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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 November 7, 2001 #01-79
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AMERICA’S COMMUNITY BANKERS ELECTS HAGE, TAYLOR, ZUPPE TO TOP POSTS

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NEW ORLEANS — Curtis L. Hage, a South Dakota community banker, has been elected chairman of America’s Community Bankers, the national trade group for community banks. Hage is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Home Federal Bank, Sioux Falls, S.D.

Hage succeeds David A. Bochnowski, who is chairman and CEO of Peoples Bank, Munster, Ind. Bochnowski remains an officer as immediate past chairman.

Two other community bank executives have also been elected to top posts at the trade association: D. Russell Taylor of Rahway, N.J., will serve as first vice chairman, and William W. Zuppe of Spokane, Wash., will serve as second vice chairman.

The elections of officers and new directors took place at ACB’s 2001 Annual Convention here.

Hage began his career with Home Federal Bank, a $776 million federal stock institution, in 1968 as a computer programmer, became president and CEO in 1991, and chairman in 1996.

He is a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines and previously served as vice chairman. He is a past chairman of the Council of Federal Home Loan Banks and has served as president of the South Dakota Savings League.

Hage has been a member of ACB’s Board of Directors since 1996. He currently chairs the Personnel and Compensation Committee, is a member of ACB’s Strategic Planning, Electronic Banking and Technology, and Federal Home Loan Bank System Committees, and the FHLBank System Task Force on Capital. He is a former co-chairman of ACB’s Government Affairs Council and Government Affairs Steering Committee.

Active in community affairs, Hage is a director and treasurer 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.

ACB’s new First Vice Chairman is D. Russell Taylor, president and CEO of Rahway Savings Institution, Rahway, N.J., a $392 million mutual savings association he has served since 1979.

He has been a member of ACB’s Board of Directors since 1998 and is chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee. He is a member of the Government Affairs Council and the Government Affairs Steering Committee and the Community Institutions, Electronic Banking and Technology, and Mutual Institutions Committees, and the Privacy Working Group.

Taylor is also a member of the New Jersey League Community & Savings Bankers and a member of its Government Affairs Council and Legislative and Regulatory Committee. He is currently a director and former president of The Rahway Senior Housing Corporation and a director and former vice president of the Rahway Geriatric Center.

ACB’s new Second Vice Chairman is William W. Zuppe, president and CEO of Sterling Savings Bank, Spokane, Wash., a $2.5 billion stock institution. Prior to co-founding Sterling Savings in 1981, he was vice president of Old National Bancorporation, Spokane.

Zuppe has been a member of ACB’s Board of Directors since 1996 and a member of the board of ACB Partners, Inc., ACB’s for-profit subsidiary. He has been active in ACB committee work as a member of the Government Affairs Council, the GSE Policy Development Task Force, and the Personnel and Compensation Committee.

He has served as a member of the Federal Reserve’s Thrift Institutions Advisory Council and as chairman of the Washington Financial League.

Active in his community, Zuppe is vice president for council operations of the Boy Scouts of America Western Region, a past campaign chairman of the United Way, a trustee of the Washington State University Foundation, and a member of the advisory boards of Eastern Washington University’s College of Business and Gonzaga University’s College of Business.

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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