103 bank’s services to FFA boys, financing their purchase of livestock and feed, which encouraged the boys to hold property and gain an income from it. “Because of the importance of everyone working together, it is necessary that we cooperate, for as business improves so does our community.” 60 shares of Bank of Clarke County stock sold at public auction on September 22, 1960 for $40 per share. Mr. McWilliams was elected to the Board on June 22, 1961, succeeding the late Mr. William Thompson. On his way to Johnson-Williams High School to make a talk to the Adult Class on banking on March 7, 1963, Mr. Glascock was stricken with a heart attack. He entered Mr. John Potter’s home on Josephine Street and died at the age of 54 before an ambulance arrived. A month later, Mr. Potts died on April 11th following a long illness. His contributions to the Bank of Clarke County were summed up in the Board minutes: Whereas, our Merciful Heavenly Father, in His wisdom, has removed from this organization within an elapse of time of only days of another officer and director, namely, Roy E Potts, its President and Director, on Sunday morning, the 7th day of April, 1963; and Whereas, we who survive, the Directors, Officers and Employees of the Bank of Clarke County, desire to be written upon the records of this institution the following resolution of our feeling and knowledge of Roy E Potts, and our own lamentation at his departure from this earth; Roy E Potts who, without any banking experience, was selected by the Board of Directors to become its Cashier on the 1st day of July, 1935, when the Bank was experiencing many throes of conflict in policies, weathering a depression of national extent, and the mechanics of the working of the Bank were complicated by the resignation of its two head employees. A situation which would have caused many experienced bankers to forego whatsoever opportunities the Bank of Clarke County at that time might have offered, but not to Roy E Potts, a successful businessman in his own right. He was imbued with a mind which developed creativity, integrity of effort, individuality and responsibility. He was quick to seize upon and adopt new aids and to have facilities to meet the needs in the time necessary to meet the ever new requirements of successful banking. It soon became apparent to all concerned that the Board of Directors had been wise in its selection of this Christian gentleman to head up its institution, even if he was lacking in prior banking experience. Roy E. Potts, in less than twelve months of banking, was soon recognized by his contemporaries as a man to look up to and to respect. In this same period of time, one of the signors of this resolution was told by an applicant for a loan from the Bank, “I would rather have that man tell me no’ on my application for a loan, than to have most bankers tell me ‘yes’. One of the most outstanding abilities of this Officer was to establish an “esprit de corps” among his fellow workers, which “esprit de corps”