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Country Bank team members
help high-school seniors
navigate a Credit for Life Fair.
Generational Impact
Financial-literacy Programs
Equip Families for Success
BY JOSEPH BEDNAR
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Community Relations. But before that, she was a Financial
Education officer for the institution — a role for which she still
Jodie Gerulaitis’s title at Country Bank is first vice president,
has a passion.
“My job was offering financial education to our communi-
ties,” she said, noting initiatives like Savings Makes Sense, a partner-
ship forged in the late 1990s with local schools — eventually about 40
of them — in which the bank collected deposits and students could
engage in banking activities right at school.
“Do they want to take
vacations? Is that important
to them? Do they want
to own a pet? These are
choices you and I make
every day, and we’re
bringing it to the students.”
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