Pub. 4 2014-2015 Issue 2

14 O V E R A C E N T U R Y : B U I L D I N G B E T T E R B A N K S - H E L P I N G C O L O R A D A N S R E A L I Z E D R E A M S FEATURE ARTICLE “The school has educated more than 8,000 bankers, regulators and othermembers of the financial services industry.” GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BANKING AT COLORADO AND COLORADO BANKERS ASSOCIATION STAFF Mother-Daughter Team Graduates GSBC Together: A First for the 64-year-old School M any parents hope their children will one day fol low in thei r foot steps and choose the same career, once they’re grown and out on their own. But for Jamie Matile, her daughter Allison Garst may have caught the banking bug much sooner. In 1986, when Matile was five months pregnant, the bank where she worked was closed by the FDIC. Now 28 years later, her daughter Allison is a successful bank regulator with the Office of State Bank Commissioner in Kansas. The pair shares not only the bond of a mother and daughter, and the love of a shared career in banking, but also the same graduation day. Matile, vice president of Girard National Bank in Kansas, and Garst, in July, both graduated from the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado. That’s a first for the 64-year-old school, which graduated 160 class members on July 24. Matile and Girard have been roommates at the school since 2013 when Garst enrolled as a second-year direct student.