LONGVIEW—Texas Bank and Trust is pleased to announce the selection of four Pine Tree High School seniors to serve on its 2025-2026 Student Board of Directors.
The TB&T Student Board is a prestigious program recognizing outstanding high school seniors in the community.
PTHS Seniors Meredith Eggerman, Kayla Fornue, Stanford O’Quinn, and Diya Patel qualified for this year’s Student Board, and will join with 72 other seniors from Christian Heritage Classical School, Trinity School of Texas, Longview, Pine Tree, and Spring Hill High Schools to make up the 48th senior class to participate in the TB&T program in Longview.
The 2025-2026 Student Board members will be introduced to the TB&T bank staff in an Orientation Reception, to be held at 7 pm, Monday, August 18, in the lobby of TB&T’s Main Bank location in downtown Longview. Parents and school administrators are invited to attend.
The Student Board program is designed to introduce students to banking and money management at a critical point in their lives, as well as provide them with the essential economic building blocks to earning, spending, saving, and investing money. This year, the students will be challenged to test their money management and budgeting skills with a program, entitled The Real L.I.F.E. Experience 2.0. This innovative Living Institute for Financial Education TBT program will take the students through a modified real-world simulation of their first year of college, living in a household. Students will also serve as advisors to the bank on the development of a middle school financial literacy curriculum.
Texas Bank and Trust established the Student Board - its first and most enduring financial literacy program - in 1978.
Students were selected based on their grade point average, extra-curricular activities, and afterschool work activities. Students must submit an essay with their application as well as two letters of recommendation from either a faculty member or administrator to be considered for the program. Students accepted into the 2025 Student Board program were notified in early June.
Since its inception, the Student Board has introduced more than 3,700 area high school seniors to banking and money management.
For information on how to participate in the 2026-2027 Student Board program, please contact Community Relations Manager Tammy Gage at (903) 237-5568.