From the Time Capsule
This month we’re looking back at the March 1963 issue of HIU. In “The More Things Change...”
department, 46 years ago President Kennedy acknowledged that a tax cut was necessary “in order to get
the country moving again.”
Approximately 75% of Americans were protected by some form of private insurance in 1963. That
number is closer to 67% today.
Here’s a blurb touting
the Chicage A&H
chapter’s public service
effort. Ten members
of the association took
49 girls from the
Northwestern University
Settlement House to
McVickers Theater to
see “The Wonderful
World of the Brothers
Grimm.” Each child was
given a silver dollar and
plenty of candy.
The IAHU planned
a membership
drive in April that
year. The top
prize: a $900 mink
stole that the
winning chapter
could give to its
“most outstanding
and deserving
campaigner”!
Here’s an interesting employment ad. The
third listing is for a “well-known health
insurance company” that needs a “top man
on the West Coast.”
The association was just as interested in developing
future industry talent back then as it is now. The sons
and daughters who began a career in insurance in
1963 are now industry veterans—or retired!
