Subject of Sketch

Doane Arnold, self-effacing secretary-chairman of the Class of 1927, finally was accorded a little of the publicity that is justly his due in a sketch in a recent issue of The Pilot's Log, house organ of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. Doane is Manager of the Underwriters Department of the company.

Quoting from the sketch, "He has been an underwriter for New England Mutual since May, 1930, when the staff of four underwriters was handling the entire job. Today there are twenty-five in his department, including eleven underwriters who are currently handling about 900 cases a day On the wall of his office there hangs a framed graph showing the number of applications processed. In August of this year the rising graph line went of the boundaries of the chart, up and across the top margin, and crashed into the picture frame. 'The rush is not so bad these day,' says Doane, 'but we're still putting in a lot of overtime.'.... Doane Arnold is a hard man from whom to get facts about Doane Arnold. He is far more interested in telling all about his junior underwriters, how fast they are developing, and how good they are, which may be the reason he is one of the best-liked bosses in the Home Office."

Courtesy the Pilot's Log.