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PROCLAMATION
BY THE
MAYOR
TO THE PEOPLE OF SALINA, GREETINGS:
WHEREAS, throughout, the long sweep of history, humankind has sought
to meet the risks o'f life; and
WHEREAS, while various means for doing so have evolved, none is more
effective or available to meet the economic consequences of risk than insurance;
and
WHEREAS, the institution of insurance has given succeeding generations
of Americans a systematic, practical method to assure individual, family and
business economic security and to realize important life objectives; and
WHEREAS, the prudent stewardship of the private insurance business in
our country has additionally provided a continuing source of venture capital
that undergirds national economic security; and
WHEREAS, indispensable to the effectiveness and progress of the life
insurance business are career life underwriters--agents, managers, and general
agents--who daily provide skilled, empathetic, personal service with ~ast social
and economic connotations; and
WHEREAS, these life underwriters--motivated by personal commitment to
participating citizenship and given leadership by the life underwriter association
movement--further demonstrate their professionalism by wide ranging involvement
in community well-being; and
WHEREAS, the Saline Association of Life Underwriters is now engaged in
a program to inform the public of the many and broad aspects of life insurance--
what it is and how it works and its essentiality to the stability of families
and country:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, STEPHEN C. RYAN, MAYOR OF SALINA, KANSAS, do hereby
proclaim the week of May 12 through May 18, 1991, as
LIFE UNDERWRITERS~ WEEK
in Saline, and in so doing, I urge all of my fellow citizens to avail themselves
of this opportunity to learn more about life insurance as a medium for individual
thrift and self-reliance and to recognize the manifold contributions of members of
the Saline Association of Life Underwriters.
BY THE MAYOR: