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Article: CUs May Cooperate, But Cooperative? Not At First.(Brief Article)
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- Credit Union Journal
- Article date:
- September 18, 2000
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Your credit union's a cooperative. But let's face it. When you think of a cooperative, you see a dozen homely women in plain, denim dresses, hair pulled tightly into buns as they sew a quilt and listen to Woody Guthrie records. Not CDs, actual LPs. If it's a Saturday the hair gets let down and the cooperative gets a little crazy. Can you say Parcheesi!
"There is a perception of co-ops of being a bunch of people wearing bonnets," acknowledges Pete Crear, CUNA's executive vice president.
Few in the credit union community know more about how much credit unions are part of the larger cooperative community than Crear, who is in his first term as ...