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MADISON, Wis. -North Island Financial Credit Union Board Director J. Alvin George has been named the 2003 CUES Directors Educational Forum Director of the Year. The DEF Director of the Year Award recognizes board members who raise the bar for excellence in credit union volunteerism. George has been an active...

CHICAGO - Considering that she was fired by Gov. Rod Blagojevich from the position of credit union supervisor that she was appointed to by former Gov. George Ryan in the closing days of his administration, 2003 started out on a sour note for Sarah Vega. But by October, Vega, who...

MADISON, Wis.-Former South Carolina Credit Union League President John Franklin was named as CUNA's new chief operating officer and executive vice president in the Madison office. Franklin, who had served as the league president from 1995 until recently, will officially start in his new post Jan. 5. The 30-year credit...

WASHINGTON-In a 183-page report, the U.S. General Accounting Office said that while the credit union industry is running smoothly, the agency should tweak its oversight. GAO, the government watchdog, has not performed an overall study of credit unions since 1991, but in that time, the number of troubled credit unions-those...

LYNCHBURG, Va. - Jim Hansen, 36, became VACORP FCU's new CEO this year. Prior to the VACORP job, Hansen was CEO of O'Rourke Career Connections. Hansen has already made a number of changes at the corporate, including a national FOM, a pending headquarters change, a name change (was formerly Virginia...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - In a surprise move William Rayhill retired as president/CEO of Redwood Credit Union. Rayhill joined the credit union over 20 years ago and helped build it from a $20 million CU with 10,000 members to the $948 million, 105,000 member CU it is today. Redwood CU...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - Dan Balagna, the one and only CEO, so far, of the Service Center Corporation, the nation's oldest national shared branching network, retires officially as of December 31. Affiliated with Michigan credit unions since the age of 19, Balagna rose through the ranks of the Michigan Credit Union...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - This year credit unions were ready to rumble for their members. From CUNA launching "Make the Switch to a CU" National CU branding materials, and credit unions blatantly counting the ways they are better than banks, to credit unions making spectacles of themselves on the...