SCHEDULE 14A
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YONKERS FINANCIAL CORPORATION
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[YONKERS FINANCIAL LETTERHEAD]
SUPPORT YOUR COMPANY'S RECOMMENDATION FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF
CANDIDATES DONALD R. ANGELILLI, WILLIAM G. BACHOP AND EBEN T. WALKER
January 3, 2000
Dear Fellow Shareholders:
OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS HAS PRESIDED OVER A
PERIOD OF EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH. FOR EXAMPLE, OUR LOAN GROWTH HAS BEEN MORE
THAN SEVEN TIMES HIGHER THAN OUR PEER GROUP. WE BELIEVE THIS HAS SIGNIFICANTLY
INCREASED THE VALUE OF YOUR COMPANY AND HAS POSITIONED US FOR SUBSTANTIAL
EARNINGS PER SHARE GROWTH.
You have recently been receiving mail from a group calling itself the
Yonkers Financial Corporation Committee to Preserve Shareholder Value.
This committee is not associated with your Company. They want you to elect
two of their members to your Board of Directors and sell your Company at the
wrong time.
The committee also has attacked your Company's stock performance of the
last couple of years. What they ignore, however, is that your Company's stock
price actually out-performed its peer group over the last two fiscal years and
has performed significantly better than its peers since becoming a public
company in 1996.
Neither the Board of Directors nor Management is satisfied with the
Company's stock performance. We believe our stock price reflects the current
market for financial institutions. Your Board is not opposed to selling the
Company at a time when it would be most beneficial to all stockholders.
WE BELIEVE THAT NOW IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME TO SELL.
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We thank you for your continued support. Please sign, date and return only
the white proxy card.
Sincerely,
/s/ William G. Bachop /s/ Richard F. Komosinski
William G. Bachop Richard F. Komosinski
Chairman of the Board President and Chief
Executive Officer
P.S. PLEASE RETURN THE WHITE PROXY CARD AND DISCARD THE GOLD ONE!
If you own shares in "street name," please contact your bank or broker and
direct them to vote "FOR" your Board's nominees on the white proxy card.
If you have any questions on how to vote your shares, please call our
proxy solicitor, Regan and Associates, at 1-800-737-3426. If you have any
questions about our goals or our progress, please feel free to call us directly
at 914-965-2500 ext. 101.
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REVOCABLE PROXY
YONKERS FINANCIAL CORPORATION
/X/ PLEASE MARK VOTES
AS IN THIS EXAMPLE
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ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS With- For All
JANUARY 27, 2000 For hold Except
I. The election of the following directors
for a three-year term to expire in 2003: /_/ /_/ /_/
The undersigned hereby appoints the Board of Directors DONALD R. ANGELILLI WILLIAM G. BACHOP EBEN T. WALKER
of Yonkers Financial Corporation (the "Company"), and its
survivor, with full power of substitution, to act as INSTRUCTION: TO VOTE FOR ALL NOMINEES, MARK THE BOX "FOR." TO
attorneys and proxies for the undersigned to vote all shares WITHHOLD AUTHORITY TO VOTE FOR ALL NOMINEES, MARK THE BOX
of common stock of the Company which the undersigned is "WITHHOLD." TO WITHHOLD AUTHORITY TO VOTE FOR ONE OR MORE
entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the NOMINEES, BUT NOT ALL NOMINEES, MARK THE BOX "FOR ALL EXCEPT"
"Meeting"), to be held on January 27, 2000 at a branch AND WRITE THE NAME(S) OF THE NOMINEE(S) FOR WHOM YOU WISH
office of The Yonkers Savings and Loan Association, FA, TO WITHHOLD YOUR VOTE IN THE SPACE PROVIDED BELOW.
located at 2320 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, New York, at
6:00 p.m. New York time, and at any and all adjournments or ----------------------------------------------------------------
postponements thereof, as follows:
For Against Abstain
II. The ratification of the appointment /_/ /_/ /_/
of KPMG LLP as the independent
auditors of the Company for the
fiscal year ending September 30,
2000.
In their discretion, the Board of Directors, as proxy for the
stockholder, is authorized to vote on such other matters as may
properly come before the Meeting or any adjournments or
postponements thereof.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE "FOR" EACH OF THE
NOMINEES LISTED HEREIN AND "FOR" THE RATIFICATION OF THE
APPOINTMENT OF KPMG LLP.
THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED AS DIRECTED, BUT IF NO INSTRUCTIONS
ARE SPECIFIED, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR EACH OF THE
NOMINEES NAMED HEREIN AND FOR THE RATIFICATION OF THE
APPOINTMENT OF KPMG LLP. IF ANY OTHER BUSINESS IS PRESENTED AT
THE MEETING, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED AS DIRECTED BY THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS IN ITS BEST JUDGMENT. AT THE PRESENT TIME, THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS KNOWS OF NO OTHER BUSINESS TO BE PRESENTED AT
THE MEETING.
Please be sure to sign and date Date
this Proxy in the box below.
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YONKERS FINANCIAL CORPORATION
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THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
This Proxy may be revoked at any time before it is voted by: (i) filing
with the Secretary of the Company at or before the Meeting a written notice of
revocation bearing a later date than this Proxy; (ii) duly executing a
subsequent proxy relating to the same shares and delivering it to the Secretary
of the Company at or before the Meeting; or (iii) attending the Meeting and
voting in person (although attendance at the Meeting will not in and of itself
constitute revocation of this Proxy). If this Proxy is properly revoked as
described above, then the power of the Board of Directors as attorneys and
proxies for the undersigned shall be deemed terminated and of no further force
and effect.
The above signed acknowledges receipt from the Company, prior to the
execution of this Proxy, of a Notice of the Annual Meeting, a Proxy Statement
dated December 6, 1999, and the Company's Annual Report to Stockholders for the
fiscal year ended September 30, 1999.
Please sign exactly as your name appears on this proxy card. When signing
as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee or guardian, please give your full
title. If shares are held jointly, each holder should sign.
PLEASE ACT PROMPTLY
SIGN, DATE & MAIL THIS PROXY CARD TODAY
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