Credit Union Times pays tribute to those leaders and pioneers who are gone in this special section. Please note this listing is not exhaustive. We respectfully regret any oversights.

Open Solutions Co-Founder Cliff Waggoner died May 11 after a long battle with cancer at the age of 66. He co-founded the popular data processing firm in the credit union space, in a basement in 1992 with the idea of bringing relationship-based technology to the financial services industry.

Former New York State Credit Union League Board Chair and New York CU League Hall of Famer Ray Johnson died at the age of 84. Johnson has had a long history with the credit union movement since 1959. He was one of the founding members of Empire Corporate FCU serving as treasurer and then chairman. Right before his retirement he helped organize–and joined in– the 1991 Credit Union March on Washington.

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