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| Mississippi Magnolia Chapter earns the GOLD!!! |
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To: 2009-2010 Chapter President
Donna L. Rademacher, CPCU
RE: 2009-2010 Circle of Excellence
cc: 2010-2011 Chapter President
Derek A. Rooker, CPCU
I am pleased to announce that the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter has qualified for the 2009-2010 CPCU Society Circle of Excellence. Your chapter has achieved the Gold level of recognition in this comprehensive program. Congratulations!
Thank you for your dedication of time and talent this past year. Please extend our congratulations to your leadership team and all chapter members who planned and participated in your many activities during the year.
In August, your chapter’s 2009-2010 Gold Circle will be mailed to your 2010-2011 chapter president. Please insert your circle into the Circle of Excellence plaque you were sent previously and display it at chapter events. Make sure all your members are aware of this recognition and its significance. Plan time during your upcoming Conferment or I-Day program for a presentation ceremony.
The Mississippi Magnolia Chapter will also be recognized at the Annual Meeting and Seminars in Orlando in a special Circle of Excellence display in the registration area and during the Circle of Excellence Recognition Luncheon. A formal invitation with details regarding the luncheon will be sent to you this summer.
Best wishes to the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter for continued success!
Sincerely,
Barry R. Midwood, CPCU
Vice President – Chapter and Professional Development
CPCU Society
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| January 2010 Legislative Update Luncheon |
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At our January 2010 Legislative Update Luncheon special guest Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney provided information about the current session. Above, l to r, President-elect Derek Rooker, Mike Chaney, and Chapter President Donna Rademacher.
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| MS Magnolia Chapter Good Works Luncheon 2009 |
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Once again this Holiday Season, the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter of CPCU Society has given our Good Works donation to the Blair E Batson Hospital for Children. Here, Chapter President Donna Rademacher, left, and Shelby Melvin, chairman of Good Works committee, right, offer to Jennifer Lott, Child Life Coordinator of Blair E Batson, our chapter's donation to provide Santa Claus presents for the children recovering in the state of Mississippi's only children's charity hospital.
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| Joint Venture Sponsorship of MS I-Day Event 2009 |
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The Mississippi Magnolia Chapter of the CPCU Society in conjunction with with the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters sponsored the Mississippi I-Day event on September 24, 2009. Mississippi I-Day our state's premier insurance education promotion and training day. Jeff McGee (right), our chapter Vice President, exhibited all day at the event, pictured here with Chapter President Donna Rademacher (center) and past president Mark Mays (left). Our chapter provided education promotion materials, specialty items, and encouragement to over 150 college insurance majors from three major Mississippi universities and to over 200 insurance professionals at the event. We promoted chapter visibility, connected with local insurance employers and with insurance education providers, as well as the young professionals of the future in these students. We had fun, too! :)
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| Good Works Project Christmas 2008 |
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| Black History Month Luncheon |
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Continuing a tradition begun last year, in Feburary, the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter of CPCU, has chosen to celebrate Black History Month, honor a local prominent business person, as well as gain valuable insight in the history, the challanges, the shared struggles and the value of diversity in our industry. This year, we were honored to have Mr. Matthew Thomas, President of Statewide General Agency, speak to us. He was the first African American agency owner in the state of Mississippi. Mr. Thomas shared his personal historic career path, and the fundamental truth about our industry and what it represents. "I have never seen an insurance company deny a claim based on race," Mr. Thomas shared, stating that we can all be proud to work in an industry that keeps its promises. He challenged us all to live up to our word and to act in an ethical manner at all times. Mr. Thomas told us the story of getting his license during segregation and how he got his first agency appointment by writing personal letters to the company presidents of every insurance company in the United States. He said he was extremely grateful that Travelers Insurance Company 'took a chance on me' in Feburary of 1970. Thirty-seven years later his agency is consistently among their top producers. He said there is still much we all can do to stand up for what is good and just and right in our business. (Pictured above are: Chapter president-elect Mark Mays, Mr. Matthew Thomas, Chapter President Karen Livingston-Wilson, and Chapter Secretary Mitch Miller)
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| George Dale honored by MS Magnolia Chapter |
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Mississippi Magnolia Chapter honored former Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale at a luncheon to recognize his dedicated service and significant contributions to our insurance education, our professional designation and the industry as a whole. Mr. Dale is a man of honor who served our state well for 32 years and it was our pleasure to present him with a plaque and certificate. Also, speaking in honor of Mr. Dale were: Current MS Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, current Deputy Commissioner Lee Harrell, voice of the industry Greg Copeland, MIM's Tom Quaka, and EMC's Frankie Box.
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Chapter Leader News
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| Featured Web Site: Mississippi Magnolia |
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We continue to feature CPCU Society chapter web sites. We hope to share ideas and formats, recognize webmasters who have done a great job, and encourage chapters to constantly update and improve their web sites. This month we are featuring the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter web site.
Some highlights of the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter web site:
Thanks to Mississippi Magnolia’s webmaster and president elect, W. Mark Mays, CPCU. Mark was inspired at the 2007 Leadership Summit, and has helped his chapter gain new members, build new traditions, and created a great virtual community for the chapter.
Webmaster’s Tip: "When the baton was passed to me in Orlando, I knew that a chapter web site would improve our internal communications and increase our visibility, but I did not think I could do it with my limited web abilities. What I have found was tremendous support from the Society, outstanding user-friendly website tools, content suggestions. With this great help, we created a great web presence for our chapter that has informed and transformed just about everything we do. Member participation and energy is way up and it has been fun to do!"
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| March is Ethics Month! |
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Please remember that March is ethics month for the CPCU Society. We will have a special ethics speaker this month Rankin County Chancery Court Judge, the Hon. Dan Fairly, who will speak to us about Judicial Ethics and recent headlines regarding judicial misconduct in our state. If you need to re-familiarize yourself with the Ethical Code of Professional Conduct to which we are bound as CPCU's, please feel free to download the summary here. CPCU's are to be known not only for our professional knowledge and technical competence, but also for the utmost in professional ethical standards.
Who we are is more important than what we do.
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| April speakers: Fraud's Top Cops |
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At our April 2009 meeting, we were pleased to welcome as guest speakers Jenny Williams of the FBI and Russ Geboy from Homeland Security. We were very honored to have our country's leading experts on Katrina fraud and its ongoing investigations, a matter greatly affecting our chapter and state.
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| January Speaker from MS Fire Academy |
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Guest speaker at our January 2009 meeting was Reggie Bell from the State Fire Academy
more photos available in our photo gallery
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| May is Candidate Development Month! |
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May 2009 Candidate Development Meeting
Our speaker this year at our Candidate Development Luncheon was Billy Sims who is the Human Resources Manager at Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company.
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| May 2010 Candidate Development Month |
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May is Candidate Development Month! We had a ball!
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| Mississippi Magnolia Chapter earns the GOLD!!! |
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To: 2008-2009 Chapter President
William Mark Mays, CPCU
RE: 2008-2009 Circle of Excellence
cc: 2009-2010 Chapter President
Donna L. Rademacher, CPCU
I am pleased to announce that the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter has received the 2009 CPCU Society Circle of Excellence. Your chapter has qualified for the Gold level of recognition in this comprehensive program. Congratulations!
Thank you for your dedication of time and talent this past year. Please extend our congratulations to your leadership team and all chapter members who planned and participated in your many activities during the year.
In September, your chapter’s 2008-2009 Gold Circle will be mailed to your 2009-2010 chapter president. Please insert your circle into the Circle of Excellence plaque you were sent previously and display it at chapter events. Make sure all your members are aware of this recognition and its significance. Plan time during your upcoming Conferment or I-Day program for a presentation ceremony.
The Mississippi Magnolia Chapter will also be recognized at the Annual Meeting and Seminars in Denver in a special Circle of Excellence display in the registration area and during the Circle of Excellence Recognition Luncheon. A formal invitation with details regarding the luncheon will be sent to you this summer.
Best wishes to the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter for continued success!
Sincerely,
Barry R. Midwood, CPCU
Vice President – Chapter and Professional Development
CPCU Society
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| CPCU Scholarships for 2009 Announced |
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Scholarship Chair Frankie Box reports we had 4 applicants for the offered scholarships. Elizabeth Walker from the University of Mississippi and Tyler Warren from Mississippi State University are this year’s recipient’s. Tyler was able to join us for this month’s meeting. More photos are in our gallery.
 
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| March 2008 Ethics Speaker Ed Duett |
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Above (l to r): Chapter President Karen Livingston Wilson, March Guest Speaker Ed Duett of MSU, Treasurer Frank Scott, Vice President Coleman Cummins
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| Good Works Project Success! |
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