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Indiana
YAC Hosts 2011
Indiana
YAC Conference
The Indiana Young Agents Committee
hosted nearly 115 agency and company personnel at its
2011 Indiana Young Agents Conference on June 1-3, 2011
at the Blue Chip Hotel and Casino in
Michigan City.
Attendees of the Conference had access to classes
providing nine hours of agent continuing education
credit, the annual YAC spring golf outing, a Game Night,
a “Minute to Win It” first time attendee reception,
karaoke, and numerous other networking opportunities.
The Conference was a glowing success, and kudos
go out to 2010-2011 Indiana YAC Conference Chair
Clint Lanning and his committee for a
job well done once again this year!
See all photos from the 2011
Conference here!
The centerpiece of each YAC
Conference is continuing education.
A total of nine hours of agent continuing
education hours spread over three classes was made
available to those attendees of the conference who
wished to participate.
This year’s classes included a program on social
networking and insurance from Rick Pitts, IIAI General
Counsel, and two classes from Bill Wilson, Director of
the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of
America’s Virtual University – The VU Top 20 Countdown and
Certificates of Insurance, or How I Got a Job in the
Prison Laundry. All three of the classes were extremely
well attended and well received by those who
participated in them.
“We would like to thank all of our
speakers and their sponsoring organizations for
providing interesting and practical information to the
conference attendees through their continuing education
courses,” said incoming 2011-2012 Indiana YAC Chair
Andy Roe from Arlington/Roe & Co. in
Indianapolis.
“We try to provide as many networking
opportunities as possible with our events, but
continuing education is the centerpiece of our YAC
Conference every year.”
The 2011 Indiana YAC Conference also
provided a number of networking events designed to bring
together agents and company personnel to interact in an
informal and fun atmosphere.
The events included the annual YAC Spring Golf
Outing, which was held at Potttawatomie Country Club in
Michigan City; a Game Night featuring Wii and various
arcade games, the inaugural first time attendee
reception featuring “Minute to Win It” games of skill,
and the return of the always popular Karaoke night.
“We try to provide as many informal
networking events as we can at our conference, and we
were extremely pleased with this year’s programs,”
continued Roe.
“In particular, we were extremely pleased with
our First-Time Attendee Minute to Win It reception,
which we feel was a great event for people to interact
and team-build.”
One of the highlights of each YAC
Conference is the swearing in of the Indiana YAC
Committee’s officers for the year.
Handling the swearing-in duties this year were
Byron Kauffman, 2011 IIAI President
from Wetzel Insurance in Warsaw and Bev Barney,
IIAI State National Director from Brown and Brown
Insurance in Indianapolis.
The new officers for 2011-2012 for Indiana YAC
are:
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Chair
–
Andrew Roe, Arlington/Roe & Co.,
Indianapolis
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Vice-Chair
– Brooke Hamstra, Wetzel Insurance Agency, Warsaw
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Secretary-Treasurer
– Clint Lanning, Indiana
Surplus Lines Insurance,
Muncie
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Immediate Past Chair
– Addie Wood, Smith Sawyer Smith, Rochester
In addition to the swearing in of
its new officers, the Annual Meeting featured a
discussion by IIABA National YAC Chair Andy Beauchamp, a
past Indiana YAC Chair and Young Agent of the Year.
“I can tell you first-hand how highly thought of
Indiana YAC is on the national level,” said Beauchamp.
“The status that Indiana YAC has achieved is a
tribute to the volunteers and members of the
association.”
The leadership and membership of
Indiana YAC would like to thank the generous
organizations who have provided sponsorship dollars to
support the activities of YAC for 2011.
“As Chair of Indiana YAC, I would like to thank
all of our 2011 sponsoring organizations on behalf of
myself, the other members of the Steering Committee and
our members.
The contributions from sponsors like ours allow
Indiana YAC to offer quality, low cost functions for our
members and sponsors to participate in.
Without this generous support, Indiana YAC would
not have grown into one of the top young agent groups in
the country,” concluded Roe.
For more information on becoming an
Indiana YAC member or sponsor, please contact Steve Duff at the IIAI at
duff@bigi.org.
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