Banks, schools form partnership
By Meg Dedolph
E met aid Repcxtei
It used to Ih? that the only
hank grade-schoolers knew
about was shaped like a pig and
broke if you dropped it Today,
schools in Ijine County have an
opportunity to study a different
kind of banking through a busi
ness/school partnership pro
gram with First Interstate Hank
Through this six-veur-old
program, eat h area hank branch
is paired with a different
s< hool. ini hiding elementary
and high schools
Usually, a bank selects a
school in its neighlmrhood that
it may have a contact with, but
if a school were to approai h a
bank and suggest a partnership,
First Interstate Area Sales Man
ager John Get* said the hank
would be equally receptive
"I'd he safe Id say every one
of our Ijine County brant lies is
involved with schools," Getz
said.
The partnerships "help the
schools to understand us and
us to understand the si hoots.
Getz said.
Linda Forbes, principal of
Goshen Elementary School,
agreed.
"It's real important to keep
people in the business commu
nity aware of what's going on
in schools," said Forbes, whose
school is paired with the First
Interstate University brum h
Tile partnership between the
University branch and Goshen
Elementary is n fairly new one.
said Gnbrielle Moiinari. the
branch serv u e manager
Displays of Goshen students'
work are on view at the bunk,
and bank employees hove vis
ited the school
Forbes said this year is "get
ting olf to a slow start," and
one of her goals is to t>o "more
consistent about our communi
cation with the bank
Forbes said the hank already
receives the school newsletter,
but she would like to invite the
hank to more si hool events
"We have a new FT A this
year, and we would like to see
how First Interstate < an support
the goals of the si hool and the
PTA." she said
Gist vear. the bank donated
Sltlt) to the school toward the
pun base of a bookbinding ma
i bine so students could write
books and have them ''pub
lished '
Thu bank also helped the
school with fund raising pro
loots hv soiling candy bars in
the lobby, volunteering chaper
ones for field trips, and offering
to send employees to the
m hool to discuss money man
agement with student and par
ent groups
Caroline Herman a hanker at
the University branch, said the
bank offered to send volunteers
to read in classrooms and
found an Australian among the
hank's customers who could
speak to classes ill Conner tion
with a unit on Australia.
Since the program began.
Lane County First Interstate
branches have loaned equip
ment to schools, like tables and
chairs, and donated space for
meetings flanks have provided
employees for students to inter
view in conjunction with
school assignments.
The Coburg Road branch,
which has a four-year-old part
nership with Washington Ele
mentary School, hopes to assist
The partnerships
help the schools to
understand us and
us to understand
the schools
John Get/,
First Interstate Area Sates
Manager
the school with a unit on the
Oregon Trail, said Judy Mathe
nv. the hank's branch service
manager.
Jeff Faust. Washington
S< hoot's prim ipal. said that in
Februurv. the entire si hoot will
begin studying the Oregon Trail
through a unit called "Pioneer
Living Kxperience," m w hich it
would lik'1 to involve tlic I Mink
The m hool plans to set up
booths at whit h students can
loam about different aspect* of
traveling tin' Oregon Trail M.i
them said tin* bank hojx’s to
havt* a booth about banking
during the* lata 1800s
Mathtmv also said the bank is
planning to offer tours to H ash
ington St bih11 students
"With First Interstate, we
provide some artwork for them
to display, and for a while, we
had a Student of the Month,
where they would display that,
too." Faust said
The Coburg Road brain h and
Washington St bool sponsored
a Tree of Joy. where bank em
ployees. customers, students
and their families could selet I
gifts for lower-Income Wash
ington St bool students
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