Delaware Bankers Association elects officers, awards scholarships
P. Randolph Taylor, executive vice president and director of private banking, Fulton Bank, N.A., was elected as chair of the Delaware Bankers Association May 18 at the association's 122nd Annual Meeting in Wilmington. Cynthia D.M. Brown, president, Commonwealth Trust Company, was also elected and installed as chair-elect.
Other board of directors members are: Elizabeth D. Albano, chief financial officer, Artisans' Bank; Bruce Colbourn, market executive, PNC Bank Delaware; Larry Drexler, general counsel, head of legal and chief privacy officer, Barclaycard US; Eric G. Hoerner, chief executive officer, MidCoast Community Bank; Thomas M. Forrest, president and CEO, U.S. Trust Company of Delaware; Lisa P. Kirkwood, senior vice president, regional vice president, TD Bank; Nicholas P. Lambrow, president, Delaware Region, M&T Bank; Donna G. Mitchell, president and CEO, Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Delaware; James Roszkowski, president, Discover Bank; William S. Wallace, COO, Chase Consumer and Community Banking; and Joe Westcott, market president, Delaware, Capital One.
The association also announced the winners of the 2017 Keys to Financial Success Scholarship Award. They are Mike Brown, a senior at Caesar Rodney High School, and Brett Kelly, a senior at Middletown High School. Both students participated in the Keys to Financial Success course. Each winner received a $2,500 scholarship.
Keys to Financial Success is a full-semester elective taught in 28 high schools throughout Delaware to over 4,500 students. The course introduces students to the fundamentals of sound money management skills and basic financial planning concepts including goals and decision making, career research, money management, consumer skills and risk protection.
The publication Delaware's Banks 2017 - Growing with the First State was unveiled at the meeting. It highlights the unique contributions the banking industry made to the First State in the past year.
