WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- It's not often that a credit union, or for that matter any employer, finds a worker--in this case, a head teller--who stays on the job 44 years and obviously loved what she was doing.

But tomorrow the $202 million Members CU will honor Jeanine Miller with a retirement party and celebration to recognize what individual managers and staff have called "the friendly and always dependable face to our members and the public" since 1963.

Miller has confided that over the years she has simply enjoyed "meeting with people." In extending accolades, the CU management praised Miller as providing a "legacy that will no doubt be defined by the lives she has touched--members and co-workers alike."

"She trained me on the teller line," remembers David Elliott, former MCU employee and current Fort Bragg FCU President/CEO. "It's amazing to think about the hundreds of tellers she has trained and the thousands of members she has been in contact with during her tenure."

For Miller, she said she remembers things were not always rosy recalling the 1986 bankruptcy of McLean Trucking Co. which gave the CU its former name as McLean CU. "I was scared," Miller recalls adding, "I didn't know if I'd still have a job."