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First Financial Holdings celebrates 20 years on the Nasdaq exchange
First Financial Holdings Inc., parent company of First Federal, celebrated 20 years on the Nasdaq exchange by presiding over the closing ceremony March 3 at 4 p.m. First Financial CEO A. Thomas Hood, along with James C. Murray and Paul G. Campbell, chairman and vice chairman of the board of directors, rang the bell to close the market in New York City. Hood and Murray also addressed the group before ringing the bell.
First Financial has been a publicly owned company for just over 21 years.
Former S.C. Federal Credit Union CEO dies
Former S.C. Federal Credit Union President and Chief Executive Officer Robert “Bob” Dargan died March 9, 2005, from cancer. He was 64.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Jo; his daughter, Mary Stuart D. James; and two sons, Robert Lide Dargan Jr., David Lorick Dargan.
He was president and CEO of the North Charleston-based credit union from 1992 to 2004, when he retired to spent more time with his family. Prior to joining the credit union, he had a 30-year career with First National Bank of South Carolina/South Carolina National Bank, having served as an officer in Darlington, Camden, Anderson, and Columbia.
Dargan served on the boards of First Carolina Corporate Credit Union in Greensboro, N.C.; COOP and Officiates, in Ontario, Calif.; South Carolina Federal Service Corp. in North Charleston; Trident Chamber of Commerce in Charleston; Board of Advisors, Charleston Southern University in North Charleston; Operations Advisory Committee, Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, Va.; South Carolina Credit Union League in Columbia, S.C.
Dargan received his bachelor’s degree from Wofford College in 1962 and graduated from Louisiana State University’s School of Banking of the South in 1969. He also was a Navy veteran.
He was an avid golfer and in 1971 was the National Lefthanders Amateur Champion.
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