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Allstate
Insurance Executive Is Awarded Jess Lucas Alumni Leadership Award
Floyd Yager, assistant field vice president of the
Midwest region for Allstate Insurance Corporation, received the Jess R.
Lucas Alumni Leadership Award, which recognizes a former member of
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s residence hall staff for having a
distinguished post-graduate career.
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| Floyd Yager |
Pete Gustafson, vice president of student affairs and
dean of students, and Gwynne Lucas presented the award on Jan. 19.
Brian Dyer, director of alumni affairs, also presented Yager with a
special alumni award. The dinner was attended by all members of this
year’s residence hall staff.
Yager, a 1989 mathematics graduate, served as a Resident
Assistant (1987-89) and a Sophomore Advisor (1986-87). He received the
Clarence P. Sousley Award as Rose-Hulman’s top graduating mathematics
student (1989), was a founding member of the college’s Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity chapter and a member of the Blue Key National Honor Society.
At Allstate Insurance, Yager manages the operations for
900 agents, 150 regional employees and over two million policies (worth
$1.6 billion in premiums) in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. From his
office in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Yager is responsible for profit and
growth in those states as well as strategic and operational decisions.
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| Alumni Award Recipient: Brian Dyer, director
of alumni affairs, (right) and Thomas Miller, associate dean of
students, (left) present Floyd Yager with an award from Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology's Alumni Association for his career
achievements. |
Yager earned the “Good Hands” Award for Outstanding
Community Service (1991), was named the New Employee of the Year in the
Auto Pricing Department (1989) and Employee of the Year in the Auto
Pricing Department (1990), and has received the Industrial Grand
Challenge Award (2003) from the National Center for Super Computing
Applications. He has also filed two patents in the area of systems and
methods for customizing insurance.
Yager has also been an assistant vice president for
research and development (2004-05), senior actuary (1998-2004) and
director of personal lines automobile actuarial research (1997-98). He
has been named a Fellow in the Casualty Actuarial Society and is a
member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He earned a master’s in
business administration, with honors, from the University of
Illinois-Chicago (2003).
“Working as a Resident Assistant helped me to develop
several leadership characteristics which have helped me in my
post-graduate career. I learned to work with a staff of peers and that I
was not necessarily ‘alone’. There were others I could count on, share
ideas with, and work with to solve issues,” Yager states. “One of the
greatest skills I learned was listening. I also learned how to balance
being friendly with those on the floor but also being able to enforce
the rules and hold them accountable for behaviors, and respectfulness,
treating others as you would like to be treated.”
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| Jess Lucas Award Winner: Floyd Yager (middle)
is congratulated by Pete Gustafson, vice president for student
affairs and dean of students, and Gwynne Lucas for receiving the
2006 Jess Lucas Alumni Leadership Award. The honor is presented to a
former member of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's residence
hall staff for having a distinguished post-graduate career. |
Yager is the son of Stephanie Yager of Schaumburg, Ill.,
and the late Floyd Yager. He spent most of his youth in Franklin Park,
Ill., and now lives in Park Ridge, Ill., with his wife, Kristin, and two
sons, Thomas and Michael.
“The Resident Assistants and Sophomore Advisors play a
vital role in helping Rose-Hulman students have an enjoyable and
successful college experience,” stated Tom Miller, associate dean of
students. “These students are leaders on campus and it’s nice to see
former student staff members, like Floyd Yager, use the lessons learned
at Rose-Hulman to become a leader in his professional career.”
Lucas served as Rose-Hulman's vice president of student
affairs and dean of students from 1976 to 2000.
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