Old
New
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
__ Old Guard Insurance Group
held an open house on Friday,
May 21. to mark the official open
ing of its new claims office. The
facility is located at 147 West Air
port Road in the Flyway Business
Park, Lititz,
David E. Hosier, CPCU, presi
dent and chief executive officer of
the Lancaster-based property and
casualty insurance firm, cities
continued growth, increasing reg
ulatory requirements, and service
to policyholders for the com
pany’s expansion into the 24,000
square foot facility.
“Even through moving Old
Guard’s claims operations to the
Airport Road location places it
one mile from the front door of
our head office on Lititz Pike, the
availability of this existing build
ing allows us to increase service to
policyholders immediately,”
Hosier said. “Otherwise, a major
construction project would have
been needed at the head office.
“We take seriously our heritage
as a ‘mutual’ insurance company,
meaning that our policyholders
are owners, they arc the boss,”
Hosier said. “The claims depart
ment now has a facility with
which it can grow and adapt to
changing needs of our customers
and their insurance claims.”
Old Guard purchased the build
ing from Lebanon Valley National
Bank in September 1992. Wicker
sham Construction and Engineer
ing Inc. of Lancaster began reno
vations on the building immedi
ately. The 30-employee claims
department began operating out of
the facility on December 14,1992.
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Guard Opens
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Group President David E. Hosier,
left, and Vice President of Claims Robert L. Wechter offl-
S?k 0 5f l l. th * com P an y’» new claims facility located at
147 West Airport Road. Lancaster.
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the state and national level, Her
man has made many contributions
to animal research, authoring
more than 50 bulletins and more
than ISO scientific papers. He is
author or co-author of three text
books. He served for many years
as chairman of the research com-
mittee of the Purebred Dairy
''Cattle Association and assisted in
developing short courses for train
ing technicians beginning in 1941.
He also organized and taught one
of the first college-level courses in
AI in the United States.
Throughout the years, Herman
has received many honors and rec
ognitions, which include the Bor
den Award in dairy production in
1956, Gama Sigma Delta in 1968,
Dairy Expo Man of the year 1973,
Hall of Honors Leadership
Award-Missouri 1973, Distin
guished Service Award of Ameri
can Guernsey Cattle Club in 1977,
and honorary doctor of science,
University of Missouri-Columbia,
in 1988. He has judged dairy and
dual purpose cattle at more than
30 state fairs and regional shows
and was an approved judge for all
milk breeds. He wrote the Artifi
cial Breeding Column for Hoard’s
Dairyman for more than 25 years
and is a contributor to other farm
papers.
NAAB Research Award
If you look for reasons why the
U.S. has superior dairy genetics,
contributions of Dr. Duane Nor
man’s research quickly come to
the forefront.
Norman’s major contribution
was the formulation and
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implementation of the modified
contemporary comparison
(MCC). The MCC procedures
were used by USDA for sire eva
luation from 1974 to 1989. It was
very effective at accurately rank
ing sires, yet simple enough to be
applied to the large database of
U.S. dairy records. The MCC’s
effectiveness allowed the U.S. to
emerge as a world superpower in
dairy genetics.
Although the MCC is no longer
used, many of its features pion
eered by Dr. Norman are still
included as part of today’s animal
model procedures. These items
include use of all location records,
including a sire-by-herd interac
tion effect and calculating dollar
value indexes. While the advan
tages of these are clear and are
taken for granted in the U.S. these
features arc not used or have been
incorporated only recently in other
leading dairy countries.
Norman’s research played a key
role in the industry adopting a uni
form linear type trait system. This
included development of a system
for calculating genetic evaluations
for these traits and laying the
groundwork to determine the val
ue of these traits in predicting life
time profitability. He also repre
sented the U.S. on FAO’s Techni
cal Advisory Committee for
‘Testing of Different Strains of
Friesian Cattle in Poland.”
Norman currently serves as the'
supervisory research geneticist at
AEPL. Recently, he coordinated
acquisition of an in-house compu
ter. This has allowed AIPL to con
tinue their level of research with
out the need for greatly increased
funding.
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