8-K

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) September 16, 2009     GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC. (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)

Maryland	0-18082	43-1524856
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File No.)	(IRS Employer Identification Number)

1451 East Battlefield, Springfield, Missouri	65804
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (417) 887-4400       N/A (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Item 8.01  Other Events

 On September 16, 2009, the registrant issued a press release announcing a quarterly dividend of $.18 per common share for the third quarter of the calendar year ending December 31, 2009.  A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference. 

Item 9.01  Financial Statements and Exhibits

 (d) Exhibits

 99.1 Press release dated September 16, 2009

SIGNATURES  

 Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

	GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC.
Date  September 16, 2009	By:	/s/ Joseph W. Turner
		Joseph W. Turner
		President and Chief Executive Officer

EX-99.1

September 16, 2009

Reporters May Contact:

Kelly Polonus, Great Southern Bank, (417) 895-5242

kpolonus@greatsouthernbank.com

Great Southern Bancorp, Inc.

declares quarterly dividend of $.18 per common share

Springfield, Mo. – The Board of Directors of Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:GSBC), the holding company for Great Southern Bank, declared an $.18 per common share dividend for the third quarter of the calendar year ending December 31, 2009.

The dividend will be payable on October 14, 2009, to shareholders of record on September 30, 2009.

Great Southern offers banking, investment, insurance and travel services. Headquartered in Springfield, Mo., Great Southern operates 71 retail banking centers and more than 200 ATMs in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. The company also serves lending needs through loan production offices in Overland Park, Kan., Rogers, Ark., and St. Louis.  Great Southern Bancorp is a public company and its common stock (ticker: GSBC) is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select stock exchange.

www.greatsouthernbank.com

Forward-Looking Statements

When used in future filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in the Company's press releases or other public or shareholder communications, and in oral statements made with the approval of an authorized executive officer, the words or phrases "will likely result" "are expected to," "will continue," "is anticipated," "estimate," "project," "intends" or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including, among other things, changes in economic conditions in the Company's market area, changes in policies by regulatory agencies, fluctuations in interest rates, the risks of lending and investing activities, including changes in the level and direction of loan delinquencies and write-offs and changes in estimates of the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses, the Company's ability to access cost-effective funding, fluctuations in real estate values and both residential and commercial real estate market conditions, demand for loans and deposits in the Company's market area and competition, that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical earnings and those presently anticipated or projected. The Company wishes to advise readers that the factors listed above could affect the Company's financial performance and could cause the Company's actual results for future periods to differ materially from any opinions or statements expressed with respect to future periods in any current statements.

The Company does not undertake-and specifically declines any obligation- to publicly release the result of any revisions which may be made to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events.