First American Bank promotes Lee to banking center manager

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Feb 27, 2001 by Ray Carter

Dana Lee has been promoted to banking center manager of First American Bank's Norman West (Goldsby) Center. Lee has been with First American since July 1997.

Superior Financial

Duane K. Bickings has been named to a new position of chief commercial banking officer of Superior Federal Bank. In this capacity, Bickings will oversee all commercial lending, deposit and cash management services for the company's small business customers.

Bickings has more than 22 years of experience in commercial banking.

As a part of its strategic initiatives over the next several months, Superior plans to enhance the products and services it now offers to local businesses in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Superior Federal Bank is a $1.6 billion federal savings bank with 57 branch and loan production offices in Arkansas and Oklahoma. The bank has four active subsidiaries -- Superior Financial Services, Southwest Protective Life Insurance, Superior Insurance Services, and Superior Finance.

Bank of Perkins

The Payne County Bank of Perkins is participating in the Community Bankers Scholarship Program, awarding four-year scholarships to college-bound high school seniors of the Perkins-Tryon and Ripley public schools. Each scholarship is valued at $8,000, and will be paid out at $2,000 per year.

Payne County Bank CEO Lynn Kinder said the program would help many local graduates pursue a college degree who might not have had that option, especially in light of rising tuition expenses.

The scholarship program was designed to offer community banks an innovative way to help defray the cost of college for local students by providing a means to award tens of thousands of dollars in college scholarships. The goal of the program is to help banks throughout the nation award a combined total of more than $1 billion in scholarships over the next 20 years. The scholarship program is administered by an independent firm, which will choose scholarship winners based on merit and academic accomplishments.

BancFirst

Nanci Inman attended BankTravel 2001, the national conference for bank loyalty program directors, held Feb. 8--10 in Kansas City, Mo. More than 650 delegates attended the conference. The conference joins bank directors and travel industry officials. Each year, thousands of bank customers travel worldwide with their bank's customer programs. While at BankTravel 2001, Inman attended professional development seminars on escorting tour groups, customer program operations, marketing and other topics.

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