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Contact:	Robert Schmermund (202) 857-3104 Jim Eberle (202) 857-3145	Jim Eberle (202) 857-3145 (work) (703) 893-2593 (home) [email protected]	For Immediate Release October 20, 2000 #00-115
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AMERICA’S COMMUNITY BANKERS NOMINATES SLATE OF NEW OFFICERS, DIRECTORS

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s Community Bankers’ Nominating Committee has presented a slate of new officers and directors for the trade association. The nominees will be officially elected to office at ACB’s Annual Convention on Oct. 31.

Joining the leadership team will be D. Russell Taylor, a New Jersey community banker, nominated to be second vice chairman. Current officers will move up in the chairs: David A. Bochnowski, chairman, president and CEO, Peoples Bank, Munster, Ind., to chairman from first vice chairman, and Curtis L. Hage, chairman president and CEO, Home Federal Savings Bank, Sioux Falls, S.D., from second vice chairman to first vice chairman. ACB Chairman William A. Fitzgerald, chairman and CEO, Commercial Federal Bank, Omaha, becomes Immediate Past Chairman, replacing E. Lee Beard, president and CEO, First Federal Bank, Hazleton, Pa., who also served as chair of the Nominating Committee and gave the committee’s report. Officers serve one-year terms.

Taylor is president and CEO of Rahway Savings Institution, Rahway, N.J., a $382 million mutual savings association he has served since 1979. He has been a member of ACB’s board of directors since 1998 and chairs the Mutual Institutions Committee. He is a member of the Audit and Finance Committee, the Community Institutions Committee, the Government Affairs Council, the Government Affairs Steering Committee, the Privacy Working Group, the Strategic Planning Committee and the Task Force on Electronic Banking and Community Banks.

Taylor is also a member of the New Jersey League Community & Savings Bankers and a member of its Government Affairs Council and its Legislative and Regulatory Committee.

He is a director and former president of the Rahway Senior Housing Corporation.

Eight new members to ACB’s board of directors were nominated for three year terms.

Bruce R. Hostler is chairman and CEO, Reliance Bank, Altoona, Pa., a $205 million mutual savings institution. Hostler is a member of ACB’s Community Institutions and Mutual Institutions Committees. He has been a director and chairman of the Credit and Investment Committees of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh where he also served on the Affordable Housing, Legislative and Executive Committees. He has also been a member of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank’s Thrift Advisory Council.
R. Miles Ledgerwood is president and CEO, Alamogordo Federal Savings and Loan Association, Alamogordo, N.M., a $160 million mutual institution. Ledgerwood is also president and a board member of AF Mutual Holding Co., the member-owned parent to the thrift, Alamogordo Financial Corp., and Space Age City Service Corp. He also serves on the boards of Southwestern Automated Clearing House and the Texas Saving & Community Bankers Association, and has served on ACB’s Government Affairs Council and Community Institutions Committee.
James T. Mann is president and CEO, First Federal Savings Bank, Clarksville, Tenn., a $203 million mutual institution, where he has been an officer since 1977. He is a board member of ACB’s COMPAC and a member of ACB’s Government Affairs Council, Community Institutions Committee, the Mutual Institutions Committee, the Task Force on Electronic Banking and Community Banks and the Government Sponsored Enterprises Policy Development Task Force. Mann is a past chairman of the Tennessee League of Savings Institutions and was a board member of the Southeastern Conference of Community Banks, which he served as president from 1995 to 1997.
Thomas C. Meuser has been chairman and CEO, El Dorado Savings Bank, Placerville, Calif., a $784 million stock institution, since 1991. He has been associated with the bank for over 31 years. Meuser is a member of ACB’s Government Affairs Council. He is also a board member of the Western League of Savings Institutions and the Advisory Committee of the El Dorado County Habitat for Humanity.
Christopher W. Pinkham is president of the Maine Association of Community Banks, which serves 23 member institutions. He has been with the association for 26 years and has been its president since 1980. Chris is the secretary/treasurer of the State Association Trade Executives (SATE) group and becomes its vice president on Nov. 1.
William T. Ratliff, III, is chairman and CEO of a family of financial service companies, including New South Federal Savings Bank, Birmingham, Ala., a $1.1 billion federally chartered savings bank; Collateral Mortgage, Ltd.; and Collateral Investment Corp., which includes Triad Guaranty, a private mortgage insurance company. New South and Collateral have been recognized nationally as leaders in affordable housing and fair lending initiatives. Ratliff has served on ACB’s Government Affairs Council. He has been active in many community organizations, including the National Conference for Community and Justice.
Donna Fitzgerald Shuler is president and CEO, Independence Federal Savings Bank, Washington, D.C., a $260 million federally chartered savings institution. She is a member of the ACB’s Government Affairs Council and serves on the board of the American League of Financial Institutions. She also serves on the Freddie Mac Affordable Housing Advisory Council and is a mayoral appointee to the board of the Committee to Promote Washington.
William R. White is chairman, president and CEO, Dearborn Federal Savings Bank, Dearborn, Mich., a $239 million mutual institution. He has chaired ACB’s Community Institutions Committee and served on the Mutual Institutions Committee, the Accounting Committee, the Government Affairs Council, the Government Affairs Steering Committee and the Federal Home Loan Bank System Committee. He presided over ACB’s National Spring Management Conference in 1999 and 2000. White is also vice chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis and a past chairman of the Michigan League of Community Banks.

America’s Community Bankers is the national trade association committed to shaping the future of banking by being the innovative industry leader strengthening the competitive position of community banks. To learn more about ACB, visit www.AmericasCommunityBankers.com.

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