Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan, Loan Closing Officer
A 2008 addition to the CLS staff, Linda hails from the Sunflower State (= Kansas, for those less informed readers) where she grew up a short stone's throw away from the geographical center of the USA, then graduated from a business college in Beloit before trekking overland to Dallas where she commenced her lending career as a SBA commercial loan closer for AMRESCO.
At the start of this millennia, Linda moved to Denver where she began working with CIT, then Matrix (now United Western) and finally Community South, before finding her way to Colorado Lending Source. An expert on all things to do with the classic movie from 1939 "The Wizard of Oz" and one-time confidant of Judy Garland, Linda can tell you the names and life history of every Munchkin that appeared in the movie, and even what befell them during the harsh and terrible years of World War II that quickly followed on from the golden years of the depression. That many of these noble, smaller actors and actresses volunteered for covert actions as advance look-outs (it was easier to dig fox holes for Munchkins) on the fields of battle in Europe and South East Asia, many disguised as children, is a story that Hollywood has still to tell.
Linda also developed a passion in her youth for collecting bits of sisal twine and rolling them into large balls of twine. The inspiration for this was, obviously, the huge ball of twine that graces the main street of Cawker City, Kansas, on Highway 24, south east of Linda's original home town of Smith Center. The Cawker City ball is still billed as "The largest ball of twine in the world" and everyone driving across Kansas should leave I-70 for the short detour north to the shrine that surrounds it. In 2003 it was clocked at 7,049,191 feet of twine. Linda is working on her own version at home in her two-ball garage, which she plans to donate to Smith City one day (her ball of twine, not the garage). She is only at 5,438,876 feet at present but rapidly gaining due to the altitude advantage of working in the mile high city and the abundance of sisal twine that blows up and down the streets of Denver every time the wind blows (which happens to be most days).
Aside from a "thing" for twine, Linda enjoys frequent trips to Montana, moshing, creating her own musical mash-ups in her private music studio, Grateful Dead concerts, and, her volunteer activities with the Institute for Naming Children Humanely which is an extremely challenging pastime given the proximity of Linda's residence to Boulder, where this sort of indiscretion is rife and still not punishable by penal servitude.
Linda's favorite musical artists include: Judy Garland; Mickey Rooney; Nirvana; Grateful Dead; Procul Harum; Rolf Harris; William Shatner; and, Usher.