2016 Vol. 100 No. 10

9 Hoosier Banker October 2016 About the Author Christina M. Bennett, CMP, is vice presidentmeetings & events of the Indiana Bankers Association. She can be reached at 317-387-9380, email: cbennett@indianabankers.org. ville, passed along the leadership gavel to Annette M. Russell, Security Federal Savings Bank, Logansport, who in 2017 will become the first female chair in the IBA’s 120-year history. Mike Head also was honored with a Sagamore of the Wabash award from Gov. Mike Pence, presented by Thomas C. Fite, director of the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions. This award was in addition to an IBA plaque presented to Head to thank him for his service. New members of the IBA Forty Year Club also were recognized at the banquet, each receiving an IBA lapel pin. Closing out the convention were the always-exciting prize drawings. Steven Ross, Lake City Bank, Warsaw, won the Indiana BANKPAC sweepstakes of an all-expenses-paid trip for two to Costa Rica, sponsored by The KeyState Companies. The grand prize drawing of his and hers TAG Heuer Swiss dress watches, sponsored by The SHAZAM Network, went to Keith M. “Doc” Ernst, First National Bank, Cloverdale. Thank you to all attendees and sponsors who made this event a success. Please plan to join us at French Lick Resort for next year’s IBA Annual Convention, to be held Sept. 10-12, 2017. We look forward to hosting you! t Allied Solutions Angott Search Group Anthem Associated Bank The Baker Group Bankers’ Bank BITS BKD, LLP BOK Financial Institutional Advisors Bose McKinney & Evans LLP Cinnaire Corporation Crowe Horwath LLP Donaldson Capital Management Equias Alliance Executive Benefits Network Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis Floodplain Consultants Gibson Teldata Inc. IBA Insurance Agency Inc. IBA Service Corporation Independent Community Bankers of America Infotex Investors Title Insurance Company K4 Architecture + Design Keefe, Bruyette & Woods The KeyState Companies Krieg DeVault LLP Lee & Mason Financial Services Matrix Integration Monroe Shine & Co. Inc. PCBB Plante Moran Thank You, IBA Annual Convention Sponsors! An important function of each IBA Annual Convention is to conduct official business. On Sept. 12, new officers for 2017 were elected. Also at the meeting, IBA Chair Michael H. Head recognized two current directors who will be retiring from the IBA board at year-end 2016. New Officers Elected Effective Jan. 1, 2017 Chair – Annette M. Russell, Security IBA Annual Convention Elections Professional Bank Services Inc. Profit Resources Inc. Promontory Interfinancial Network LLC Renninger & Associates LLC The SHAZAM Network Silverback SmithAmundsen LLC TIB-The Independent BankersBank Title Center of Indiana LLC TransFund Travelers UMB Bank Wilmington Trust, NA Young & Associates Inc. Federal Savings Bank, Logansport; First vice chair – Clay W. Ewing, German American Bancorp, Jasper; Second vice chair – Andrew J. Briggs, Bank of Geneva. Other Board Election and Re-Elections Effective Jan. 1, 2017 Benjamin J. Bochnowski, Peoples Bank, Munster Archie M. Brown Jr., MainSource Financial Group Inc., Greensburg Jeffrey W. Gump, Farmers and Merchants Bank, LaOtto Matthew W. Howrey, North Salem State Bank Board Retirements Effective Year-End 2016 Gregory Maxwell, Farmers State Bank, Mentone; Larry W. Myers, First Savings Bank, Clarksville.

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