Retirement of Long-Serving SGBC Board of Director Members
South Georgia Banking Company recently announced the retirement of three long-serving members of their Board of Directors: Dr. Joe Turner, and Grady M. Thompson, Jr. and Jones Ponder.
Together, these leaders played an essential role in the bank’s growth, helping increase assets to $600,000,000, expand to nine banking centers, and maintain continuous shareholder dividends. To honor their contributions, the bank is making a $5,000 donation to a cause significant to each individual: $5,000 to Omega Elementary School in honor of Ponder, $5,000 to the Tifton Council for the Arts to support the Bette Turner Arts Annex of the Syd Blackmarr Arts Center in honor of Dr. Turner, and $5,000 to create a Soil and Water Conservation Scholarship Fund in honor of Thompson.