transfer to
Wisconsin seven years ago.

American Express Offers
Cash Access to Members
American Express Company will
now extend the privileges of its
nationwide cash access service
through bank automated teller ma
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To further strengthen the lead of local community
banks aggressively moving into this Cash Management program, Mr. Tiedje’s firm will have the capabili
ty of setting up a financial center structure in the lob
by to draw attention to the program and offer litera
ture to interest new participants from among cus
tomers.
“ We will pilot five banks in June (this month) to
monitor the securities program,” Mr. Tiedje explained,
‘ ‘and we expect to have 50 banks on the total system
by August. The more securities transactions that take
place, the higher the discount for all of us.”
Mr. Tiedje has traveled throughout the country in
recent months to visit with individual banks and with
banker associations who have heard of his new pro
gram. During the recent Nebraska Bankers Association convention in early May, for example, where his
ICBN had an exhibit, he had to leave Saturday for A t
lanta, Ga., then return to the NBA convention by the
same evening. He is a long-time member of the NBA
and has served on its executive council. He is currently
a member of the A B A Community Bank Leaders
Council.
‘ ‘One of the attractive points all of these banks
like,” Mr. Tiedje points out, “ is that any local bank
can change the variables to suit its local conditions.
Some select a $10,000 minimum account, some select a
$5,000 minimum. A bank in Wisconsin, for example,

wide, creating the largest single pro
prietary card base available for
II ATM sharing.
The Express Cash program, cur
rently available to U.S. Gold Cardmembers, allows enrolled Cardmembers to receive up to $500 a week in
II cash at automated teller machines
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offers its account at 2% below the CD rate, while other
banks follow the Bank of Norfolk lead at 1% below.”
Interested banks also should know that ICBN ’s en
tire program has been reviewed by the FDIC and other
federal and state regulators and that it is determined
to be in compliance with their guidelines. In addition,
Bank of Norfolk has recently been through a compli
ance exam. An interesting point made by Mr. Tiedje is
that “ Examiners are encouraging banks to get into as
many innovative situations as possible in order to com
pete and survive. They seem to have changed their ap
proach considerably, so far as I ’m concerned. It’s hard
running a bank today, with little growth to rely on and
experiencing a decline in return on equity.”
That’s why he is enthusiastic about the new Cash
Management program and its implications for other
community banks who offer it as members of ICBN.
“ We operate this as a retail repo,” he said, adding that
“ we need to all get in there fighting now to protect our
selves from the unregulated invaders.
“ So far it’s worked in our bank. We have 70 ac
counts totaling about $3 million. That’s a $43,000
average balance and a $28,000 median. These are the
same people who will be buying and selling securities
and precious metals. All these customers’ names are
put out to each to each of our tellers and we tell them
to ‘roll out the red carpet’ for these special customers.”
More recently, Financial Systems, Inc., of Kearney,
Nebr., has agreed to become a distributor for ICBN.
FSI has an excellent reputation in the micro software
field and is currently conducting seminars in Nebraska
and Iowa.
To keep the ICBN separate from management of
Bank of Norfolk, Mr. Tiedje serves separately as presi
dent of ICBN. Kevin Olson, sales director for Bank of
Norfolk, is managing officer of ICBN, while James L.
Herbolsheimer, senior vice president at the Bank of
Norfolk, serves ICBN as vice president. Roger M. Bev
erage, who left his job June 1 as executive vice presi
dent of the Nebraska Bankers Association, will be sec
retary and legal counsel for ICBN. Mr. Beverage has
moved to Bertrand, Nebr., where he will operate the in
surance business of his late father-in-law, and also will
have a private law practice.
Mr. Tiedje is a native Iowan and had extensive ex
perience as a bank examiner in Iowa before joining
Bank of Norfolk in 1971. The bank was a new charter
in 1970.
He belives strongly that community banks are in a
favorable position to survive the competitive war now
underway, one that will see continued changes in the
financial industry in the nation. “ Those that work
vigorously now to protect their turf,’ he asserts, “ will
survive, and will survive well. We believe our new Cash
Management program is one of the means by which we
will keep customers and overcome this competition. □

erated both by individual banks and
shared networks, are connected to
the American Express Data Center
in Phoenix, Arizona. By year end,
American Express expects to have
over 1000 Express Cash locations.
All funds dispensed through Ex
press Cash are drawn either from
the Cardmember’s bank line of cred

it or any demand deposit account
the Cardmember designates. In the
same way, enrolled American Ex
press Cardmembers already have ac
cess to the Company’s network of
American Express Travelers Cheque
dispensers at major airports and
travel locations in the U.S. and
Canada.
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^OFFICERS for 1982-83 are, from left: Exec. V.P.-Bill Hocter; 1st V.P. Ken Skopec, pres., Mid
City Natl., Chicago; Pres.-Don Lovett, c.e.o. & pres., Dixon Natl. Bk.; Treas.-Harlan Yates,
pres., Cisne St. Bk.., and 2nd V.P.-T.R. McDowell, pres., 1st Natl. Bk. of Westville.

Illinois Bankers Elect Don Lovett
By STEVE BURCH
Associate Publisher

fective July 1. In other election ac
tivity, Ken Skopec, James WinningITH the riverboat calliopies ham, president of the State Bank of
Arthur, and Gerald Feezor, presi
_
playing in the background,
over 700 Illinois bankers met in St. dent of the Peoples Bank of Marion,
Louis for the 91st annual Illinois were elected to the A B A Council.
Bankers Association convention, Mr. Feezor attended segments of the
June 6-8. Don Lovett, chairman of convention even though his bank
• th e board and president of the Dixon was completely destroyed by the re
National Bank, was elected presi cent Marion tornado.
The issue of association unifica
dent for the 1982-83 IB A year. He
succeeds James Fitch, president of tion with the rival Association for
the South Chicago Savings Bank. Modern Banking in Illinois received
•O thers elected include First Vice considerable attention during the
President Ken Skopec, president of convention. In a statement issued
Mid-City National Bank of Chicago; on June 2nd, IB A President Fitch
Second Vice President T.R. McDow stated “ We have supported the re
ell, president of First National Bank unification of the industry since
• of Westville, and Treasurer Harlan 1973. We believe our members want
Yates, president of the Cisne State reunification.” In response, the IB A
Bank. Their offices will become ef membership sent a mandate to it’s

leadership urging them to “ provide
any necessary and appropriate vehi
cle” which would lead to the devel
opment of one state banking associ
ation. The IBA resolution calls for
the new association membership to
be determined by a one bank-one
vote principle. Mr. Fitch reported at
the conclusion of the convention he
would notify the AM BI leadership
of the provisions in the IBA resolu
tion and hoped that the two groups
could meet soon and develop the
framework for unification meetings.
(See AM BI convention report in this
issue.)
Illinois Commissioner of Bank
and Trust Companies Bill Harris re
ported that the Illinois banking
system is sound and praised the
IBA for their support in the stream
lining of the state agency. He fur
ther thanked the bankers for their
assistance in establishing the bank
ing commission as a separate agency
from the Financial Institutions De
partment. Commissioner Harris
then blasted the federal government
for its reponse to the needs of the
banking industry. Commenting on
the federal “ sledge hammer re
sponse to the needs of a fly swatter”
as being “ Mickey Mouse,” he cited
the failure of Congress to provide
relief from unregulated competitors
as a disappointment. “ Unregulated
companies continue to grow and
prosper while the needs of communi
ty banks go unmet and that troubles
me to beat hell,” he said. He further
challenged that “ We do not need a
protectionist, Big Brother author
ization which is severe, unwise and
goofy.”
In referring to the diversity and
excellent capitalization of Illinois
state banks, Commissioner Harris

• LEFT— IBA 1st V.P. Ken Skopec is “ Promised a Rose Garden” by country music entertainer Lynn Anderson. Center— III. Gov. Thompson is
assisted by Terry Griffin, IBA staff, in drawing for the mink coat given away by Illinois Bankpac. Right—John Crotty, sr. v.p., Drovers Bank
of Chicago with Doug Knapp, exec, v.p., 1st Natl. Bk., Gibbson City.

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Illin o is N ew s

IBAA Pres. Robert McCormick, pres., Stillwater Natl Bk. & Tr.,
Stillwater, Okla.; Fred Heitmann, pres., Northwest NatL, Chicago,
and T.R. McDowell, pres., 1st Natl. Bk., Westville, and wife Peggy.

offered an alternative to the “ fed
eralism” present in Illinois banking.
Acknowledging that congressional
opting out authority may be re
quired, he suggested a study for the
formation of a state depository in
surance corporation. “ It won’t be
easy and it will require a lot of
time,” he added, “ but through the
use of Illinois revenue bonds a sound
and dignified program could be im
plemented within five years.”
Art Laffler, economic policy advi
sor to President Reagan, offered an
optimistic report on the national
economy and predicts a prosperous
1983. In relation to the current bud
get crisis he suggests that deficits
don’t cause a poor economy but
rather thay are a result of a poor
economy. He also advised that the
budget can not be balanced through

Prochnow Grad. School of Bkg. panel members Carl Beckers,
pres., Beckers and Meyer, John Rowe, sr. v.p., Centerre Bancorp
and Frank Spinner, chmn. & pres., Tower Grove Bk. & Tr.

tax increases and urged that approv
ed tax cuts not be delayed. He fore
casts a recovery and turnaround in
1983 with a massive industrial ex
pansion to follow in 1984. Also he
feels that econom ic conditions
would improve immediately by
guaranteeing the value of the dollar
through gold conversion. “ It is the
quality of the dollar not the quantity
that is the key to immediate recov
ery,” he asserted. Mr. Laffler used
his effective classroom style in ad
dressing topics ranging from trickledown economics to variants in tax
base structures and in comparing
Reaganomics to the fiscal policy of
President Kennedy.
National Credit Union Admini
stration Chairman Ed Callahan
shared his philosophy on the role of
the regulators with the bankers. He

does not feel that it is the regu
lators’ job to run the banks and de
velop new products. He said that a
more liberal attitude is needed in the
degregulation of the banking indus®
try. He also challenged the bankers
to more cooperation with the sav
ings and loan institutions as the two
groups continue to compete with un
regulated financial services com-®
panies.
Rounding out the convention list
of industry speakers were A B A
President-Elect William Kennedy,^
IB A A President Robert McCormick®
and Senator Alan Dixon, member of
Senate Banking Housing and Ur
ban Affairs Committee. Other spea
kers included NBC News Correspon-^
dent Edwin Newman, Secretary oi
Agriculture John Block and author
George Plimpton.

Elaine and Frank Koepke, sr. v.p., 1st Tr. & Sav. Bk., Glenview, and
Paul Sheets, sales rep., Bank Bldg. Corp., St. Louis.

Herrn Herberer, Diebold sales rep., St. Louis and Roger Gray,
pres., Is t Bk. of Cobden.

The St. Louis German Band oom pah pahed for the bankers during
the welcoming reception.

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Bruce Taylor, corr. bkg. off., Drovers Bk., Chicago and wife Barbie
visit with LuOra and Allan Payne, pres., Taylor St. Bk., Emington.

Illin o is N ew s

Bili Hocter, IBA exec. v.p.; Frank Bauder, chmn., Drovers Bk.,
Chicago; ABA Pres.-Elect Bill Kennedy, chmn., Natl. Bk. of Com
merce, Pine Bluff, Ark., and Sid Taylor, c.e.o., Drovers Bk.,
Chicago.

FRONT Row—Janet Winningham, Evelyn Johnson and Lillian
Orlando. Back Row—Jim Winningham, pres., St. Bk. of Arthur;
James Johnson, chmn., 1st Natl. Bk., Peoria; Jack Impey, v.p.,
Centerre Bk., St. Louis, and Joe Orlando, retired.

Jerry Fleschner, v.p., Mercantile Tr., St. Louis, and wife Judi; Tom
Macias, v.p., 1st Natl. Bk., Wood River, and Matt Favazza, a.v.p.,
Mercantile Tr., with wife Janet.

NBC News Correspondent Edwin Newman (center) visits with Il
linois Commissioner of Bk & Tr. Co. Bill Harris and IBA Exec. V.P.
Bill Hocter.

John Montgomery, pres., Lakeside Bk., Chicago; Don Lovett,
chmn. & pres., Dixon Natl., and Guy Weir, chmn. & pres., Chicago
:(|! City Bk. & Tr.

Richard Droste, (second from left) pres., Natl. Bk., Mt. Olive visits
with LeFebure representatives Bill Glasgo, Kathy Mattenson and
Ron Bright.

_ John Monroe and Robert Wallace of Advanced Planning Systems,
® Arlington Hts., visit with Ken Peters of ATM Management Co.,
Downers Grove, in Exhibit Hall.

Raymond Burroughs, pres., City Natl. Bk., Murphysboro; U.S.
Senator Alan Dixon, Belleville; Charles Helleny, exec, v.p., Herrin
Security Bk., and Bill Badgley, chmn., 1st Natl. Bk., Belleville.

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Illinois Governor Jim Thompson visits with IBA pres. Jim Fitch
and his wife Marilyn and daughter Missy.

Phyllis Boehme and Steve Kyman welcome guests to Mercantile
H ospitality Carnival.

Elmhurst Elections Told

Skokie Bank President Named

Frank C. Rathje, president of
Elmhurst National Bank, has an
nounced the promotion of Arnold E.
Bruns to vice president-trust divi
sion; Michael W. Stolz to vice pres
ident-commercial loan department;
George T. Necas to assistant vice
president-trust division, and Renee
D. Mogni to marketing officer.
Mr. Bruns joined the bank in 1977
as trust officer and became assistant
vice president in 1978. Mr. Stolz
joined in 1973 in the consumer loan
division. He was named commercial
loan officer in 1977 and assistant
vice president in 1978. Mr. Necas be
gan his banking career in 1961 with
LaSalle National Bank and joined
Elmhurst National in 1981 as a
trust officer. Ms. Mogni, who joined
the bank in 1977, was promoted to
assistant marketing officer in 1980.

First National Bank of Skokie,
founded in 1907 and celebrating its
75th anniversary this year, has pro
moted James A. Carlson, current exexutive vice pres
ident, to presi
dent and chief
operating officer.
Mr. Carlson,
the fifth man to
hold the position
of president in
the bank’ s 75
y e a r h is t o r y ,
was elected to
J A CARLSON
the b oa rd o f
directors in April this year and will
assume his new position as presi
dent effective July 1st.
Mr. Carlson came to First Nation
al from the American National Bank
& Trust Company, Chicago, where
he was senior vice president of the
institutional banking division. He
began his banking career with
American National in 1962.

Deerfield Officer Named
David J. Veronda has joined the
First National Bank of Deerfield as
a ssista n t vice
president, accor
ding to Alan M.
M e y e r, p r e s i
dent. In his new
position, Mr. Ve
ronda will be
responsible for
management as
signments in the
bank’s commer
cia l b u s in e s s
D.J. VERONDA
development and loan department.
A career banker, Mr. Veronda was
formerly with the First Bank of
Channahon.

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Rockford Chairman Named
Charles F. Thomas, partner in the
firm of Thomas, Thomas, Keeling
and Moore and a member of the
board of City National Bank &
Trust Co. of Rockford, has been
elected chairman of the board. He
replaces Charles Summerfield, a
founder of the bank and chairman
from 1972 until his death last
month.
Rolf Thienemann, president of
Muller-Pinehurst Dairy, has been
elected to the board.
James R. Cox, vice president,

recently graduated from the A B A
N ational Com m ercial L ending
School. The two week session was
held at the Oklahoma Center for con-^
tinuing Education at the University
of Oklahoma, Norman.

Moline President Elected

Richard M. Bishop has been
elected president, effective June 1,
of First National Bank of Moline.
He has been president at First
Galesburg National Bank and Trust#
Company, which he joined in 1971.
He began his banking career in
1952.
Mr. Bishop was graduated from
Bowling Green State University in #
Ohio and was awarded his M A de
gree from Ohio University. He also
attended the Stonier Graduate
School of Banking at Rutgers.
He had been a director of A M B I#
since that group was formed in 1973
but has resigned that post since he
will now be in a different region. At
Moline he fills the vacancy created
by the resignation in March of®
Richard A. Shultz.

Gound Breaking Announced •
Plum Grove Bank at 2701 Algon
quin Road, Rolling Meadows, has
broken ground to construct two ad
ditional banking lanes, according to
E.J. Drolet, president.
®
Construction is scheduled to be
completed in 30 to 45 days without
interrupted service. The additional
lanes will allow drive-in service for
five lanes of cars. The units will be®
installed with LeFebure equipment.

Uncertainty.

These are uncertain
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but w e’re not sure
how deep it has been
or how fa st we are
climbing out. Money
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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.
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if not impossible, to ever merge the
associations.” The AM BI merger
proposal calls for the forming of a
“ Unity Commission” to be chaired
by Illinois Commissioner of Banks
and Trust Companies William Harris and to include four non-lead
ership members from each group.
The AM BI board of directors has
agreed to be bound by the recom
mendation of the commission and invited the IB A to take similar action.
As of the conclusion of the AM BI
meeting the IB A leadership had not
received a copy of A M B I’s proposal
and reserved comment until it could
be reviewed. (See IBA convention
report in this issue).

ASSOCIATION for Modern Banking in Illinois officers for 1982-83 are, from left: Vice
Chmn.-James Lund, pres., Matteson-Richton Bk., Matteson; Immed. Past Chmn.-Walt
Lohman, chmn., 1st Natl., Springfield; Chmn.-Charles Wilson, c.e.o., 1st Natl., Quad Cities;
Treasurer-Gerry Gummere, pres., Peoples Bk., Bloomington, and Secretary-Robert Sher
man, sr. v.p., American Natl., Chicago. Not pictured is Vice Chmn. James Forster, pres.,
DeKalb Bk.

AMBI Proposes Unity Talks With I BA
By STEVE BURCH
Associate Publisher
HE 1982 annual meeting of the
Association for Modern Banking
in Illinois, held June 2-4 in Bloomingdale, provided the springboard
for A M B I’s merger proposal with
the Illinois Bankers Association.
Disagreement among IB A member
banks over multibank holding com
pany structure and branch banking
issues in 1971 led to the forming of
AM BI as a group within the IBA.
Two years later, however, issue dif
ferences continued to develop and
the AM BI members, which report

edly represent over 80% of the
states banking assets, broke away
from the IB A and formed the rival
trade association.
With the major banking structure
differences now resolved, the leader
ship of both AM BI and IBA agree
that a single statewide association is
desirable. AM BI Chairman Walter
Lohman, chairman of the First Na
tional Bank of Springfield, states,
“ The issue of merger has consid
erable urgency now. The IBA and
AM BI are intitiating costly, perma
nent programs to serve their mem
bers and as those proliferate over
time it will be increasingly difficult,

•

In other convention action,
Charles Wilson, chairman of the <§
board of the First National Bank of
the Quad Cities, Rock Island, was
elected chairman by the association
board of directors. Other elected of
ficers include: Vice Chairmen James #
Lund, president of Matteson-Rich
ton Bank of Matteson, and James
Foster, president of the DeKalb
Bank; Treasurer Jerry Gummere,
president of Peoples Bank of Bloom- #
ington, and Secretary Robert Sher
man, senior vice president of Amer
ican National Bank and Trust Co. of
Chicago.
In his address to the bankers, Il
linois Governor James Thompson
praised AM BI for their progressive
contributions to the state’s banking
industry and called for unity with 0
the IB A for continued statewide fi
nancial growth. He reminded the
bankers that he supported Illinois’
deregulation of interest levels on
consumer finance and backed the #
compromise legislation, which led to

LEFT—Suzanne Nolan, a.v.p., Chemical Bk., N.Y.; Carroll and David Connor, pres., Commercial Natl., Peoria, and Betty and Joe Hartmeyer, sr.
v.p., Chemical Bk., N.Y. RIGHT—Tom King, v.p., 1st Natl., Chicago, with Nadine and Howard Bell, pres., 1st Natl. Bk. & Tr., Rockford.

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the state opting out of the federal
bankruptcy code. Both issues dem
onstrate the balance between lender
and consumer, which he cites as a

hallmark of his administration.
Other convention speakers includ
ed A B A President-Elect Bill Ken
nedy; noted columnist and author

George Will; Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago President Silas Keehn,
and Senator Adlai Stevenson, Dem
ocratic candidate for governor.

Walt Lohman, chmn. & c.e.o., 1st Natl., Springfield, and wife
Carol; ABA Pres. Elect Bill Kennedy, chmn., Natl. Bk. of Com
merce, Pine Bluff, Ark., and Caryl and John Brubaker, pres., 1st
Natl., Springfield.

Norman Backues, pres., MidAmerica Bancsystem, Fairview Hts,;
Ben Ober, chmn., 1st Natl. Bk. & Tr., Centrailia; Jerry Fleschner,
v.p., Mercantile, St. Louis, and Charles Daily, chmn., MidAmerica
Bancsystems, Fairview Hts.

Guy Rich, corr. bkg. off., American Natl., Chicago; Sheila and
Robert Sherman, sr. v.p., American Natl., Chicago, and Pat Hayes,
AMBI staff.

William Heise, v.p., 1st Natl., Chicago; David Leitch, v.p., Commer
cial Natl., Peoria, and Gerry and Don Houk, sr. v.p., Commercial
Natl., Peoria.

David Connor, pres., Commercial Natl., Peoria, visits with Illinois
Governor James Thompson.

Dick Geach, e.v.p., 1st Freeport Corp., and wife Janice with Mary
and Jim Hill, v.p., Harris Bk., Chicago.

Richard Durkes, pres., City Bk. & Tr., Dixon; Jay Buck, sr. v.p.,
Northern Tr., Chicago; Robert V/alker, v.p., Continental Bk.,
Chicago, and Bob Bukowski, pres., Shared Network, Des Plaines.

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Lew Brown, a.v.p., Harris Bk., Chicago and wife Edie; Ann and
Jerry Pearson, v.p., Harris Bk., Chicago, and Gwen and H.L. Fen
ton, pres., 1st Natl., Freeport.
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Morton Grove. When that acquisi
tion is approved, the Mid Citco
group will have assets in excess of
$320 million, moving it up among
the 20 largest banking organizations
in the Chicago area.
* * *

Robert D. Gecht was elected presi
dent of Albany Bank & Trust Com
pany, N.A. Mr. Gecht, who had been
executive vice president, is a cum
laude graduate
of Harvard Col
lege, Cambridge.
He also received
both his law de
gree and his
masters of bus
in ess a d m in i
s tra tio n from
the University
of Chicago.
R.D. GECHT
After spend
ing one year as a consultant at the
Center for Policy Alternatives,
Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy, he returned to Chicago in 1978
to join the law firm of Holleb, Gerstein & Glass, Ltd. (Now Holleb &
Coff). In 1980 he joined Amalga
mated Trust & Savings Bank as vice
president, where his responsibilities
were in the commercial lending and
legal departments. In October, 1981,
he became executive vice president
of Albany Bank.
* * *

The III Illinois executive banking
center of the Mid-City National
Bank of Chicago recently celebrated
its second anniversary with cake
and approximatly $4 million in
assets.
The III Illinois Center, Wacker
and Columbus Drives, was MidCity’s first remote facility. The
bank’s holding company, Mid Citco,
recently filed a letter of intent to
purchase The First National Bank of

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Herbert Dolowy, president and
chief executive
officer of Lincoln
National Bank,
r e c e n t ly
an
nounced the elec
tion of Larry
Slonina to the of
fice of vice presi
dent, com m er
cial loans.
Mr. Slonina
formerly was an
assistant vice president in the same
department.
* * *

Four Chicago area banks — The
North Shore National Bank of
Chicago, Western National Bank of
Cicero, The Franklin Park Bank and
The Morton Grove Bank — have
combined marketing and opera
tional forces under a shared identity,
Affiliated Group, Inc.

According to Marvin E. Nelan,
chairman of the four banks, they are
controlled by similar ownership and
have cooperated informally with
each other over the past many years.
Combined assets of the group cur
rently are over $475,000,000 and the
affiliated name initially will serve as
a central theme for the groups com
mercial business development ef
forts.
The first usage in addition to com
mercial business development mar
keting, according to Mr. Neland, will
be the marketing of a centralized
checking package called the “ Affil
iated Checking Account’ ’ for the
consumer. Basically the package
will offer many financial services to
certain customers in one single ac
count.
As of December 31, 1981, The
North Shore National Bank, located

at 1737 West Howard Street, had to- O
tal assets of $190,000,000; Western
National Bank of Cicero, 5801 West
Cermak Road, $147,000,000; The
Franklin Park Bank, 3044 West
R ose S treet, F ra n k lin Park, 9
$98,000,000, and The Morton Grove
Bank, 8700 North Waukegan Road,
Morton Grove, $40,000,000.
* * *
Dorothy Lullen has been pro
moted to assistant vice president of
Seaway Nation
al B ank, an
nounced Walter
E. Grady, presi
dent.
Mrs. Lullen,
who has been
with the bank 1 2
years, began her
banking career
as executive sec
retary to the
D- LULLEN
president, moving into personnel
work in 1978 and most recently serv
ing as personnel officer.
* * *

Donald D. Thornburg, chairman
and chief executive officer, Sears
Bank and Trust Company, has an- £
nounced the following promotions:
William M. Powell, senior vice
president, investm ent division;
Philip J. Baratta, senior vice presi
dent, real estate division; Roger K. £
Johnson, vice president, operations;
Dennis J. Reidy, vice president, in
formation systems division; Debra

D.E. CHANDLER

L. JANES

—E. Chandler, second vice president,
personal banking; Lee Janes, second
vice president, personal banking;
Edward T. Panicko, second vice
president, personal banking; Gloria
^ J. Chavka, assistant vice president,
personal banking; Mary Pat Kerri
gan, assistant vice president, real es
tate division, and Ann S. Truesdale,
assistant vice president, trust divi0 sion.
Elected to officer status were:
William S. Aldrich, commercial
banking, commercial division; Janet
L. Cape, data processing, informa0 tion systems division; Michael J.
Cushion, accounting, accounting/finance; Nancy H. Holt, real estate
loan, commercial banking; Margaret
I. Johnson, assistant trust, trust di• vision; Elizabeth L. McCabe, assis-

tant trust administration, trust divi
sion, and Suzanne C. Sala, investment
operations, investment division.
* * *
Labor leader Lou Montenegro has
been elected an advisory director of
the Amalgama
ted Trust & Sav/ ^
g
ings Bank, acc o r d in g
to
Eugene Heytow,
chairman.
M r. M o n te
negro was re
cen tly elected
vice president of
the Internation L. MONTENEGRO
al Ladies’ Gar
ment Workers union, a union he
joined 30 years ago as a garment
presser in his native New York City.
* * *
Lew A. Erwin and Brian J. Griffin
have been promoted to pro-cashier
at the Mid-City National Bank of
Chicago, announced Kenneth A.
Skopec, president.
Mr. Erwin has been with the bank
for four years, previously as man
agement trainee. Mr. Griffin had
been serving as collateral and finan
cial analyst.

IBA Staff Changes Told

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William J. Hocter, executive vice
president, recently announced sever
al staff changes for the Illinois
Bankers Association, effective im
mediately.
Thomas J. Dammrich, vice presi
dent, will move up from his position

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as director of education and will be
responsible for the management of
the association’s headquarters in
Chicago. Mr. Dammrich’s duties
will include being the Illinois staff
contact person for MABSCO Finan
cial Services, Inc., the 13 state
bankers association consortium, the
management of the bank call pro
gram, and other special projects. In
his newly-created position, Mr.
Dammrich will report to the execu
tive vice president. All other staff
people will report to Mr. Dammrich.
James W. Civik, formerly assis
tant director of education, will be
promoted to director of education.
He will also serve as secretary to the
six banking divisions of the IBA.
Charles J. Obie will move from his
position of director of member and
public relations to the newly-created
position of director of marketing.
Terry A. Griffin, formerly direc
tor of Bankpac and assistant direc
tor of member relations was named
director of banking organizations, a
consolidation of the association’s
group and federation member rela
tions function.

Easy Answer Executive Named
Ben D. Mills, Jr., previously
manager of EFT Services for World
Computer Corporation, Birming
ham, Mich., has been appointed
executive direc
tor and chief ex
ecutive officer of
the easy answer
system, a shared
electronic funds
transfer system,
w hich becam e
operational May
3. The system is
a joint venture
B.D. MILLS, JR.
am ong
th ree
banks in Springfield and one bank in
Decatur. It combined the Answer
Network, which was operated by
Springfield Marine Bank and Illinois
National Bank, Springfield; the Easy
System operated by the First Nation
al Bank of Springfield, and the Any
time Teller System operated by Cit
izens National Bank of Decatur.
Over 45 automatic teller machines
have initially been linked together for
shared usage among customers of 32
financial institutions in Sangamon,
Logan, Macon, Christian and Mor
gan Counties. The easy answer sys
tem also operates point of sale ter
minals including the first fully auto
matic gasoline pumps.
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SERVING the Minnesota Bankers Association in 1982-83 will be, from left: Immed. Past
Pres.— Robert J. Welle, chmn., 1st Natl., Bemidji; Pres.—John P. Ingebrand, pres., Kanabec
State, Mora; Treas.—James R. Jorstad, pres., Citizens State, Hayfield; 1st Vice
Pres.— Herbert A. Lund, pres., Security State, Albert Lea; Exec. V.P.—Truman Jeffers, Min
neapolis, and 2nd Vice Pres.—Galen T. Pate, pres., Signal Hills State, West St. Paul.

At Minnesota Bankers convention —

John Ingebrand Elected MBA President
By BEN HALLER, JR.
Editor and Publisher

and

EM BERS of the Minnesota
Bankers Association elected
John P. Ingebrand as president of
the M BA at their 92nd annual con
vention last month at the Radisson
Hotel, St. Paul. Mr. Ingebrand is
president of Kanabec State Bank,
Mora. He succeeds Robert J. Welle,
chairman, First National Bank, Be
midji, who continues on the ex
ecutive council as immediate past
president.
Other officers who will serve with
Mr. Ingebrand in the 1982-83 year
are: 1st Vice Pres.—Herbert A.

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Lund, president, Security State
Bank, Albert Lea; 2nd Vice Pres.—
Galen T. Pate, president, Signal
Hills State Bank, West St. Paul, and
Treas.—James R. Jorstad, presi
dent, Citizens State Bank, Hayfield.
Truman L. Jeffers continues as ex
ecutive vice president in charge of
the M BA headquarters staff in Min
neapolis.
Three new members of the board
of directors were installed for twoyear terms: Les G. Grosz, chairman
and president, Western Bank &
Trust Co. of Marshall; Dennis W.

Dunne, president, First National £
Bank of Duluth, and Arthur M. Espeland, president, The First Na
tional Bank, Henning.
Mr. Welle and Don A. Sirek, presi
dent, State Bank of New Prague, ®
were elected to the A B A Council.
Mr. Sirek is retiring M BA treasurer.
Although the golf tournaments
were rained out the first morning,
good weather moved in and ardent®
golfers found time later to squeeze
in a few holes of golf during the next
day and a half. The tennnis tourney
was held indoors so was unaffected
by the rainy weather. More than®
1,500 persons were registered for the
convention.
First Day Activities
During the first afternoon, reg- ^
istrants were able to learn more
about microcomputers from a pre
sentation by Clyde Fischer, presi
dent, First National Bank, Aitkin,
and about the MABSCO Money £
Market Fund from H. Robert Hertzenberg, president, Breck Financial
Services, Breckenridge.
The first day was capped with a
sensational First Night Dinner Par- ®
ty that featured “ Barbershop Re
vue—1982,“ including The Happi
ness Emporium Quartet, which will
be competing in the national barber
shop competition in Philadelphia •
this year, and the Minneapolis Com
modore Chorus, which is made up of
several dozen Twin Cities barber
shop enthusiasts. Both groups were
sensational and had to respond to •
“ encore” calls. Later, a number of
them visited in hospitality areas and
took part in spontaneous singing
sessions.

LEFT— Mike Pieschel, pres, of Farmers & Merchants, Springfield and vice chmn. of ABA’s natl. BankPac committee; William H. Kennedy,
Jr., pres.-elect of ABA and chmn. of Natl. Bank of Commerce, Pine Bluff Ark.; Robert J. Welle, chmn., 1st Natl., Bemidji, retiring MBA pres,
and newly-elected to ABA Council, and James T. Gowan, pres., 1st Natl., Chaska, and ABA state v.p. for Minnesota. RIGHT— Mr. Kennedy^
with M. Danny Wall, staff dir., Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Washington, D.C., and Mark Olson, pres., Securi
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T H E CO U N T OF GRYGLA.
Grygla, Minnesota,
has a raw and
unfinisheel ai r. Fred
Sorenson, president of
the 6-year-old
American State Bank
o f Grygla, calls the
Surrounding area the
Midwest’s last frontier. The land is treeless,
flat and miraculously fertile, and every
season more acres are cleared, ditched and
planted, making more efficient than ever the
huge equipment that cultivates, seeds and
harvests the wheat, oats, barley and
sunflowers. The settlement was named after a
Polish nobleman who spent one cold winter
there and quickly departed for warmer climes.
The Grygla bank’s chief correspondent is the
Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis,
310 miles southeast of the town. Recently,
Fred Sorenson. who has his BA and MA from
the University of Minnesota and who for
many years was a farm management
teacher, talked about Northwestern
Minneapolis and about banking in Grygla.
This is not like other places. This is
a frontier. Farmers here have an
insatiable thirst for money. They
deposit one dollar and ask to
borrow a hundred.

Our bank has wanted to help them, and
has. W hen the loans have gotten too large,
w e’ve had to call on the Northwestern
National Bank o f Minneapolis.
It’s handled m ost o f our ag overlines for
six years. Right from the beginning in fact.
T h ey’ve been responsive, capable,
cooperative, knowledgeable. W hat m ore
can I say?
O f course we do m ore than lend m oney
to farmers. Grygla has an urge and a right to
exist. W hen we cam e here six years ago
there were no paved streets, no water system,
no sewer system. N ow the village has all
three. And we were involved.
Our bank has also helped bring
in a grain elevator, enlarge a farm
im plem ent dealership, a beauty
shop, and helped start from
scratch a m achine shop,
a restaurant, a lum ber yard.
Just before I cam e here
from T h ief River Falls,
Minnesota, I said to my wife
Marie, “ If you love me,
com e to Grygla with m e.”
Thank heavens she
said yes!
The people are
wonderful. The hunting is
great—mallards, honkers,
grouse, deer, even moose.
And everything I’ve done
as a banker in Grygla has
been done for the first tim e!
It’s not fancy, but it’s
banking at it’s best.
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LEFT— Four bankers were inducted into the MBA Pioneer Club (50-year bankers). From left are: Howard W. Reiter, chmn. & pres., Natl.
Bank of Canby; Horace F. Chamberlain, chmn. & pres., Valley Natl, of LeSueur, pres, of Pioneer Club and master story-teller, who —
presented the awards; Glad Redding, Windom State of Windom; Thomas C. Danielson, Atwater State, and K.C. Jones, chmn., 1st N atl.,w
Osakis. Two men not present were mailed their 50-year plaques: John J. Jirek, State Bank of Lonsdale, and Arthur Kappel, chmn., Citizens
State Bank, Wlnsted. RIGHT—Walter J. Bergquist, retired 50-year banker from First Bank St. Paul, congratulates I.M. Britt Nelson, chmn.
& pres., Citizens State of Gaylord, on his election as pres, of Pioneer Club.

Speakers
The convention got down to ser
ious matters at an early hour on
Tuesday—starting promptly at 7:30
a.m. with the annual Prayer Break
fast, attended by several hundred
bankers and spouses. Former Iowa
Governor Harold Hughes was the
principal speaker. He was preceded
by M BA President Welle and M B A ’s
Truman Jeffers, who offered special
prayers and scripture readings. Pre
siding was Gary Wollan, president of
Summit National Bank, St. Paul.
The first speaker introduced by
Mr. Welle was E. Gerald Corrigan,
president of the Federal Reserve
Bank, Minneapolis. “ The future is
closer than some think,” he cau
tioned, “ but the dust of change has
obscured a couple of important
things. Just because there is change,
it doesn’t mean everything is dif
ferent, or that it should be—some
things are basic. If we are to effec

tively meet the challenge of change,
we must build on those strengths
and stability of the past.
“ When you look at the record of
banking and its ability to react and
build new products, it shows bank
ing has been able to move forward.
But it is still time to get on with de
regulation. I can’t see the non-regulated competition being brought
under sweeping regulations.”
The same theme was mentioned by
Michael J. Pint, commissioner of
banks, State of Minnesota, who com
mented, “ Evolution in progress
comes down to survival of the fittest.
It brings new opportunities, but new
risks, which require close surveil
lance by the regulators and monitor
ing by you. For the past three years
the most fundamental challenge to
banks has been the escalating com
petition from non-depository insti
tutions.” He then showed the dra
matic differences in cost of funds

and prime rate figures for recent l
years. “ In three years,” he noted,
“ Minnesota consumer finance of
fices have dropped to 1 1 2 in the
state, and credit unions have been
reduced by 23 through mergers with 1
others and three placed in receiv
ership by the NCUA with no loss to
depositors. The 65 s&ls in the state
in 1978 have been reduced to 44. The
most notable merger was that of the 1
Farmers and Mechanics Savings
Bank into Marquette National Bank
to form F&M Marquette National
Bank, a billion dollar bank.”
Mr. Pint reported that of 554
state banks, 42 are rated as “ pro
blem” banks under the CAM EL ex
aminer system, while 10 are rated as
“ critical” arid are being closely mon
itored bv his banking division and
the FDIC.
All of these factors of economic
pressures, new and unregulated
competition, along with the daily ^

LEFT— Robert J. Welle (center), chmn., 1st Natl., Bemidji, and his wife, Jeanette, received a beautiful Federal Duck Stamp Album from
Northwestern Natl, of Minneapolis in recognition of his services as MBA president the past year. Present for the brief ceremony were Joan
and Don Pederson (left), sr. v.p., and Tom Swan (right), corr. bk. repr. RIGHT— Newly-elected presidents of three state banker associations £
are, from left: So. Dak. — Dean O. Mehlhaff, pres., Eureka State Bank; No. Dak.—John M. McGinley, pres., American State B&T, W illiston,
and Minn.—John P. Ingebrand, pres., Kanabec State, Mora.
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III

Harry Benson (left), pres., and Stan Peterson, v.p., of Midland
Natl., Minneapolis, present a beautiful Les Kouba w ildlife paint
ing to Paul Lindholm (right), pres., State Bank of Maple Plain, to
commemorate State Bank’s 70-year correspondent bank relation
ship with Midland Natl.

Scott Faris, corr. bk. rep., Northwestern Natl., Mpls., Walter Krumwiede, exec, v.p., Peoples St. Bk., Truman, and wife Marian; Don
Huemoller, pres., Peoples St. Bk., Truman, and his wife Betty, and
Ken Vegors, a.v.p., Northwestern Natl., Mpls.

LEFT— Dorthea Gutzman, Capital City St. Bk., St. Paul; Elizabeth Wohlenhaus, v.p., Northwestern Natl., Mankato; Louisa Johnson, a.v.p.
and Dick Erickson, a.v.p., Midland Natl., Mpls. RIGHT—John Robb, v.p., Chemical, N.Y. and Phoebe Erdman, a.v.p., Chemical, N.Y. with
David Hyduke, gp. v.p., American Natl., St. Paul.

LEFT— Bob Krane, pres., Northwest Bancorporation, Minneapolis; Everett Kelley, pres., Northwestern State, Dawson, and his wife, Avis,
and John Morrison, chmn. of Banco. RIGHT—Joyce and Larry Buegler, c.e.o., Northwestern Natl., St. Paul, with Liz and Jim Armstrong,
pres., and Don Pederson, sr. v.p., and his wife, Joan, both men with Northwestern Natl., Minneapolis.

LEFT—(Front Row) Arlene Fox, Madelia; JoAnin Hinnenthal, inv. off., F&M Marquette, Mpls., and Donna Schmitz, Springfield. Back Row—
Jim Fox, pres., Farmers St. Bk., Madelia; Robert Hadland, pres., Farmers & Merch. St. Bk., Lamberton; Jack Hinnenthal, and Glenn
Schmitz, pres., State Bk. of Springfield. RIGHT— Chuck Thorkelsen, dir., 1st Northwestern, Redwood Falls; Mike Bodeen, a.v.p., Midland
Natl., Mpls., and Jim Heig, pres., Northwestern St. Bk. Northwest, Maple Grove.

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LEFT—Jack Quitmeyer, a.v.p., 1st Natl., Minneapolis, and his wife, Kathy; Clarice Espeland, dir., 1st Natl., Henning; Duane Fraki, exec,
v.p., 1st Natl., Henning, and his wife, Judy, and Al Highum, a.v.p., 1st Natl., Minneapolis, and his wife, Charlotte. RIGHT— Pattie and Ken
Wales, sr. v.p., and Margie and Pete Ankeny, chmn., both men with 1st Natl., Minneapolis, and Jeanette and Bob Welle, chmn., 1st N a tl.,£
Bemidji, and retiring MBA pres. (Mr. Ankeny became vice chmn., First Bank System July 1.)

LEFT—Kay and Jim Russell, a.v.p., 1st Natl., St. Paul; Katha and John Chamberlain, pres., Valley Natl., LeSueur; Ann Wagner-Hauser, corr.
bk. off., 1st Natl., St. Paul, and her husband, Greg Hauser. RIGHT—Ginny and Andy Sail, pres., 1st Natl., St. Paul; Renee and Mark Olson,
pres., Security State, Fergus Falls, and Joan and Dale Hanson, group v.p., 1st Natl., St. Paul.

LEFT— Karen and Galen Pate, pres., Signal Hills State, West St. Paul, with Bob Jacobson, v.p., American Natl., St. Paul, and his wife, Lori.
RIGHT— Joe Finley, pres., Janesville State; Don Johnson, v.p., American Natl., St. Paul, and his wife, Joanna, and Mike Pint, Minnesota
supt. of banks.
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business and family activities of
each person were explored by Mi
chael J. Hennessy of Aurora, Colo.,
in his timely address on “ Stress and
Productivity.” His platform time
was only enough to demonstrate to
attending bankers that further pur
suit of a longer seminar on coping
with stress is probably needed today
by most business people, both on a
personal basis and as a staff-wide
project.
Association - Legislation
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was devoted to legislation and MBA
and A B A affairs. Mr. Jeffers said
the principal concern of bankers as
he sees it is “ How do I compete?”
He suggested personal involve
ment in the MBA, using the train
ing skill programs offered by M BA
for the staffs of banks, and utilizing
the innovative services available
through M BA and its affiliation
with MABSCO. “ To the question,
‘Can I compete in the ’80s?’ my ans
wer is ‘absolutely,’ ” Mr. Jeffers said
vigorously. “ Those unwilling to take
steps peeded to compete won’t be in

business at the end of the decade.
Full Service banking will mean that
in every respect.” Mr. Jeffers con
cluded with a review of M BA programs to the membership, an intro
duction of M BA staff members, and
a brief review of current legislation
by John Jackson, M BA legislative
counsel.
M. Danny Wall, staff director for
the United States Senate Commit
tee on Banking, Housing and Urban
Affairs, talked on “ Financial Institution Regulation” as he has done so
well before several national and

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M in n e s o ta N e w s

LEFT—Richard Strain and Larry Odegard, sales reps., Mosler Safe Co. with Scott Faris, corr. bkg. rep. and Scott Ulbrich, corr. bkg. off.,
Northwestern Natl., Mpls. RIGHT—John Oltmanns, (center) pres., Northwestern St. Bk., Virginia, visits with Patrick Tims, reg. mgr., and Ed
Favreau, rep., Bk. of America Travelers Cheques.

state banker groups. He gave an en^ lightening look at formation of the
budget proposals as seen from the
Senate and House, including com
ments on entitlement programs and
the need for someone to face up to an
£ overhaul of Social Security. On the
latter topic, he said, “ W e’re not talk
ing about cutting what people are
getting, but reducing the increases.’ ’
An an example of the latter, he
^ said if the July 1 scheduled increase
should be delayed by only two
months, it would save $5.4 billion!
He urged each banker to read the
June 1 Wall Street Journal on this
4|| subject.
Regarding banking changes, Mr.
Wall stated, “ People are unhappy
with politicians, but what is happen
ing is the market place. Money Mar11 ket Mutual Funds should be under
some kind of regulation—perhaps
not permitting third party transac
tions—but it’s not going to happen...
so all you can do is seek deregulation
II to compete.”
After reviewing budget dealings

in Congress and recent proposals to
save thrifts and expand their pow
ers, Mr. Wall said, “ Senator Garn
wants to be remembered not for
passing a specific piece of legisla
tion, but for trying to get everyone
to know and consider the breadth,
depth and extent of the problem. In
the final analysis, the decision about
what’s to be done rests with banks,
not with s&ls or credit unions. The
initiative rests with banks and if you
want the process to work, then do
something with Congress. It rests
with you.”
Minnesota’s A B A Vice President
James T. Gowan, president, First
National Bank of Chaska, delivered
his report, outlining two key A B A
activities: 1. The role of primary
communicator to regulatory and leg
islative bodies and 2 . The Banking
Leadership Conference at which con
sensus positions are arrived at.
Mike Pieschel, president of the
Farmers & Merchants State Bank of
Springfield, and vice chairman of
A B A ’s BankPac, gave a report on

both the national and Minnesota
results of BankPac. He said more
than $600,000 had been furnished
from more than 7,000 of the nation’s
banks. Minnesota, he noted, had
met its share each year with
$13,200.
Wm. H. Kennedy, Jr., A B A pres
ident-elect and chairman of the Na
tional Bank of Commerce in Pine
Bluff, Ark., was the concluding
speaker. He cited the economy again
as the nation’s number one problem,
and the need for Congress “ to get a
handle on the budget and spending.
You must contact your Senators and
Representatives,” he told his audi
ence, “ and let them know they
should get on with the business at
hand, and get our economy un
tracked.”
The second problem he listed was
banking competition with non-financial industries “ and we can’t be held
back by the s&ls problems,” he add
ed.
In his M BA President’s report,
Mr. Welle stated that the Strategic

LEFT—Joe Finley, pres., Janesville St. Bk. and wife Marge with Mary Ellen and John Lundsten, pres., Buffalo Natl. Bk. RIGHT— Matt Blair,
Minn. Vikings; Peter Gillette, chmn., Northwestern Natl., Mpls.; Joe Senser, Minn. Vikings; Don Pederson, sr. v.p., Northwestern Natl.,
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h FSM M a rie H tio il Bant
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p s and J o k e r s

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LEFT—Milan DeWitt, v.p., and Ellen Regan, v.p., Kanabec St. Bk., Mora, visit with Bill Addington, v.p., F&M Marquette, Mpls. RIGHT—Rose
and Charles Schneider, exec, v.p., St. Bk. of Chanhassen with Penny and Curt Robbins, data process, off., Northwestern Natl., Mpls.

& FSM Marquette national nano
Keogh

LEFT—Grace Jaeger, admin, assist., and Bill Klein, a.v.p., F&M Marquette, Mpls. with Jerry McGee, pres., Triumph St Bk., Trimont;
RIGHT—Peter Welle and his mother Jeanette with Caryl and Ernie Pierson, exec, v.p., Midland Natl., Mpls.

LEFT— Ross Bloomquist, chmn., 1st Natl. Bk., St. Peter; Tom Glesener, mktg. rep., and Patricia Olson, 1st Chicago Data Corp., Bloom
ington. RIGHT— Dick Erickson, a.v.p., Midland Natl., Mpls.; Shirley Burns, Annadale St. Bk.; Don Gilmer, pres., State Bk. of Delano; Mary Lu
Demet, Midland Natl., Mpls.; Paul Lindholm, pres., State Bk. of Maple Plain, and Roland Nordlund, pres., Town & Country Bk., Maplewood.

Planning report undertaken by
MBA for the association’s future,
had been completed under the chair
manship of Mr. Gowan and the re
port was mailed to each MBA mem
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The annual banquet was enter
tained with a repeat performance by
noted pianist Roger Williams, who
came up with another one-hour spec
tacular musical program, accom
panied by the Jerry Mayeron Or-

chestra. Following the formal pro
gram, guests enjoyed dancing to the
orchestra until midnight.
The 1983 convention will be June
20-21 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in
downtown Minneapolis.
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orth w estern
N ational
Bank of Minneapolis recently
announced the election of W. Gerald
Jurgensen and Robert O’Connor as
senior vice presidents.
Mr. Ju rgen
sen is head of the
bank’s new trea
sury department
in th e b o n d
group. He previ
ously managed
the treasury di
vision. Mr. Jur
gen sen jo in e d
Northwestern in
1977 as a na
tional accounts representative,
transferred to Northwest Bancorporation as the assistant treasurer and
returned to Northwestern Bank in
1979 as the senior asset/liability spe
cialist for the asset/liability man
agement committee. He was elected
vice president and named manager of
the asset/liability division in 1980.
Mr. O ’Connor will head the opera
ting systems and financial controls
department in Northwestern’s Trust
Group. He has an extensive back
ground in all facets of trust opera
tions and is currently vice president
and manager of trust operations at
the Bank of California, San Francis
co. From 1969 to 1979 he managed
the trust operations for Wachovia
National Bank in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
Two vice presidents, four assistant
vice presidents and 13 officers were
also elected at Northwestern Nation
al Bank.

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Stuart H. Mason and Ardell C.
Thomas C. Olander has been pro
Gilb were elected vice presidents. Mr. moted to vice president at American
Mason, who joined the bank in 1978, National Bank,
was elected in the domestic group, St. Paul. Mr.
eastern division in the national de Olander joined
partment. Mr. Gilb will serve in the the bank in 1976
trust and investment group, trust in as a bond sales
vestment services division of the in man. In 1978 he
dividual services department.
was promoted to
Elected to serve as assistant vice bond investment
president were: Margaret L. Wiita in officer, and in
the trust investment services divi 1980 was made
sion of estate and probate; Marvin a ssista n t vice
TCOLANDER
L. Anderson in the electronic data president. Prior
processing division of the correspon to joining American he was with
dent banking department; Steven D. Paine Webber.
Rapp in consumer banking, Lincoln
* *
branch, and Steven F. Tiffenbach in
The board of directors of the North
the control and planning department.
Elected to officer status were: western National Bank of St. Paul
Christopher G. Hansen, commercial recently announced the promotion of
F.
banking; Carol Hollerich, Stephen E. Stephanie
Regan and Mary P. Dredge, cash Iverson to assis
management; Jamie Niethammer, in tant vice presi
Lorrie
vestments; Roger H. Young, bond in d en t;
vestment; Rita L. Ruvelson, asset/ Johnson to teller
liability management; David D. Nel services officer,
Roberta
son, probate; Scott Bolin, Ann C. and
Kalkman, Stephen L. Stormoen and Lonzo to mark
Cathy D. Yaeger, systems officers, eting officer.
Ms. Iverson
and Cheryl L. Ditch, international
jo in e d N o r th
banking.
S.F. IVERSON
western in 1972,
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The direct leasing operation of
First Bank System, Inc., which was
formerly part of FBS Financial, Inc.,
has been realigned into a separate
subsidiary, FBS Leasing Corpora
tion.
James R. Renner has been elected
president of FBS Leasing. Mr. Ren
ner has been associated with FBS
Financial since 1974 when he joined
the company as manager of the in
terim loan department. In 1975 he
transferred to the leasing division
and was elected vice president in
1976 and promoted to division head
in 1978. He was elected to his most
recent position as senior vice presi
dent of the leasing division in 1981.

L. JOHNSON

R. LONZO

presently serving as teller services
officer and manager. Ms. Johnson ®
joined the bank in 1978 and is cur
rently security tellers supervisor in
the auto bank. Ms. Lonzo started in
1980 and is marketing communica
tions coordinator in the marketing ®
division.

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Donovan E. Crouley, retired sen
ior vice president of Northwestern
National Bank of Minneapolis and a
former president of the Minnesota
Bankers Association (1955-56), died
May 26 at his home in Maple Plain,
Minn. He was 79.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Donald Dean Goodman, who resides
in Oceanside, Calif.
Mr. Crouley’s 48 years in banking
began when he joined Northwest
ern’s transit department in Septem
ber, 1917. He was later transferred
to the correspondent banking divi
sion, which he managed for more
than 20 years until his retirement in
1965. He was appointed assistant
cashier in 1936, elected vice presi
dent in 1945 and senior vice presi
dent in the late 1950’s.
* * *

Ms. Brinks started with Banco in
1968, serving most recently as mar
keting consultant. Mr. Lewison
joined Banco in 1967, moving to the
consumer banking division as man
ager of consumer banking systems
in March of this year. Ms. RulonMiller works on retail product
development and started with Ban
co in 1979.
* * *

Sandra P. Chevalier and Walter
O. Rukke have been promoted to
assistant vice president, Midland
National Bank
of Minneapolis,
and Richard G.
Spiegel, p resi
dent of LaMaur
Inc., has been
elected to the
board.
The board of directors of First
Mrs. Cheval
Bank System, Inc., has elected Jef
ier joined Mid
frey S. Smith, vice president and
land Bank in
manager of direct compensation pro1977 as superS.P. CHEVALIER
g ra m s;
Paul
Clavadetscher
and James (J.P.)
Mansfield to as
sistant vice pres
id en t-tra in in g ,
and Marilyn G.
Carlson to opera
tions officer-offpremise banking.
W alter
D.
Tomaszek a n d
J S. SMITH
W.O. RUKKE
R.G. SPIEGEL
Bruce A. Hagen have joined FBS
Business Credit, Inc. as assistant
visor of the transit department and
vice presidents.
Mr. Smith joined the human re was elected an operations officer in
sources division of FBS in 1978 as as 1978. Mr. Rukke joined in 1972 and
sistant vice president and manager was promoted to his latest position
of direct compensation programs. Mr of operations officer, internal con
Clavadetscher joined in the human trol, in 1979.
* * *
resources division in 1980 as training
officer. Mr. Mansfield has served as
training officer since 1979. Ms. Carl
Michael J. Kukielka has been ap
son previously served as operations
officer at First Bank Bloomington pointed real estate loan officer of
Lake, Minneapolis, where she had N ation al C ity
Bank of Minne
been employed since 1964.
Mr. Tomaszek previously was apolis, according
with Banco Financial as assistant to James H.
I I I,
vice president and senior loan officer. Hearon,
Mr. Hagen had been with General p resid en t and
chief executive
Electric Credit Corporation.
officer.
* * *
Mr. Kukielka
Recently promoted in the consum recently joined
er banking division of Northwest the staff of Na
Bancorporation were: Shirley A. tional City after
MJ' KUKIELA
Brinks and Albert M. Lewison, Jr., being employed by Farmers and
to assistant vice president and Lucy Mechanics Savings Bank of Minne
Rulon-Miller to marketing officer.
apolis.

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Phil Hunt has been elected vice®
president and Thomas R. Madden,
assistant vice president at First
Bank Security,
St. Paul.
Mr. Hunt be
gan his career in
1958 with First
Bank Minneap
olis. His most re
ce n t p o s it io n
was a vice pres
ident in opera
tions with First
Bank Edina.
Mr. Madden began his career in ®
1974 with First Bank Bismark as a
management associate. His most re
cent position was as assistant vice
president at First Bank White Bear
Lake.
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Carl R. Pohlad, president of F&M
Marquette National Bank, recently ^
announced the promotion of Ronne
Nielsen and Jeri Slinger to assistant
vice president in the commercial
loan department and Sandra Sickles
to money market officer. Mark <§
Schabert has recently joined the
bank as correspondent credit officer.

R. NIELSEN

J. SLINGER

Mr. Nielsen joined the bank in
1973, serving most recently as com
mercial loan officer. Ms. Slinger
joined in 1979 as a credit analyst. In
1980 she was named a commercial
loan officer. Ms. Sickles came to
Marquette in 1980 as an investment
clerk. Mr. Schabert was with the
Federal Land Bank of St. Paul as
director of marketing development
and services.

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When McNally Industries
needed a loan, we
m oved into high gear

O ut overline participation
has been instrumental
in their success.
W hen a customer looks to you for a loan, he
doesn't want to hear that your loan committee
meets once a week. He wants a fast response.
And, when the loan requires participation, you
expect the same kind of response from your
correspondent.
At First Bank Saint Paul, we provide
comprehensive credit services to our
correspondents. Each of our calling officers is
trained to be as responsive as you are in meeting
and understanding your customers' borrowing
needs.
For example, when McNally Industries, a
precision gear manufacturer, decided to acquire a
new product line, they needed a decisive loan
response from First Bank of Grantsburg— not a
"wait and see" approach. That's why their bank
came to the Correspondent Banking Division of
First Bank Saint Paul. They knew they would get
prompt and total support.

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Banker, July, 1982

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Our correspondent banking team is headed by
Dale Hanson. Since 1968, Dale has been the
head of a commercial loan division and a member
of the senior loan committee. His experience has
taught him the value of total support for you and
your customer. A nd if that means joining you and
the calling officer in the field, to better understand
their needs, he'll do it.
It is this kind of concern from Dale Hanson and
our calling officers that sets First Bank Saint Paul
apart. W e have the resources and lending
capabilities to help your customers grow. And
when your customers grow, we all benefit.
If you are interested in a correspondent
banking relationship that is committed to your
customers as you are, call our Correspondent
Banking Division at 291-5585.

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M in n e s o ta N e w s

“Downtown Plymouth” Facility Opens

LOCATED at Hwy. 55 and Plymouth Blvd., First Bank Plymouth’s new main bank facility is
the first commercial building up and open in the new officially designated “ downtown” Ply
mouth. The 10,000 sq. ft. facility has a staff of 20 bankers and offers full-service commer
cial and retail banking. In addition to business and consumer loans, there are complete
safe deposit services, four drive-in lanes and a 24-Hour First Bank Service for cash ad
vances, deposits, transfers and loan payments.

Two Named at Brainerd
Gordon E. Winzenburg recently
joined Citizens State Bank, Brain
erd, as vice president in the com
mercial loan department. He will
have the loan department respon
sibilities of Tom Welle, who ac
cepted the position of president at
International State Bank, Interna
tional Falls. Diane Runberg was
elected to the position of assistant
vice president/comptroller. She had
been serving as comptroller.

loan manager, Tim Erickson to in
stalment loan officer, Jim Morrissey
to assistant instalment loan officer
and Barbara Bjerken to real estate
loan officer.

Retires From Edina Bank
Mary Stewart, assistant vice
president-operations department of
First Bank Southdale, Edina, re
cently retired after 30 years of
employment with First Bank Sys
tem.
Ms. Stewart began her banking
career at First National Bank of
Minneapolis in 1949 and joined the
Edina bank in 1964.

Elected in Fergus Falls

G.E. WINZENBURG

D. RUNBERG

Prior to moving to Brainerd, Mr.
Winzenburg was a vice president at
the Princeton State Bank, working
with commercial industrial and
agricultural loans.
Ms. Runberg has been with the
bank for eight years as secretary to
the president, bank auditor and as
marketing officer.

Six Promoted At
Thief River Falls Bank
Northern State Bank in Thief
River Falls recently announced the
promotions of Jack William, Jr. to
assistant vice president and agri
cultural representative, Robert
Lundbohm to assistant vice presi
dent, Rosie Fournier to instalment
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Robert D. Phillips, president of
Northwestern National Bank of Fer
gus Falls, recently announced the
election of Brent
Montgomery to
agricultural loan
officer.
M r.
M ont
gom ery joined
the bank in 1980
under the bank
managem ent
training p ro
gram. He prep
B. MONTGOMERY
viously was em
ployed by Montgomery and Sons
Livestock of West Fargo, N.D.

Grand Rapids Names Two
Doup Gallop, president of First
N orth w estern N ational Bank,
Grand Rapids, recently announced

the promotion of Dave Groshong to
vice president and head of the com
mercial loan department, and LeVerne Ayotte to branch manager of
the Southside office.

D. GROSHONG

L. AYOTTE

Mr. Groshong had previously
been employed by ITT Thorp Cor
poration for two years before joining
the bank staff in 1977 as instalment#
loan officer. He was promoted to as
sistant vice president in 1980 and
branch manager at the Southside of
fice in 1981. Ms. Ayotte joined the
bank in 1962 and has worked in#
bookkeeping until 1979, at which
time she was promoted to personal
banking officer.

Joins Golden Valley Bank
Sandra M. Dockter has recently
joined the staff of Golden Valley
Bank, Golden Valley, as a co m m e r"
cial lending of
ficer.
She moved to
G olden Valley
from R ichfield
Bank & Trust
Co., where for
three years she
held the position
of assistant vice
president of con
sumer lending.
S'M' D0CKTER
Previously she worked for ten years
at Marquette National Bank. M s.^
Dockter started her banking career
at Dakota State Bank, Milbank,
South Dakota.

Groundbreaking Held
Security State Bank, Cannon
Falls, recently broke ground for the
construction of its new building t o #
be located at Park and 4th Streets.
The 60 x 116 ft., 6,000 square foot
building will feature three drivethrough lanes and parking lot area
on 4th street. Construction is ex-#
pected to be complete in six months.

M in n e s o ta N e w s

Two Promoted in Crystal

Applications Approved

At Crystal State Bank, Crystal,
Verdella M. Floding recently was
promoted to assistant vice president
of bookkeeping operations and Ber
nice Wotzka to assistant operations
officer of bookkeeping.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Min
neapolis recently announced its ap
proval of the following applications:
Chisago Bancorporation, Inc.,
Minneapolis, to acquire Chisago
State Bank, Chisago City; Evans
ville Bancshares, Inc., Evansville, to
acquire Farmers State Bank of E v
ansville; Farmers and Merchants
Financial Services, Inc., New Ulm,
to acquire Farmers and Merchants
State Bank of New Ulm; Vesta Bancorporation, Inc., Vesta, to acquire
Vesta State Bank; Century Ban
corp, Inc., New Brighton, to acquire
Centennial State Bank of Lexing
ton, and Ceylon Bancorporation,
Inc., Ceylon, to acquire State Bank
of Ceylon.

V. FLODING

B. WOTZKA

Ms. Floding moved to Crystal
State Bank in 1962 after four years
with Northwestern Bank of Minne
apolis. Ms. Wotzka joined the bank
in 1973 from Citizens State Bank of
Morris.

Richfield Appointment Told
W. Joseph White recently was ap
pointed assistant vice president,
commercial loan
officer of Rich
field Bank &
Trust Co., Rich
field.
Mr. White has
spent 16 years in
commercial
banking, m ost
recently with the
Northwestern
National Bank
W.J. WHITE
of Minneapolis and previously with
the Indiana National Bank, Indian
apolis, Ind.

Luverne Bank Celebrates 100
The Northwesten State Bank of
Luverne observed its 100th anniver
sary of banking during the month of
May. It was issued its state charter
on May 2 , 1882, the second state
bank to be chartered in Minnesota.
To strengthen its financial posi
tion, Rock County Bank chose to af
filiate with Northwest Bancorporation in 1929. The new name of North
western State Bank of Luverne was
adopted in 1968 to more closely
identify it with other member banks.
A month long celebration climaxed
on May 20 with a porkburger feed,
served by bank directors and em
ployes to approximately 2,500 cus
tomers and friends.

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Polk County State Bank, char
tered in 1913, changed its name to
First American Bank on June 1st.
The bank is part of the Bremer bank
group and a major reason for the
change is to provide a closer identity
among the Bremer banks.

Two Elected to Board
Northwestern National Bank of
Rochester recently announced the
election of Michael J. Myers, admin
istrator of Saint Marys Hospital, and
Robert V. Walker, president of the
Kahler Corporation, to the board of
directors. Their terms began June 2 2 .

Worthington Names Two
The State Bank of Worthington
has announced the promotion of
Nancy A. Hamman to assistant
cashier and Pat Linder to personal
loan officer.

M.J. MYERS

R.V. WALKER

Hastings Officer Elected

N.A. HAMMAN

P. LINDER

Mrs. Hamman was first employed
by the bank in 1978 as a teller at the
main bank facility. In 1980 she was
promoted to head bookkeeper.
Mrs. Linder began at the bank in
1979 and was promoted to instal
ment loan clerk later that year.

Crookston Executive Named
Marlin Winkelman has recently
joined the staff of First American
Bank of Crookston as executive vice
p resid en t and
member of the
board of direc
tors.
Mr. W inkel
man previously
was a vice presi
dent with West
ern B a n k o f
Sioux
F al l s,
South Dakota,
WINKELMAN
where his pri
mary responsibility was with the
real estate department.

Michele P. Bohlig was elected
marketing officer of the North
western
Na
tional Bank of
Hastings.
She started
her career with
th e b a n k as
bookk eeping
clerk and later
w as
named
bookk eepin g
supervisor. She
MP_ b o h l ig
became associ
ated with the marketing function in
Februarv, 1981.

Deluxe Check Signs
With New Ad Agency
Deluxe Check Printers, Inc., St.
Paul, has named Fallon McElligott
Rice its advertising agency-of-record. Deluxe is the leading national
producer of checks, deposit tickets,
and related forms for use by finan
cial institutions and their depos
itors. Deluxe has plants nationwide
in order to provide quick, depen
dable service to bank customers in
all fifty states.
The announcement was made by
Paul Blackburn, assistant advertis
ing manager for Deluxe, and Pat
Fallon, president of Fallon McElli
gott Rice, Minneapolis.
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of directors of The Guthrie Theatre Q
Foundation, Minneapolis. Recog
nized as one of the premier Amer
ican regional theatre companies, The
Guthrie Theatre celebrated the
beginning of its 20th season in June. O
C.P. M oore has served as
president and chief executive officer,
Northwestern National Bank of
Sioux Falls, since October, 1975.

South Dakota
D.O . M e h lh a ff, pres., E ureka
J. M . S ch w a rtz, exec. m g r . , Pierre

Three Named in Sioux Falls
At the Northwestern Bank, Sioux
Falls, Keith C. Goodhope, assistant
vice president
and assist ant
manager at the
Parker Branch,
has been named
vice president
and manager;
Curtis W. Zaske,
ag loan officer at
the Brookings
Branch has been
K.C. GOODHOPE
appointed assis-

C.W. ZASKE

K.H. GOEHRING

tant vice president and assistant
manager, and Keith H. Goehring, ag
loan representative at the Madison
Branch, was named ag loan officer.
Mr. Goodhope joined the bank’s
Lake Preston Branch in 1972 as in
surance representative and was
named assistant vice president and
assistant branch manager, his most
recent position, in 1979.
Mr. Zaske joined the bank in 1977
and was named ag loan officer in
1979.
Mr. Goehring, who joined the
bank in 1981, previously worked at
the First National Bank of Aber
deen, Mobridge Branch.

Yankton Staff Changes Told
American State Bank, Yankton,
recently announced the following of
ficer changes effective during its
May meeting of the board of direc
tors:
Gilbert E. Mjoen, senior vice pres
ident, cashier and comptroller; Kar

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en K. Fischer, senior vice president;
M. Lynn Steffen, assistant vice pres
ident, chief of operations and per
sonnel officer; Lois Steenhoven, as
sistant vice president and bookkeep
ing manager; LaVonne T. Halvorsen,
assistant cashier and assistant oper
ations officer; Janice McDonald,
assistant cashier and assistant
bookkeeping manager, and Diane
Rehurek, assistant discount officer.

Sioux Falls Transfers Told
United National Bank, Sioux
Falls, recently announced that John
Overby has transferred to the
bank’s Viborg branch to serve as as
sistant vice president and branch
manager. Mr. Overby joined United
in 1975. He has served as branch
manager of the Brandon branch the
last four years.
Deward Roth, assistant vice pres
ident and branch manager of the
Valley Springs branch will become
branch manager at the Brandon
branch. He has been with the bank
since 1971.
United also announced that Jim
Hallock will move to the Rapid City
branch as assistant vice president
and assistant branch manager. Mr.
Hallock joined in 1980 as branch
manager of the 41st Street Branch
in Sioux Falls.

Elected to Theatre Board
C.P. “ Buck” Moore, president,
Northwestern National Bank of
Sioux Falls, was elected to the board

Application Approved
The Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis recently approved the
application by Commercial Holding 4)
Company, Wagner, to acquire the
Commercial State Bank of Wagner.

Western Bank Election Told
T.J. Reardon, president and chief ®
executive officer of Western Bank,
Sioux Falls, has announced the elec
tion of Harold
Van Der Wilt as
mortgage servic
ing officer.
A native of
S ib le y, Iowa,
Mr. Van Der
Wilt joined the
mortgage bank
in g
division
f o l l o w i n g his
graduation from H' VAN DER WILT ^
Mankato State University.

Bank Holding Companies
Select President-Elect

Will F. Nicholson, Jr., president
of Colorado National Bankshares,
Inc., Denver, has been elected chairman-elect of the Association of
Bank Holding Companies at the re- 0
cent annual meeting of the Associa
tion in San Antonio.
Mr. Nicholson will assume the
chairmanship of the Association in
June of next year, succeeding H. #
Furlong Baldwin, president of
Mercantile Bankshares, Inc., Bal
timore, Md.
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Sou th D a k o ta G roup M e etin g s
Date
September
September
September
September
September

Group
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16
17

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5
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Location
Minnehaha Country Club, Sioux Falls
Holiday Inn, Mitchell
Bavarian Inn, Custer
Moose Lodge, Mobridge
Sheraton, Aberdeen

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was reported that some of the golf
ers ran afoul of the resident ducks
and geese and opted for penalty
strokes rather than risk retrieving
golf balls errantly shot near the
nesting fowl. Less hazardous events
of the day included the mens’ and
ladies’ bowling tournaments. The
evening was hightlighted by the
President’s Reception and Dinner
which included a humorous and
motivational presentation by Newt
Hielscher of Shreveport, Louisiana.
A western dance followed the dinner
and featured the music of the Tibor
Brothers.

pres., American St. Bk. & Tr., Williston; Pres. Elect.—Darold Peterson, pres., Lakeside St. Bk.,
New Town; V.P.-Treas.— Robert Westbee, pres., 1st Bank, Bismarck, and Past Pres.— Tom
Roney, pres., Foster Cty. Bk. & Tr., Carrington.

• John McGinley Elected to Head NDBA
By STEVE BURCH
Associate Publisher
HEMED “ Energetic Banking
for the Eighties,” some 450
bankers attended the 97th annual
North Dakota Bankers Association
convention in Minot May 24-25.
Highlighting convention activities
was the election of John McGinley
to serve as N DBA president for the
coming year. Mr. McGinley is presi
dent of American State Bank &
Trust Company of Williston and will
succeed Tom Roney, president of
Foster County Bank & Trust Com
pany of Carrington. Advanced to
president-elect was Darold Petersen,
president of Lakeside State Bank in
New Town and elected vice presi

dent/treasurer was Robert Westbee,
president of First Bank, Bismarck.
In other action, A B A members
elected Wayne Stroup, president of
Garrison State Bank, to a two-year
term on the A B A Council. He joins
Carlyle Austinson, president of the
Northwood State Bank who will
serve as NDBA state A B A vice pres
ident for the year. Also, Lee Stenehjem was honored with a plaque as he
became a member of the 40 Year
Club. Mr. Stenehjem is president of
the First International Bank in
Waltford City.
The beauty of the pine trees and
lakes of the Minot Country Club pro
vided the backdrop for the mens’
and ladies’ golf tournament which
kicked-off convention activities. It

The second day of the convention
began with the Prayer Breakfast
and inspirational message by former
Minnesota Viking Karl Kassulke.
Complimenting the bankers for in
cluding a time for prayer in the con
vention, Karl told of the motorcycle
accident which severed his spinal
cord and has confined him to a
wheelchair. He said that despite the
“ nuisance” of the wheelchair, he has
found perfect peace and joy through
Christian fellowship and prayer. Fol
lowing breakfast, the general ses
sion was called to order by NDBA
President Tom Roney who intro
duced Minot Mayor Tom Lee who
gave an opening welcome.
“ Eat plenty of oatmeal, use your
seat belts and don’t smoke” was
among the advice given to the bank
ers by Dr. Howard Pyfer of Seattle,
Washington. A health and fitness
consultant, he offered many sugges
tions in his “ Prescription for the
Rest of Your Life” which will con
tribute to a longer and healthier life
span. Control of stress, regular exer
cise, not smoking and maintaining a
proper diet supplemented with vita-

NDBA Convention speakers included from le ft— Mark Willes, exec, v.p., General Mills, Mpls.; Karl Kassulke, former Minnesota Viking; ABA
Pres. Elect-Designate Bob Brenton, pres., Brenton Banks, Inc., Des Moines, and Larry Connell, pres., Washington Mutual Sav. Bk., Seattle.

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Gary Bergstrom, v.p., Natl. Bk. of Harvey; JackQuitmeyer, a.v.p., 1st
Natl., Mpls., and wife Kathy; Glenn Heitzman, c.e.o., 1st Natl., Devils
Lake, and Lenny Kiski, corr. bkg. off., 1st Natl., Mpls.

mins and minerals were the areas
most emphasized by Dr. Pyfer.
Danny Wall, staff director of the
Senate Banking, Housing and Ur
ban Affairs committee directed his
early remarks to the House leader
ship in Washington whom he ac
cused of playing games with the
Senate version of the 1983 budget.
Calling Rep. Tip O ’Neill’s approach
to the budget short sighted, he sees
a lengthy battle ahead before any
agreements can be reached. He also
predicts a watered-down version of
the Garn Bill being passed some
time in June. Mr. Wall said that due
to the concerns for the ailing thrift
industry, no favorable banking leg
islation would come out of Washing
ton that might have a negative ef
fect on the thrifts.
A B A President-Elect Designate
Robert Brenton, president of Brenton Banks, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa,
followed with the A B A ’s views on
the national economy and legislative
activity in Washington, D.C. With
prolonged budget debate leading the
economy closer and closer to a crisis

condition, he outlined the A B A rec
ommendation to Congress for a bi
partisan budget. The results ex
pected from this recommendation
are a significant downward trend in
the ratio of government spending to
the GNP, a significant reduction in
the deficit and clear evidence that
both bodies are willing to make hard
choices on expenditures and taxes.
Mr. Brenton also expressed the hope
that Congress will soon grant
bankers expanded powers that will
allow them to compete more effec
tively with unregulated, nonbank
financial service companies. He feels
that action is needed soon since
D ID C ’s “ lackadaisical and foot
dragging’ ’ response to deregulation
could soon cost the bankers a “ lost
generation of depositors.’ ’
The speakers program was com
pleted by Lawrence Connell, presi
dent of Washington Mutual Savings
Bank in Seattle and Mark Willes,
vice president of General Mills, Min
neapolis. The convention was
brought to a close with a social ban
quet and entertainment from the
Spurrlows.

Kent Mongeon, exec, v.p., St. Bk. of Towner; Bill Smith, N.D. State
Development Credit Corp.; Mike Coffey, sr. v.p., NW Natl., Valley City,
and Ralph Schreiner, v.p., 1st Natl., Minot.

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Herb Thorndal, pres., Bk. of N.D., Bismarck; Dan Schorsch, pres., 1st
Natl., Jamestown, and Don Johnson, v.p., American Natl., St. Paul.

Fargo Bank Names Two V.P.s
George W. Schwartz, president of
First National Bank of Fargo, has
announced the appointment of Ron
Braseth as vice president, agri
cultural loans/correspondent bank
ing and Greg Sorensen as vice presi
dent, retail banking.
Mr. Braseth began his banking
career in 1968 with Northwest Com
puter Services and joined First Na
tional as agricultural loan officer in
1976.
Mr. Sorensen began his banking
career in 1972 with First North
western National Bank of Marshall,
Minn., joining the Fargo bank in
1977.

Stock Dividends Increased
The Department of Banking and
Financial Institutions, Bismarck,
reported the following North Da
kota banks have increased their
capital by stock dividend:
Security State Bank of Hannaford from $75,000 to $150,000, and
Farmers & Merchants Bank of Wim
bledon from $50,000 to $100,000.

Ned Mayer, chmn., Dakota NW Natl., Bismarck; Dick Wold, pres., 1st
Natl. Bk. in Grand Forks; John Rouzine, retired, 1st Natl., Bowman,
and George Johnson, chmn., 1st Natl., Minot.

North D a k o ta N ew s

John McGinley, pres., American St. Bk. & Tr., W illiston; Darold
Petersen, pres., Lakeside St. Bk., New Town; LeRoy Lokken, v.p.,
Bank of Tioga, and Morris Nelson, pres., Scandia American, Stanley.

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Carl Jahr, rep., Pat Rogers Assoc., Billings; Gary Nelson, v.p., Scandia American, Stanley; Al Bowman, pres., Dakota Western, Bowman,
and Roger Berglund, exec, v.p., Dakota Western, Bowman.

NDBA Past Pres. Tom Roney (center) receives plaque from John Hus
ton, (left) corr. bkg. off. and Don Pederson, sr. v.p., NW Natl., Mpls.

Golf Chmn. Bob Turner, sr. v.p., 1st Bk. of N.D., Minot, between assis
tants Jan Schossow and Hope Van Dyke both with 1st Natl., Minot.

Dan Schorsch, pres., 1st Natl., Jamestown; Jim Noonan, pres., 1st
NW Natl., IMandan; Bill DuToit, sr. v.p., 1st Natl., Jamestown, and
Gary Flaa, sr. v.p., 1st NW Natl., Mandan.

Gary Rohlfsen, a.v.p., American Natl., St. Paul; Buzz Hulett, a.v.p.,
Fed. Reserve Bk., Mpls., and Jim Gartneir, Comptroller of Currency,
Mpls.

Minnesota visitors Truman Jeffers, exec, v.p., MBA, and wife Leila
with MBA Pres. Robert Welle, chmn., 1st Natl., Bemidji, and wife
Jeanette.

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Dave McAdoo, a.v.p., American St. Bk. & Tr., W illiston; Kenneth
Erickson, v.p., 1st Natl. Bk & Tr., W illiston, and Stan Peterson, v.p.,
Midland Natl., Mpls.

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Harry Argue, exec, dir., NDBA, and wife Linda with Susan and Roger
Berglund, exec, v.p., Dakota Western, Bowman.

Bruce Hebei, a.v.p., 1st Natl., St. Paul; G.W. Melgaard, v.p., Farmers
St. Bk., Crosby, and Gary Hanisch, pres., Farmers St. Bk., Crosby.

Tom Mork, corr. bkg. off., 1st Natl., St. Paul; Norb Conzemius, sr. v.p.,
1st Bk. Systems and wife Mary Ellen, and Ollie Hagen, pres., 1st Bk.,
of N.D., Fargo.

James Noonan, pres., 1st NW Natl., Mandan and his wife Marion; Bill
DuToit, sr. v.p., 1st Natl., Jamestown and his wife Joanne, and Gary
Flaa, sr. v.p., 1st NW Natl., Mandan, and wife Darlene.

LEFT— Ralph Grams, op. off., McIntosh Cty. Bk., Ashley; Lenny Kiski, corr. bkg. off., 1st Natl., Mpls.; Dick Carey, corr. bkg. off., 1st Natl.,
St. Paul; Jack Qjitmeyer, a.v.p., 1st Natl., Mpls., and Gary Bergstrom, v.p., Natl. Bk., Harvey; RIGHT—(Front Row) Jack Campion, v.p., F&M
Marquette, Mpls., and wife Mary; Rose Gerhart, Mandan, and Herb Throndal, pres., Bk. of N.D., Bismarck. Back Row—Gaylin Melgaard,
v.p., Farmers St. Bk., Crosby, and wife Sandy; Bert Gerhart, v.p., Mandan Security Bk., and Bill Klein, a.v.p., F&M Marquette, Mpls.

Elected in Bismarck
H.L. Thorndal, president of Bank
of North Dakota, Bismarck, has an
nounced the appointment of Jeannine Christy as head of the bank’s
student loan division.
Ms. Christy has been with the
bank since 1968 in the student loan
division, serving most recently as
vice president. She replaces Martin
Stenehjem, who recently was named
head of the state’s newly created
State Student Loan Guarantee
Agency.

Two Elected to Board
First National Bank of Jamestown
recently announced the election of

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Curtiss O. Goehner and Raymond R.
Heupel to the board.

C.O. GOEHNER

R.R. HEUPEL

Mr. Goehner currently is owner
and president of the Eddy Funeral
Home. Mr. Heupel is owner and oper
ator of a 3,200 acre ranch with
feedlot.

Joins Mandan Bank
Bernard A. Meier has recently
joined the staff
of First North
western Bank of
Mandan as com
mercial loan of
ficer. Mr. Meier
has been asso
ciated with Man
dan S e c u r i t y
Bank for the last
eight years and
B.A. MEIER
is a 1974 grad
uate of the University of North
Dakota with a degree in business ad
ministration

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Sutter,
Casper.

Il|. GUIDING the Wyoming Bankers Association in 1982-83 will be this team (from left): Exec.
Vice Pres.— M. Clare Mundell, Laramie; Immed. Past Pres.— Donald R. Wassenberg, pres.,
State Bank of Big Piney; Pres.— Henry A. Hitch, pres., First Interstate Bank of Casper, N.A.;
1st Vice Pres.— Don H. Babbit, pres., Stockgrowers State Bank, Worland, and 2nd Vice
Pres.— Robert T. Noel, pres., First Wyoming Bank, N.A., Cheyenne.

• Henry Hitch Named Wyoming President
By BEN HALLER, JR.
Editor and Publisher
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IVil ORE than 600 registrants atIV I tended the Wyoming Bankers
Association’s 74th annual conven
tion, testing to capacity the excellent facilities at Jackson Lake
Lodge, Moran.
Henry A. Hitch, president, First
Interstate Bank of Casper, N.A.,
was advanced to the W B A presidency, succeeding Donald R. Wassen
berg, president, State Bank of Big
Piney. Don H. Babbitt, president,
Stockgrowers State Bank, Worland,
moved up to become first vice president. Named to succeed him as se
cond vice president was Robert T.
Noel, president, First Wyoming
Bank, N.A., Cheyenne. M. Clare
Mundell, Laramie, continues as executive vice president and associa
tion manager.
Kenneth C. Naramore, president
of Stockmen’s Bank and Trust Com
pany, Gillete, was elected as one of
two Wyoming representatives on
the A B A Council. Robert W. Mir
acle, president, Wyoming National
Bank of Casper, is the other Council
member and will be A B A state vice
president.
The Executive Council members
announced are:
One-year terms — Russell E.
Knight, president, National Bank of
Newcastle; Sherrod W. France, pres
ident, The Rawlins National Bank;

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Hale Kreycik, president, Converse
County Bank, Douglas, and Jack
Crews, president, American Nation
al Bank, Cheyenne. Mr. Wassenberg
also will have a one-year term on the
executive council as immediate past
president.
Two-year terms—John Lucas, Jr.,
executive vice president, North Side
State Bank, Rock Springs; William
H. Ruegamer, president, Bank of
Commerce, Sheridan; Dick Van Pelt,
president, Bank of Laramie, and
Kenneth L. Miller, vice president
and cashier, Shoshone-First Na
tional Bank, Cody.
Following usual custom, the golf
and tennis tournaments and the
fishing derby took place on opening
day, Wednesday, June 9. John Easterbrook, First Interstate Bank,
Laramie, was “ athletic director,’ ’
assisted by “ trainers” Bill Tumelty
and Rick McElroy of Central Bank,
Denver.
“ Coaches” for golf were John Edmiston, Denver National Bank;
Gene McMillen, First Wyoming
Bank, N.A., Rawlins, and Eugene T.
Hayes, First W yom ing Bank,
Wheatland.
Handling the Fishing Derby were
“ coaches” Dean Bark, Jackson
State Bank, and Sherrod France,
Rawlins National Bank.
Tennis “ coaches” were Dick
Nelson, First National Bank, Pow
ell; E.S. “ W oody” Haines, First In
terstate Bank, Laramie, and Bob

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Speakers
Douglas Kiker, NBC national af
fairs correspondent, pointed out
that the nation’s system of binding
primaries has practically eliminated
the “ dark horse” candidate from
presidential elections, since 36
states abided by such a rule last
time and 38 will do so in 1984. He
also pointed out how special interest
groups (ERA, abortion, NRA, etc.)
have affected national politics, and
how the lack of voter turnout (52%
in 1980) affects the nation’s future.
He pictured President Ronald
Reagan as a man “ caught in the
middle,” a man who is doing nothing
more than what he has preached for
18 years, and a leader whose time
has come and who will be vindicated
by history from the adverse picture
being painted of him by die-hard ad
herents to the followers of Lyndon
Johnson politics, the man Mr. Kiker
labeled as the one who started the
entire financial difficulty in which
the nation now finds itself.
Pointing to degeneration, crime,
break-up of families and plain bad
taste in so many facets of today’s
society, Mr. Kiker said “ it looks like
no one cares. But that’s really not
true. Pride is still there and it needs
only leadership to pull us out. Presi
dent Reagan is tougher, smarter and
more determined than you think., he
is a decent man. He has done more in
his first 18 months than anyone
since Roosevelt. He’s stubborn, but
determined. It ’s a big economic
gamble. We can’t get out of the
mess in 20 months that took years
to build up. If interest rates will ease
and unemployment will come down,
he’ll hold House losses to a min
imum. If they don’t come down, he
may lose 30 House seats and pos
sibly the Senate. If so, he will then
be another Eisenhower. But he’s
still strong, in command, sticking to
his guns...He believes he’s the last
President who will have such an op
portunity (to cut the budget and tax
es). He’s not obstinate—he’s smart,
knows what he’s doing, and I believe
he deserves our support.”
Lee Gunderson, immediate past
president of the A B A and president
of the Bank of Osceola in Osceola,
Wis., picked up on Mr. Kiker’s re
marks and said “ If Congress fails (in
its budget-cutting effort), it’s possi
ble we’ll see rates go back up and
then the ball is in the court of the
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W yom in g N e w s

LEFT Janet and Homer Scott, Jr., pres., Commerce Bancshares, Sheridan, with Jan Murray, a.v.p.; Carol Green; Terry Tangen, (rear), v.p.,
and Charles Green, exec, v.p., all with 1st Natl., Denver. RIGHT—John Edmiston, sr. v.p., Denver Natl., who was co-chmn. of the golf
tourney, and Don H. Babbitt, pres., Stockgrowers State, Worland.
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LEFT—Jack H. Babcock, v.p., Omaha Natl., Omaha, and his wife, Dottie, with Pat and Jack Guthrie, chmn., Bank of Laramie. RIGHT—Sam
Addoms, pres., Denver Natl., and his wife, Cathy; Steve Sheridan, v.p., Denver Natl., and Sherry and Chuck Jones, exec, v.p., American
Bank Corp., Denver.

LEFT Janice and Paul Gargula, corr. bk. off., 1st Natl., Chicago; Maggie and Bob Miracle, pres. & c.e.o., Wyoming Natl., Casper, and Bill
Tumelty, v.p., Central Bank of Denver. RIGHT—Mark Hahn, corr. bk. off., 1st Natl., Lincoln, Nebr.; Wayne Hoskinson, pres., Sioux Natl.,
Harrison, Nebr., and his wife, Joanne, and Gary Bieck, v.p., 1st Natl., Lincoln.

Fed to hold down the screws to tie
down inflation.” (A budget compro
mise was reached after his talk but
had not been cleared by the con
ference committee at this writing.)
Mr. Gunderson said this is the hour
of the nation’s history in which we
need statesmen in Congress and not
politicians.
He reviewed S. 1720, the DIDC
inaction, and non-financial compe
titive scenes, laying out A B A con
sensus policy arrived at during A B A
Leadership Conferences in recent,
months.
At the final morning session, an
excellent film and talk on “ Sexual
Harassment” was presented by Pa

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tricia Linenberger, associate pro
fessor of business law at the Univer
sity of Wyoming, Laramie. She has
done extensive research on this top
ic, has published articles and has
conducted dozens of seminars on
campuses and for business firms to
help them deal with this pressing
legal problem. Through the film and
her own experience on the campus
and with business firms, she cited
numerous cases that violate the
1964 Title VII Civil Rights Act,
dealing with sexual harassment.
These cases range from verbal horse
play and suggestive language by fel
low workers or superiors to outright
sexual abuse.

Professor Linenberger’s urging to
the bank executives was to have
firmly in place a written code of con
duct for bank staff dealing with this
topic, as well as monitoring of it so
the bank will not be open to unneces
sary heavy lawsuits that have
plagued some business firms.
W yoming’s U.S. Senator Malcolm
Wallop was home from Washington
to give members his update view of
the current efforts in Congress to
deal with the nation’s economic
stagnation and the need for a
workable budget.
The 1983 convention has been
scheduled at Jackson Lake Lodge,
from June 15 to 17.
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Casper Bank Recognizes Two
First Interstate Bank of Casper,
N.A., recently promoted Eric Paul to
vice president and investment of
ficer, announced Henry A. Hitch,
president.
Mr. Paul has
been with the
bank since Sep
tember of 1978.
During that time
he has worked as
a teller and in the
operations and
investment de
partments.
Jo Ann Jackson, financial services officer, was
recently honored for 25 years of ser
vice to the banking industry. She
started with First Interstate Bank,
formerly First National Bank of
Casper, in 1955.

Low Interest $ Goes Fast
People lined up early and some
stayed overnight at 53 financial in
stitutions across the state to take
advantage of $55 million worth of

12 7/8% interest, state money for
home mortgage loans.
The 1981 Legislature authorized
the state Farm Loan Board to distri
bute the money through the 53 fi
nancial institutions. The money,
which came from the state’s perma
nent mineral trust fund, was allo
cated to 37 banks, 11 savings and
loan institutions and five mortgage
bankers across the state.
Under the program, home buyers
can borrow up to $80,000 to pur
chase new and existing housing.
Potential homebuyers must have in
comes below $35,000 a year and
must plan to live in the house.

Wyoming Bancorporation
Sets New Records for 1981
At the annual meeting, May 20, of
Wyoming Bancorporation, David R.
Johnson, chairman, president and
chief executive officer, informed
shareholders that the company had
set new records in its operating
results for 1981.
Business at the meeting included
the shareholders approval of an

amendment to change the corporate
name to First Wyoming Bancorporation. Also 14 director s were elected,
with two newly elected: Brenton C.
Leavitt, retired, and former director
of the Federal Reserve Board’s Div
ision of Bank Supervision and Regulation, and John L. Shupe, chair
man and president of Shupe Broth
ers Co. of Greeley, Colo. The new
directors fill vacancies created by
the resignation of A.H. Trautwein,
founder and former chairman of
Wyoming Bancorporation, and John
P. Townley, senior vice president of
Texas Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
Mr. Trautwein will continue as a
consultant to the holding company.
Wy banco is presently seeking
Federal Reserve Board approval for
mergers with American National
Bank of Powell and American Na
tional Bank of Riverton. Although
approval of the merger with the
Powell bank was initially denied, the
board’s decision is currently under
appeal. Opening of a new First W yo
ming Bank in Green River is antici
pated in June and will expand the af
filiate network to 23 banks.

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and was subsequently promoted to
assistant vice president.

Montana

Four Elected in Great Falls

R. L. Reiquam, pres., M iles C ity
J. T. Cadby, exec, v.p., Helena

Missoula Appointments Told
The board of First Bank Southside Missoula recently announced
the following appointments and pro
motions:
Geogre E. Nygaard has been pro
moted to vice president and senior
commercial loan officer, second of
ficer in the bank and secretary to the
board.
Carol Richards has been promo
ted to operations officer and Kim

Gordon to instalment loan officer.
Ms. Richards began her banking
career with the Missoula bank in
1974 and will be in charge of general
bank operations. Ms. Gordon began
her banking career in 1976 with
First Bank in Bozeman, transferring
to Missoula in 1979.
Neil S. Bucklew, president of the
University of Montana, has been ap
pointed to the bank’s board.

First Bank Great Falls recently #
announced the election of Betty
Rowton to customer service officer;
Susan Sell to office system manager,
and Terri Sandrock and Frances
Tenney to assistant operations of- ®
ficer.
Ms. Rowton was employed by the
Internal Revenue Service and the

B. ROWTON

S. SELL

T. SANDROCK

F. TENNEY

Lewistown Executive Named

C. RICHARDS

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John M. Carlson has been named
executive vice president and manag
ing officer of Midstate Bank of Mon
tana, Lewistown, effective June 2 1 .
Joseph J. Friend will continue as
chairman and president of Midstate
Bank.
Mr. Carlson began his banking
career in 1978 with First National
Bank in Lewistown as a loan officer

M o n ta n a N e w s

Great Falls Gas Co. prior to joining
the bank in 1975. Ms. Sell joined in
1978 as a commercial loan secretary,
later managing and implementing
the bank’s word processing center.
Ms. Sandrock has been employed by
the bank since 1978 in the bookkeep
ing department. Ms. Tenney first
joined the bank in 1972 and has been
proof department supervisor since
1973.

Board of Directors Dine in Style

Elected to Board
Robert M. Pancich, president of
First Bank West
Great Falls, has
announced the
election of David
R. Cornell to the
board of direc
tors. Mr. Cornell
has been admini
strator of the
Montana D ea
coness Medical
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Center in Great
Falls since December of 1979.

AS HIGHEST bidder in the Livingston Chamber of Commerce Goods and Services Auction,
First Bank paid $650 for its board of directors to dine in style in the vault of the First Securi
ty Bk. With First Security’s officers as waiters and busboys and a camera crew from KULR
television in Billings filming the whole affair, the eight directors enjoyed a seven-course
gourmet luncheon. In all the auction raised nearly $8,000 for the Chamber, which was short
on funds. Standing above left is: Claude R. Erickson, chrrin.; serving on the right, Bruce A.
Erickson, pres., and seated are the eight directors of First Bk., Livingston.

Application Approved
The Federal Reserve Bank of Min® neapolis recently approved the ap
plication by Montana Bancsystem,
Inc., Billings, to acquire Montana
Bank of Billings.

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1982 MBA Group Officers
Group 1: president-John Caven, pres.,
First Security Bank, Havre; vice pres.William Perrin, pres., Security State Bank,
Harlem; secy./treas.-Chris S. Owen, v.p.,
First National Bank, Cut Bank; nomin. committee-George Waggoner, pres., First Inter
state Bank, Cut Bank.
Group 2: president-R.P. Thiesen, pres.,
First State Bank, Forsyth; vice pres.-Robert
J. Goss, pres., Richland National Bank, Sidney; secy./treas.-James Carter, v.p., First Na
tional Bank, Wibaux; nomin. committee-Albert Martens, v.p., First State Bank, For
syth.
Group 3A : president-Michael Cann, First
National Bank, Libby; vice pres.-Lynn Weaver, v.p., Security State Bank, Poison; secy./
treas.-Alan A. Aronson, v.p., Valley Bank,
Kalispell; nomin. committee-Bernard Remick, pres., First National Bank, Libby.
Group 3B: president-Ralph G. McCoy,
e.v.p., Farmers State Bank, Victor; vice
pres.-Dan Simkins, v.p., First Bank Western
Montana, Missoula; secy./treas.-W.E. Manley, pres., First State Bank, Thompson Falls;
nomin. committee-William L. Bouchee, pres.,
Montana Bank of South Missoula.
Group 4: president-James Heaton, Citizens
State Bank, Scobey; vice pres.-Greg Sundwall, First State Bank, Froid; secy./treas.Jim Hines, v.p., First National Bank, Glas
gow; nomin. committee-R.C. Loegering, v.p.,
Traders State Bank, Poplar; alternate-M.E.
Veis, pres., Citizens State Bank, Scobey.
Group 5A: president-Lawrence Frank, v.p.,
Northwestern Bank, Lewistown; vice pres.-

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Gary Gibson, v.p., First Bank, Helena; secy./
treas.-S.D. Piper, pres., Continental National
Bank, Harlowton; nomin. committee-Dick
Fossum, v.p., First Bank, Helena; alternateBill Olson, pres., First National Bank, Fairfield.
Group 5B: president-William Thorndal,
pres., Central Bank, Great Falls; vice pres.Michael Wangen, v.p., First Bank, Great
Falls; secy./treas.-Patrick McDermott, v.p.,
Northwestern National, Great Falls; nomin.
committee-Gene Teach, pres., First Inter
state Bank, Great Falls; alternate-William
Thorndal, pres., Central Bank, Great Falls.
Group 6: president-L.D. Jacobson, pres.,
First Security Bank, Deer Lodge; vice pres.Dick Timmerman, pres., First Bank, Butte;
secy./treas.-Clint Rouse, v.p., State Bank &
Trust Co., Dillon; nomin. committee-Bob
Mountain, pres., First Northwestern, Dillon.
Group 7A: president-Wayne Gibson, v.p.,
First Security, Bozeman; vice pres.-Donald
Powell, pres., First Security, Big Timber;
secy./treas.-Daniel Krum, v.p., Farmers
State Bank, Worden; nomin. committee-Joel
Harris, pres., Yellowstone Bank, Laurel;
alternate-Dean Nelson, pres., First Security
Bank, West Yellowstone.
Group 7B: president-James Scott, pres.,
Pioneer Bank, Billings; vice pres.-Al Winegardner, chmn., First Northwestern Na
tional, Billings; secy./treas.-George Balback,
pres., Western Bank, Billings; nomin. committee-Jim Heaton, Citizens State Bank,
Scobey.

Security Bank, Billings
Staff Changes Announced
Security Bank, N.A., Billings, has
announced several staff changes and
the formation of a new division.
Robert P. Gibbs has joined the bank

as vice president of the energy divi
sion. He previously was vice presi
dent with Continental Illinois Na
tional Bank and Trust Company of
Chicago.
Jerry Magnuson, data processing
officer, has been promoted to assis
tant vice president. He started with
the bank in 1981. Gary Johnson,
vice president of operations, has
been named cashier. He began as a
computer operator with Security
Bank in 1968. William Price, agri
cultural loan representative has
been promoted to officer status.
The Corporate Services Division,
a newly formed division of the bank,
will handle the sales of all non-credit
corporate services. It will be man
aged by Thomas Cover, vice presi
dent at the bank.

Promoted in Plentywood
Security State Bank, Plentywood,
has announced a chain of promo
tions due to the resignation of Alan
Dale, vice president, after 1 1 years
with the bank. Mr. Dale resigned to
take a position in Denver.
Dallas Johnson has been promo
ted to vice president; Robert “ Buzz”
Romstad to assistant vice president;
Cindy Zieske to instalment loan of
ficer; Kathy Overland to auditor,
and Janice Blair to personal banking
officer.
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Central Bank of Denver.

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1982-83 Officers of the Colorado Bankers Association are, from left: Chmn.—W.W. Peter
Grant, pres., Colorado Natl., Denver; Pres.—Allen R. Koeneke, chmn. & pres., 1st Natl. Ri
fle; Vice Pres.— Norman M. Dean, chmn. & pres., United Bank of Greeley, and Exec.
Mgr.— Don A. Childears, Denver.

Allen Koeneke Named Colorado President
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EEP in mind that all this
about the bad
economy can be depressing. It is not
so far actually from where we are to
where we want to be. More people
are employed at this time than ever
before.” These were the opening re
marks to the Colorado Bankers A s
sociation’s first business session
during the 81st annual convention
at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado
Springs, made by A B A President
Lew Jenkins, vice chairman of Man
ufacturers Hanover Trust Co., New
York.
Mr. Jenkins agreed that “ the Fed
has done what it should do. I say,
leave them alone.” Mr. Jenkins re
viewed again in detail the activities
and hearings in which A B A has
been involved in the crisis surroun
ding the national budget hearings
and legislative hearings on deregula
tion. He stressed, as others have
done, that too many people do not
understand—or refuse to under
stand—that social programs are not
being cut, but the amount of their in
crease is being cut. Mr. Jenkins also
emphasized again the need for all
bankers to make their feelings
known to Congress and the regula
tors that if they do not get authority
soon for new products with which to
compete, that banking will lose a
complete generation of young people
to non-depository unregulated com
petitors.

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CBA President W.W. Peter Grant,
president of the Colorado National
Bank, Denver, in his annual report
cited the fact that the CBA’s 28 com
mittees had been pared in the past
year to just 16 committees and are
geared to matching that committee
work with exact needs of banking
and the association today. This in
cludes a new long range planning
committee, headed by Kent Olin,
First National Bank, Colorado
Springs.
Allen R. Koeneke, chairman and
president of First National Bank,
Rifle, was advanced to be president
of the CBA, succeeding Mr. Grant.
The new vice president is Norman
Dean, chairman and president,
United Bank of Greeley.
Reece A. Overcash, Jr., chairman
and chief executive officer of The
Associates Corporation of America,

Dallas, said his company and th ose^
like Sears, Merrill Lynch, American
Express, ATT, Reuters and I B M all of them non-depository institu
tions—are rushing into the financial
services field because “ The financial^
services industry, even with its pro
gress, growth and service to the
public, still is essentially an under
developed frontier... perhaps one of
the last major frontiers yet to be fu l-0
ly developed by the business sector.”
Noon luncheon speaker Howard
K. Smith, television commentator
and reporter, said “ President Rea
gan has great support, but there i s #
increasing doubt about his ability to
manage the job. For a long time he
has had tremendous ‘luck,’ with re
vitalizing defense, for example, but
six months later labor and the p o o r#
felt he wasn’t getting the job done
and they would suffer, then business
dropped, followed by David Stock
man’s damaging statements, and
now the budget problem.”
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At the final morning session,
economist David M. Jones, vice
president and economist for Aubrey
G. Lanston & Co., Inc., New Y ork ,^
said the Fed’s tight money grow th ^
range of 5% is tough “ but is needed
to definitely break inflation. The
next six months could be the worst
since the recession started because^
the Fed will hang in there. If you’r e ^
going to kill inflation psychology
then you must be twice as tough for
twice as long as necessary. So, don’t
expect any relief until we get in to ^
next year. The Fed is not totally in
sensitive to the needs of the world.
When the money supply does come
down, as in the past quarter, the Fed
eases.”
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Dr. Jones pointed to the real pro
blem being with the market pushing
up against huge budgets. “ When

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C olorad o N ew s

LEFT— Bob McRae, sr. v.p., 1st Natl., Denver, and his wife, Sandra; Jac,x
v . K ., c , u .xa.c c a ^ c . y , a . v . M., uum wim .si incui., umcago,
and John Hurst, v.p., Bank of America, San Francisco. RIGHT—Joe Phernetton, sr. v.p.; Larry Eilers, v.p., and Pete Faletti, exec. v.p. & chief
fin. off., all with 1st Natl, of Denver, with Maureen Harty, wife of Mr. Faletti and cash mgmt. mgr. at Colorado Natl., Denver.

LEFT— HOSTS for the Central Bank of Denver annual breakfast were, from left: Bill Tumelty, v.p.; Jim Fallon, a.v.p.; Jim Osbourn, exec,
v.p.; Don Echtermeyer, sr. v.p., and head of corr. bkg. div., and Don Hoffman, chmn. & c.e.o. RIGHT—Jim Allen and Dan Boehle, both v.p.s
at Omaha Natl., Omaha, Nebr.; Linda Boehle; E.K. Yanney (far right), pres., 1st State Bank, Lodgepole, Nebr.; his daughter, Michele next to
him, and in front, his grandaughter, Wendy Kemling from Sterling, Colo.
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you look at Reaganomics it has four
parts and each looks good, but to
gether they fall apart.”
He feels the tax cuts should have
been preceded by budget cuts, and
that the defense budget should be
held down. “ He got bad advice from
Arthur Laffer” on tax cuts, Dr.
Jones emphasized. “ It would be bet
ter if the tax cuts came in 1985-86.
Now the big deficits have the gov
ernment driving everyone else out of
the markets. I‘m not saying we’ll
have a depression, but pain in the
next six months will be greater than
anyone thought it would be—world
wide.” He feels that if tax cuts had
been pushed forward three years,
then business people who are now
going out of business could have
benefitted. “ This is a capital goods
recession,” he pointed out, “ not an
inventory recession.”
After painting all the gloom, Dr.
Jones concluded with two “ good
news” points: “ There are two bets.
The legacy of the Reagan Admini
stration will be disinflation. Also, by
the 1984 elections, we will have laid
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economic recovery. Those same
firms will be able to pay off their debt
and high interest rates. After recov
ery, loans will drop and so will in
terest rates. Business will develop
enough profits to pay off debt and
use those profits to rebuild.”
U.S. Senator William Armstrong
(R. Colo.) took a more optimistic
tack, stating “ There is nothing fun
damentally wrong with the econ
omy, but some wrong medicines
have been administered. The econony has slowed down and is sicken
ing from the wrong medicine admin
istered over a long period of time.”
He pointed to the past two decades
of Congressional and administrative
spending as the root problems of to
day’s unsettled economy.
Sen. Armstrong feels there is
nothing basically wrong with the
economy that it can’t be turned
around in short order—especially if
interest rates can be turned down to
unleash business spending and pro
ductivity. However, he pointed out
there is really no easy way out. “ It’s
like losing weight,” he said, “ you
must diet and hurt a little to get

back to where you should be.” As
positive signs, he pointed to the
drop in inflation, currently estima
ted at 1 -2 %, he said. Interest rates^
are still high at 16%, he noted, butW
are far less than the 2 2 % of a few
months ago. He advocates the tax
program and new business guide
lines, including lowered tax ceilings,0
depreciation and capital gains im
provements. He doesn’t think the
tax cut should have been delayed; if
anything, he would prefer that it
had been earlier and in one big b ite #
to give the economy a real jolt.
Elliott Lee Richardson, noted at
torney from Washington, D.C., and
the man who has probably held more
Cabinet positions than any oth er#
person in the nation’s history, also
was on the final morning program.
He gave a scholarly, interesting
view of the Law of the Sea confer
ences, to which he is the U nited#
States’ Ambassador-at Large. The
three-year discussions of this world
wide group, taking into consid
eration everything on and under the
waters of the world, who shall h a v e^
the lawful rule over them, when na-

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tions shall have sovereign rights,
and when the rights of the rest of the
world shall prevail, can well be set
ting the groundwork for agreement
among nations on other critical mat
ters, he feels.

The beautiful Broadmoor grounds
laid a backdrop for an excellent
round of sports and social activities
throughout the convention—from
the famous Broadmoor champion
ship golf courses and numerous ten

nis courts, to the newer facilities
which afforded an opportunity for
varying tastes in convention dining
and entertainment.
The 1983 convention will be held
at The Broadmoor June 2-4.
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LEFT— Richard A. Kirk, pres., & chmn.. United Bank of Denver and chmn. of ABA mktg. comm., with Doris and Lew Jenkins, pres, of ABA
and vice chmn. of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, New York. RIGHT— Bruce M. Rockwell, chmn. Colorado Natl., Denver, with
Madeline and Charles M. DeBelle, after Mr. DeBelle received his plaque as a 50-year Colorado banker.

LEFT—Tom Courson, sr. v.p., United Bank of Lakewood; Ivan Taylor, pres., United Bank of S.W. Plaza, Middleton, and his wife, Jean; Darcy
Myers (rear), a.v.p., Don Robottham (rear), exec, v.p., and Jan Campbell, a.v.p., all with United Bank of Denver, and at far right, Marie
Robotham. RIGHT— Dick Muir, v.p., United Missouri Bank of Kansas City, and his wife, Beverly, with Marilynne and Bill Gossett, pres.,
United States Bank of Grand ju n ctio n.

LEFT— Dave Fowler, v.p., Colorado Natl., Denver, and Nancy Fowler; Ingrid and Jack Boggess, pres., Park Natl., Pueblo. RIGHT— Roger
Knight, III, chmn. & pres., Metro Natl., Denver; Donna Targonski, a.v.p., Irving Trust Co., New York; Barbara Knight, and Ted Brown, chmn.,
1st Natl., Denver.

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been president of a merger and ac
quisition firm after 18 years of bank
ing experience in Detroit.
Promoted to the position of assis
tant vice president-director of retail
planning and development was Kim
berly A. Willard. She joined the
bank in January of this year and was
previously with Gunstream Indus
tries as director of marketing plan
ning and Combanks Corporation as
vice president of marketing.

V.P. Named in Greeley

University National Bank to Build
of a five-story, tomer service, relocation of two auto
square foot office build
mated teller machines, three times
ing has been jointly announced by the existing safe deposit space, a
Charles L. Ferguson, chairman and larger vault and additional commer
president of University National cial drive-up services.
Bank and George M. Mullin, presi
According to Mr. Ferguson, all
dent of University Hills Inc.
commercial and real estate loan ser
Construction of the new building, vices, trust services and administra
located on the northeast corner of tive offices will be located in the new
East Yale Avenue and South Colo building. Retail services will remain
rado Boulevard, immediately west in the existing facility, which will be
of the existing University National expanded some 5,000 square feet and
Bank Building, is scheduled for com modernized to blend with the exter
pletion in mid-1983.
ior appearance of the new structure.
The project is a joint venture be Office space will be available for lease
tween the bank and University Hills, on the upper floors. An overhead
Inc., owner of the University Hills walkway and underground tunnel
Shopping Center. University Nation will connect the new building to the
al, the principal tenant, will more existing building. Plans also call for
than double its space by leasing the modernization of the existing twobottom two floors and lower level. story building and more than doubl
Combined with the existing Bank ing customer parking spaces. The in
building, the new facility permits ex terior will feature an open stairway
panded retail and commercial cus within a skylit, two-story atrium.

o n s t r u c t io n

100,000

Central Bank of Denver
Staff Promotions Told
The board of directors of Central
Bank of Denver recently promoted
six employees and elected eight
others to positions as officers.
Promoted to senior vice president,
general counsel and secretary was
John E. Bush; to vice president and
controller, John R. Tavernier; Lloyd
R. Hendrickson to vice president,
and to assistant vice president were
Scott Brennan, Jerry L. Helmke and
Kimberly Willard. The bank’s new
officers are Gary Bostwick, Colleen
A. Carwin, Marcia E. Haavind, Mi
chael McCall, David Purvis, Gwen
dolyn D. Reker, Donna Scarpella
and La Vaughn Schmidt.
Mr. Bush joined Central in 1975
as general counsel. In 1981 the title
of secretary was added to his pre
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vious title of vice president and
general counsel.
Mr. Tavernier has worked in the
control division as well as the cor
porate trust department since join
ing Central in 1977. He was previ
ously with Peat, Marwick and Mitch
ell as a certified public accountant.
Mr. Hendrickson, who joined the
bank last month, was promoted to
vice president and is regional bank
ing unit head in the commercial
banking department.
Mr. Brennan, who joined the bank
in 1980, was promoted in the retire
ment planning center. He formerly
was with Lincoln National Life In
surance Co. in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Promoted in the commercial
banking department was Jerry
Helmke who joined Central in Feb
ruary of this year. Mr. Helmke had

R.T. Hinman, president of Cache
National Bank of Greeley, recently
announced the promotion of Phillip
L. Myers from assistant vice presi
dent to vice president, commercial
loans.
Mr. Myers began his banking ca
reer in 1973 and has been at Cache
National since 1981.

Gothenburg Changes Told
R.E. (Bob) Andrist, formerly
branch manager of First Federal
Savings and Loan of Dawson Coun
ty, recently joined the staff of First
State Bank, Gothenburg, as instal
ment loan officer.
Also at the bank, Earl VanSteenberg resigned from the board. He
has plans to live in Pharr, Texas.

Morrill Employe Honored
On M ay 12, directors and
employes of the First National Bank
of Morrill gathered at the Scotts
Bluff Country Club to host a sur
prise dinner in honor of Gloria M.
Lind, vice president, who has served
the bank 25 years. An open house
was also held at the bank the follow
ing week in her honor.

Controller Appointment Told
Sandy Mahon has been appointed
controller of East Bank of Colorado
Springs, according to Thomas P.
O ’Rourke, president. She will be re
sponsible for internal accounting,
auditing and personnel for the bank.
Ms. Mahon joined the bank in
1981 as an accounting and personnel
representative.

Officer Promotion Told
Cameron A. Winchester recently
was promoted to the position of as
sistant operations officer of Central
Bank of Colorado Springs. Mr. Win
chester joined the bank in 1980 as a
management trainee.

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Three Named in Boulder

First National Bank in Boulder
has announced the appointments of
Craig E. Tribolet
as vice president
® and trust depart
ment manager,
and John H. Lay
man as assistant
vice president
® and trust officer.
Mary F. Clough
has also joined
First National
C.E. TRIBOLET
Bank in Boulder
® as manager of bookkeeping opera
tions.

J.H. LAYMAN

M.F. CLOUGH

•

Prior to joining First National,
Mr. Tribolet worked at the First Na
tional Bank of Colorado Springs for
twelve years, where he served as
vice president and trust officer.
®
Mr. Layman previously worked
for First National Bank of Long
mont as senior trust officer.
Ms. Clough came to First Nation
al Bank in Boulder from Greeley Na® tional Bank where she was customer
service supervisor and an advantage
banking officer. From 1975-1979
Ms. Clough worked for Iowa-Des
^ Moines National Bank, Iowa.

New Bank to Organize
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Colorado National Bankshares,
Inc., has announced that the Comptroller of the Currency has given the
preliminary approval to organize a
de novo bank, Colorado National
Bank - Southwest. The bank will be
located at Southwest Plaza.
In making the announcement,
Will F. Nicholson, Jr., president of
Colorado National Bankshares, Inc.,
also advised that permission must
be received for the bank to be included in Colorado National Bankshares,
Inc., and that application has been
made to the Federal Reserve Bank
of Kansas City for that formation.
Approval is expected sometime in
the early fall and it is expected that
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ter of 1982 at the same time a grand
opening of the entire shopping cen
ter is scheduled.

Drive-Up Facility Opens
The Palisades National Bank, Pal
isade, recently opened its new “ A p
ple Orchard” drive-up. It is a full
service detached facility with four
lanes, walk in lobby, night depos
itory and space for a drive-up ATM.
The 1,000 square foot building is
located on two acres of producing
apple trees.

Two Elections Announced
William L. Crumb has been elec
ted vice president and cashier and
Robert G. Sinton has been elected
assistant vice president in charge of
retail loans at Central Bank of In
verness, N.A., Denver.
Mr. Crumb has been with Central
Bank of Denver, an affiliate of Cen
tral Bancorporation, since 1974,
serving most recently as operations
officer and manager of the collec
tions department.
Mr. Sinton was employed by Cen
tral Bank of Denver in 1979, most
recently as assistant manager of the
credit department.

University Natl. Names Two
Susan Lohmar and Debbie Carlyle
have been promoted to operations of
ficers at University National Bank,
Denver.
As operations officer-bookkeeping
manager, Ms. Lohmar will be man
aging the bookkeeping department.
She previously was assistant man
ager of Bank II, having joined the
bank in 1980.
Debbie Carlyle has been named op
erations officer-Bank II manager, re
sponsible for management of the
Bank II remote facility. Associated
with University National for three
years, she most recently was assis
tant manager of the teller depart
ment.

Denver Promotions Told
A t First N ational Bank of
Denver, Robert S. McRae, senior
vice president, corporate banking,
has been named manager of the
bank’s financial institutions and
agricultural lending group. He suc
ceeds Joe Sylvan, who left the bank
to become vice chairman of InterFirst Bank of Victoria, Tex.

Mr. McRae, previously the bank’s
senior credit officer and head of
portfolio control, joined the bank in
1967. He was appointed a commer
cial loan officer in 1970 and named
vice president in 1980.
Dale M. Miller, Paul W. Griffith,
Michael Iida, Jacob T. Puzio and
Wesley Howard Sargent have been
promoted to vice president status.
Mr. Miller, who will be serving in
individual financial services, joined
the bank from Majestic Savings and
Loan Association.
Mr. Griffith joined the bank as
vice president in the bank services
department in April, 1982. He came
to the bank from West America
Mortgage in Englewood, where he
was senior vice president of finance
and administration.
Mr. Iida, who will be serving in
marketing, was with Wells Fargo
Bank in San Francisco, prior to join
ing the Denver bank in 1980.
Mr. Puzio, commercial services
division, joined in April, 1981, as
assistant vice president, having
served eight years at Boulder Na
tional Bank.
Named to vice president in mar
keting, Mr. Sargent recently joined
the bank from Greeley, where he was
vice president and marketing direc
tor at the First National Bank of
Greeley.

M ASTERCARD II...
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nancial analysis of costs and income
to show the profitability of MCII to
an individual bank. In the example
he used, based on 2,000 issued ac
counts and 1,400 average active ac
counts for a $30-$50 million bank,
all of the transactions, fees, process
ing costs and income net out to a
bottom line pre-tax profit of 28% on
“ a conservative financial reporting
basis—about $9.00 per account,” he
concluded.
Each of the three speakers teamed
with Art Gibietis from the MasterCard regional office in St. Louis for a
panel discussion, moderated by Wil
liam E. Clark, BCS vice president
for agent and merchant relations.
Each registrant for the seminar
received a working kit containing
details of the MCII plan, results of
the national survey, and an exten
sive list of questions and answers
concerning the new debit card.
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Nebraska
H.P. S tu c k e y , pres., L e xin g to n
S. M atzke, J r., exec. v.p., L in co ln

NBA Selects Stan Matzke to Head Staff
TAN Matzke, Jr., of Lincoln,
S
has been appointed executive
vice president of the Nebraska
Bankers Association. The announce
ment was made by NBA President
Harold P. Stuckey, president, Lex• in gton State Bank and Trust Co.
Mr. Matzke replaces Roger M. Bev
erage, who resigned last month to
enter private business in Bertrand,
Nebraska. As executive vice presi•dent, Mr. Matzke will head the or
ganization’s professional staff and
direct its daily operations.
Mr. Matzke, 48, is currently assis
tant to the president of Southeast
^Community College in Lincoln. He
will begin full-time duties with the
bankers association in July. Prior to
joining Southeast Community Col
l e g e in 1978, he was director of the
^Department of Administrative Ser
vices for the state for five years. He
has also served as director of the
Nebraska Department of Economic
^Development, assistant director of
resident instruction for the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln College of
Agriculture, superintendent of the
University of Nebraska School of
^Technical Agriculture in Curtis and
instructor and department head at
the Milford vocational technical
school. He was graduated from the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in
01955 with a bachelor of science de
gree in agriculture and in 1965 with
a master’s degree in educational
psychology.

Hastings, according to Norman
Nackerud, president.
Ms. Frerichs joined the bank in
1964 in the bookkeeping and opera
tions areas, serving most recently as
assistant manager in the mortgage
loan department.

Kearney Addition Told —
Seminar Draws Big Response
Stewart K. Jobes has joined the
Kearney State Bank and Trust Com
pany as a loan officer, according to
Larry Wangrud,
president.
Mr. Jobes has
served as assis
tant manager at
F irst S avin gs
Company of Has
tings and has
also held posi
tions at Com
m u n ity S tate
S.K. JOBES
Bank of Whiting,

Receive 50-Year Awards

Promoted in Hastings
Sandra Frerichs has been pro
moted to assistant vice president
• and manager of the mortgage loan
department of First National Bank,

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Executive V.P. Named
Jack Sorensen, vice president of
the Dakota County State Bank,
South Sioux City, has been elected
executive vicep resid en t and
promoted to the
bank’s board of
directors.
Mr. Sorensen
succeeds Bernie
Moore, who will
stay on as an of
ficer in an ad
visory capacity
u n til A u g u s t
1st. Mr. Moore is resigning to join
the staff of Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood, Inc., a stock and bond broker
age firm in Sioux City.
Mr. Sorensen became associated
with the Dakota County State Bank
in June of 1979. He came to South
Sioux City from Columbus, Ohio,
after working for A vco Financial
Services for 26 years.

Officer Named in Hastings

^ N e w Charter Approved
Northwest National Bank, Grand
Island, has received approval from
the Comptroller of the Currency for
a new charter located at 2008 N.
• W eb b Road, Grand Island.

Iowa, and First National Bank of Lin
coln.
Kearney State Bank recently
hosted a free Customer Relations
Seminar held May 25 at the bank.
The seminar drew some 450 people
to four one-hour training sessions of
fered throughout the day. John
Allen, a nationally recognized public
relations consultant, held the
crowd’s attention with his humor
ous fast moving method of presenta
tion.
Due to the large response and
interest, the bank is considering of
fering other additional programs as
soon as Mr. Allen can be resche
duled.

RECEIVING 50 year club awards at the
Nebraska Bankers Association annual con
vention in Omaha were left to right: Edward
Eisenhart, Culbertson Bank and Minnie
Asche, 1st Natl., Columbus. Not pictured
but also receiving 50 year awards were: Mel
vin H. Adams, Sr., Bank of Brule, Clark
Weckbach, 1st Natl, of Ord and Edward M.
Knight, Alliance Natl. Bk. & Tr.

Joan Brannagan has been elected
assistant bank operations officer at
C ity N ational
M o to r
B ank
West, Hastings,
announced O.J.
McDougal, pres
ident.
Mr. Branna
gan has been
with City Na
tional Bank &
T ru st for 13
J. BRANNAGAN
years, most re
cently as assistant manager of Motor
Bank West.
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United States National Bank of
Omaha recently announced the pro
motion of Ronald E. Schneider and
Paul D. Kadavy to senior vice presi
dent and Thomas L. Patton to se
cond vice president.

R. SCHNEIDER

P.D. KADAVY

T.L. PATTON

M.B. ANDERSEN

Marian Battey Andersen, wife of
Harold W. Andersen, president and
publisher of the Omaha World-Her
ald, was elected to the board.
Mr. Schneider joined the bank in
1974 as a commercial banking of
ficer. In 1977 he was elected vice
president, was named manager of
the commercial banking department
in 1980 and was promoted to man
ager of the corporate banking div
ision in March, 1982.
Mr. Kadavy joined in 1969 as a
management trainee and was elec
ted trust officer in 1971. In 1975 he
was named vice president and held
that position when First North
western Trust Company was formed
in 1977. In 1978 he was elected ex
ecutive vice president.

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Mr. Patton started with the bank
in 1972 as a commercial instalment
loan officer. In 1980 he was named
manager of the commercial instal
ment department.
* * *

announced the appointment of<
Donald R. Larson as regional
marketing representative.
Mr. Larson, a
veteran Nebras
ka banker, will
work from the
bank’s Lincoln
office. His most
recent position
was vice presi
dent in the com
mercial loan di
vision of a Lin
D.R. LARSON
coln Bank, with
primary responsibility in public relad
tions, corporate relations, new busi
ness development, marketing and
promotion events.

Jack B abcock Retires

Thomas C. Prohaska has been ap
pointed account administration off
icer for corpor
ate trust and em
ploye benefits of
F ir s t
N orth
w estern Trust
Company of Ne
braska, a ccor
ding to H. David
Neely, president
and chief execu
tive officer.
T. C. PROHASKA
Mr. Prohaska
joins the Trust Company following
five years in private practice with
the law firm of Reedy and Prohaska
of Omaha.
* * *

HEN Jack Babcock took a
summer job in 1939 as a
messenger at the old Livestock Na-^
tional Bank in Omaha he looked atw
banking as a short-term commit
ment. Mr. Bab
cock, then 19,
had le ft his
h o m e to w n o f
Scottsbluff and
had attended the
U n iv e rs ity o f
Omaha for two
semesters while
living with his
aunt and uncle.
“ I had always
J- BABC0CK
preferred outdoor work, but there#
was this temporary job at the bank
as a messenger. My uncle (Henry
Karpf, who later became president
of Livestock National) said that if
his son and I would each earn $ 100,0
he would let us use his car for a trip
at the end of the summer.”
That fall, the bank had some full
time openings, and Mr. Babcock de
cided to stay on. “ I still looked at it #
as a short-term job, but it has devel
oped into a lot of years.”
Forty-three years to be exact.
Jack Babcock retired July 2 as vice
president and a senior correspon-#
dent loan officer at Omaha National
Bank.
“ Jack is ‘ Mr. Correspondent
Banking’ at Omaha National,’ ’said
John Martin, vice president in #
charge of the financial institutions
and regional lending department.
“ I don’t think Jack has ever met

The executive committee of the
First National Bank of Omaha has

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Douglas County Bank & Trust
Company recently announced the
a d d itio n
of
Richard
E.
Kuhns as a com
mercial loan of
ficer.
M r. K u h n s
previously was
employed for 28
years by the
U nited States
National Bank
of Omaha where
he was vice president of commercial
banking. He is a member of the
American Institute of Banking and
the Robert Morris Associates.
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been named head of that depart-#
ment, succeeding Mr. Baack. Rod
Steinacher, vice president in consu
mer lending, has been appointed
head of the consumer lending de
partment.
#
Mr. Baack has
been with the
b an k fo r 33
years, most re
cently as head of
the correspon
dent divisions
since 1971. Dur
ing his long car
eer at NBC, he
has been in
volved in virW. BAACK
IRECTORS of National Bank
o f Com m erce unanim ously
elected Thomas D. Potter to the
post of president and chief executive
officer.
Mr. Potter was senior executive
vice president of the bank. He was
elected to the board of directors in
1981.
Mr. Potter succeeds James F.
Nissen, who resigned to accept a
position with a regional banking
firm.

and served as assistant to the presi
dent.
Mr. Potter is well known in bank
ing circles and in the Lincoln com
munity. He is on the executive coun
cil for the Nebraska Bankers A sso
ciation.
Born in Nebraska, Mr. Potter
graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan
University. He has a masters degree
from Johns Hopkins University and
a Masters in Business Adminstration from Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania. Prior to
joining NBC he served six years in
public international finance with the
U.S. State Department and the Afri
can Development Bank overseas in
Latin America and Africa.
Mr. Nissen will run Nebraska
Management, Inc., Lincoln, which is
owned by Lincoln businessmen
Gene Tallman and Paul Schorr.
Both are former NBC directors who
T. J. POTTER
J.F. NISSEN
purchased First National Bank and
As new president, Mr. Potter First State Bank of Fremont from
states that there will be continuity the NBC Group. They also own Lin
in senior management. No major coln Bank East and First Westroads
changes need take place.
Bank of Omaha, and presently are
“ Current management policies acquiring Citizens State Bank in
developed by the executive manage Lincoln.
ment group over the past four years
Mr. Nissen was graduated from
under Jim Nissen’s leadership have the University of Nebraska in Lin
led the bank to a position of preemi coln in 1954 and went to work im
nent performance compared to its mediately for National Bank of
peer banks across the nation,” he Commerce. After working in many
said. “ There is no reason to change areas of the bank he was elected ex
these policies. NBC’s officers and ecutive vice president in charge of
staff will continue to be the back assets and liability management,
bone of the organization.”
the position he held when he was
The executive management group elected president in 1977.
is comprised of Mr. Potter and the
Mr. Potter also announced that
four executive vice presidents— three veteran NBC officers have
Dana Henricksen, Robert Hans, been promoted. Senior Vice Presi
Loren Anderson and Wilbur Baack. dent Wilbur Baack is the new head
With NBC since 1975, Mr. Potter of the lending group. Max Callen,
has headed the international depart who has been vice president in the
ment, the commercial loan division correspondent bank division, has

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tually every aspect of lending at th e 1
bank. Until his present appoint
ment, he has managed the largest
single loan portfolio at NBC. With
this new appointment, Mr. Baack
has been promoted to executive vice
president.
Mr. Callen has been in the corre
spondent division since 1979. Prior
to that, he served in the commercial
loan division for three years and
prior to that was in the computer
division. He joined the bank in 1974.
Mr. Steinacher, vice president,
joined the bank in 1971. He served
as an instalment loan officer from
1971 to 1973 at which time he be
came a part of the commercial loan
division. In 1979 he was named
manager of the personal banking de- ,
partment, a capacity he has held
since that time.

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R. Lawrence Kilgore Dies
Funeral services were held June 1
for R. Lawrence Kilgore, 75, retired
►president of the National Bank of
Waterloo. Mr. Kilgore died May 27.
He began his
banking career
June 11, 1933 as
I a teller during
the organization
and opening of
National Bank
of Waterloo, con^tinuing with the
bank until his re
tirement in May,
R.L. KILGORE
1976. During the
intervening 44 years he served as
* assistant cashier, assistant vice
president, cashier and senior vice
president before being elected presi
dent in January, 1963, the position
he held until his retirement.
9 During that 44-year period, he
saw the bank grow to become a $130
million institution, and a leader in
correspondent banking service in its
..area in northeastern Iowa.
Mr. Kilgore is survived by his
wife, Lois, and two daughters.

Two W aterloo Men
Purchase Evansdale Bank
Richard K. Hansen and Garry W.
Bixby of Waterloo have purchased
controlling interest in Evansdale
State Bank from Dale B. Smith,
Gene Smith and Earl E. Smith, all of
whom have resigned from the E v
ansdale board.
Mr. Hansen has been elected
chairman and president of Evans
dale State, succeeding Dale Smith.
Mr. Bixby has been elected exec
utive vice president and director,

Iowa Trust Association
Elects 1982-83 Officers
Richard Kautz, outgoing presi
dent of the Iowa Trust Association
and senior vice president of Daven
port Bank and Trust Company,
Davenport, has announced the elec
tion of the following officers for the
1982-1983 year: Jack R. Schreiber,
president; Vin
cent L. Maurer,
vice president,
and Willis O.
Cairo, secretarytreasurer.
Mr. Schreiber
is vice president
and senior trust
officer of United
Central Bank of
D es
M o in e s ,
J.R. SCHREIBER
N.A.; Mr. Maurer is senior vice
president and senior trust officer of
First National Bank, Iowa City, and
Mr. Cairo is senior trust officer of
United Central Bank of Des Moines,
N.A.

Iowa Young Bankers Elect Officers

Sioux City Banker
9 Chosen for Award
May Kay Lagan, commercial loan
officer of The Security National
Bank of Sioux City, was recently
• chosen to receive the “ Advocate for
Women in Business” Award for the
state of Iowa. Advocate awards are
p re se n te d an
nually by the
• U.S. Small Bus
iness A d m in i
stration to in
d ivid u als who
have done an
• outstanding job
in su p p o rtin g
I
th e ca u se o f
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small business.
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Mayor Ken Lawson, preceding the
City Council meeting.
Ms. Lagan, elected commercial
loan officer in 1978, was one of the
organizers and promoters of Securi
ty ’s Financial Seminar, which is
geared primarily toward women. Of
fered since 1978, over 700 women
annually attend this event. She has
traveled many miles to speak to
groups of women who are thinking
of starting their own business, has
been a speaker for various local
womens groups and is a member of
many womens organizations.

succeeding Gene Riley, who has
resigned. All other staff members
continue in their present positions.
Mr. Hansen formerly was vice
president-lending at Peoples Bank
and Trust Company, Waterloo, and
Mr. Bixby was assistant vice pres
ident-operations with the same
bank.
Gene Smith is executive vice pres
ident and Dale B. Smith is vice
president, both at Sloan State Bank.
Dale Smith and Earl Smith also are
directors at Palo Savings Bank.

PICTURED left to right are the 1982-83 officers for the Iowa Young Bankers Association
(formerly Junior Bankers), as elected at the Future Bank Leadership Conference held May
13-14 at the Amana Colonies: Secretary Charles Schrup III, v.p., American Tr. & Sav., Du
buque; Kent Stickler, speaker, Financial Shares, Chicago, III.; Past Pres. David Pike, v.p.,
Hawkeye Capitol Bk. & Tr., Des Moines; President Gerald Burke, v.p., Farmers & Merchants
Sav. Bk., Manchester, and Vice Pres. Kirk Warnke, oper. off., Dickinson Cty. Sav. Bk., Milford.
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F.W. HAGEMANN
Pres.

J. UPTON
Vice Pres.

D.W. HEINEKING
Treas.

R.W. BERGLUND
Exec. V.P.

•Invocation
•Keynote Address— President Hagemann.
£
•Report of the Executive Vice President &
Legal Counsel— Richard W. Berglund.
•“ What Next for the Economy and What
Future for Independent Bankers?” —Malcolm
Forbes, Jr., president and chief operating officer#
of Forbes Inc., and senior editor of FORBES
Magazine, New York.
•Question/Answer Session.
•“ Dealing With Regulatory Problems” —Mary
E. Curtin, attorney at law, Lakin, Hoffman, D a-#
ly & Lindgren, Ltd., Minneapolis, Minn.

MB Heads for Lake Okoboji

NOTHER record crowd of more than 500 persons
is expected to attend the annual convention of the
Iowa Independent Bankers at Lake Okoboji July
22-24. The New Inn will again be headquarters. IIB
President Fred W. Hagemann, president of State Bank
of Waverly, will conduct the opening business meet
ing. Assisting him the past year as officers were James
Lipton, president of Ida County State Bank, Ida
Grove, IIB vice president, and Don W. Heineking,
president, Security State Bank of Hubbard, IIB trea
surer. Richard W. Berglund, a Des Moines attorney, is
executive vice president of IIB.
A full range of social and business activities for the
two and one-half days of the convention is available for
registrants of all ages, as shown in the following pro
gram:

P.M.
Noon Golf Tournament—Brooks Golf Course.
Ladies’ Luncheon—New Inn Lakeview Dining
Room.
•
“ The Tube and I - Reflections of a Talk Show
H ost” —Mary Brubaker, KCCI-TV, Des Moine.

Thursday, July 22
P.M.
Noon Registration— Lobby of the New Inn
(until 6:00 p.m.).
Couples G olf Tournament— Brooks G olf
Course.
Tennis Tournament— The New Inn Tennis
Courts.
5:00 Young People’s Gathering. Taco Time - Enter
tainment by “ Village Players of Okoboji,” golf
& tennis tournaments (bring your clubs &
rackets), games & more!
5:30 Wine Tasting Party (Adults Only), The New Inn
Poolside (until 7:30).
Friday, July 23
A.M.
8:45 First General Session— New Inn Convention
Center.
•Call to Order— Fred W. Hagemann, president,
Iowa Independent Bankers; president, State
Bank of Waverly.

Saturday, July 24
A.M.
8:30 Second General Session—New Inn Convention
Center.
•Call to Order—James W. Lipton, vice presi
dent, Iowa Independent Bankers; president, Ida^
County State Bank, Ida Grove.
^
•“ Comments on Current Monetary Policy” —
Silas Keehn, president, Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago.
•Question/Ans wer Session.
^
•“ Employee Stock Ownership Plans - ESOP” —
Mary E. Curtin, attorney at law, Larkin, Hoff
man, Daly & Lindgren, Ltd., Minneapolis, Minn.
•“ The U.S. and The World Today” -J a c k
Smith, ABC Network News correspondent £
(d om estic and in tern a tion a l cov e ra g e ),
Washington, D.C.
•Question/Ans wer Session.
•Annual Business Meeting—Fred W. Hage
mann, presiding.
(Continued on next page) £

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Investment Bankers Hold Annual Field Day

LEFT~ lowa Investment Bankers Officers include Secy./Treas. Mike Reilly, v.p., Shearson/American Express, Inc.; Comm. Chmn. Mike
Sparks, v.p., Chiles, Heider & Co., and Pres. Robert Kirkendall, acct. exec., E.F. Hutton & Co. RIGHT— Enjoying the 19th Hole are Steve
Jones, v.p., Hawkeye Bancorp.; Bob Beh, pres., Carleton D. Beh Co.; Morris Knopf, atty., Alhers, Cooney, Dorweiler, Haynie & Smith, and
Bob Simons, atty., Davis, Hockenberg, Wine, Brown & Koehn.

•Report of the Resolutions Committee—Chair
man James W. Lipton, president, Ida County
State Bank, Ida Grove.
•Report of the Nominating Committee—Chair
man Herman C. Kilpper, president, Bankers
Trust Company, Des Moines.
•Election of Officers.
•Announcements/adjournment to registrants
luncheon.
P.M.
Noon W om en’s G olf Tournament—B rooks G olf
Course.
R e g is tra n ts ’ L uncheon (bank represen
tatives)—New Inn Lakeview Dining Room.
•Introduction and Remarks of Dignitaries—The
Honorable Maurice E. Baringer, treasurer,
State of Iowa, Des Moines.
•The Honorable Thomas H. Huston, superinten-

dent of banking, Iowa Banking Department,
Des Moines.
•Richard W. Buxton, A B A Council Iowa
representative; president, Peoples Trust and
Savings Bank, Indianola.
#
•Robert L. McCormick, Jr., president, Indepen
dent Bankers Association of America; presi
dent, Stillwater National Bank and Trust Com
pany, Stillwater, Okla.
•Golf and Tennis Awards.
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5:30 Social Hour—New Inn Beach.
6:30 Barbecue—New Inn Beach.
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sion of the main banking facility of
the First National Bank of Sumner,
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LEFT—Gp. 5 officers— Chmn. David N. Walthall, pres., State B&T, Council Bluffs, and Secy. Don Curry, pres. & cash., Farmers Savings,
Masseria. RIGHT—Gp. 12 officers—Chmn. Ed Leahy, pres., Northwestern State of Orange City, and Secy. Bill Griggs, pres., Clay C o u n t#
Natl., Spencer.

LEFT—Gp. 2 new Chmn. Doug McDermott, pres., Home State, Jefferson, is congratulated by retiring Chmn. Cecil Dunn, pres., Security
Sav., Eagle Grove. The new secretary is Dean Kechely, pres., North Iowa State Bank, Belmond, who was unable to be present. RIGHT—Al
Maser, pres., 1st Natl., Le Mars, with Don Sabban, pres., Corwith State, who has been chmn. of Gp. 3, but resigned at the meeting due to
the press of bank duties.

Groups 2, 3, 12 Elect New Officers
URING the second week of
Iowa Bankers A ssocia tion
group meetings; new officers were
elected by Groups 2 and 1 2 , and
Group 3 elected a new chairman to
complete the term of its chairman
who resigned that post. The new of
ficers are:
Group 2: Chmn.—Douglas McDer
mott, president, Home State Bank,
Jefferson. Secy.—Dean Kechely,
president, North Iowa State Bank,
Belmond.
Group 3: Chmn.—Glenn O. Em
mons, executive vice president,
Northwood State Bank (to serve un
til 1983). Secy.—Fred W. Hagemann, president, State Bank of
Waverly (continues in office).
Group 12: Chmn.—Ed J. Leahy,
president, N orthw estern State
Bank, Orange City. Secy.—Wm.
Griggs, president, Clay County Na
tional Bank, Spencer.
Mr. Emmons had served previ
ously as Group 3 chairman and
agreed to take over that duty and as
member of the IBA board of direc-

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tors for the remaining year. He will
serve on the board until September
1, 1983, and Mr. Hagemann is sche
duled to be elected chairman as his
successor at the meeting in May,
1983. Mr. Emmons replaces Don
Sabbann, president, Corwith State
Bank, who resigned as Group 3
chairman due to the press of other
duties at his bank.
The chairmen of the groups all
take office on September 1 of the
year elected and serve on the board
for a two-year period.
As reported last month for the
first week of group meetings, of
ficers of the Iowa Bankers Associa
tion and its subsidiaries gave a re
port at each meeting. They included
President Tom C. Dunlap, president
and chairman of South Story Bank
& Trust, Slater; President-Elect L.C.
Bud Pike, president, Farmers Sav
ings Bank, Grundy Center, and Ex
ecutive Vice President Neil Milner.
Also addressing each group was
Tom Huston, Iowa superintendent
of banking, who is also president,

Columbus Junction State Bank.
Mr. Huston, after reviewing im
portant matters related to examin
ing and managing of banks, informed^
his audiences that a study is under
way in Iowa to form a financial in
stitutions commission, including
banking and insurance, which he op
poses. “ The Iowa department o i£
banking is in its strongest position
now,’ ’ he emphasized, “ and very
probably would just be one depart
ment among many, and would pro
bably wind up being run by an acad-0
emician or politician or a non
banker.’ ’
Mr. Milner noted in his remarks
that the State of Ohio had tried such
a Financial Institutions Board when#
he worked in Ohio some years ago.
“ They got two years behind in ex
aminations and bank capital deteri
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way, ’ ’ he pointed out.
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LEFT—Joe Hutchinson, pres., Union State, Rockwell City; Rod Amlie, chmn., Farmers Natl., Webster City, and Mark E. Conway, Iowa bkcw
off., lowa-Des Moines Natl. RIGHT—Tom Huston, Iowa supt. of bkg., and Alice, with Dave Hill, pres., Farmers State, Jewell, and B o *
Millen, pres., United Central Bank, Des Moines.

LEFT—Winifred and Mark Arneson, chmn., Clear Lake B&T, and Scott Faris, corr. bk. rep., Northwestern Natl., Mpls. RIGHT—Verdelle and
Jack Campbell, pres., Humboldt T&S, and Janet and Bob Dixon, pres., Rolfe State.

LEFT— Paul Kovar, v.p., Peoples State, Missouri Valley; John Wear, corr. bk. off., Omaha Natl., and Allan Eich, v.p., 1st Natl., Woodbine.
RIGHT—Chuck Strattan, U.S. Check Book Co., Cedar Falls; Gus Barker, v.p., and Cookie Lawrence, cash., both of 1st Natl., Gowrie; Kathy
DeLucca, comp. serv. off., lowa-Des Moines Natl.; Margy J. Wood, pres., W illiams Sav., and Ed Batcheider, v.p., U.S. Check Book, Omaha.

LEFT—George Milligan, pres., lowa-Des Moines Natl.; Jerry Howard, sr. v.p., Humboldt T&S, and Jeff Early, comm, lending off., N ortherrw
Trust, Chicago. RIGHT— Bud Pike, pres.-elect of IBA and pres., Farmers Sav., Grundy Center; Tom Awtry, exec, v.p., 1st Natl., Fonda; T o m *
Dunlap, pres, of IBA and chmn. & pres., South Story B&T, Slater, and Bill Goodyear, chmn., Lake City State Bank.

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•

Photos from Second Week of Iowa Group Meetings

LEFT— Milt Hennick, sr. v.p., Natl. Bank of Waterloo, and Eddie Wolf, v.p., United Central Bank of Des Moines. RIGHT— Bernie Kersey, v.p.
& mgr., fin. inst. div., lowa-Des Moines Natl.; Bud Pike, IBA pres.-elect and pres.. Farmers Savings, Grundy Center, and Russ Spearman,
IBA treas. and pres., Citizens Sav., Sac City.

H|i LEFT— Bill Greaves, v.p., United Central Bank, Des Moines, and Neil Milner, exec, v.p., Iowa Bankers Assn. RIGHT— Keith Campbell, pres.,
Citizens State, Sheldon, and Max Roy, v.p., Drovers Bank of Chicago.

Iowa Independent Bankers
Offices Are Moved in Des Moines

OFFICES of the Iowa Independent Bankers were moved recently to the 10th floor of the new Carriers Building, located on the northwest
corner of Sixth and Grand in downtown Des Moines. Pictured at left is Richard W. Berglund, IIB executive vice president and corporate
^ s e c re ta ry in his law office. At right is Diane Gibbs, IIB executive secretary, in the adjoining IIB headquarters office. An additional office is
^ o c c u p ie d by a staff secretary and provides room for supplies. Two conference rooms are available on the same floor in the new building
for IIB officer meetings and small committee meetings.

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ment organizations and agri-bus-<
iness groups. Relying heavily on
farm commodities charts which he
has prepared from years of historical
farm records, Mr. Scott discussed in
depth such applications as Thei
Supercycle or Long Wave Theory,
Agricultural Commodity Cycles,
Identifying Market Trends, Tech
nical Tools, and Basis.
Applying this technique, he sakM
for example, that in early 1983
(about one year after President Rea
gan took office), “ we should see soy
beans at four times the price of
corn—$ 1 0 .00 .“
i
A t a dinner the first night, guests
heard John Roach, owner of Roach
A g Marketing, who is UCB’s mar
keting consultant, and Howard
Dave Scott (left), pres, of Professional Market Research, Bradford, III., reviews a farm com
Hjort, president of Economic Per
modities chart with Ken Meyers (center), pres. & c.e.o. of United Central Bancshares, Des
Moines, and Farm Seminar host Max W. Evans, v.p. & farm mgr. of United Central Bank of spectives, Inc. Mr. Hjort is a noted
economist who is a former Assistant
Des Moines.
Secretary of Agriculture and direc
tor of Economics, Policy Analysis
and Budget for the USD A during*
OMMODITY Marketing was UCB’s farm management depart the Carter Administration. His food
the im portan t top ic that ment, and his staff.
and ag economic consulting com
brought 64 bankers and farm oper
Much of the seminar was taught pany is based in McLean, Va., the
ators to a special Farm Seminar pre by Dave Scott of Bradford, 111., who type of business he was in prior to.
sented in Des Moines recently by heads Professional Market Re taking the USD A position. His talk*
United Central Bank of Des Moines, search. He has conducted several was titled “ World Agricultural
N.A. Hosting the event was Max W. similar seminars and is a marketing Perspective—A One Year and a Ten
Evans, vice president in charge of advisor to farmers, farm manage- Year Look.”
□

UCB Presents Farm Marketing Seminar

Brenton Foundation Makes Donation

sented on the Brenton Stage. The
season opened on April 15 with
“ Talley’s Folly” and will close with®
“ Short Stuff,” an original produc
tion for children that will play from
October 14 through November 7.
The Brenton Foundation’s gift to
the theater company continues a tra-#
dition of major gifts to projects
based in or near communities in
which Brenton Banks are located.

HE Old Creamery Theatre Com during the first season. Because it
pany has received a major gift of played to more people than pro
$10,000 from the Brenton Founda jected in 1980, the decision was
tion, based in Des Moines, to pay for made to move the theatre to the
the relocation and renovation of the main theatre complex for the 1981
Old Creamery Theatre’s second Garrison season.
stage. Formerly called the Studio
During the Old Creamery Thea
Theatre, this stage has been rechris tre’s 1982 season, 80 performances
tened the Brenton Stage in recog of five different plays will be prenition of the Brenton Foundation’s
sponsorship of this project.
The Old Creamery Theatre opened
its new second stage during the
1980 Garrison Season as an alter
native performing space. This se
cond theatre is smaller, at 1 1 0 seats,
than the Old Creamery Theatre’s
Main Stage, and is intended to pro
vide a place in which to present both
new and established dramatic works
which have an artistic merit, but for
which there is a more limited au
dience.
This second stage, originally loca
ted in a vacant elementary school
PICTURED left to right: Jeff Smull, OCTC exec, dir.; Ann Jorgensen, OCTC pres.; Jan ic^ |
one block from the main theatre Geiken, OCTC fund raising chmn.; William H. Brenton, chmn., Brenton Banks, Inc.; Larry
complex, was an unqualified success Rolfstad, pres., Brenton Bk. & Tr. of Vinton, and Thomas Johnson, OCTC artistic dir.

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•N ew Name Planned
For Fort Dodge Bank
Richard L. Smith, chairman and
chief executive officer of The State
^3ank, Fort Dodge, reported after a
special shareholders meeting that all
shareholders present voted unani
mously to exchange their shares of
The State Bank stock for shares of a
^iew holding company to be formed,
First American Bank Group, LTD.
In conjunction with the holding
company’s formation, the banks’
name will be changed to First
^Vmerican State Bank with locations
in Fort Dodge and Dayton.
“ This is definitely not a sale to a
third party,’ ’ Mr. Smith said, “ rath
er a stock transferral, which may
•nable The State Bank to remain as
the only independent bank in Fort
Dodge.
The holding company formation
and bank name change will become
• ffective after approval by regu
latory authorities. Approval is ex
pected by July 1.

Bank President Honored
w James E. King, president of the
Peoples National Bank, Albia, has
become the first member of the A l
bia Rotary Club to be named a Paul
^ larris Fellow by the Rotary Inter
national Foundation, which admini
sters the funds for the international
programs. Paul Harris was the foun
der of Rotary.
^ Graduate fellows receive all of
their necessary travel, living ex
penses and educational expenses
during the year of their grant, an
average of more than $15,000 each,
^ h i s year’s theme is “ World Under
standing and Peace.”
Peoples National Bank also re
cently celebrated its 75th anniver
sary with an open house. The bank
^ias one office in Eddyville.

With today’s rapid changes in
banking technology, data
processing is becoming an even
more important management tool.
That’s where I come in. • •
Ken Roeder
Correspondent Bank Officer
Security National Bank

W hen Ken Roeder talks about h ow the advances in
the field o f data processing can affect your operations,
h e’s speaking from experience— 15 years’ experience as
a data processing specialist.
Ken know s data processing. More important, he
know s h ow to put it to w ork for the individual needs o f
his correspondents. As a Security correspondent bank
officer, Ken is also equipped to provide you with the
best in ag lending and overline services.
Today, you r continued profitability is as important
to Security National as it is to you. Through experts like
Ken Roeder, w e ’re determined to help y ou protect it.

Iowa Insurance Firm
Changes Corporate Name
•

Jon M. Grindle, president of Au
tomated Systems of Iowa, Inc., head
quartered in Ankeny, has changed
the corporate name of his firm to
Financial Insurance Associates, Inc.
•rhe company continues to be located
at 301 North Ankeny Blvd., Suite
220, Ankeny 50021.
Mr. Grindle said the name change
was made to more closely identify
^the insurance products his firm of
fers to Iowa banks.

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Your Security Correspondent Bankers

1. to r. Ken Roeder, Stan Carlson,
Wilma Weeks, Steve Hatz, Mike Hefner

Western
Iowa’s
Largest

SECURITY NATIONAL BANK
Sioux City, Iowa 5 1 1 0 1 (712) 277-6 554

Member FDIC

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OPEN HOUSE was held late last month in the new, four-story head
quarters building of the First National Bank in Sioux City. At right is
the teller lobby, with escalator to the second floor, which houses
the correspondent bank department (lower left). Pictured are Gary
Stevenson (left), vice pres, and head of that dept., and Joe Broders,
corr. bkg. repr. At lower right is the family banking center on the
main floor.

First National Bank in Sioux City
Occupies New, Four-Story Structure
HE First National Bank in Sioux
City opened for business recent
ly in its new four-story building at
Fifth and Pierce Streets with a rib
bon-cutting ceremony that culmina
ted nearly four years of planning.
Richard C. Taylor, president, told
civic officials, other guests and the
assembled staff that the new facility
will bring more efficiency and conve
nience to First National customers
and to bank operations. He said the
nearly $7,000,000 project also dem
onstrates First National’s commit
ment to Sioux City and its positive
outlook for the future growth of
Sioux City and Siouxland.

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Following an open house for vis
iting bankers on June 25, public
open house tours were conducted on
June 26 and 27.
After several years of considering
the need for a new building because
of the continued growth in deposits
and customers, planning got under
way nearly four years ago and con
struction began in September, 1980.
The project was completed on sche
dule. The nearly $7 million cost in
cludes construction, equipment,
landscaping, property, furniture and
fees.
The new building, Mr. Taylor
stated, affords 85,000 square feet,

with the bank presently occupying
the lower level, all of the first and se
cond floors and part of the third
floor. There are 16,000 square feet •
rental space on the fourth floor.
Consumer, commercial and farm
management services are on the
first floor, as well as executive of
fices. The correspondent ban k in g
department is on the second floor,
along with trust, investment and
real estate lending departments.
Banks of Iowa Computer Services,
Inc., is located on the third floor®
Safe deposit services are on the
lower level.
The building itself presents a
monolithic exterior appearance,
achieved by blending the color of the^
brick and mortar. The interior decor

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^ iv e s customers and staff warm and
contemporary surroundings. A hydronic heat pump system, the latest
in energy conservation, reuses the
initial water supply for both heating
• n d cooling. It is adaptable to a
solar energy system in the future.
The impressive, 40-foot high glass
panels in both entrances were pro
duced in England and are the first of
^Iheir type to be installed between
Chicago and Salt Lake City. They
can sustain wind conditions of more
than 100 miles per hour.
A six-lane drive-in system is unique
t o Sioux City. Customers have di
rect “ line of sight” contact through
their car’s windshield with the tel
lers located in the bank building.
The first lane is specially designed
t o handle larger amounts of coin and
currency for business customers.
The carrier rides on a chain-driven
track.
_ Other special features include
t\.TMs and night depository at both
entrances and accessible 24 hours
per day, special conference room on
the second floor furnished with old
^ ty le furniture, a parking lot with 30
customer parking spaces, escalator
from the main lobby to the second
floor, and a training room with video
tape equipment on the second floor.
The new building tastefully
lends the old with the new. A dis
play case on the first floor recap
tures First National’s history as a
descendant of the first bank in Sioux
^ i t y . Also, columns from the old
oank, dating back to 1904, have
been preserved in a courtyard and
are anchored to cement pilings. The
First National traces its lineage to
^ h e first bank to open in Sioux City
in 1856; however, First National
Bank actually was chartered in
1870.
When the First National was 34
0 ^ears old after that chartering, the
previous building was constructed
in 1904. It was remodeled in 1951
and one special feature added at that
time was a 90-foot long mural that
• o s e from counter heighth to the ceil
ing, depicting 100 years of Sioux Ci
ty area history from the Indians to
the present. An addition was added
in 1960 and the main bank lobby
•vas remodeled again in 1974. That
builidng then was demolished in
1980 to make way for the new build
ing on the same site.
The need for the remodelings, ad•dition and then the new building is
graphically shown by the growth of

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New Facility Completed on Hubbell

THE IOWA STATE Bank in Des Moines recently completed work on a new office building lo
cated at East 38th and Hubbell. An open house was held to acquaint customers with the new
2,500 square foot facility, which features three drive through lanes, a night depository drop
and large safe deposit box vault. Ausma Plostins, assistant vice president, is manager of the
Hubbell office. The new facility replaces a smaller office near the same location.

First National since the end of
World War II. At year-end 1945,
total assets of First National Bank
in Sioux City were $19,391,740. By
1970, during which the late Joe T.
Grant was president, the bank had
grown to $90,031,900 total assets.
Richard C. Taylor became president
in 1973 and First National has con
tinued to expand, ending 1981 with
$189,576,299 in total assets. First
National became a member of Banks
of Iowa holding company in 1976. □

Only Clean, Polished or New
Money Leaves Clarinda Bank
Citizens State Bank of Clarinda
decided to do something to show its
customers just how deeply involved
the bank is in the community. For
two weeks, June 1-12, only clean and
polished or new cash was allowed to
leave the bank. The clean money is
now showing up all over town and
people are noticing it and talking
about it, according to Michael L.
Thompson, vice president. Dealing
with the new currency as well as
cleaning dirty coins required a lot of
extra effort, but the bank felt the
message to the community was clear
and worth it.

Index Offers New Service
INDEX, Independent Bancservices Exchange, Inc., the “ service
network of independent banking,”
have announced the development of
a major new service for independent
banks.
Index President Noel H. Busch
and Chairman E. Milton Klohn re
ported that expansion of services
under development for independent

banks and their customers will re
sult in the introduction of compre
hensive insurance, bonding and em
ployee benefit plans to be implemen
ted in several stages over the next
several months.
Mr. Busch said, “ Substantial
planning and research of market fac
tors, risk elements and underwriting
standards has already been complet
ed by Index, resulting in decisive
evidence that where it concerns
structure, coverages, cost and deliv
ery methods appropriate to indepen
dent banks, there is vast unfulfilled
opportunity.”
“ We are confident that this will
be a uniqely beneficial facility,” said
Mr. Klohn, “ both in terms of fea
tures and value. Index has selected
the Richter/Robb companies of Den
ver, Fort Wayne, Chicago and Min
neapolis to coordinate the devel
opment and management of these
programs. The result will be a dedi
cated program designed specifically
for the independent bank, similar to
the Index approach toward other
services.”
Mr. Klohn pointed out that the
principal purposes of Index are to
provide services that strengthen
management performance of inde
pendent hankers, and increase mar
ket-place effectiveness of indepen
dent banks.
The services developed by Index
are distributed through independent
bankers’ banks and independent
banker associations who become
principal members of Index. Where
there is no existing principal mem
ber, Index distributes the services
directly to participating banks. In
dex views the nation’s 11,250 inde
pendent banks as its marketplace.
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George F. Milligan, president and
chief operating officer of the IowaDes Moines National Bank, recently
announced the following promotions
and organizational changes within
the bank:
Linda J. Collins, second vice
president, has been transferred to
loan administration and will be as
suming responsibility for loan re
view and compliance and Thomas L.
Quinlin, operations officer, has been
transferred to the financial institu
tions department.

L.J. COLLINS

T.L. QUINLIN

Ms. Collins joined the bank in
1972 as a management trainee. Mr.
Quinlin joined in 1969 and has held
various positions in card services
and operations.
Ted Bowen has been named mana
ger of deposit accounting. He joined
the bank in 1975, serving in collec
tions, bookkeeping and operations.
Frances V. Colston was named
manager of electronic banking ser
vices and will be assuming respon
sibility for electronic operations and
customer service.
Nancy J. Meadows, named opera
tions manager of the Euclid office,
joined in 1975 and has served in
retail and personal banking.
Janet A. Skelly has been named

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compliance representative and will
have responsibility for the bank’s
compliance with all state and federal
regulations. She joined in 1977.
* * *
Herman C. Kilpper, president and
chief executive officer of Bankers
Trust, has announced the appoint
ment of Craig E. Wierson as vice
president and director of internal
audit.
Mr. Wierson joins Bankers Trust
from Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and
Company, where he was employed
for the past eight years, most recent
ly as manager in the management
group.
B r a d le y
L.
Burt, vice presi
dent commercial
lending, has been
elected 1982-83
president of the
Missouri Valley
Chapter of the
Robert M orris
Associates at the
B.L. BURT
chapters spring
conference in Lincoln, Neb. He is im
mediate past president of the Associ
ates’ Iowa Group.
* * *

tion services, installment lending
services and commercial services
support. Each of these divisions
report to Mr. Harry A. Wilmer,
senior vice president.
Iowa commercial services will 10
headed by Ivan L. Johnson, senior
vice president. This division will
serve existing and prospective cor
respondent and commercial cus
tomers throughout the state (#
Iowa. The correspondent depart
ment will continue to be headed by
Eddie A. W olf, senior vice president,
with assistance from William B.
Greaves and Cyrus D. Kirk, v it#
presidents.
Metropolitan commercial services
will be headed by Kim S. Meadows,
vice president. This division will
serve the financial needs of e #
ecutives and professionals and
businesses in the metropolitan area.
Reporting to Mr. Meadows are Dale
L. Klauss, vice president; Barbara 1^
Hein, assistant vice president; Craig
W. Jordan, commercial loan officer,
and Willard E. Canine.
Stephen F. Sherrod, vice presi
dent, will be responsible for loan ack
minstration and construction s e ^
vices. Mr. Sherrod’s duties will in
clude loan documentation and struc
ture, as well as serving the construc
tion industry.
^
Installment lending services will
be headed by Hans H. Loeffler, vice
president. Reporting to Mr. Loeffler
are Gary C. Calvert and Dwight
LeRette, installment loan officers, f
Sherry Rissman, commercial ser
vices officer, will be responsible for
commercial services support. Her
duties include supervision of com
mercial loan operations, colla tera l
credit and credit analysis.
* * *

Banco Financial Corporation,
Minneapolis, Minn., the finance sub^i
sidiary of Northwest Bancorporation, recently opened a branch office
in Des Moines.
Gary A. H er
Robert G. Millen, president and mann has been
chief executive officer of United named vice pres
Central Bank has announced several ident and man
organizational changes in the bank’s ager of this new
lending function, designed to im office and will be
prove the bank’s overall effec developing busi
tiveness in meeting customers’ ness in Iowa and
credit needs.
the eastern half
Five divisions were created, in
0 f Í!¡ebr£ SkaG.A. HERMANN
cluding: Iowa commercial services,
Mr. Hermann
metropolitan commercial services, rejoins Banco after three years as^
loan administration and construc the president and a director of the

MOW'STHETIME!

TOCHOOSEA
CORRESPONDENT BANK
Nearly every large bank has a
correspondent banking department.
Q. So how do you choose which bank to
do business with?
A. Tcilk to the people.
Find out how knowledgeable they are.
How professional. Make them explain how
their correspondent services can help you.
Are they easy to deal with? They
should be — a correspondent banker and
his clients need to work in harmony.
Check their reputation. Are they
dependable and reliable? All solid
relationships are built on trust. In a

banking relationship, trust is one of the
most important elements.
Be certain that frequent
communications will be maintained
between the correspondent bank and your
bank. If one or both of you aren’t aware
and well informed, there’s bound to be
trouble.
Of course, at United Central Bank, we
think the people in our correspondent
banking department can do the best job for
you. But you be the judge. Call us toll-free,
1-800-362-1615. Make an appointment.
Then put us to the test. Now’s the time!

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MEMBER FDIC
DES MOINES, IOWA 50304 (515) 245-7111
LOCUST AT 6TH • 5TH & GRAND • 35TH & INGERSOLL
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Cash Manager account attracts
new customers for Des Moines bank
INCE announcing its United
Cash Manager service earlier
this year, United Central Bank of
Des Moines, N.A., reports the plan
has been “ well accepted and is in
creasing in popularity.” James R.
Katek, Jr., director of marketing,
said the bank would not reveal num
bers of accounts opened or dollar
amounts, but did indicate that it has
attracted new customers as well as
bringing in new money from exis
ting customers. Although sources of
funds could not be tracked, it is felt
there has been a reverse flow of
funds to the bank since this new ser
vice was made available.
The United Cash Manager ac
count was made available January
25 and the marketing letters to pro
spects and customers offers these
benefits to the sweep account:
•Excess funds maintained in your
checking (or NOW) accounts are
automatically invested in high yield
ing Money Market Funds to maxi
mize your earnings potential.
•Your funds are totally liquid,
and may be accessed simply by writ
ing a check for any amount. This
provides you with accessibility to
your funds unparalleled by any cer
tificate of deposit or repurchase
agreement, and most money market
funds which require that checks be
written for a minimum amount.
•You have the convenience of

banking with United Central Bank
(one of Iowa’s largest), while com
bining the advantages of a checking
account with a high interest money
market fund.
The plan is offered on a business
account basis as well as a personal
account. A $2,500 minimum is re
quired for the personal account, and
that minimum balance will earn
514% interest compounded daily to
yield 5.47% as a NOW account. Any
amounts above the $2,500 will be au
tomatically swept into one of three
alternative funds selected by the
customer. The transfer amount
must be in minimums of $1,000.
In the United Cash Manager busi
ness account, minimum sweep ac
counts are $5,000.
A $20 startup fee is charged for
both the business and personal ac
count. The current rates for the
three funds administered by Fed
erated Cash Management Systems,
which currently manages in excess
of $23 billion in funds, are posted
daily in business papers. The money
in the NOW account is insured. The
money invested in any of the three
money market funds is not insured.
In addition to the regular check
ing account statement, a United
Cash Manager customer receives a
month-end statement showing the
fund balance, transactions, interest
earned and fees.
□

Moines National Bank for five years®
and is currently assistant cashier in
operations.
Kathy Kelley, elected secretary, is
assistant auditor for Valley Nation
al Bank.
•

Council Bluffs Exec. Named
Anthony M. Payne has been
elected chairman and chief executive
officer of the First National Bank o ^
Council Bluffs,
a c c o r d in g
to
Paul B. Moser,
current ch a ir
man of the bank.
Bruce E. Cramer
has been elected
vice president
and commercial
loan officer.
M r. P a y n e,
A.M. PAYNE
who will take
over his duties im m ediately,
previously was with Dakota North-(
western Bank of Bismarck, North
Dakota, as senior vice president for
loan administration. He also served
for 12 years in various lending and
administrative capacities with U.S.<
National Bank of Omaha.
Mr. Cramer, who has been in
banking the past nine years, pre
viously was serving as commercial
banking officer with the Omaha N a -^
tional Bank, Nebraska.

Mason City Bank Names One

The board of First National Bank
of Mason City recently announced 0
the election of
James L. GarFirst National Bank of Fonda.
ver, correspon
spring of 1981.
Mr. Hermann is an ag business
dent banking of
* * *
ficer.
graduate from Iowa State Universi
M r. G arver
ty and is a graduate of the Graduate
The Des Moines Chapter of the
School of Banking at the University American Institute of Banking re began his bank
of Wisconsin, Madison. He began cently elected its board of directors ing career in
1960 at the Sevhis career in 1964 in the ag loan for the 1982-83 term.
department at Swea City State
Kent M. Gaudian has been elected ery State Bank
Bank. He began his Banco associa president. He has been a member of in Kansas. He
JL. GARVER
tion in 1968 when he became ag rep AIB for three and one-half years and has been assiswith the First National Bank in Ma is employed by West Bank in the tant cashier at the Admire Bank in
son City, later transferring to the operations and credit analysis areas Emporia since July, 1977.
commercial loan department. In 1976 of the bank.
he was elected president and a direc
Beth McGeough has been elected Dubuque Officer Elected
tor of Northwest Agricultural Credit first vice president. She is a loan of
Curtis J. (Chuck) Schrup III was
Company and moved to Sioux Falls. ficer at Warren County Brenton elected secretary of the Iowa Young
He left that post in 1979 to move to Bank of Indianola.
Bankers Association at their annual
his position at Fonda.
Kathy S. Zdychnec has been elec convention May 13-14 in the
The Des Moines office will pro ted second vice president. She is the Amanas.
vide secured lending to small and advertising and communications
Mr. Schrup currently is vice presi
medium-sized businesses. Banco Fi manager for the Iowa-Des Moines dent of investments at the American
nancial Corporation was founded in National Bank.
Trust & Savings Bank, Dubuque. ^
1974, with the first branch office be
Jeff McMullin, elected treasurer, He has been with the bank since ^
ing opened in Denver, Colo., in the has been employed by East Des 1970.

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W hen You Build
Or Remodel Your Bank,
W ho Really Benefits?
|0*Vour Local Excavator

0^Tour Local Lumber Yard

|0^bur Local Concrete Supplier 0 ^ fo tir Local Carpet Store
0H four Local Mason

[Z^Your Local Hardware Store

[0*Y6ur Local Electrician

0^Your Local Motels

0^Your Local Plumber

|0^Tour Local Restaurants

|0Hfour Local Heating Supplier

|0Hfour Local Drapery Shops

0 ^ 6 i i f Local Paint Store

0^Your Local Appliance Store

0 ^ 6 u r Local Painter

¿^ Y òu r Local Landscaper

0 ^ ?6u r Local Roofer

|0HTour Local Newspaper

l^^Tour Local Air Conditioning
Company

The Kirk Gross Company uses local contractors and
suppliers whenever possible. But they’re not the only
people who benefit.

*YOU DO, TOO!
The whole town benefits. That’s what your operation is all about. That’s what our operation is all about.

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UCB Correspondent Department Moves

those ‘prehistoric days’ it was unus
ual to move from one department t(P
another. I was able to get involved
in many different functions, which I
think was advantageous to me when
I moved to this bank.”
The move came in 1954 when Live®
stock National merged with Omaha
National. At the time Mr. Babcock
was assistant cashier at Livestock
National’s office in the Livestock^
Exchange Building.
®
After the merger he worked in the
loan discount area and also in bus
iness development, involving public
relations and account solicitation—
He also was active in the m arketing
NEW OFFICES for the correspondent bank department were completed recently at United of Omaha National’s first payroll ac
Central Bank of Des Moines, N.A. The newer, expanded facilities share the same area in counting service.
the east half of the UCB third floor with the commercial lending division. In photo above,
But it is the segment of his career
Margo Foxhoven, secy, for the correspondent department, is pictured at her desk with,
from left, Eddie A. Wolf, sr. v.p., and Cyrus D. Kirk and William B. Greaves, v.p.s. Their pri in correspondent banking that M r^
Babcock has enjoyed the most, “ r
vate offices are shown in the background.
have really appreciated the oppor
BABCOCK RETIRES...
Prior to moving into correspon tunity to travel the region and work
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dent banking in 1966, Mr. Babcock with so many great people.”
anybody he didn’t like or who didn’t held a variety of positions at Omaha
Mr. Babcock already has a Soutl^
like him. He knows so many people National and Livestock National.
Dakota fishing trip planned, and he
in banking—he’s going to be sorely
“ At Livestock National I worked and his wife, Dorothy (“ D ot” ), will be
missed here at Omaha National. But much of the time as a utility person, traveling to the west coast later this
I know Jack’s looking forward to filling in wherever where I was need summer. Golf, yardwork and hunting
spending more time on the golf ed—in bookkeeping, transit, the tel also are on his list of retirement ac^
course (he hit his first hole-in-one on ler cages, and the loan department. tivities.
□
June 19) and with the fishing pole.” It was a real break for me because in

Committed to
making your
bank stand
apart from the

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JULY 1982
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American Express Travelers Cheques . . .
American National Bank & Trust, St. Paul
Associates Commercial Corp.....................

. .

Bankers Trust Co., Des M o in e s ................
Bankers Video Service Corp.......................

. . .76

Central Bank of D enver............................
Colorado National Bank, D enver..............
Continental Bank, C h ic a g o ......................

62-63
. . .59
. . . .9

Data Management P ro d u c ts ....................
Drovers Bank of C h ic a g o ..........................

. . .14

First
First
First
First
First

. . . .9
. . .65
. . .75
. . .73
48-49

National Bank, C h ic a g o ....................
National Bank, D enver......................
National Bank, L in c o ln ....................
National Bank, O m a h a ....................
National Bank, St. P a u l....................

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. .

.11

Gross, Kirk Co., W a te rlo o ..........................

. . .9Ä

Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago .. .

. . .17

Iowa Bankers Insurance & S e rvice s................................. 81
lowa-Des Moines National B a n k ....................................... 96
Kooker, E.F. & A s s o c ia te s ................................................. 80
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co......................................... 3
Merchants National Bank, Cedar R a p id s ............................|
Midland National Bank, M in n e a p o lis............................... 43
Minnesota Protective Life Co..............................................47
National Bank of Commerce, L in c o ln ............................... 95
National Bank of W a te rlo o ................................................. 83
National Boulevard Bank, C h ic a g o ................................... 26
Northern Trust Co., C h ic a g o ............................................. 13
Northwestern National Bank, M in n e a p o lis ....................3 ^
Office Concepts, W a te rlo o ................................................ 94
SLT Warehouse Co................................................................31
Security National Bank, Sioux C it y ................................... 87
Toy National Bank, Sioux C it y ........................................... 79
United Central Bank, N.A., Des Moines .
United States National Bank, Omaha . . .
Zions First National Bank, Salt Lake City

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