Life Underwriter's WeekTO THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS OREETING~S:
WHEREAS, throughout the long sweep of history, humankind has sought to meet the risks
of life; and
WHEREAS, while various means for doing so have evolved, none is mere 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 assu~e individual, family and business economic security
and to realize important life objectives; and
WHEREAS, the p~udent 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
p~ovide skilled, empathetic, personal service with vast social and economic connotations;
and
Wh~EAS, 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
WI-EJtEA$~ the Kansas Association of Life Underwriters is now engaged in a prugram to
infom the public of the many and broad aspects of life insuranoe--what it is and how it
works and its essentiality to the stability of families and country:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MIKE HAYDEN, GOVE]~NOR OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, do hereby proclaim
the week of April 26 through May 2, 1987, as
LIFE UNOERWRITERS' WEEK
in Kansas, and in so doing, I urge all of my fellow citizens to avail themselves of this
opportunity to learn mere about life insurance as a medium for individual thrift and
self-reliance and to recognize the manifold contributions of members of the Kansas
Association of Life Underwriters.
DONE At the Capitol in T~oeka
Under the Great Seal of
· .~.A ~1 the State this 25th day
m~ of March, A. O. 1987.
THE GOVERNOR:
Secretary oY State
..... Assistant Secretary o? State