GUESTS: Carl Bartley, Thad Bartleys father, from Valley Falls, KS. Carol Carr, First National Bank, a guest of Brad Thompson. Bob Ross, DCI, our guest speaker. Colby Davis, Ward Daviss son.
FINES: Brad Thompson and Stan Magirvin levied this mornings fines under the auspices of Sergeants-At-Arms. Jim Seitnater and Paul Hardenburger were fined for being late. Those who had not brought a guest for Spring Round-up paid a fine. Doyle Ehling paid to announce the beginning of his 40th year at Elliott Mortuary. Congratulations Doyle!! Colby Davis paid to announce the beginning of his summer as school is out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Board Meeting 6:15AM this Friday (which is tomorrow).
PROGRAM: Jeff Roberson introduced Robert Bob R. Ross, Senior Vice President of Systems and Recovery; CTO with Data Center, Inc. (DCI). Bob has been with DCI for 15 years. Bob explained that DCI began as an idea in 1955 by Nation Meyer with First National Bank to combine several banks as a cooperative to process paper checks and share computer services. DCI was established in Hutchinson in 1963 by four Kansas bankers Nation Meyer, Art Collins, J.A. Mermis of Great Bend and Walther Roth of Ellinwood. Today DCI provides those banking services envisioned by Nation Meyer and a lot more too approximately 200 banks nationwide from four regional centers. A new replication center in Oklahoma City takes a snapshot every 5 minutes of all of the data in the system. Bob and others are working to reduce this snapshot window to instantaneous. Many banks are now 100% electronic imaged documentation. DCIs iCore360 software is state of the art in banking software and DCI continues to win numerous awards each year with their leading technology. DCI now employees over 250 employees. We are fortunate to have them headquartered right here in Hutchinson.
Lucky Aces Pot: Dale Snell won $5. The pot increases to $378.00.
Newsletter Drawing: Jeff Brewer knew the answer and won $25.
Newsletter question: For $5DCI was founded by what two local bankers?
Editor: Steve Conard