Dryden to retire after 40 years with credit union

  • THEN AND NOW: Dick Dryden, above, is pictured at his desk in 1989 after being named the new manager of the Hot Springs branch of Black Hills Federal Credit. Below, Dryden is pictured at his desk last week, just a week prior to his planned final day at the credit union.
    THEN AND NOW: Dick Dryden, above, is pictured at his desk in 1989 after being named the new manager of the Hot Springs branch of Black Hills Federal Credit. Below, Dryden is pictured at his desk last week, just a week prior to his planned final day at the credit union.
  • Dick Dryden
    Dick Dryden

    HOT SPRINGS – One of the things Dick Dryden, age 68, said he is looking forward to most upon his retirement is being able to “ranch in the daylight instead of the dark,” because for the past 40 years, that’s what he’s been doing since first starting his “day job” with the Black Hills Federal Credit Union (BHFCU) in September 1985.

    A lifelong resident of Fall River County, he is the only son amongst…