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May 23, 2006
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to right: Thom Hagan and Charlie Smith, representing award ceremony
sponsor The Plateau Group, Inc; Tonya Gallian, Peoples Bank, Waynesboro,
winner of the 2005-2006 Outstanding PEP Banker Award; TBA Young
Bankers Division President Chet Alexander, senior vice presi-dent/credit
administration, First State Bank, Union City.
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to right: Thom Hagan and Charlie Smith, representing award ceremony
sponsor The Plateau Group, Inc; Julie Heath, PhD, University of
Memphis, winner of the Financial Literacy Teacher of the Year Award;
TBA Young Bankers Division President Chet Alexander, senior vice
president/credit administration, First State Bank, Union City. |
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Tennessee Banks and Bankers Honored For Consumer
Education Efforts
Memphis State Instructor Earns Award for Teachers
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Bankers Association (TBA) Young Bankers
Division re-cently honored outstanding banks and bankers for excellence
in educating the public about personal finance, banking, and economics
through the Personal Economics Program (PEP). More than 100 awards and
certificates were announced during a special ceremony at the TBA’s
2006 Leadership Convention held at The Peabody in Memphis, April 23–25.
Increasing financial literacy and fiscal responsibility is a mission
that bankers take seriously. The Young Bankers Division has coordinated
these efforts in Tennessee for more than 30 years when they first launched
an aggressive campaign to assist teachers in broadening the public under-standing
of banking. From July 1, 2005, the beginning of the “PEP year,”
through March 20, 2006, bankers in Tennessee reached almost 72,000 persons
making 1,570 presentations to students from kindergarten through college,
civic and business organizaitons, seniors groups, and other consumers
to help them understand personal money management, the wise use of credit,
identity theft, predatory lending, and other such issues. The PEP awards
are one way of bringing public recognition and awareness of the contributions
these bankers make to their communities.
OUTSTANDING PEP BANKER AWARD
The highest award, Tennessee’s 2005–2006 Outstanding PEP
Banker Award, was pre-sented to Tonya Gallian, Peoples Bank, Waynesboro.
This recognition is awarded to a Ten-nessee bank or banker for superior
educational contributions to the local community.
Peoples Bank develops a theme each year to guide their financial literacy
and community ac-tivities. They used Robert Frost’s poem “The
Road Not Taken” to demonstrate to customers and people in the
community the many goals and paths to take with their money that can
provide them with greater success in the future.
Bank employees visited numerous elementary and high school classrooms
through the year to explain the importance of managing your money wisely,
saving for the future, and more. They also hosted students for visits
to the bank.
For upper classmen, Peoples Bank operates a “school bank”
at two local high schools.
FINANCIAL LITERACY TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
The Financial Literacy Teacher of the Year Award, instituted in 2005,
is presented to a Ten-nessee teacher, at any level, for outstanding
contributions to economic education. This year’s win-ner was Julie
Heath, PhD, an economics professor at the University of Memphis.
Dr. Heath was nominated for the award by First Tennessee Bank National
Association, which has worked with her for almost four years. She established
the Center for Economic Education at the University of Memphis to instruct
area teachers in new and fun ways to teach economics to their students
by integrating economics and financial literacy into other disciplines.
In addition, Heath has devoted time to the Memphis/Shelby County Predatory
Lending Task Force and is working with the state legislature to implement
a financial literacy curriculum in Ten-nessee schools.
TOP PEP BANKER / GRAND DIVISION AWARDS
The Grand Division Awards are presented to the banker in each division
of the state who makes the most presentations concerning financial literacy
during the PEP year, which begins July 1 of each year. The 2005-2006
Grand Division Awards went to:
Top PEP Banker for East Tennessee – Diane Riggs,
Community National Bank, Dayton, with 264 presentations reaching more
than 4,100 contacts
Top PEP Banker for Middle Tennessee – Patty Pearson,
Cavalry Banking, now Pinnacle Financial Partners, Murfreesboro with
235 presentations and more than 26,300 contacts
Top PEP Banker for West Tennessee – Alice McClanahan,
INSOUTH Bank, Brownsville with 124 presentations and 1,120 contacts.
SAVE DAY & CREDIT DAY AWARDS
Teach Children to Save and Get Smart about Credit are two nationwide
consumer education initiatives established by the American Bankers Association
Education Foundation. Save Day focuses primarily on younger students,
instilling in them the need and desire to save by helping them differentiate
between “wants” and “needs.” For Credit Day,
bankers work with young peo-ple, particularly teenagers and college
students, on the importance of managing credit wisely. The Teach Children
to Save Award and Get Smart about Credit Award recognize the banks that
made the most presentations in conjunction with each of these national
financial literacy initiatives. For the second straight year, both of
these awards went to First Century Bank, Tazewell.
GOLDEN PEP BANKER AWARD
The TBA also presented the Golden PEP Banker Award to individual bankers
who com-pleted 75 or more presentations between July 1, 2005, and March
20, 2006. Twelve bankers re-ceived this distinction:
Diane Riggs, Community National Bank, Dayton, 264 presentations
Patty Pearson, Cavalry Banking, Murfreesboro, 235 presentations
Wonda Turnbo, Wayne County Bank, Waynesboro, 157 presentations
Holly Haggard, Wayne County Bank, Waynesboro, 147 presentations
Alice McClanahan, INSOUTH Bank, Brownsville, 124 presentations
Helen Maclin, First Citizens National Bank, Dyersburg, 108 presentations
Elizabeth Teeftaller, Wayne County Bank, Waynesboro, 91 presentations
Stacey Hardin, Wayne County Bank, Waynesboro 82 presentations
LaDonna Spry, First Citizens National Bank, Dyersburg, 79 presentations
Joyce Hanlon, First Citizens National Bank, Dyersburg, 77 presentations
Debra Gingery, First Citizens National Bank, Dyersburg, 75 presentations
Vincent Haymon, First Citizens National Bank, Dyersburg, 75
OTHER AWARDS – LISTS FOLLOW
Other awards presented at the TBA Leadership Convention were the Certificate
of Achieve-ment, Certificate of Outstanding Bank Participation, and
Certificate of Recognition.
To be eligible for the Certificate of Achievement, individuals had to
complete 12 or more in-school bank activities before the March 20, 2006,
deadline. The in-school bank program fosters the savings habit of children
by offering a real-life savings program to students within the school
environment.
The Certificate of Outstanding Bank Participation was presented to each
bank with two or more bankers who completed a combined total of 12 or
more PEP presentations.
The Certificate of Recognition was presented to bankers who completed
12 or more PEP presentations of any kind to any age group.
Following is a complete list of individuals and banks, arranged alphabetically
by city, that earned these awards—Certificate of Achievement,
Certificate of Outstanding Bank Participation, and Certificate of Recognition.
For the second straight year, the Plateau Group, Inc, Crossville, sponsored
the awards cere-mony at The Leadership Convention.
The Personal Economics Program, established by the American Bankers
Association
in 1977, is a volunteer effort of bankers working with educators and
other community groups to teach consumers of all ages about personal
money management skills, banks, and banking services. The Tennessee
Bankers Association’s Young Bankers Division began administering
PEP in Ten-nessee in 1980. For more information about PEP, contact Dianne
Martin or Monique Jenkins in the TBA office.
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The
Tennessee Bankers Association is a not-for-profit organization representing
all of Tennes-see’s commercial banks and thrift institutions.
The association provides continuing education, develops and monitors
state and federal legislative agendas, disseminates information on all
fac-ets of the financial services industry, and promotes the public
image of financial institutions.
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