Press Room
 

FROM THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

October 19, 2004
JS-2042

 Treasury Officials to Join Bankers in Schools Across the Country
to Promote the Wise Use of Credit

Treasury is teaming up with the American Bankers Association Education Foundation this week for the second annual Get Smart about Credit Day. Several Treasury officials will join local bankers across the country who are visiting colleges, high schools, freshman orientations, youth groups, and continuing education classes to teach students how to budget, use credit cards responsibly and build a positive payment history. 

More information on Get Smart about Credit Day can be found at: http://www.aba.com/Consumer+Connection/getsmartaboutcredit.htm.
 
Media interested in covering these events should contact Treasury's Public Affairs Office at (202) 622-2960 or Catherine Pulley
with the ABA at (202) 663-5468. The following events are open to the press:

Jesus H. Delgado-Jenkins, Acting Assistant Secretary for Management
·South Division High School
1515 West Lapham Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI
10:15 am CDT

D. Scott Parsons, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Critical Infrastructure Protection
·Newark High School
14 Granville Street, Building G
Newark, OH
9:30 am. EDT

Sandra Pedroarias, Office of Financial Education Director of Outreach
·Miami Palmetto Senior High School
7460 SW 118th Street
Miami, FL
10:45 am EDT

Jeffrey Kupfer, Deputy Chief of Staff
·Taylor Allderdice High School
2409 Shady Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
9:00 am EDT

·South Fayette High School
2246 Old Oakdale Road
McDonald, PA
12:45 pm EDT

Michelle Brough, Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions
·Harrisburg Area Community College
Gettysburg Campus
731 Old Harrisburg Rd.
Gettysburg, PA
8:45 am. EDT

Henrietta Holsman Fore, United States Mint Director
·Montgomery Blair High School
51 University Boulevard East
Silver Spring, MD
9:00 am EDT

Joseph Dillon, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance ·Central Elementary School
5 Baxter Street
Buckhannon, WV
1:15 pm EDT

Edward Christovich, Office of Financial Education Director
·Fletcher High School
700 Seagate Avenue
Neptune Beach, FL
10:25 am EDT

Greg Zerzan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy
· Mt. Tabor High School
342 Petree Road
Winston-Salem, NC 
9:45 am EDT