Assistant Cashier, A Woman, Cites Banking As Career Job

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Cites Banking As Career job
» Miss Leone W. Sherrill, en stay 15 to 30 years, and-jMiss Sherrill’s hobbies. A
State Bank &_Trust Co. assist- like Miss Sher1~i11_have (301.1 At her State Bank job _she
gntcagraeselfgelwoliaznn iixahgglgngf lege or business School degrees' lpiigbillgriis czvrfdonaeclviselselagoinlg
She is one of 73 women at _She “fas glfaduated fmm Fel* staff members under Herman
State Bank, wh() outnumber £13 gngtlgltetm 191% *Led begat- F. Gross, State Bank president.
29 male employes nearly 3 to ent; afieftnk 1° algal” “Banking as _a career for
1, indicating, perhaps, that "§r§,}»yh-an Ea en- ngerslylwomen IS Openws up,” M1SS
thanking is becoming a world goursfslgan Xf°“,S1°H erV’°ejSherrill said. “There arel
'for the fairer sex that con- ~ _ ' . .A A mary mme Oppmftumfles fm'
lirols more tharf 50 per cent of MISS Sherrill, 2 H3t1V€ of those who stay with lt. The
‘U_S_ Wealth Three OHRSL falllgglf _at alldeleé ability of women is being rec-
= - - men ary SC 00 €1`€ an H o nized and they are bein ad-
.sgigss Bigirrlfgnplgie bffrn 33 Buchanan b‘~3‘f0I`<’{ taking 'UP h€I` | vinced to officer positions iiore
?3fearS,“ serving as a teller and State Bank Job In 1929' raplfuy than IF .past years),
‘secretary prior ,to being ele~ She belongs to the YM-YWCA Miss Sherrill said she has
véied to assistant' cashier in Business Women’s_ Group and made banking a carreer be-
1g35, na considerable ac_ is a former financial secretary cause” “I have enjoyed the
.c6;np1iShment,»» one State of the 1ocal_ First Baptist work, the assoc1at1ons_ with
Baiik _official said. He noted Church, to which she belongs. fellow employes and customers,
ttkat 'iprior to ,World War II Gardening at her home, 1014 besides the professionalism 1n-
`_bankihg' was- nearly an au_ Miner St., and reading are volved.
1man’s world.
3 lt, was during the war that
Qwbmen proved they and. bank-
. F;f,,_,§§were as compatible as the
sex is to nursing, and
A fibahking nationally became a
Qtiiilfeer profession for women.
-The official said that the
fiskill women achieve in bank-
-specialties, deftness in
dealing with people, quick-
,gitesf to excel in detail and
bi ity to draw out the “fi-
_ ancially inarticulate” custo-
ggg er make them ideal for the
§j 0I’k.
'Q-State Bank women do not
fi t do secretarial work _but
do behindthe-
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b 0 0 k k e e P-
ing and P1'00f-
ine They pre-
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employes a 1° e
married 3 11 d
, W01‘k at Stale
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,Miss Sherrill age of three
j§fe_ars. But some of the wom-I