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Greetings Chapter Members,
We kicked off 2018 with our February Luncheon, honoring our Past Presidents and featuring for the 2
nd time Ken Reeves, former NFL player,
who provided great insight on living with purpose and fighting through adversity. It was wonderful to recognize our Past Presidents for their service as they have contributed to the success of the Dallas Chapter. Congratulations to our four new officers and five new directors who were installed as well. We had a fantastic turnout of 110 attendees!
President’s Note
March 2018 Dallas Chapter
The CPCU Society is a
community of insurance professionals who promote excellence through ethical behavior and continuing education.
Get Involved! The Dallas Chapter is
looking for volunteers.
Whether you want to
network with others or
further develop your
leadership skills, we’d
love to hear from you.
Email us or reach out at
the next luncheon
meeting to see how you
can get involved!
Inside this issue:
March Luncheon Meet- 2
June Luncheon Meeting 2
August All-Industry Day 2
Remaining Meeting/
Event Schedule 3
Chapter Officers 3
Past Event Highlights 4
CPCU Society Leadership Summit 5
03/09/2018
Visit us online:
http://dallas.cpcusociety.org
Wallace Eason
Chapter President
2018 promises to be a year of creativity, development, and fun! I shared our new chapter’s theme at the February luncheon, “Serving With A Purpose”. Our chapter leaders and volunteers are working diligently to have more presence and impact in our community through Community Good Works. We are focused on having consistent networking opportunities with our New Designees, CPCU candidates, and Gamma Iota Sigma members through socials, educational opportunities, and chapter involvement. Our Social Media Team has been active using social media sites to keep members informed and have recently been testing live streaming through our member Facebook page. Our chapter is also looking into becoming active in the Mentoring program. I would like to thank all of our chapter leaders and volunteers for joining me to serve with a purpose.
We have a great year of events planned. Be sure to take full advantage of all of them. For our March luncheon meeting, we welcome back guest speaker, Lindsay Nickle. She is a partner in the Dallas office of Lewis Brisbois. Lindsay will discuss Ethics in Cybersecurity. While the chapter does not have an April luncheon, members of the Dallas CPCU Society Leadership team will be attending the 2018 CPCU Leadership Summit in Baltimore in April
19-21. More information on upcoming events can be accessed on our website: http://dallas.cpcusociety.org
We have an outstanding team of volunteers who give their time to help plan, organize, and lead chapter activities. Many of the committee chairs are 2016 & 2017 new designees, and I am thrilled to see so many new volunteers involved in the chapter. I’d like to thank all of our new officers, board members, committee chairs, and other volunteers for their service.
I am honored and excited to be leading the Dallas Chapter as President in 2018.
I hope to see you at our upcoming events!
Wallace Eason Dallas Chapter President
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Upcoming Events/Meetings
Wednesday, March 21 — Luncheon Meeting
April — No Luncheon Meeting
Many of the members of the Dallas CPCU Society Leadership team will be attending the CPCU Leadership Summit in Baltimore April 19-21. Luncheon meetings will resume on May 23rd. For more information on up-
Please join us on Wednesday, March 21 at the The Clubs of Prestonwood -The Creek from 11:30am to 1:00pm. March is ethics Awareness month. The keynote speaker will be Lindsay Nickle who is an attorney and partner at in the Dal-las office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice. She will be discussing Ethics in Cybersecurity and sharing stories l ike ethical hacking; entrapping employees; how cyber laws aim to enforce ethical cyber behavior; the role of insurance protection to ensure ethical compliance, and answer questions how you can personally protect yourself.
Thursday March 29 — Luncheon Meeting
Back by popular demand! Last year's event was a total success! If you missed it last year, here's another chance to join us at Painting with a Twist in Richardson, Texas.
What’s Included? The event will kick off at 6:00pm so we will have an hour to eat and socialize before painting. The painting class is from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. We’ll have food on-site. This is BYOB, so feel free to bring wine if you’d like! The supplies, including easels, canvases, aprons, paint, plates, cups, napkins, eating utensils, cork screws, bottle openers, and ice buckets, will be provided by Painting with a Twist. The picture painted will be "Dawn at the Docks".
Click here to register now. *** There will be no on-site registration.
The last day to register is Wednesday, March 21, so be sure to sign up today!
Wednesday, May 23: Joint Luncheon Meting with DFW RIMS
Tuesday, June 19: Luncheon Meeting, Speaker/Topic TBD)
July: No Luncheon Meetings (Summer Break)
Click here to view a combined list of all remaining event/meetings this year.
Additional Chapter Meeting/Event Dates in 2018
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Dallas Chapter on Social Media
The chapter’s Social Media committee, led by Chair Ana Guajardo, is committed to maintaining media sites to help publicize programs, special events, new designees, and recently live stream testing on our members Face-book page. Check out the Dallas Chapter on social media sites.
Join and follow us at the following us on Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
Dallas Chapter on Community Good Works (CGW)
The CPCU Society Dallas Chapter has been working on self-improvement for 2018 by re-introducing Community Good Works. The main focus of the committee is to show our CPCU members at work in the community. Not only will the committee offer both physical and virtual opportunities for community service, but it will also acknowledge the community engagements of CPCU – Dallas Chapter members already active in the community. The first and
recent service event involves a local organization, The Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County (CACCC). To find out more about the committee’s effort as well as their The Birthday Box initiative, click here.
The Dallas Chapter will host 2018 All Industry Day on August 28 from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Our theme will be Land of Technology: "Trends and Innovations".
Location: Clubs of Prestonwood - The Creek, 15909 Preston Road, Dallas, TX 75248
For Sponsorship interest/ information, contact: R. Tony LaRocca ([email protected]) or Linda Bunts ([email protected]).
2018 CPCU All Industry Day
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2018 Chapter Officers
President: Wallace Eason, State Farm - [email protected] Vice President: Precious Norman-Walton, Insureon - [email protected] Secretary: Nicole Soto-Garcia , State Farm - [email protected]
Treasurer: Karen Pieroni, Liberty Mutual – [email protected]
Board Members:
Linda Bunts, Crum & Foster; Kerrick Porter, RLI
Tony LaRocca, FCCI; ShaRhonda Caviness, State Farm
Will Childs, Chubb; Tia Tolbert, State Farm
Click here for more details about your Chapter Officers. Webmaster: Ed Kiley, State Farm
CPCU Society Mission Statement
We are committed to providing resources, educational programs and leadership opportunities that attract
talent and enable individuals to expand their technical insurance skills and business capabilities in order to
improve the overall performance of the insurance industry while adhering to the highest ethical standards.
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Highlights from February Luncheon Meeting
Kenneth Reeves, a former NFL player for Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns, and current HR exec-utive with Freese & Nichols, joined us in February to share his expertise at building relationships and provided great insight on living on purpose and fighting through adversity. We were also thrilled to welcome many of our past chapter presidents. In addition we had officer/director installa-tion. It was a great turnout! Click here to view all snapshots from February’s meeting
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December 2017 Social Event
Our Chapter’s first Social Event at Painting with a Twist in Richardson was a huge success. Check out all the
smiling faces in the group picture below! Click here to view other pictures from the event.
