ROCK HILL, S.C. - Lee Gardner knows about the pitfalls of portals. When his credit union discovered the car-pricing service linked to their Web site was advertising an unaffiliated auto-financing service, it pulled the plug on that relationship. Gardner is president/CEO of Family Trust Federal Credit Union (www.familytrust.org) in Rock...

WESTBROOK, Me. - John Murphy, president of the Maine Credit Union League was elected board chair of the Maine Council on Economic Education. Murphy has served on the council's board for the past eight years The non-profit council, located on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine, is...

Bell-Tel Credit Union, Orlando, Fla., has named Brian Hartwigsen vice president of lending. Health Services Credit Union, Jacksonville, Fla., has named Rose Gunter vice president of operations. Louisiana Credit Union League, Harahan, has appointed the following officers to its board: Glen Beard, chairman; Charles Kramer, 1st vice chairman; Virgil Allen,...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Acting NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar hosted a working visit with a delegation of credit union leaders from Ireland. The visit was scheduled in May after Dollar spoke at the World Council of Credit Union's annual meeting in Killarney, Ireland. The timing of the meeting was important because in May,...