WASHINGTON – Former NCUA Public Information Officers hosted a luncheon honoring recently retired Public & Congressional Affairs (PACA) Director Robert E. Loftus and welcoming new PACA Director Clifford R. Northup. Shown here (from left) are Northup, Loftus, Joan Pinkerton-Filson, currently Press Officer for the National Association for Business Economics and former NCUA Public Information Officer; Larry Blanchard, former NCUA Public Information Officer and now Senior Vice President, CUNA Mutual Group, Corporate and Legislative Affairs; and Rosemary Brady Hardiman, credit union attorney with Hardiman and Hardiman and former NCUA Special Assistant to the Administrator and Director of Public Information.