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Thursday, July 15, 1976
University Dally Kansan
Women bankers advance
By ALEXIS WAGNER
Few women hold top management positions in banks, but opportunities for them in banking are expanding, four women bankers said yesterday.
Dorothy Rooney, one of three vice presidents at Douglas County State Bank, 9th and Kentucky, said the future for women in banking was "treemendous."
"Banks have recognized the abilities of women, and due to Affirmative Action guidelines, large banks are looking for qualified women," she said.
ROOKEY SAID that today women could get married. He said they had worked her up, positions but she had bad work habits.
'Banks have recognized the abilities of women'
up to vice presidency. She said she had
been given the impression of attaining a management position.
"In school I always competed with males, and I thought I'd compete with them in
Rooney said as a youth she had been curious and fascinated with banks, so after completing high school she got a job in a bank's bookkeeping department.
She started working for Douglas County State Bank in 1852 as an assistant cashier. In 1970 she became a vice president and in 1972 was named to the board of directors.
ROONEY SAID that today a college degree would be helpful to women going into banking. But experience is vital in gaining a management position, she said.
"Women interested in a career in banking should think in terms of ERA-education,"
"finally realizing that it is not just about getting
Another woman in banking is Judy Wenger, one of four vice presidents at Lawrence National Bank & Trusts, 647 Mass.
AS HEAD of operations and personnel, Wener wager supervises 45 employees. She has been with the bank since 1960 and has moved her way to the management position.
"When I started there were no women offenders. " The women in supervisory positions." she added.
Now, three of the bank's 13 officers are women.
women.
Wenger said it took a certain kind of
personality to be in a management position.
"MY BEST asset was that I was curious and ambitious," she said, "I understand what I'm doing and I like it. When you've met your want to do, you should do it." she said.
Although Wenger didn't have a college degree when she began working, she said a business degree would be helpful for women in banking.
Time, hard work and sacrifice were the ingredients Vernon Horton cited as essential for a woman seeking a bank management position. She is the managing officer of customer services at First National Bank, 9th and Massachusetts.
Herton began working for the bank almost 16 years ago in the bookkeeping department. She said that when she started working, she considered the possibility of advancement.
"IVE GOTTEN my job through hard work and dedication," she said.
Rooney said banks weren't looking specifically for women to fill management positions, but they were looking for qualified and "qualifiable" people.
Women, she said, usually must work their way into management positions, but men can often step into these positions with little previous experience. This is partly because many women don't have the desire to move into management positions, she said.
Roooney said women seeking jobs at banks usually applied for teller or bookkeeping
jobs, but men applied for jobs such as loan officers.
HORTON SAID the desire to obtain knowledge was more important than a certain degree of expertise.
Her advice to anyone want to make a career in banking was, "Get a job, be ready and willing to do anything you're asked and work whatever hours are necessary."
Elizabeth Mueller, assistant cashier and head of tellers at University State Bank 955 Iowa, said that now was an excellent time for women to enter banking.
"Banking is a good field with tremendous opportunities in the not-too-distant future," she said. "A bank is a fantastic place to work and it's exciting to be involved with it."
MUELLER SAID there was a trend toward finding qualified women to fill management positions. She said that a college degree wasn't essential for
'When I started, there were no women officers'
management positions, but that some of the large banks were beginning to require that a certain percentage of their
Mueller said women's banks weren't necessary for women to get loans or credit cards.
"I haven't seen discrimination. We deal with people as people. Guidelines have been established and if a woman meets the qualifications, she can get a loan," she said.
Library consultant advises Watson planning group
A leading library consultant is meeting today with the Library Facilities Planning Committee to review remodeling plans for Watson Library.
Ralph Ellsworth, Boulder, Colo., and the committee will discuss remodeling designs the committee has worked on this summer. Ellsworth said yesterday that they hoped to agree on definite plans for the construction, scheduled to begin in 1978.
Ellsworth has been consulting with librarians and the facilities planning office at the library.
Watson's ventilation system is its worst physical feature, Ellsworth said, followed by its lighting and placement of services and barriers.
tumes with various attempts to make do, that it's very difficult to work with."
"Watson is not impossible," he said, "but the building has been patched so many
"The keys to a library are the catalogue and reserve reading rooms," he said. "These need to be on the main floor, easily accessible to the public."
Ellsworth, a retired director of libraries from the University of Colorado, consults with eight to 10 libraries a year, spending about five days at each library.
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