Bank On It

KC Star, Thursday, June 18, 2009

"Bank veteran named No. 2 at Fed of KC"

Yesterday's paper(p. A15) had an interesting article concerning Weatherby Lake resident Esther George. She has been promoted to first vice president and chief operating officer of The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, effective August 1st. She's been with the Fed since 1982. Her boss, President Thomas Hoenig, will retire in 2011 when he reaches mandatory retirement. The Star speculated on Ms George replacing him when he turns 65. The Star notes only 2 of the Reserve Banks have female Presidents.

Would it be out of line to ask Esther to bring a brief case full of Grants for the City after work some day? After all, we only need $400,000 more for entrance monuments. Kind of like a stimulus package, yeah, that's the ticket!