THE 'tude

During Mitchell Stankovic’s recent “Underground Collision: CUSO Mayhem” event in Las Vegas, there were a collisions—and even more frustration but no actual mayhem---around the whole issue of vendor contracts. 

My credit union, Tongass Federal Credit Union in Ketchikan, Alaska, recently completed a merger with another regional credit union in Southeast Alaska.

In a news conference following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, President Kennedy  remarked, “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”

While CUToday.info had more coverage than any other publication coming out of CUNA’s Governmental Affairs Conference,  even with the extensive reporting we didn’t get to everything. So, here is some of what you might have missed on everything from the war in Ukraine to hippopotamuses to testing employee loyalty to tattoos to inspiring words.

Credit unions are rightly proud of the “army of cooperators”—as they are sometimes called by the zealous—and the “advocates”—as they are more often referred to by the trade associations—who will be descending this week on Washington as part of the CUNA’s GAC.

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.