Bank on this talk

A WSU business graduate who started her banking career in 1969 to pay for college and now is an executive with a nationwide banking operation will talk about her career and the changing industry during a free talk open to the public March 8.

Marilyn Pauly, president of Bank of America Kansas, will talk about "Banking’s Transition: Now You See Us … Now You Don’t," as part of the W. Frank Barton School of Business Distinguished Alumnus in Residence lecture series. Her presentation will begin at 10:30 a.m. in 126 Clinton Hall.

Later that day she will be the featured speaker at an invitation-only luncheon for Wichita business and community leaders at the Hyatt Regency.

As a 19-year-old college student, Pauly applied for a job in 1969 with what was then Fourth National Bank based on the bank’s ad in the yellow pages – it was the biggest. In July 1998, she was named president of Bank of America Kansas, as the company is now known. She worked in various positions in operations, commercial banking and trust services division.

Pauly has a long history of professional, civic and community activities, including serving on boards with Wichita’s Exploration Place, the Kansas 4-H Foundation, the YMCA, United Way of the Plains and the WSU Endowment Association.

Bank of America Kansas is part of a coast-to-coast nationwide operation with nearly 32 million checking and saving accounts. Statistically, one of every three U.S. households banks with the nationwide bank; online banking is among its most demanded services.

The Barton School’s Distinguished Alumnus in Residence series was established in September 1997.