Ian Larsson became a Director of Syndal Credit Union Co-operative in 1976. He was Chairman of the Victorian Credit Co-operative Association, 1976-1981 and President of the Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues, 1977-1981.
He was a foundation councillor of the Institute of Credit Union Directors Victoria; Vice Chairman of the Institute of Credit Union Directors Australia, 1990-1993; Chairman of the Australian Credit Union Historical Co-operative 1993-1996. Ian was awarded CUSCAL’s Distinguished Service Award in 1997.
Ian Larsson provided an oral history interview for the credit union movement in 1992 when he was interviewed by Richard Raxworthy.
Father Ganey was born in 1904 in Illinois, USA. He was a Jesuit Priest and very influential in the credit union movement around the world including in Australia. He entered the Society of Jesus
Recently we have been looking at some of the courageous groups that started credit unions in the 1990s – a time when conventional wisdom said it was a bad idea. While they each were only short-lived,
Gary Lewis described Francis Leo (Lee) Nash as a “pioneer” of the Australian credit union movement in his ground-breaking study, People Before Profit: The Credit Union Movement in Australia (1996). A
