Club Business
Dick opened the meeting.
Sid Little led the pledge and prayer.
12 members were present on the zoom call.
Today is Mike Brown’s birthday. Joseph and Susannah Williams recently celebrated an anniversary.
On this date in history:
- 1775 Patrick Henry makes his historic “give me liberty or give me death” speech
- 1919 Benito Mussolini founds the Fascist party
- 1983 Barney Clark dies 112 days after becoming the world’s first recipient of a permanent artificial heart
- 2011 Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79
Dick shared a painful joke.
Club news
- The Club will meet April 13, May 11, June 8, and June 29 (Officer Installation) at Alamance Country Club in an effort to ease back into meeting regularly in person. Members will be charged $15.30 per week on their upcoming quarterly invoice, reflecting the charges of ACC.
- The Club will spend $1,472 donated by members to provide 100 meals to healthcare providers at Cone ARMC. Burlington Beer Works will be the meal provider. Richard is coordinating with Tracey from BBW to make this happen in the next week or so.
- Randy Perkins and Brooke Carpenter reported on the most recent PETS training. Both were highly impressed with Shekhar Mehta of Indian who will be the 2021-2022 RI president. He is with the Rotary Club of Calcutta-Mahanagar, West Bengal, India. Mr. Mehta is visiting each of the PETS training around the world by video conference. The theme for his presidential year will be “Serve to Change Lives.” Randy remembers having dinner with him on his 2015 trip to India to help with polio vaccinations.
- David Moore inquired about members who left for any reason over the past year. They include: Betty Andrews (Business obligations); Pete Beck (limits on meeting in person); Cliff Craviotto (Business obligations); Katie Dukeshire (Pandemic stress); Dale Greeson (Health); Don Jennings (Business obligations); Francois Masuka (Pandemic stress); Heidi Norwick (Pandemic stress); Debbie Porch (retirement); Deva Reece (Limits on meeting in person); Dan Seiler (Limits on meeting in person).
- Please encourage potential members to join our in-person and Zoom meetings.
- Brooke Carpenter is making plans for a fundraiser to take place April 24. To help, please contact Brooke directly.
- There will be a Split the Pot raffle. Tickets will be $20 a piece and the winner will receive 50% of the total tickets sold. Bonus purchase is 7 tickets for $100. Tickets may be purchased online through a Pay Pal account we set up or by cash in person only. The goal is to sell 500 tickets. The drawing will be held at our Saturday, 4/24 Trivia Night at 6:00 p.m. There will be physical tickets. If you purchase tickets in line, you will receive ticket numbers by email to confirm your order. If you purchase in person you will receive a receipt stub.
- There will be a Trivia Night on Saturday, 4/24 in conjunction with our raffle drawing. We anticipate that the event will begin at 4:00 p.m. and conclude by 7:00 p.m. This will be held at the Kiwanis Shelter at Joe Davidson Park in Burlington (we have reserved from 3:00-8:00 p.m. that day). Current Covid guidelines limit shelter occupancy currently at 50. If those guidelines are revised prior to 4/24, maximum occupancy will be 100. We will likely run 5 rounds of trivia, 10 questions/round, maximum 5 persons/team. Entrance fee is $10/person. Can be paid cash on-site or by PayPal. There is no fee for attendees not playing trivia. There will be a prize for the top three teams This will be a picnic-style outing with the opportunity to socially distance outside the open-air shelter as well as inside. Recommending to bring your own food and drink, chairs, or picnic blanket be the rule. We can have corn hole and other games set up around the shelter.
Program: Mike Causey – North Carolina Insurance Commissioner
Rick Moore introduced our speaker Mike Causey. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Mike Causey is a native of Guilford County where he still lives with his wife Hisae on the farm where he grew up. The farm is in the community of Alamance (Guilford County), on the Little Alamance Creek.
He studied at Wake Tech, UNC-Charlotte, and High Point University where he graduated with degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and continued his MBA studies at High Point University.
Causey is a businessman with more than 25 years in the insurance industry – as an agent, manager, supervisor, and agency owner.
He is a veteran of the U.S. Army where he served as a military policeman and played trombone in the Army band.
Causey’s goal as commissioner is to fight for more competition in the industry and to combat insurance fraud to drive rates lower for the North Carolina consumer. He is also passionate about making the office more consumer-friendly to help residents attain their insurance needs.
He took office in January 2017.
The NC Department of Insurance has a wide portfolio of responsibilities, which include overseeing collection agencies, bail bondmen, and motor clubs. The NC Office of the State Fire Marshal is under Mr. Causey and the DOI also has a Criminal Insurance Investigation unit with sworn officers. The Criminal Investigations Unit is currently involved in a murder trial of an NC man accused of killing his wife with eye drops. The charge originally was life insurance fraud and as the investigators dug deeper, murder charges were brought. See the story here.
The Department offers many services to consumers. In the past few years, they have become part of a national network of “lost” life insurance policies. If a loved one dies who you believe may have a life insurance policy, the NCDOI can help you find that policy and draw down the benefits for those named.
The NC DOI also advocates for small independent pharmacies trying to keep up with the age of large pharmacy/drug store chains and online pharmacy benefit companies.
More information about the NCDOI is available at www.ncdoi.gov.
Next week’s speaker will be hosted by Marta Moos. Her speaker gives motivational TED Talks.
Conclusion
Dick wrapped up the meeting with the Four-Way Test.