Marilyn Mitchell Retires from Litchfield Bancorp

Nov. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- Mitchell, a Harwinton resident, has held a number of positions at the bank over the course of three decades, including most recently as assistant to outgoing president Mark Macomber. The two began working together when Macomber was appointed president and chief executive officer in 1994 and Mitchell was named his assistant.

“It’s been such a pleasure and a learning experience working for Mark,” according to Mitchell. “particularly because of all that he is involved in. I feel fortunate for the opportunity." Macomber, likewise, holds Mitchell in high regard. “Marilyn has been my right hand for 18 years and has made me a more effective president and the bank a better bank," Macomber said. "She is professional, highly responsive and dedicated to our institution."

Mitchell holds the distinction of being the only Litchfield Bancorp employee to have worked under three presidents. She was originally hired in 1968 by then president H. Curtis Ferris. In the late 70’s and early 80’s Mitchell staffed the bank's satellite office at the Crutch and MacDonald Drug Store, which was located at the time on the corner of Routes 202 and 63. She left the bank at one point to work as a secretary in the medical field, and in 1988, the bank's CEO at the time, Howard Kerpelman, asked her to return as a commercial loan clerk and to train to become the corporate secretary, a position she assumed in 1991.

In 1998, Mitchell was promoted to assistant vice president, and in 2001 she added the duties of corporate secretary of Connecticut Mutual Holding Company, which includes Litchfield Bancorp, Northwest Community Bank and Collinsville Savings Society.

Mitchell called her colleagues an extended family and praised the bank's management and board of directors for creating an atmosphere where she could flourish as an employee.
"It has been a lifetime of enjoyable work, fun and friendship with my fellow employees and the many wonderful customers I have served over the years," Mitchell said. "It's part of me and I'm part of it," Mitchell said of Litchfield Bancorp.

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