included everything from Assistant Vice President to Sr. Vice President and Cashier. In those days, a title was less important than the jobs you performed. In 1990, David heard that Imogene Crow was retiring from the Denison State Bank and decided to apply there again. Jim Birkbeck decided he was worth the risk and hired him in October of that year. David had served as a loan officer, compliance officer, auditor, BSA officer and Chief Financial Officer and held various titles, including his current title as Executive Vice President. He also serves on the DSB Board of Directors. Dean Tuley has been an employee, officer and/or director at Denison State Bank for 50 consecutive years in 2023. After graduating from Kansas State University with a degree in Agricultural Economics in 1972, he started at the Denison State Bank in 1973 as an agricultural representative. He has held many positions, Assistant Cashier, Assistant Vice President, Executive Vice President and President from 2003-2013. He then retired in 2016. Dean has served on the Denison State Bank’s Board of Directors for 40 years and is now the senior-ranking board member. Throughout his career, he also holds his Kansas insurance license, completed the Graduate School of Banking in Madison, WI, and has attended numerous banking schools, workshops and seminars. He has served as President of the Kansas Association of Agricultural Representatives and many committees at the KBA. Throughout his banking career, Dean had the opportunity to learn about the banking industry from a successful banking leader and friend — Jim Birkbeck. Karen Schmale, United Bank & Trust in Marysville Karen Schmale received a phone call from the bank President at Linn State Bank on July 16, 1973 — on her 16th birthday — requesting that she come into the bank and visit with him the next day. That meeting would be the start of her 50-year career. Upon graduation from Linn High School, Karen went to Cloud County Community College for two years but continued her position with the bank, working Saturdays and during school breaks. When she first started, her first task was to sort and file checks. As her career advanced, she has held the position of File Clerk, Teller, Bookkeeper, Vice PresidentAssistant Cashier, Vice President-Cashier and now her present position as Senior Vice Deb Rott, Peoples Bank & Trust in McPherson Tom Harms, Peoples Bank & Trust in McPherson Roger Brown, Citizens State Bank in Cheney President-Chief Financial Officer, which she has held since 2011. Karen has also been Secretary to the United Bank & Trust and UBT Bancshares, Inc. boards since 2004. In October 2021, Karen became a member of the board of directors of United Bank & Trust and, in June 2022, to the Board of Directors of UBT Bancshares, Inc. The bank went through several changes in ownership/names; in 1977, it was the Linn State Bank; in 1988, the name was changed to First State Bank; in 1991, the name was changed to Tri-County National Bank; in 2000, the name changed to Peoples National Bank (when the bank was purchased by Gold Bank); finally, in 2004, a group of local stockholders purchased several branches in northeast Kansas from Gold Bank and changed the name to United Bank & Trust. 18
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