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Contact:	Robert Schmermund (202) 857-3104 Jim Eberle (202) 857-3145	Jim Eberle (202) 857-3145 (work) (703) 893-2593 (home) [email protected]	For Immediate Release October 31, 2000 #00-123
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AMERICA’S COMMUNITY BANKERS ELECTS BOCHNOWSKI, HAGE, TAYLOR TO TOP POSTS

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SEATTLE – David A. Bochnowski, an Indiana community bank executive, has been elected chairman of America’s Community Bankers, the national trade group for community banks. Bochnowski is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Peoples Bank, Munster, Ind.

Bochnowski succeeds William A. Fitzgerald, who is chairman and CEO of Commercial Federal Bank, Omaha, Neb. Fitzgerald remains an officer as immediate past chairman.

Two other community bank executives have also been elected to top posts at the trade association: Curtis L. Hage of Sioux Falls, S.D., will serve as first vice chairman, and D. Russell Taylor of Rahway, N.J., will serve as second vice chairman.

The elections of officers and new directors took place at ACB’s 2000 Annual Convention here.

Since 1981, Bochnowski has headed the $400 million-asset stock community bank and its holding company, NorthWest Indiana Bancorp. Peoples Bank was founded in 1910. Previously, he was a staff assistant to Sen. Birch Bayh and Rep. John Brademas, both from Indiana.

Bochnowski has been a member of ACB’s board of directors since 1994, and is chairman of the Strategic Planning and Audit and Finance Committees. He is a member of ACB’s Government Affairs Council and Steering Committee, and its Education and Member Services Committees.

He is a past chairman of ACB’s for-profit subsidiary, ACB Partners, Inc.

Bochnowski is a former director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis and chaired its Affordable Housing Committee. He also served on the Federal Reserve Board’s Thrift Institutions Advisory Committee.

Active in his community, Bochnowski is a trustee of the Munster Community Hospital, a member of the Chicago-Gary, Indiana Airport Authority, and is active in the formation of a proposed city-wide community development corporation in Gary. He is a Vietnam War veteran.

ACB’s new First Vice Chairman, Curtis L. Hage, is chairman, president and CEO of Home Federal Savings Bank, a $700 million federal stock institution in Sioux Falls, S.D. He joined the bank in 1968 as a computer programmer, became president and CEO in 1991, and chairman in 1996.

Hage is a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines and chairs the Council of Federal Home Loan Banks. He has also served as president of the South Dakota Savings League.

Active in community affairs, Hage is a director of the Sioux Falls Area Development Foundation and is past chairman of the National Board of Directors of the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society. He is president of the Sioux Council of the Boy Scouts of America and a member of the Augustana College Board of Regents.

Hage has been a director of ACB since 1996 and currently co-chairs ACB’s Government Affairs Council and Government Affairs Steering Committee and chairs the Audit and Finance Committee. He also serves on several ACB Committees, including Strategic Planning, Education, and Personnel and Compensation.

ACB’s new Second Vice Chairman is D. Russell Taylor, president and CEO of Rahway Savings Institution, Rahway, N.J., a $382 million mutual savings association he has served since 1979.

Taylor has been a member of ACB’s board of directors since 1998 and chairs the Mutual Institutions Committee. He is a member of the Audit and Finance Committee, the Community Institutions Committee, the Government Affairs Council, the Government Affairs Steering Committee, the Privacy Working Group, the Strategic Planning Committee and the Task Force on Electronic Banking and Community Banks.

Taylor is also a member of the New Jersey League Community & Savings Bankers and a member of its Government Affairs Council and its Legislative and Regulatory Committee.

He is a director and former president of the Rahway Senior Housing Corporation.

America’s Community Bankers is the national trade association committed to shaping the future of banking by being the innovative industry leader strengthening the competitive position of community banks. To learn more about ACB, visit www.AmericasCommunityBankers.com.

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