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■4.’-Open HouseFour years in planning, a year in building and more than a half-million dollars in spending will be climaxed , Sunday when the National Bank of Gatesville formally opens its distinctive - new banking center at the corner of Main and North 10th Streets/Open house will be held at the striking new structure from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.Our aim was to make this a building which would be a significant and beautiful landmark, and we’re anxious for everybody in this area to see it and the many modem banking facilities it houses, Dawson Cooper, the National's president, said in extending to the general pubiic an invitation to attend the open house.The National made the move from its historic location on the bank comer” at Main and 7th Streets on Aug. 18^19-20, and began operations at (he new site on Aug. 21, exactly 83 years after the bank's original charter was granted.THE OPEN HOUSE was delayed, however, until last-minute finishing touches were completed and the bank’s force settled in in its new home.On hand to greet Sunday’s visitors and conduct them Ihrough this banking showplace will be ail the bank’s officers and employees—Andrew Kendrick, W. D. Cooper, Cam H, McGilvray, F. W. Straw, David Barnard, Charles Ivy, Marilyn Baize, Patsy Brazzll, Patsy Hollingsworth, Linda Knoll, Nan Lee, Billie Powell, Mary Lou Powell, Jane Rainer, Anne Sexton, Anne Shults, Mrs. K. O, Walters, Betty Wheeler, Eugene Worthington, Louise Yows and Rosa Lee Zacharias,Assisting with the host duties will be Mrs. J: F. Clarke, John Bradford and H. A. lt;6ud-dy) Biffle, who have been showing the bank building to visitors since it was opened Aug. 21.Most or the bank's directors will also be there.The new banking center was built, furnished and equipped at a cost of $540,000, possibly the largest investment of such a nature ever made by a Coryell County business institution.INCLUDED in this week's edition is a sjiecial tabloid section issued by the bank which tells, in text and photos, the story of the new bank building.Officers of other banks over Central Texas, along with their wives, will be treated to a special preview open house at the new National Bank building from 4 p. ra. to 6 p. m. Saturday.BANKERS' DREAM—Dawson Cooper, left, and Andrew Kendrick, top management team of tha National Bank of Gatesville for more than two decades, label the new banking center at Main and North 10th Streets at the '‘realization of a long-cherished dream. The banking careers of these two men have been spent in Gatesville and extend back into the 1920's. Cooper joined the First National Bank in December, 1926, andbecame its cashier. Kendrick joined the Gatesville National Bank in January, 1929, and rose to the vice presidency. When the two banks merged in 1938 to form the National Bank of Gatesville, Kendrick and Cooper retained their titles of vice president and cashier, respectively. In a twin promotion in January, 1950, Kendrick became chairman of the board and Cooper was made president of the National Bank.As Part of GHS Vocational Training Prog ra mStudents Are Building a HouseTlte best way to learn Imw to build a house is to build That’s the tack taken by tin-1 new class In building trades, a subject added to Gatesville High, School's vocational training 1 curriculum this fall.Thirty students in the ciass,. under the direction of Manen Mack, are now completing the foundation for a house on Avenue E in Pollard Addition southeast of Gatesville. By nextdwellin'/, will he completed j litre I lomemaker chapter will j there. I luinish llie dra|x.-s, curtains and jHoys in the Future Farmer ' ot her interior decorations. j. chapter will landscape the tavKfi ■ James Dixon, local lumherj] at the house boil! by school i dealer and developer, is fur-I students, and girls in the Fu-! nishing the site and materials!.------- ] for the house. After the school!;,holds an o|ien house at the it I dwelling to show off the handiwork of ifs students, it will be Dixon’s to sell.lie will pay the school $500 for wear and tear on the toolsAdult Education Enrollment Is 41
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Gatesville Messenger and Star Forum
Gatesville, Texas, US
Thu, Sep 21, 1972
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