FOUR • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 21,2006
Seven promoted at Bank of Eastern Oregon
Seven
veteran
bankers were promoted at a
recen t
o rg a n iz a tio n a l
meeting of Bank of Eastern
O reg o n , a cco rd in g to
P resid en t and C EO , E.
George Koffler.
Dawnu Dougherty,
Ed
Grnrmual
Rollins,
L o a n
O ffic e r,
lone and
Arlington
Branches,
w a s
promoted
t
o
Assistant
V i c e
President
of
the R',,,ins
bank.
His
lending
responsibilities include lone,
A rlin g to n , and West
Umatilla County. He joined
the bank in February of
2004 after working for two
different lending institutions
in M ontana. Rollins is a
graduate of Montana State
University in Bozeman. He
and his wife, Tricia, who is
the Operations Officer in the
Heppner Branch of Bank of
Eastern Oregon, live in lone
and are raising two young
boys, Taylor and Bryce.
C om pliance O fficer, was
promoted
t
o
A ssistant
V i c e
President
of
the
b a n k .
Dougherty
started
h e r
b a n k in g
career
Dougherty
with Inland Empire Bank in
1985. She has been with
Bank o f Eastern Oregon
since 1988 in operations and
loan processing. Dougherty
was nam ed C om pliance
Officer in 1997. Dougherty
and her husband. Cliff, a
local fanner and rancher, are
raisin g three c h ild ren ,
Sharon Harrison,
Taighler, Ryan and Coby.
H eppner
Becky
Kindle, B r a n c h
Operations
M anager
S u p p o rt
and Loan
M anager,
O ffic e r,
w a s
w a s
promoted
promoted
t
o
t
o
A ssistant
Assistant
V i c e
V i c e
President
President
of
the
of
the
b a n k .
bank.
Harrison
Kindle
Kindle
Harrison has a total of 25
joined the bank in 1998 and years of banking experience,
spent tim e in teller prim arily
w ith
First
operations and electronic Interstate, Wells Fargo and
banking before accepting her Klamath First. Harrison and
current position. Kindle and her husband, Bob, a retired
her husband, Jim , a farmer and rancher, live in
Department of Corrections L exington. They are the
employee in Umatilla, have p aren ts o f fo u r grow n
two children, Mekayla and c h ild ren
and
six
C.J.
grandchildren.
Joyce Moser, Burns
Br a nc h
M anager
and Loan
O ffic e r,
w a s
promoted
t
o
Assistant
V i c e
President
of
the
bank.
Moser is Moser
a 30-year veteran of banking,
serving with First Interstate,
Wells Fargo, and Klamath
First in both Bend and Bums.
Moser is the top producing
real estate lender in the
branch system and currently
serves as project manager of
the bank’s initiative to gain
market share through a free
gift/free checking campaign.
Rhonda Shaffer,
L o a n
Officer in
t
h
e
Condon
Br a nc h,
w a s
promoted
t
o
Assistant
V i c e
President.
S h a ffe r
J j u s t
^nailer
celebrated
her 30lh year in banking,
starting with First National
Bank in Portland in 1976.
Shaffer currently manages
the VISA and Evergreen
credit areas, along with her
general lending duties in
C ondon. She and her
husband, Steve, who works
at D evin O il, have tw o
grown children.
Boh
Quinton,
Commercial Loan Officer in
the John Day and Prairie City
Branches, was promoted to
Assistant Vice President.
Q uinton has 20 years in
banking, including stints
w i t h
W estern
Bank,
L ib e r ty
Bank,
a n d
Klam ath
First.
Q u in to n
m anages
t h e
Quinton
lending duties in all of Grant
County. He currently is
serving as Mayor of John
Day and is finishing a term
as the President of the local
Chamber of Commerce.
“ We
are
very
fo rtu n ate to have this
talented and hard working
group of veteran bankers
working for Bank of Eastern
Oregon. These promotions
are a signal that we consider
these people leaders in our
organization and we really
value their input and the
effort they bring to the job,”
said President and CEO, E.
George Koffler.
BEO Bancorp is the
holding company for Bank
of Eastern Oregon, which
operates 11 branches in six
eastern Oregon counties.
B ranches are located in
Arlington, lone, Heppner,
C ondon,
Irrig o n ,
B oardm an, B urns, John
Day, Prairie City, Fossil and
M oro. Bank o f E astern
O regon also o p erates a
m ortgage d iv isio n , loan
p ro d u ctio n o ffices in
Hermiston and Ontario, and
offers brokerage services
through BEO F in an cial
Services. The bank’s website
is www.beobank.com.
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Hughes to retire from Chamber
By Doris Brosnan
Claudia Hughes will
retire from the position of
Executive Director of the
H ep p n er C h am b er o f
Commerce on June 30. On
that date, the Chamber will
host an aftern o o n of
refreshments at City Hall
from 2-5 p.m. for everyone
who wishes to stop by to
visit Hughes on her last
o fficial afternoon in the
office. That evening, the
C ham ber will sponsor a
steak dinner prepared by
Rick and Cheryl Smith and
a program at the Elks Lodge
in honor of Hughes. Tickets
are $ 16 per plate and may be
purchased through Sharon
H arrison at the Bank of
Eastern Oregon or by calling
her in the evening at 989-
8496. Reservations must be
made by June 25.
A nyone w ho has
worked closely with Hughes
will not be surprised to learn
that she was reluctant to
discuss herself when this
writer asked for an interview
as her retirem en t nears.
Hughes heaps praise upon
the
m any
v o lu n teers
responsible for success of
W illow C reek Valley
projects and events and she
would prefer to stay in the
background.
But anyone who
knows Hughes knows that
her personality is not one for
only “background” work.
When she married Merlin
Hughes over 40 years ago
and moved to Little Butter
Creek, she welcomed her
new home with open arms,
ad o p tin g
the
Valley
community as her own and
quickly became one of its
o u tsta n d in g v o lu n teers.
Even after she went to work
part time at Heppner TV,
Inc., she continued to chair
and w ork on many
co m m ittees. Today, that
v o lu n teer attitu d e keeps
Hughes in the office, about
Heppner, at local functions
and in a tten d an ce at
meetings around the state
many hours beyond those for
which she is employed part
time by the Chamber.
Hughes calls it proof
that she should retire when
she resp o n d s, “ I c a n ’t
remember” to a request for
her employment history. She
says she went to work part-
time at the TV office “soon
after a few mishaps at the
ranch” suggested that she
was not cut out for
traditional ranch work. This
writer remembers hearing
when visiting in the area
those many years ago about
this ranch wife who seemed
to be cut from a different
clo th and was m aybe a
trendsetter with her working
in town.
Hughes remembers
that she later went to work
part-time for the Extension
Office, as the 4-H secretary
and that the new w ork
overlapped for a time with
the TV office job. Working
for many bosses prepared
her for the work she went to
in 1986 (“easier to remember
since it was exactly 20 years
ago”), Hughes says, for as
director of the Chamber, she
has worked with 18 chamber
p re sid en ts and several
boards o f d irecto rs over
these past 20 years. “I think
I have run presidents out of
town. Eleven of them no
longer live here,” she laughs.
From the Chamber
o ffice that was shuffled
about town for many years
before finding its present
hom e, H ughes has seen
programs come and go and
rem em bers them all with
enthusiasm for the volunteer
effo rts that m ade them
su ccess sto rie s for the
community. Some standout
memories revolve around
the Main-Street project, the
“Best Dam Event,” Town
and C o u n try and St.
Patrick’s Day. "Heppner is
now in the tourism guides,
has a w eb site and
participates in the ‘Bite of
O re g o n ’ in P o rtla n d ,”
Hughes notes, "and these are
especially important because
tourism and visitors are so
important.”
Hughes delights in
remembering some of the
surprises that keeps her from
being able to describe a
typical day in the office and
she w ill m iss these
so m etim es b izarre and
o fte n tim e s
hum orous
episodes. She will miss the
interaction with the diverse
chamber membership, the
pressures of deadlines and
the hustle and bustle o f
b u sin ess-as-u su al in the
community. Maybe that is
why
th is
ex em p lary
volunteer will still be seen
around the office off and on
for a few m ore m onths.
Hughes has volunteered to
co-chair the Cycle Oregon
event scheduled to come to
H ep p n er in S eptem ber.
People who know Hughes
suspect that she will have her
hand up now and then for
some time to come and this
w rite r
b e lie v es
that
H eppner’s most enduring
cheerleader will never totally
sit on the sidelines.
St. Patrick’s Senior Center news
The Seventh Day Adventist Church is providing
volunteers to host the June 28 noon meal at the senior
center. The menu is stuffed peppers with meat and rice,
apple sauce, wheat rolls and cup cakes.
A bus trip to Monument is coming up on Tuesday,
June 27. The bus will roll south to the John Day River,
then the group will have lunch at the Monument Senior
Center. Going to Monument is a nostalgic drive through
familiar landscape to a homecoming for a number of local
people. Now is the time go, there may be spring flowers
blooming among the trees and in the grassy fields.
Thirteen passengers took advantage of the drive to
see the Native American M useum, to have lunch at
Wildhorse, and test the slots if they wished. Rain did not
dampen anyone's enjoyments.
Some of the bus drivers work in the local harvest.
More bus trips will come later in the summer.
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