The Power of Connections

Passing of the Leadership Baton Dan L. Brown’s retirement as general manager/CEO in 2017 capped a distinguished forty-six-year career at Cuivre River Electric. His twenty-six-year tenure in the top leadership position earned him the distinction as the cooperative’s longest-serving general manager.

It was April 1971 when Brown joined the co-op, intending to only stay temporarily until the fall when he would use his teaching degree and work for the Clopton School District. He never made it back to the district; however, throughout his co-op career, he did serve as a great coach and teacher for the employees of CREC. Brown became the co-op’s first branch manager in 1982 at CREC’s Lake Saint Louis office. He promoted the cooperative and worked to procure new members. CREC’s general manager at that time, Bill Ramsey, set the tone for his member services team. “Bill allowed us to compete with Missouri Edison and Union Electric to serve new

Then board president Walt Gregory is with Dan L. Brown (left) at his retirement.

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