THE 'tude

You frequently hear someone who is retiring from a long career in credit union leadership observe that the way they had ended up spending their professional life had never been their plan, that when they were young they had a whole other direction in mind.

As I sit in the boardroom of ALPS Federal Credit Union on its last day before combining (no, I can’t say the word “merging”) with my own Tongass Federal Credit Union, I am – seriously--holding back tears

We’ll all be hearing and perhaps even singing that lyric this weekend, even if our voices quickly trail off by about the third line in what is actually an eight-stanza song, as few of us know any of the words in the last 7.5 of those verses.