Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. Announces Boards of Directors Appointments, Effective March 1, 2017
February 06, 2017 at 08:42 am EST
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Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. announced that Debra Mallonee (Shantz) Hart and Kevin Ausburn have been appointed to the Boards of Directors of the company, effective March 1, 2017. Hart served as vice president and general counsel for John Q. Hammons Hotels for thirteen years. She has been developing affordable housing in Missouri and Oklahoma since 2008. Active in the community, Hart has served on numerous community and non-profit boards, including the Board of Public Utilities of Springfield, Mo., Community Partnership of the Ozarks, Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce Board and Executive Committee (Chairman 2016), Discovery Center and Springfield Boy's and Girl's ClubTrust Advisory Board. Ausburn has served with many civic and charitable organizations, including as vice president of the Springfield Business Development Corporation, and on the Ozarks Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America Board, Association of Independent Corrugated Converters Board, Good Government Committee, Voice of Business Committee, Council of Churches of the Ozarks Foundation and Community Foundation of the Ozarks Audit/Operations Committee.
Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company of Great Southern Bank (the Bank). The Company conducts its business as a financial holding company. Through the Bank and subsidiaries of the Bank, the Company primarily offers a variety of banking and banking-related services. The Bank offers a range of banking services through its 89 banking centers located in southern and central Missouri; the Kansas City, Missouri area; the St. Louis area; eastern Kansas; northwestern Arkansas; the Minneapolis area and eastern, western and central Iowa. The Company operates through a single segment, banking operation. The banking operation segment is principally engaged in the business of originating residential and commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial business loans and consumer loans and funding these loans by attracting deposits from the general public, accepting brokered deposits and borrowing from the Federal Home Loan Bank and others.