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

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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