DULUTH, Ga. — A trick turned into a treat for Georgia Federal Credit Union's longest term board member Polly Christie Hinde.
"I was a second grade school teacher at Toney Elementary in DeKalb County when one of my friends Helen Anchors invited me to a meeting at another school," said Hinde. "Well the credit union founder Vernon Carne was a principal at that school and I didn't know it at the time but the 'meeting' was actually one of the credit union's first annual meetings. I won the top door prize of $5.00 and they told me great now I can join and become a member–and I did."
The credit union called DeKalb County Teachers Federal Credit Union was very small despite being the largest school system in Georgia at the time. Shortly after becoming a member another teacher friend Harold Smith, invited Hinde to serve on the Supervisory Committee and in 1964 she was asked to be a board member.
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