Elliott's hurricane work featured in Mississippi newspaper
JACKSON, Miss. (3/13/06)--The tireless efforts of Charles Elliott, president/CEO of the Mississippi Credit Union Association, have not gone unnoticed.
The Jackson, Miss., newspaper The Clarion-Ledger profiled the credit union leader for his efforts to serve the Mississippi credit union community in the dark days after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last fall (March 10).
Elliott, along with Anne Cochran, president/CEO, Louisiana Credit Union League, and Guy Hood, president/CEO, Florida Credit Union League, were honored by the National Credit Union Foundation with Anchor Awards in February.
He lost 30 pounds due to stress, but his commitment to the credit union philosophy of "people helping people" stayed strong.
The article tallies the number of projects that Elliott tackled over the next months: Finding temporary offices for credit unions, matching donor credit unions with ones in need, acting as the liaison between homeless credit union employees and grants from credit union foundations, and setting up visits with grief counselors for employees.
In the midst of all this--just 16 days after the hurricane--he testified in front of Congress about the needs of credit unions and the Gulf Coast people.
One of the most moving stories was that of Doug DeSilvey, a member of Jackson County Federal Employees CU in Pascagoula, who lost four of his family members to the flooding.
DeSilvey emptied his account and needed more money to pay for the funerals of his daughter, his ex-wife and her mother.
The credit union and Elliott provided him help, and for that, DeSilvey said, "God's already got a place picked out for (Elliott) in heaven."
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