Insurance Whiz

RICHARD J. WILCOX '50 took a leap into top insurance brackets when, in spite of his brief experience in selling, he chalked up sales of more than one and one-quarter million dollars of life insurance during a period of fifteen months. This was the best record of any of the newcomers in The Prudential Insurance Company, and placed him third among all the 500 qualifiers at the company's New Orleans Conference. In the picture above he is shown being congratulated at New Orleans by Carrol M. Shanks, president of Prudential. Perhaps a clue to Wilcox's success may lie in the words he not too long ago wrote to the editor of his class newsletter: "No man has ever died with too much insurance."

Formerly employed by Pan Ameri- can Airways and Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Wilcox has been with The Prudential in New York for a little over a year.