WASHINGTON – Anne Cochran, CEO of the Louisiana Credit UnionLeague, Charles Elliott, CEO of the Mississippi Credit UnionAssociation and Guy Hood, CEO of the Florida Credit Union Leaguewill all be honored by the National Credit Union Foundation fortheir efforts to help their credit unions recover from the seriesof devastating hurricanes that hit the U.S. Gulf region in 2004 and2005. “The National Credit Union Foundation is honored to recognizeAnne, Charles and Guy for their relentless efforts to helphurricane survivors rebuild their lives,” said NCUF ExecutiveDirector Steve Delfin. “To scores of credit unions, thousands ofcredit union employees and hundreds of thousands of credit unionmembers, these courageous heroes have served as anchors holding theGulf Coast credit union movement together.” The three leaders willbe recognized with NCUF's Anchor Award, which will be presented atthe Herb Wegner Awards Dinner on Feb. 26 in Washington D.C. Ascredit union employees in Louisiana and Mississippi were strugglingto survive, Cochran and Elliott worked day and night to ensure thattheir members had access to safe food, water, and shelter. Thoughsuffering themselves from their own personal losses, Cochran andElliott devoted every ounce of their energy to helping others, theNCUF said. The NCUF recognized Hood in addition for his work tohelp establish criteria for disbursing disaster relief funds and tochannel those funds from the national foundation to the stateswhere credit union employees suffered the most devastating losses.“Words cannot express the tragedies that Gulf Coast credit unionpeople are still facing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,”Delfin observed. “But we hope these Anchor Awards in some small waybring comfort in recognizing all the challenges these leaders haveovercome and all the people they have inspired.”