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Serving The Needs Of Washington Bankers Since 1889<br />
WBA’s Board <strong>of</strong> Directors<br />
Chairman: Eric Pearson,<br />
President & CEO,<br />
Community<br />
1st Bank, Kennewick<br />
Chairman-Elect & WBA<br />
Education Committee<br />
Chair: Laurie Stewart,<br />
President & CEO, Sound<br />
Community Bank, Seattle<br />
Secretary/Treasurer:<br />
Kerry Biddle,<br />
Senior Vice President,<br />
Bank <strong>of</strong> America,<br />
Tacoma<br />
Immediate Past Chair:<br />
Dave Straus,<br />
President & CEO,<br />
Fortune Bank, Seattle<br />
ABA Govt. Relations<br />
Committee<br />
Rep: Jim Mitchell,<br />
President & CEO, Puget<br />
Sound Bank, Bellevue<br />
WBA PROS Chairman:<br />
Kurt E. Graff,<br />
President & CEO,<br />
Northwest Commercial<br />
Bank, Lakewood<br />
Directors<br />
Jim Carmichael<br />
(term to 2014)<br />
President & CEO, Kitsap<br />
Bank, Port Orchard<br />
Melanie Dressel<br />
(term to 2013)<br />
President & CEO, Columbia<br />
Bank, Tacoma<br />
Brian Hawley<br />
(term to 2014)<br />
SVP & Regional President,<br />
Union Bank, Seattle<br />
John E. (Jack) Heath<br />
(term to 2012)<br />
President & COO,<br />
Washington Trust Bank,<br />
Spokane<br />
Dennis Long (term to 2013)<br />
CEO, The Bank <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
Pacific, Aberdeen<br />
Jim Mitchell (term to 2013)<br />
President & CEO,<br />
Cascade Bank, Everett<br />
Carol K. Nelson (term to 2014)<br />
President & CEO,<br />
Cascade Bank, Everett<br />
Byron L. Richards<br />
(term to 2014)<br />
Senior Vice President,<br />
U.S. Bank, Seattle<br />
Greg Seibly (term to 2014)<br />
President & CEO, Sterling<br />
Financial Corporation<br />
Patrick Yalung<br />
(term to 2013)<br />
Regional President, Wells<br />
Fargo Bank, Seattle<br />
WBA’s Magazine Issues & Answers<br />
WINS TOP AWARD<br />
The Washington Bankers Association recently<br />
won <strong>the</strong> APEX Excellence in Publishing Award<br />
for <strong>the</strong>ir magazine, Issues & Answers. The APEX<br />
awards program is an international competition<br />
that recognizes excellence in <strong>publication</strong>s work<br />
and communications by Fortune 500 companies,<br />
trade <strong>association</strong>s, nonpr<strong>of</strong>its, academia, and <strong>the</strong><br />
corporate world.<br />
Each year roughly 3,500 entries are submitted<br />
and reviewed by a panel <strong>of</strong> well-known industry<br />
judges and 100 awards are presented to honor<br />
outstanding work in eleven major categories. Additionally,<br />
<strong>the</strong>re are a number <strong>of</strong> “honorable mentions”<br />
awarded recognizing exceptional entries.<br />
The APEX Awards program has been in<br />
existence for 23 years and is one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> main<br />
publishing competitions in <strong>the</strong> world that places<br />
emphasis on <strong>the</strong> quality <strong>of</strong> editorial content and<br />
<strong>the</strong> <strong>publication</strong> as a whole.<br />
Sharing in this award is <strong>the</strong> publisher, <strong>Media</strong><br />
Communications Group, Inc. and newsLINK<br />
7<br />
Marketing & Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Publishing Services,<br />
who provides sales, marketing and editorial<br />
services to <strong>Media</strong> Communications Group, Inc.<br />
Congratulations to WBA on a <strong>publication</strong> that is<br />
stellar in editorial content and a magazine that<br />
embodies <strong>the</strong> industry’s highest standards and<br />
reinforces WBA’s sterling pr<strong>of</strong>essional image.<br />
Future copies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Issues & Issues magazine<br />
can now have <strong>the</strong> APEX Award logo for <strong>the</strong><br />
year 2011.<br />
July/August 2011 ⏐
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