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• Editor’s Column: Credit Unions’ True Colors Bleed Through

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  September 2, 2012

  As Credit Union Times was going to press last week, Hurricane Isaac was bearing down on the Mississippi Gulf area. We are hopeful that credit unions and their employees stay hunkered down and safe through this stressful time. Like the rest of the country, we’re awaiting reports back from colleagues,...

• Cooke Named Publisher of Credit Union Times

  September 2, 2012

  Summit Business Media announced last week that Credit Union Times Editor-in-Chief Sarah Snell Cooke has been promoted to publisher/editor-in-chief.

• Annaloro to Retire From Northwest League

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  September 2, 2012

  The Northwest Credit Union Association made it official last week. Its veteran CEO John Annaloro is retiring Oct. 2. He will be succeeded by Troy Stang, the president of the trade group that resulted from the merger of the Oregon and Washington leagues in 2011 and includes members from Alaska.

• SafeAmerica Appoints Barry Roach CEO

  September 2, 2012

  SafeAmerica Credit Union Board announced that Barry Roach will be its new president/CEO. Roach was previously the vice president of retail delivery at Meriwest Credit Union, based in San Jose, Calif.

• Northwest FCU Names Chris McDonald CEO

  September 2, 2012

  Northwest Federal Credit Union announced the selection of Chris McDonald as the successor CEO to Gerrianne D. Burks, who will retire in mid January after a 41-year career at the Herdon, Va., credit union.

• Political Conventions Have CU Trades Gearing Up

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 27, 2012

  Hospital playground dedications, the sponsorship of political panel events and casual meetings with legislators and delegates are on tap for CUNA and its Florida and North Carolina leagues as they work to promote credit unions and industry issues during the national Republican and Democratic conventions.

• Tower CEO Breland Named to NAFCU Board

  August 27, 2012

  NAFCU last week announced it had named Martin Breland, president/CEO of Tower Federal Credit Union, as Region II director on the NAFCU board of directors. Breland replaces retiring board member Charlie Thomas, who stepped down after his resignation as a member of the board of Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union.

• DeMarco Named CEO at Community Driven CU

  August 20, 2012

  Renee DeMarco has been named president/CEO of Community Driven Credit Union of Ypsilanti, Mich.

• T8 Expands, Plans Staff Adds

  By Marc Rapport  |  July 30, 2012

  Twenty more jobs are expected to be eventually added to the new Des Moines, Iowa, offices of T8 Webware, the company said.

• New Chair at NAFCU

  July 30, 2012

  Michael Parsons, president/CEO of the $330 million First Source Federal Credit Union in New Hartford, N.Y., has been elected NAFCU chair.