Professions: President and chief executive officer of the Atlas Mutual Insurance Company, the Fidelity Underwriting Agency, Inc., and the Rankin Benedict Company; began his career in 1948 in the grain business in Kansas City; later moved to Dallas with The Travelers Insurance Company; in 1954, returned to KC to join the three insurance organizations of which he later became president; during World War II, served in the Army of the United States three and a half years, attaining the rank of captain; was stationed overseas two and a half years in the Southwest Pacific, including New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippine Islands.
Passions: Member of the Mission Hills Country Club, the Vanguard Club, the BLASH Investment Club, the FNLB group and a former member of the University Club, the Pauma Valley Country Club and the Garden of the Gods Club.
Degrees: MBA Harvard, 1943; B.S. University of Kansas.
Death: October 5, 2006 in Tucson, Ariz.
From the Kansas City Star.
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