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Allow me to
introduce myself:
My
Risk Management career starting at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison campus in 1963.
After graduating with a BBA in Risk Management –
Insurance and Finance, I enlisted in the US Army
and spent my entire tour of duty in Vietnam with
the Military Assistants Command Vietnam (MACV)
from November 10, 1968 thru January 10, 1970.
It
took me awhile to adjust back to civilian life,
but in 1971, I was hired by the Credit Union
National Association (CUNA Inc.) to travel the
US organizing and teaching Risk Management
through CUNA Inc. and its affiliated credit
unions.
FYI:
Once organized, credit unions form
into local chapters, which are part of their
respective State League, which subsequently
makes them a supporting member of the Credit
Union National Association (CUNA Inc.)
In
1934, credit union leaders met in Estes Park,
Colorado and formed CUNA Inc., which is the US
confederation of credit unions. Then in 1935,
CUNA Inc. met back in Estes Park, adopted the
motto "The Debt Shall Die with the Debtor", and
formed CUNA Mutual Insurance Society,
specifically to provide, blanket Loan Protection
and Life Savings insurance to every US credit
union member, paid for by their credit union. In
1960, CUNA Inc. formed the Credit Union Mutual
Insurance Society (CUMIS), a Property/Casualty
insurance company, specifically focused on
providing credit unions with a blanket surety
bond.
In
1971, CUNA Inc. joined with other credit union
associations around the world to form the World
Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU), at which time
I was hired to work through both WOCCU and CUNA
Inc. to organize and teach Credit Union Risk
Management throughout the world credit union
movement.
Note:
I share this credit union’ organizational
history, because it’s the same “grassroots”
organizational structure I’m convinced will work
to deliver “blanket” cost effective and
affordable healthcare and insurance for every
American, from conception until natural death.
It’s the same grassroots approach I used when I
wrote my “Home-rule Healthcare and Insurance”
cure for the socialist plague; originally
titled: “Home-rule Healthcare and Insurance, the
cure to the OBAMA-Care Curse."
In
1985, it became painfully obvious to CUNA Inc.
that our staff in their Risk Management
Department was catching too many fraud and scam
artists working in the US credit union movement,
to be representing their national trade
association. It was then that our Risk
Management Department was transferred into the
CUNA Mutual Group (CMG), at which time I was put
in charge of CMG's international "Scam Alert"
program.
I
retired from CMG in June 2001 and, after the
9-11-01 terrorist attack at the World Trade
Center, I assembled agents from the FBI and
Secret Service, sworn law enforcement officers,
licensed private security professionals, and
select credit union executives from around the
US, such as the Federal Employee Credit Union's
CEO Florence Rogers, who was the only credit
union survivor of the Oklahoma City bombing, and
launched “The Risk Management Learning Center” (www.RMLearningCenter.com).
Once
organized, I contracted with CMG to work through
their International department and WOCCU on a
project focused on managing terrorist' risks
that were increasing in Europe, South Korea and
the Caribbean.
Since
9-11-01, working through our FBI’s InfraGard and
PAWLI (Professional Association of Wisconsin
Licensed Investigators) I’ve focused on the
risks created by both international and
home-grown terrorist.
They say, if you're not a democrat
when you're young, you have no heart, and if you're not a
republican when you're older, you'll not survive in the real
world.
I was a liberal democrat while
enrolled at the University of Wisconsin and living on
Madison's isthmus, proudly known as
"77 square miles surrounded by
reality. I graduated in '68
with a BBA (Risk Management-Insurance-Finance). I
"cleaned-up," actively campaigned and voted for democrat
Presidential candidate
Eugene McCarthy,
not to mention JFK who landed us on the moon and LBJ, who
landed me in Vietnam. I was an active member of my Office
and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), and
a Charter Member of the Door County Credit Union (merged
first into the Pioneer Credit Union and than into the
Capital Credit Union).
After retiring from CUNA Mutual Group (CMG) in 2001, I
formed
The Risk Management Learning Center
and was hired back to work with credit unions in Europe, the
Caribbean, South Korea, etc. I launched
"www.DoorCountyVeterans.com"
in memory of the five Door County veterans killed in action
(KIA) in Vietnam, and the two Vietnam veterans from Door
County who committed suicide when we returned. For more
information click on my biography under my picture, upper
right on this page.
*Authors
Note: If you get nothing more out of
my workshops,
I only ask you to read each workshop' case
study, complete the exercise, and take the test.
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