Pub. 3 2014 Issue 1

l e a d i n g a d v o c a t e f o r t h e b a n k i n g i n d u s t r y i n k a n s a s 22 In Loving Memory William Cockins “Corky” Long, Jr. Longtime Wellington banker, oilman, and former State Representative William Cockins “Corky” Long, Jr. passed away on November 30, 2013 at the age of 84. Corky took over his father’s business, running service stations, in the 1950s and his acute business sense earned an invitation to join the First National Bank in Harper as a Director in 1955. He was elected as State Representative in 1967 for Harper and Barber County and was re-elected in 1969. In 1971 Corky entered banking as a full time profession, one he deeply loved, purchasing the Farmers State Bank in Norwich, Kansas. This started his ownership or involvement in several banks including The Cedar State Bank in Cedar Vale and the Maize State Bank in Maize.  Corky decided that Welling- ton was a great place to do business and purchased controlling interest in the then National Bank of Commerce, now the Bank of Commerce in 1975 and continued to serve as an officer of the bank and Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Commerce up until his death. Philip Pope - Country Club Bank, Kansas City, Mo., has appointed Philip Pope as senior vice presi- dent and manager of loan opera- tions. Most recently he had served as a private client manager at U.S. Trust/Bank of America since 1997. He started with the bank in 1990 as Western Missouri regional man- ager in loan operations. Philip’s office is at One Ward Parkway on Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza. Kansas Awarded $4.5 Million for Small Business Lending The Kansas Department of Commerce has received an additional $4.5 million in funding for its small business lending programs, the U.S. Treasury Department announced on Dec. 13. The funding is the third disbursement from Kansas’ State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) allocation. “U.S. Treasury’s SSBCI program has worked well in Kansas,” said Kansas Secretary of Commerce Pat George. “Combined with the fund- ing models and partner network in place at the Kansas Department of Commerce and NetWork Kansas, this has been a powerful tool to support small business projects and leverage large amounts of private investment.” SSBCI was created by the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which President Obama signed into law on September 27, 2010. Funded with $1.5 billion, the program is expected to spur up to $15 billion in new lending to -small businesses and manufacturers as states use federal funds to leverage private investment dollars. For more information on Kansas’s SSBCI-funded programs, visit the Kansas Commerce Department at www.kansascommerce.com. Briefly... In Kansas Banking