SEATTLE — For some, being in the thick of things sometimes makes it hard to see the real impact later on down the road.

In a session titled "Lessons from Experience," some of the credit union's industry august veterans shared incidents that they either regretted and have learned from or have propelled them to keep pushing forward.

Rita Haynes remembers the bleak days in the late 1950s when Faith Community United Credit Union was on the verge of shutting down. Haynes came aboard as manager/CEO in 1959, seven years after the credit union was founded.

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