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For Members of The Order of United Commercial Travelers of America A Fraternal Benefit Society UCT.org Winter 2014 UCT’s 2015 convention heads to Wichita, Kansas! Special hockey teams start receiving their Kaye Trainers UCT’s scholarships – helping students realize their dreams Increasing UCT Local Council Awareness Alliance, Ohio Council 261 wins UCT Photo Contest! ongrats to UCT’s Alliance, Ohio Council 261 for Cwinning the July- September 2014 quarter of our UCT Photo Contest! The photo of a young golfer getting ready to tee off in the 25th Annual Alliance Junior Golf Tournament sponsored by Council 261 met all of the judge’s requirements – and earned the council a $500 prize! Watch for the October-December winner to be announced in early December. PLEASE NOTE: The UCT Photo Contest is Here’s how the designed, in part, to help increase contest works: local council activity and UCT brand ●● Send ACTION awareness. Make sure you’re creating a UCT photos of your presence in your photos by using UCT signs your council’s We’ll also announce the winner on council’s and banners and by wearing UCT T-shirts. name and our website and Facebook page. If you need banners and T-shirts, contact community number, ●● There can be no consecutive quarter service Sandy Shafer at [email protected] or at details about 800.848.0123, Ext. 146, and she can help winners, and each council is eligible projects and the action to win a maximum of $1,000 per year. events to UCT’s you purchase them. Doing so will give you taking place in Public Relations an edge in the photo contest and the photo, and 2015 contest quarters are: increase local council recognition Department. the names of any January-March – Photos due by Jan. 31 in your community at the Photos may be individuals in the April-June – Photos due by April 30 same time! emailed to photo in left-to-right July-September – Photos dues by July 31 [email protected] or mailed order. Include your October-December – Photos due by Oct. 31 to: UCT, Attn: UCT Photo Contest, name and email address or 1801 Watermark Dive, Suite 100, phone number so we can contact What are you waiting for? Send us Columbus, OH 43215. you if your photo wins the contest! your photos today – you might just win ●● Each council may submit up to FIVE ●● At the beginning of the second big! So, get out your cameras and cell photos per quarter. Please note month of each quarter home office phones and start shooting photos now. that by submitting your council’s judges will choose the most photos you are granting UCT appealing, action-oriented photos permission to use them for as finalists, and these photos will be FIND OUT MORE promotional purposes. You may posted on our website at submit photos taken since Jan. 1, UCT.org and on our Facebook page If you have questions about 2014. See below for quarterly at www.facebook.com/UCTinAction the contest or taking attention- submission deadlines. Make sure to for viewing only. getting photos, contact the designate that your photos are for ●● Home office judges will determine the photo contest. Public Relations Department the winner early in the third month at [email protected] or at ●● of the quarter, and we’ll notify the Make sure to send information 800.848.0123, Ext. 130. about each photo that includes individual who submitted the photo. 2 THE SAMPLE CASE | WINTER 2014 Note from President David Burt As we head into the holidays and look forward to 2015, it’s a good time for us to reflect on UCT’s journey and UCT.org Volume 161, Number 3 INTERACTIVEWinter 2014 how we can help make it a more CONTENTS positive one. We lost about 4,670 CLICK & GO members last year, and we can’t afford What’s Inside to continue experiencing these kinds of losses. Fewer members means less 2 Alliance, Ohio Council 261 wins UCT Photo good works conducted in communities Contest! throughout North America, and there a lot of individuals who depend on us. UCT currently has around 57,700 members. 4 UCT’s 2015 convention heads to Wichita! Let’s all make it a goal to help increase that number before March 31, 2015. 6 Special hockey teams start receiving their Kaye As I’ve said before, without your help sponsoring new trainers members, UCT’s journey could end, and that would be a 8 For members – great benefits & savings shame because our spirit of community and compassion makes such a difference in the lives of so many others. Take a 10 Public awareness of your UCT local council… look at this issue of The Sample Case and you’ll see what a it’s time to start creating it! difference our Kaye Trainer Capital Campaign is making in 12 Members in Action the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental UCT members impacting their communities disabilities. Read about our Members in Action and you’ll find UCT members volunteering and raising money to battle 14 UCT scholarships - helping students realize blood cancers, help the homeless and underprivileged, their dreams eliminate domestic violence and sexual assault, and lift up children with disabilities. And that’s just a small sample of 15 In Recognition/Membership Awards/ what UCT does every day throughout the U.S. and Canada. PRP Deaths UCT was founded on the belief that members could be of Bonus Online Content service to others where it was needed, when it was needed, to those that could use a helping hand. Today, 127 years later, 16 2nd annual UCT alternative council training that legacy lives on. Our community service, our session another smash! scholarships, our benefits, and the many programs we provide all make a difference. But we need new members to 17 You can help the May E. Tisdale Scholarship On the cover: This special hockey help us continue doing good. Fund help students! player with the Pittsburgh Emperors The next leg of UCT’s journey is up to us. That’s why I’m 18 UCT employees give backteam yearin Pittsburgh, ‘round Pa., is all smiles asking all of you to make every effort to sponsor at least one as she tries out the teams new Kaye new member before the end of the membership year. Get out 19 Some simple (but terrific)Trainer. ideas The trainer for helpswinter special in your communities and let people know about UCT and donations hockey athletes with developmental your local council. If you’re not sure where to start, read and intellectual disabilities learn to On the cover: This special hockey player with the Pittsburgh Emperors team about how to create UCT awareness in this issue of The skate more safely. The team Sample Case. Or contact the home office for help, or call me. in Pittsburgh, Pa., is all smiles as she triesreceived out the its teams device new during Kaye the Trainer. UCT Reach out to others and invite them to know more about and The trainer helps special hockey athletesKaye with Trainer developmental International and Capital intellectual disabilities learn to skate moreCampaign’s safely. The Celebration team received Month its in become a part of this special organization. Do your part to device during the UCT Kaye Trainer InternationalOctober. CapitalCheck out Campaign’s the Celebration help keep UCT moving forward. Celebration Month in October. Check outMonth the Celebration story on Page Month 6 forstory details! on Page 6 for details! Thank you. The Order of United Commercial Travelers of America Instituted Jan. 16, 1888 — Columbus, Ohio Board of Governors 2013-2014 Home Office 614.487.9680 Toll-free: 800.848.0123 President David Burt, Lancaster, OH Canadian Office 403.277.0745 Toll-free: 800.267.2371 Vice President Thomas Hoffman, Pasadena, TX Home Office Management Team Chairman of the Board Robert Kellogg, Jackson, MI Chief Executive Officer Joseph Hoffman Secretary-Treasurer Gerald Thomas, Westerville, OH Senior Vice President and CFO Kevin Hecker Director Gorden Woodworth, Dartmouth, NS Vice President, Information Technology Ronald Ives Director Numan Loafman, Aledo, TX Fraternal Director Sandy Shafer Director Chris Phelan, Calgary, AB Sales Director Justin Hamill Board Member George Bohn, Highland, CA Chief Agent for Canada Barry Spencer Like us on Facebook UCTinAction Board Member Jerry Giff, Sudbury, ON Editor Linda Fisher Chaplain Richard Gruszecki, Beloit, OH Art Director David Knapp www.uct.org | THE SAMPLE CASE 3 UCT’s 2015 convention heads to Your adventure begins at the 128th annual UCT Convention taking place orothy clicked her heels June 28-July 1, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency Wichita, so mark your three times to get back calendars and start making plans to visit to Kansas, and we’re Kansas’ largest city! D You’ll experience hospitality at its betting you’ll be anxious to do finest at the Hyatt Regency Wichita. Set along the Arkansas River in the heart of the same after you’ve visited the city’s downtown, the Hyatt is one of the premier luxury hotels in Kansas Wichita, a one-time cattle offering newly renovated guestrooms with scenic river or city views, the town turned modern, HARVEST Kitchen/Bar, and Perks booming city, where the spirit Coffee and More. Other amenities include a heated indoor pool, two of the Old West lives on. whirlpools, a 24 hour StayFit™ gym, a 500 space parking garage, and a helpful staff to see to your every need. What’s happening in Wichita There’s no end to the activities you can indulge in while visiting Wichita.