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Corbin serving hometown folks in local bank

3 May 2007

By Barry Merrill

NL Publisher

A Princeton High School graduate who grew up in the building business is hoping to build business at a local bank.

Tammy Hines Corbin came back to Princeton last month as the new Financial Services Representative at First Citizens Bank. She replaced Diane Wall who retired earlier this year.

Tammy took a very non-traditional route to her new job, but sees some preparation for the challenges she sees at First Citizens in Princeton. That began at home, helping her father, Linwood Hines, in his construction business.

“I slung a hammer and put on roofs just like the rest of them,” she said Monday morning. “We worked very hard growing up. My daddy brought me up the right way. There is nothing wrong with hard work.”

She was raised on Rains Crossroads Road, and attended Princeton through high school, graduating in 1982.

After graduation she helped out as a secretary in her mother’s (Raemell Hines) factory, which has since been sold.

She took a break for a few years when her son, Noah, who is now 15, was born. When she returned to work, she held a secretarial job at Heartland, Inc. in Goldsboro. When that company closed their Goldsboro location, she went to work for First Citizens as a part-time teller, mainly to get on their insurance plan, about a year and a half ago.

“Part of my job was to bring in new business referrals, and I was always filling up my sheet with more than expected. That got the attention of the higher ups.”

She remembers being embarrassed when Frank Holding stopped at her window and she realized that she didn’t have on her name tag (which was a no-no). “He called me by name (even without my name tag) and told me he had heard about some good things I had been doing.”

A few weeks after she started, she was transferred from the main office in Smithfield to Goldsboro as an administrative assistant. When the Princeton opportunity opened up, she jumped at it.

She is excited about the opportunities growth in the area brings, and the opportunities it gives the bank. “With the new subdivisions opening up around Princeton, I want to reach those people and I want to get their accounts here. I want Princeton to grow.”

She also sees working in Princeton as a special opportunity to be back home. “I grew up with these people, and I know and recognize the people who are here running businesses here. Small town people like to be recognized.”

Tammy has connections with the new home market. Her brother, Linwood Hines Jr., is following his father’s footsteps in the home construction business, and Linwood’s wife, Beth Hines, who has been successful in real estate sales, has just opened up her own Remax office selling real estate.

Speaking of construction in the Princeton area, her husband of 24 years, Billy Corbin, has recently opened The Banryard on US 70 just outside Princeton where Taylor’s Gazebos and storage barns used to be. Tammy said that after Mr. Taylor passed away, she encouraged Billy to consider opening his own business there. He had been working for Heartland and Lowe’s building storage buildings, and now that he is off the road, his related expenses are much less. He had been traveling sometimes long distances to work on projects for Heartland.

He also has his license and works as a general contractor.

Tammy, Billy and Noah live on Rains Crossroads Road down the same path as her parents, and they fully enjoy the rural lifestyle. When she’s not at work she likes to ride a four wheeler, they love to fish on the river, and go to the mountains. She also credits her new friend, Vicki Lassiter, for turning her on to Lake Gaston.

As the financial services representative, she sells bank services including wealth management, loans, CD’s, money market savings, and handles personal and business account, and provides customer services.

She also credits Vicki, who is the full-time teller in the office, as being so helpful in the new job. “She has been so supportive. She has become a good friend, not just a co-worker.”

How long Tammy will be at First Citizens is something others will determine, but she said Monday she would be happy to be here for a long time.