The Washington times., 1926-02-17

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GATHER IN \. !.
BY RICHARD HATToN.

BY RICHARD HATTON
This is the season in which
bankers. trust company officials
and financiers the country over
foregather to discuss their problems
and the betterment of their bust
ness. While the banker, like every
other business man, gains mucn
from the social contact with ms
fellow workers which is a pleasant
angle of these meetings. the more
serious side of the gatherings IS
of fncalculable value and those who
attend bring back to their nstitu-
tiens renewed vigor and stimulating
ideas which cannot fail to be of
benefit.
Today the mid;winter meeting of
the Trust Company Division of the
American Bankers Associa tiOnsopen
in, New York. The sessions VII
cover three days and will close with
q banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel which will be one of the
largest affairs of the kind to be
held in New York this winter.
There will be fully twelve hundred
! members and guests present.
The banquet will be presided over
by Vice President Frank FL. Sisson,
of the Guaranty Trust Company, Of
New York. presidentA e the Trust
Company Division Of The American
Bankers Association. President
John B. L.arner, of the Washing.
ton Loan and Trust Company, VINO
is member of the executive cOun-
Gil of the Trust Company Division
of the association, will attend the
meetings. william II. Baden, trust
officer of the Washington Loan
and Trust Company, viii accom-.
pany President Larner President
Robert V Fleming. of the Riggs
National Bank. will represent his
Institution at the meeting and sew
eral other prominent Washington
bankers and trust company officials
are expected to be present.
Richmond Meeting
On Friday there will be a gather
ing of bankers in Richmond on the
occasion of the annual banquet Of
ths. Richmond Chapter Of the Amer
lean Institute of Banking. Vice
President George o. Vass. of the
Riggs National Bank, will attend
this gathering as the representative
OF his institution.
The Norfolk Bankers Association
Friday. while group of the Penn
sylvania Bankers Association viii
hold its annual banquet in Pitts
burgh the same day. Representa-
tives OF the Washington banking
fraternity are expected to be pres
ent at these affairs.
The assemblage of greatest In
terest locally, however. is the an
nuaI banquet of the Washington
Chapter of the American Institute
OF Banking, which is scheduled to
be held at the Willard Hotel next
Saturday evening. Elaborate prep
arations for this event have been
under way for some time under an
energetic committee of the younger
bankers of the city and the pre-
dicfed attendance is well over 500.
Al committee representing the insti-
fute has called upon President Cool
idge and extended him an invita-
ton to be the guest of honor Of the
evening. Those who called upon
President Coolidge were Francis @.
Addison, president of the D. C.
Bankers Association; Victor B. Dey-
Der. president of. the Second Ma
tional Bank: r. Jesse Clancy. pres
ident of the ID. G. Chapter, A. I. B.,
and T. Hunton, chairman of the
banquet committee.
A radio. talk OF great interest
especially to business men. viii be
that given next Monday evening by
William H1 Baden. trust officer Of
the Washington Loan and Trust
Company, on the subject, Making
Life Insurance Useful
Vice President Harry G.. Meem.
of the Washington Loan and Trust
Company, who has been confined to
his home for several days by Ill
ness. is back at his desk.
President Harry v. Haines. OF the
Farmers and Merchants National
Bank. is preparing the first issue
Of monthly publication which will
be put out under the title, Under
the Dome" The booklet willie be in
the nature of link between the
bank and its customers. The
pamphlet takes the name from the
great giIded dome of the bank at
the corner of Thirty-first and NJ
Streets Northwest.