AUBURN – Sherwood Moody, president and chief executive officer of Mechanics Savings Bank, spent a day as executive-in-residence at Central Maine Technical College.

He spent the day with faculty and staff and worked with students in three classes of the business administration and management program. Moody emphasized that the state needs to have more of its young people attend college “to strengthen economic development for the state and provide more financially sound futures for the students.”

Moody is a graduate of Cornell University and the Stonier Graduate School of Banking. He has been president of Mechanics Savings Bank since 1999.

Moody is president of the Independent Community Bankers of Maine, a member of the Executive Committee of the Maine Association of Community Banks and a director of the association’s Health Benefits Trust.

Locally he serves as vice president of the Auburn/Lewiston Rotary Club, member of the Central Maine Technical Education Foundation board of directors, business partner of Lewiston-Auburn College of the University of Southern Maine and is an active member of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce.