Fifth-Grader's Letter Leads to Lunch with CEO

TAMPA—After Adelyn Richgels, a fifth-grader at Bartel Middle School, wrote a letter to Joe Brancucci, president/CEO of GTE Financial Credit Union, regarding her experience of being the mock CEO of GTE Financial as part of Junior Achievement BizTown, Brancucci invited her back to GTE’s headquarters for lunch and a little of what his day as CEO is like.

Adeln Richgels with Joe Brancucci.

“I had so much fun at JA BizTown as the CEO of GTE Financial! I sincerely hope that you LOVE your job as much as I LOVED mine,” Richgels had written in her letter.

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