Pub. 12 2023 Issue 5

Featured Photo Above: The 2023-2024 KBA Officer Team (L-R): Doug Wareham, KBA President & CEO; Vice Chairman Julie Hower, Farmers & Drovers Bank, Council Grove; Chairman Mark Schifferdecker, GNBank, Girard; Chairman-Elect Gene Dikeman, Bank of the Plains, Hutchinson; and Past Chairman Mike Ewy, Community State Bank, Coffeyville. The 2023 CEO Summit proved to be an […]

Schifferdecker speaks with Congressman Jake LaTurner at this year’s March on Washington. I consider myself very blessed to grow up as a third-generation community banker. Around my house growing up, we could never plan a family vacation over the second Tuesday of the month because that was the day of the board meeting. As a