Junior Board of Directors

First Bank's Junior Board of Directors was established in 1996. It is comprised of senior students representing Conroe, Montgomery and Willis High Schools. Although over a hundred applications are received each year, only an elite few are chosen to serve on the Junior Board. They are selected with an emphasis on academics, extra-curricular involvement and overall leadership qualities. "With so many intelligent, qualified students out there it's very difficult to narrow the field down to about 20 seniors from four schools," says bank president Sam Baker. "We are very proud of what we consider to be the "cream of the crop" that makes up our Junior Board each year.

The Board meets monthly August through May for an educational/ working luncheon. At each meeting an informative program is presented that helps the students learn more about the community they live in and certain issues they must deal with as they approach adulthood. First Bank considers it crucial that the students learn about the basics of community banking. They learn that the bank makes money by lending money and that by lending money it helps the community grow and prosper. The Junior Board also learns about the importance of credit card responsibility and is informed of the huge financial problems created by credit card abuse.

One of the Junior Board of Directors' responsibilities is to share with their peers what they learn through their service on the Junior Board. Another important responsibility they have is to award scholarships to deserving seniors not among the Junior Board. Board members solicit applications from students in their respective high schools, evaluate the applications and then vote as a group on whom they feel are the most deserving scholarship recipients. The scholarships are presented on senior scholarship day at each of the participating high schools.