Published: July 17, 2007 12:16 am         

Newsmakers: July 17, 2007

Tish Scott recently was re-elected Indiana council director for the National Association of Insurance Women and will be serving her second term in this office, which oversees seven local associations throughout the state.

Scott is owner of Center Insurance Inc., 3208 S. Seventh St., and has been an active member of her local association for 17 years. She is a past president of Insurance Professionals of the Wabash Valley, in addition to serving on various committees through the years.

Insurance Professionals of the Wabash Valley is an association of professionals employed in all aspects of the insurance business. The association has been a chartered affiliate of NAIW since 1952. Each year, Insurance Professionals of the Wabash Valley undertakes a minimum of one educational class, one community project, donations for two local scholarships, the Sue Clark Memorial Scholarship and the Sandra Cave Insurance Scholarship, supports local charities, offers a variety of speakers for its lunch meetings, organizes book drives and fundraisers, as well as attending state, regional and national conferences for networking and CE credits.

The National Association of Insurance Women is an association of nearly 13,000 insurance professionals dedicated to the development of leaders in the insurance industry. The national organization has 360 local affiliates throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, with headquarters in Tulsa, Okla. For more information on the local organization, contact Debra Craig at Debbie_craig@onbinsurance.com or (812) 478-6031. A Web site is coming soon at www.insurewabashvalley.com.



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Wright Implement Company Inc., the local John Deere dealership representative in Williamsport, Crawfordsville and Rockville, recently had two of its service technicians attend a hay operations and adjustments training session in London, Ohio.

Shane Allison of the Williamsport store and Cody Crowder of the Rockville store attended an intensive two-day training session on large round hay balers and mower-conditioners.

They became familiar with the overall operations and normal operator’s adjustments of various John Deere balers and mower conditioners. They learned the normal and abnormal wear parts of the equipment involved. The main intent of the training session was to make them more aware of what customer needs are when trying to get a quality crop of hay harvested, and what types of parts they need to keep on hand at their store locations to keep customers operating as efficiently and safely as possible.

Allison and Crowder were involved in discussions on the actual theory of operations for the various types of hay equipment. They were allowed to get a lot of hands-on operation of the equipment used in the training programs. They were allowed to operate and adjust mower-conditioners in the field, rake the hay in preparation for baling, and finally, to bale several bales of hay with the different balers. They discussed the haying operations with several other John Deere dealers from other states.



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Chuck Wells of InterSecurities Inc. in Sullivan recently received the WRL Service Excellence Award from Western Reserve Life Assurance Co. of Ohio for “outstanding efforts to help clients achieve their financial goals.”

The award recognizes the dedication that Wells provides his clients and his accomplishments as one of WRL’s leading representatives in 2006.