Tag archives: Pope Francis

Papal Paper
By Richard Mineards   |   April 30, 2024

What to get the man who pretty much has everything? That was the quandary faced by Montecito Bank & Trust president George Leis when, as chairman of the National YMCA, he had an audience with 87-year-old Pope Francis at the Vatican earlier this month. His Holiness was presented with a book created by Fr Joe […]

More to the “Y” than Meets the Eye — George Leis, Suzanne McCormick, the YMCA, and the Pope
By Jeff Wing   |   April 2, 2024

George Leis is Montecito Bank & Trust’s President & Chief Operating Officer, a familiar presence in the Village – and a famously nice guy. Once described in these pages as “…so upbeat, ordinary bankers shrink from his presence like goblins nearing sunlight,” Leis is a dedicated and indefatigable volunteer for the community he loves. In […]