New Britain herald., 1927-11-18
OFFICIALS 0F BANK FROM ALL CIRCLES
John Loomis, Pardon Hickey,
 Wm. BaSSford, at Head
John C. Loonlis

The history of the Commercial Trust company. which institution is now opening its new s750,0o bank ing house on West Main street, is interwoven with the New Britain history of John c. Loomis.
 Mir. Loomis is from Windsor, Conn.,. and was for eight years with the Aetna National bank. He also was connected with the Windsor Trust Co.
 Mir. Loomis has seen 2S years of service in the banking business. He joined the Aetna National bank Of Hartford as a runner at salary of s3 week. Today he is the active and executive head of the Commer- cial Trust Co.,, whose building, its architect declares is ''the finest bank in eastern United States
 Mir. Loomis is director of, and was for two years president of, the Chamber of Commerce. He is a Ro- tartan, member of the New Brit ain, Hartford and Shuttle Meadow clubs. and of the various Masonic organizations, including the sand i degree, having served for some time as treasurer of the Aziz Grotto. He is a director of the Masonic Temple corporation and of the Elihu Bur ritt corporation. It was during his administration as president of the Chamber of Commerce that the lat | ter organization started the drive which produced the Burritt hotel He also is a director and vice pres ident of the Peoples Savings bank.
 He is a member of the New Brit ain lodge, B. P. o. F., and a director of the Connecticut Chamber of Com merce, also.
 i Pardon c. Hickey
 l Pardon c. Hickey, executive vice ] president and trust officer, is a na- tive of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern university at Evans { ton, III. He is an expert account ant and for years was comptroller of the Long Bell Lumber Co.,, said 10 be the largest in the country. He is the author of the uniform system of accounting now used by the varl- ous branches of the National Lum- Der Manufacturers association.
 During the World war he sat in an advisory capacity with the Fed eral trade commission in Washing ton and was closely associated with the Treasury Department in formu- lating income tax regulations.
 April 1. 1919 he became treas urer of Landcrs, Frary and Clark, which position he held until his res ignation a short time ago to enter the bank in a newly created posi- ton. He is director of the Com mercial Trust Co.,, treasurer of the Elihu Burritt hotel corporation president of the Berlin Homes Building Co.,, and a director of Goss and De Leeuw Machine Co. He is a director and chairman of the finance committee of the Masonic Temple sonic degrees up to and including the 32nd.
 He also is a member of the New Britain and Shuttle Meadow clubs
 Walter NJ. Bassford
 Walter NJ. Bassford, treasurer, 1. a native of Waterbury. He entered the employ of the Waterbury Trus
 Co. as a runner after his graduation
 from high school. It was young
 bank and he grew up with the bus
 mess, going through all department
 until he became in turn teller, book : keeper. discount clerk, assistan tre asurer and finally treasurer. H. resigned to open an automobile agency. He came to the Commercial Trust Co. as discount teller in May , 1924. Later he became assistan
 treasurer and in February, 1927, h.
 succeeded Charles w. Hawkins a.
 treasurer. He is a member of tn, G New Britain and kiwanis clubs. f Louis S. Thomas
 s To Louis S. Thomas, assistan 3 treasurer in charge of administra s tion detail and personnel. Presiden |, Loomis gives all the credit for tn . satisfactory completion of the ney
 bank. Mir. Thomas had complet
 supervision of the structure, an