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Hewitt Elected to Federal Reserve Board of Chicago
 Mark C. Hewitt, President and CEO of Clear Lake Bank & Trust Company, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His three-year board term begins in January 2008.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the nation’s central bank. The Chicago Reserve Bank serves the seventh Federal Reserve District, which encompasses the northern portions of Illinois and Indiana, southern Wisconsin, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and the state of Iowa. In addition to participation in the formulation of monetary policy, each Reserve Bank supervises member banks and bank holding companies, provides financial services to depository institutions and the U.S. government, and monitors economic conditions in the District.
Clear Lake Bank & Trust Company is a $210 million family owned full service commercial bank with locations in Garner, Clear Lake and Mason City, Iowa.
2007 Best of Iowa Call for Entries
It’s getting close to the end of the year, which means it’s time to start thinking about what marketing campaign from 2007 you are going to enter in the IBA’s annual Best of Iowa competition!
Best of Iowa is the state-wide advertising and marketing competition for member banks of the Iowa Bankers Association (IBA). The IBA sponsors the Best of Iowa competition to give deserved recognition to those bank marketers who are responsible for creating and executing successful marketing and advertising programs that enhance the image of their bank and contribute to profitability.
The Best of Iowa competition is divided into four overall categories: Community Development/Public Relations, Multi-Media Campaigns, Print and Non-Print. These four categories are further broken down by campaign budget size and whether or not the campaign was created by an advertising agency or bank personnel. Campaign budget sizes include: under $1,000; $1,000 - $5,000; $5,001 - $15,000; and over $15,000.
All entries will be displayed and awards presented at the Best of Iowa awards breakfast during the IBA Annual Marketing Conference, May 7-9, 2008, at the Sheraton West Des Moines.
Entry forms will be mailed in early December. The deadline for submitting your campaigns is Monday, March 3, 2008. In addition to being mailed, the Best of Iowa entry form will also be available on the front page of the IBA website at www.iowabankers.com under “Featured Events” as an editable pdf form that you may fill out online, print and mail in with your entry. The online form is now available.
If you have any questions regarding the competition, please contact the IBA’s Dia Gross at 800.532-1423, ext. 4384 or 515.286.4384.
IBA Awarded Community Bank Award from ACB
By offering a hand up to an immigrant family, Iowa bankers have earned national recognition for a major volunteer project. During its annual meeting in Las Vegas last month, the American Community Bankers (ACB) gave the IBA its community bank award—the national association’s highest honor—for the Another Capitol Idea home building project with Habitat for Humanity.
The ACB recognized the commitment of more than 360 Iowa bankers in volunteering to build a Habitat house on the State Capitol grounds in 2007. Bankers built a home for Dao Dihn and her four children in eight days this past April. Dihn is a refugee from Vietnam who settled in Iowa in 1985.
The Habitat building project has become an annual event for Iowa bankers. The IBA partnership with Habitat for Humanity started in 2005.
“Our staff volunteers for this project every year because it’s fun to work with other bankers on a worthwhile project in a non-bank related setting. More importantly, teams of bankers are happy to give back to our communities and to our state. We very visibly show our commitment to Iowa as we build a Habitat home,” said David Boswell, SVP of Bank Iowa, Humboldt. “We see this as an investment in people.”
Habitat for Humanity and Governor Culver’s Office have asked the IBA to return for a fourth home building project in April 2008. The project will again be on the grounds of the State Capitol. Approximately 40 bankers a day will be needed to volunteer to work on the house. From hammering in the first nail to placing the final shingle, bankers are actively involved in the building every part of the house. The specific dates of the 2008 IBA–Habitat build project will be announced in early 2008.
The Iowa Bankers Association and the New Jersey Bankers Association were the only state banking associations to earn kudos from the ACB in 2007.
Graduates of the IBA’s Commercial Lending School
Congratulations to the forty-five graduates who completed the 2007 Iowa Commercial Lending School held October 7-12, at the Cedar Rapids Marriott Hotel in Cedar Rapids.
The purpose of the IBA Commercial Lending School is to prepare commercial lenders who have not been exposed to formal commercial lending education, or lenders who want to broaden their commercial lending knowledge to serve efficiently and profitably as commercial loan officers.
Four students graduated in the top 10 percent of their class. They are: Kevin Bolt, Marion County Bank, Pella; David Grevin, Marion County Bank, Pella; Lisa Peterson, First National Bank, Waverly; and Deb Reed, USDA, Rural Development, Atlantic.
The students that were elected by their peers to the Commercial Lending School Advisory Board were: Dan Johnson, United Bank & Trust, Hampton; Brandon Paine, Hardin County Savings Bank, Union; and Thad Roffey, Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust, Cedar Rapids.
The 2008 Commercial Lending School will be held October 6-11, 2008 in Cedar Rapids. For additional information, please contact IBA’s Robbie Adelman at 800.532.1423.
Jon Albert
Polk County Bank, Johnston
Joel Bair
Hills Bank & Trust, Hills
Steve Beltramea
MidWestOne Bank, Fairfield
Nancy Bitterman
First Bank & Trust, Canton, SD
Kevin Bolt
Marion County Bank, Pella
Kris Brunscheen
Security State Bank, Anamosa
Nate Dunn
Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Laura Farrington
Pinnacle Bank, Marshalltown
Jeff Goetz
Two Rivers Bank and Trust
West Des Moines
David Greving
Marion County Bank, Pella
Matt Hurd
Northwest Bank, Ankeny
Joel Jacobsen
First National Bank, Ames
Brad Joens
Hills Bank, Hills
Rusty Jones,
Grinnell State Bank, Grinnell
Jim Knabel
East Dubuque Savings Bank
East Dubuque
Scott Kooiman
Iowa State Bank, Orange City
Steve Lindaman
Farmers State Bank, Waterloo
Michelle Moore
USDA Rural Development, Indianola
Dan Mullenbach
Northwest Bank, West Des Moines
Travis Nicholson
Fidelity Bank, Huxley
Jeremy Olberding
American Trust, Farley
Lisa Peterson
First National Bank, Waverly
Casey Purdum
First National Bank, Creston
Pat Recker
Tri County Bank & Trust, Monticello
Deb Reed
USDA, Rural Development, Atlantic
Mark Reisinger
USDA Rural Development
Des Moines
Doug Rew
Council Bluffs Savings Bank
Council Bluffs
Wendy Riggle
Cedar Valley Bank & Trust, Vinton
Nancy Rulon
Tri-Valley Bank, Randolph
Kate Sand
USDA, Rural Development
Humboldt
Jeanne Speas
Bankers’ Bank, Urbandale
Harold Stone
Hills Bank & Trust, Hills
Tiffany Stork
United Bank of Iowa, Denison
Robin Templeton
USDA Rural Development, LeMars
Bob Templeton
American State Bank, Osceola
Michelle Tobias
USDA Rural Development
Mount Pleasant
Mark Turnis
Walcott Trust & Savings Bank
Walcott
Brandon Vogelsberg
Hills Bank & Trust, Hills
Randy Walter
Farmers Savings Bank, Walford
Rob Welter
Bank Iowa, West Des Moines
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