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By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Julia Banks was born and raised in Raleigh.
And as a divorced mother of two teen-age
daughters, she says she viewed the move to
Winston-Salem as more of a challenge than a
new starting point.
"i saw it as an opportunity to grow," says the
vice president-branch manager of Mechanics and
Farmers Bank on Claremont Avenue.
Banks, a healthy-looking 36-year-old, first
came to Winston-Salem on a temporary assignment
in January and was promoted to her present
position in April. However, she didn't move
her family, 17-year-old Kim and 16-year-old Kelly,
here until June.
At least 16 years of the Raleigh native's careei
has been in the business of banking. She says hei
first job in a bank was as a customer service
representative opening new accounts.
"It seems like I've been in banking all of m>
life," says Banks. "I worked for nine years with
a branch in Raleigh and seven years ago 1 started
with Mechanics & Farmers."
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From customer representative, the lady ex
ecutive worked her wav nn tr> cimprvicnr
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then to assistant branch manager, on to assistant
vice president-branch manager and finally to the
desk she sits at now.
Being personable isn't just limited to one
bank, though, and being at the helm of a branch
bank hasn't stopped Banks from getting to know
customers. Despite the fact she's a relative
newcomer, she's quite familiar with customers,
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Joyce A. Teague has been at Wachovia's T
elected vice president and Winston-Salem.
Patricia C. Johnson has been bank in 1968 and
elected assistant vice president at . sonal banker pi
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. in She is a native o
Winston-Salem. Betty Hanes
Teague, a native of Homes Federal
* Philadelphia, is a senior account loan officer/cred
manager in the Charitable Funds Winston-Salem f
Section of the Institutional Funds Hanes is a 1981
Management Group. She has N. C. School of
been with Wachovia's Trust Divi- University of Nc
sion since 1977 and was nrevious- u;n cux
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ly assistant manager of employee degree in busines
benefits administration. from Johnson C.
Johnson is a personal banker ty.
'Ain't Misbehavin' sched
for Oct. 28 at Stevens O
"Ain't Misbehavin," the sassy Nobody's Biznes
Broadway musical hit featuring 1929 at the age c
\ songs by the legendary "Fats" with lyricist -A
Waller, will be presented at the writing the score
Stevens Center by a New York way hit "Hot C
touring company on Sunday, they shared a stri
Oct. 28 for two performances. cesses in the 193(
Tickets for the 3 p.m. and 7:30 Many of V
p.m. shows are priced at $13 for featured his re
orchestra seating and $11 for asides, and hi
balcony and are on sale now at ubcrance and pi
the Steven's Center Box Office. been preserved i
"Ain't Misbehavin" earned "Ain't Misbehav
the lion's share of awards as the fresh and enjoy*
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three Tonys, the New York ed the show "fun
Drama Critics Circle Award, and ... a gorgeous,
the Obie Award. In addition to tion," and as Jol
the title song, the show includes in the New Yo
such favorites as "Honeysuckle evening of Fats \
Rose," "Keeping out of Mischief a delight."
Now," and "I've got a Feeling
I'm Falling". Tickets for th
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller, a ordered by mail,
gargantuan person both in person at the Ste^
physical size and musical talent, Office. Call 721
wrote more than 500 songs dur- tional informatio
ing a career that began in 1922 is given to studi
with his first recording, "T'Ain't citizens.
Evelyn A. Ter
School Board
on November 6.
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Charles Card-well, Treasure
ti manager's life
even if just means looking at a personal checl
that needs to be okayed.
"You have to get to know the people of th
community and the customers of the bank," sh
says, "and I have a 16-year banking instinct tha
lets me know the difference between the flim
1 flams and the good customers."
She says her daughters were skeptical abou
' moving to Winston-Salem at first, espeeiall
I since they had already established solid friend
-ships in Raleigh. But Banks says she made extr
t efforts to assure them the move would be al
right by including them in some of the decision
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mat naa to be made. Both daughters are atten
> ding R.J. Reynolds Sr. High School this fall.
"1 was sacrificing and uprooting my family,'
says Banks. "Raleigh was home, but it was i
r sacrifice 1 was willing to make for Mechanics I
. Farmers Bank.
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. at my future with Mechanics & Farmers," Bank
says. "And I looked at all the situations, socis
and economic, before I made the decision t<
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come here on a permanent basis."
Still, Banks says that because much of her tim
is spent adjusting to her new position, she hasn'
had very much free time to learn the ins and out
?of the Twin City. The only reservations she ha<
had nothing to do with her job or the social o
; economic opportunities she sought. .
"Expressways frighten me," she says. "I hav<
this fear of getting lost. But I've found it easy t<
maneuver my way around in Winston-Salem."
In Raleigh, Banks was active in her loca
church, the capital's NAACP chapter and th
American Institute of Banking.
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About the only tangible characteristic Banks I
says she can tell someone else about Winstone
Salem at this point concerns its residents, she 1
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il customers have been very nice in making me feel ?:
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tors, everybody's been willing to help and that I
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Of Winston-Salem's other assets, Banks says :
:he school system was one of the deciding factors - ;
in the move and the reason she felt confident in . ;;*:u
"Taking on this job was a challenge," she <*
says, "but more than anything it's an opportuni- ty
to grow and that's what it's really all about."
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