Profile: A Passion For Education

Rae Thiede enjoys a challenge. When she accepted the position of vice president of education and administration at the Mortgage Bankers Association of Minnesota in 1990, she knew nothing about association business. She had to learn fast, because soon after she started, the executive director left. It was up to Thiede and the two other staff members, "to find a way to bring life into the association before it was pronounced dead," Thiede recalls. They succeeded, organizing the association's