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Leadership
was the day before. I want to take the lessons learned and
use them to make us a better place for our customers and
our communities.
Zimmerman: Most definitely for me, family comes first. I
am very lucky to have a wonderful nuclear family but also
a large extended family. I have five siblings who all live
and work in southwestern Pennsylvania, which allows for
large family get-togethers throughout the year. In addition,
I get special satisfaction working with my grandson
on his Pinewood Derby car and playing regular spirited
soccer games in my backyard with my three grandchildren.
Beyond that, I really enjoy gardening, running in 5Ks
and 10Ks with my daughter and traveling.
Kennedy: My passion is my family: my wife Charel, our
six children and nine grandchildren. That will grow to
11 grandchildren this summer, with twins on the way. I
love to read and study history and enjoy Major League
Baseball, but I am truly passionate about my alma mater,
Louisiana State University, and the LSU Tigers.
Jordan: Oklahoma State University sports would probably
top the list. Then come hunting, fishing and golf.
What I really like about each of these is that they allow me
to spend time with family and friends.
Williams: My family. My wife Karen and I have three
grown daughters, and in December, we welcomed our first
grandchild into the world. Our home on Lake Sinclair in
Milledgeville, Ga., ensures we get lots of family visits and
long weekends together. I also love being an active part of
my community and helping to make it a better place to live
and work.
Romero Rainey: Keeping up with my very active and
amazing daughters!
Running a few miles
as often as I can, and
in the summertime,
starting every morning
outside in the garden.
Hartings: Spending
time with family first.
We had a chance to spend
two weeks with our children
and four grandchildren in Hilton
Head last summer. My wife JoAnn and I both agree:
best vacation ever. I was so lucky to have JoAnn travel
with me to most of the 30-plus state conventions and
conferences I spoke at in the past four years. We look
forward to traveling back to see many of those great
places and the people we met along the way on our own
time and at a more leisurely pace. I am hoping to dedicate
some serious time to golf, a sport I really enjoy, but my
game was ignored going through the chairs. I also love to
be involved in my community, and since coming off my
ICBA tour, I was asked to co-chair the capital campaign
for our local hospital to raise $8 million for a $24 million
expansion. We need to do what we can to make our
communities the best they can be.
Buhrmaster: My family. Although we will become
empty nesters this fall as our youngest, David, heads off
to school, we are looking forward to visiting David and
Amy at their schools, and this fall visiting our soon-tobe-married
daughter and her husband in Georgia. Being
a community banker is a wonderful profession, but
one of the things that is most attractive about it
is the value our industry places on family. At
our bank, four generations of my family have
made sure that our employees put family first,
and we have provided them with that opportunity.
Valuing our staff and customers in
this way is what has made us a true success
story for 94 years.
Loving: When not at work, Cindy
and I enjoy spending time with our
two daughters' families, especially
the four grandsons we have been
blessed with. In addition, we love
working on projects together
at our home in Franklin, W.Va.,
and, when we're not there,
enjoying time doing nothing and
relaxing on our boat on Smith
Mountain Lake.
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