Connie Amason Promoted to Assistant VP/SBA Lending at Peoples Bank

MAGEE – Peoples Bank President and CEO Dennis Ammann has announced the promotion of veteran banker Connie Amason to Assistant Vice President/ SBA Lending.

Ms. Amason is a 1978 graduate of Pearl High School and attended Delta State University where she majored in Music and Voice. She began her career in 1981 with Cochran/Sysco Food Services, then joined McCarty Farms in 1988 and, in 2006, joined Peoples Bank. While at the bank, she has served as a Poultry Loan Assistant and SBA Lending Coordinator.

Connie has been a volunteer for many community activities including: Relay for Life, Mendenhall in May, Peoples Bank Track Team, Read Across America, CWJC, and Angel Wings Ministries. Connie is married to Dale Amason, owner of Dale and Company salon.  They have one son, Jacob.

While leading the bank’s award winning SBA loan efforts, she also represents Peoples Bank on a national NAGGL (National Association of Government Guaranteed Loans) committee of SBA lenders.

“Our SBA loan expertise allows Peoples Bank to bring many advantages to a number of business borrowers,” Ammann said. “Connie has done an exceptional job of guiding these efforts and, in the process, allowing businesses to realize their potential, not only as the lead lender but in assisting other commercial lenders with their customers’ needs. I am pleased to announce this well-deserved promotion.”

Rankin Elected To Board of Directors At Peoples Bank

MENDENHALL – Peoples Bank President and CEO Dennis Ammann today announced that John Rankin has been elected to the bank’s Board of Directors.

Rankin currently serves as an Investment Officer and Commercial Loan Officer at Peoples Bank, and has served as Secretary to the Board since March, 2010.

He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Banking and Finance and conducted Financial Research in the British Studies Program, held in London, England. He subsequently earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration from USM. In 2010 he completed studies at the Graduate School of Banking, conducted at Louisiana State University.

Prior to joining Peoples Bank, Rankin was affiliated with BankPlus in Jackson and was a Bank Examiner with the Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance. He also worked as a Bank Examiner under the umbrella of the Missouri Division of Finance, St. Louis District Office.

Rankin was named a 2009 Best of Jackson for Best Banker by the Jackson Free Press and has been certified as a Credit Examiner and an Operations Examiner.  While at USM, Rankin earned the Finance Faculty Award and was the recipient of the First Bancshares Scholarship.

He is active in a host of civic and economic development endeavors, including service as a member of the Mendenhall Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the Simpson County Development Foundation.  He is a member of the Mendenhall Community Club and a former member of The Phoenix Club of Jackson. While he lived in the metro Jackson area, Rankin served on the Board of the Fondren Association of Businesses and the Broadmeadow Neighborhood Association.

Rankin serves as a coach in the First Baptist Church Upward Basketball program and as a volunteer for the Mississippi Bankers Association’s Get Smart About Credit program. Additionally, he has worked with Habitat for Humanity and Stewpot Community Services and has been a volunteer instructor with Junior Achievement and the Redeemer Church Tutoring Program.

“John brings a great deal of leadership and vision to our Board of Directors,” Ammann said. “I am pleased to announce his election in the certain knowledge that our customers are the ultimate beneficiaries of his work.”

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Covington County Relay Night

The Covington County Peoples Bank team did an awesome job Friday night at Relay! Awards won were the only "Spirit of Relay Award", 1st place for t-shirts, 1st place for midnight snack and 2nd place for most money raised!

Covington County Relay for Life

Our PB Covington county Relay team raised over $8,900 with the event, Go Kart Racing to a Cure held on March 30th. Make plans to join us tonight at Collins High's football field at 6 pm for Relay for Life!

We enjoyed the Magnolia Beef & Poultry Expo yesterday in Raliegh!

Pictured left to right, Raymond McAlpin, Kim Welch, Brenda Craft and Jason Smith

Platinum Club Gulf Coast Trip

Fifty members and guests of the Peoples Bank Platinum Club were thankful for a break in last week’s rain that allowed them to enjoy a day trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast last Thursday.

Biloxi was cloudy but dry as the group’s motorcoach pulled up to the new Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art for a tour.  Designed as a series of pods “dancing through the oaks” on the Missisippi Sound, the museum is a fascinating piece of art in its own right.  It was designed by famed architect Frank Gehry and was almost finished and ready to open in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina destroyed most of the structures.  It has since been rebuilt.

After an orientation to the museum’s features, Platinum Club visitors were able to browse through exhibits of paintings, wood sculptures carved from trees lost in Hurricane Katrina, and pottery.  A working potter kept the visitors entertained with live demonstrations on the potter’s wheel.

The museum’s permanent exhibit is devoted to George Ohr, the so-called “Mad Potter of Biloxi,” whose work has influenced several generations of modern potters.

After lunch at McElroy’s on the Bay, the group divided, some opting for a shopping excursion to the Edgewater Mall and others taking advantage of the sun’s brief appearance to go for a sail around the sound on the schooner, The George Sweatman.

A visit to the quaint downtown section of Ocean Springs gave travelers a chance to shop, stroll, relax on a bench or grab a cold drink before the return trip to Magee, where they were met by the rain they had avoided all day.

The Gulf Coast Adventure was organized by Trek Travel and led by Oliver and Donna McLean of Magee, directors of the Peoples Bank Platinum Club.

The group’s next venture is a Mystery Day Trip on May 9.

 

 
 
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