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Belco Board Member Honored by PCUA

Donald Person, vice
chair of Belco
Community CU’s Board
of Directors, has won the
2016 Moore Volunteer of
the Year Award. He has
long been a familiar face at
Belco, acting as a
volunteer at the credit
union for 35 years. For
33 of those years, he has
served as a member of the
Board of Directors —
nine of them as the
vice-chair and two as the
treasurer. In that time, he
has also served on every
working committee as
both a member and chair.
Person is a frequent
attendee of credit union
events, such as the
Association’s annual
convention and Fall
Leadership Conference.
Outside of the credit union movement, Person served in the United States Navy
Reserves from 1961-1967. He was called into active duty in 1963, earning the
“National Defense Service Medal,” the “Vietnam Service Medal,” and the “Navy Unit
Commendation Medal.” Prior to his retirement in 1998, Person worked at Bell
Telephone Company of PA, now Verizon Communications, as a Switching
Equipment Technician. He has been a member of the Communications Workers of
America union his entire working life.
“Don has been involved with the growth of Belco since it was a single sponsor credit
union to a multi-SEG (Select Employee Group) credit union, and finally a community
chartered credit union,” said Stephanie Miller, chair of the Belco Board of Directors.
“Don is well versed and continuously practices and promotes the credit union
philosophy in all aspects of his life.”
The award winners were honored at the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association’s
annual convention, Connect 2017, held in Hershey.

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