The 1941 Babsonian. - Babson College

DOl\ALD B. PETERS
2:) [9 South Gunderson Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois
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Insurance Financing or Business Management
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I nsu ranee 0 fTice (t "vo years)
SjJfCia/ Traillillg:
Finance; Accounting; Distribution; Statistics; Insurance
Study; Production
1 ~'dllcalioll :
Sl. John's Military Academy (four years) ; POSt
Graduate Work at St. John's Military Academy;
Babson In~titute of Business Administration, Babson
Park, "\ifassac huselts
FxtlIlcuniw/ar Actiuities:
Sl. John's Of1lcers' Club Captain or Company A;
Sl. John's Varsity Football Icapta in ) ; Varsity Crew
(captain) ; \ 'arsity Hockey (captain) ; Chairman
St. John's :vlidwintcr Hop Committee; Chairman
Social l\cti\'ilies (:ommillee, Intramural Sports,
Babson 1 nstitute
Persollal Data:
. \ge 2 [; Single; Height G'; Wei,ght 171
B.\CKG ROl ! ~D
Peters, whose Cather is executive state agf'nt for three
insurance companies, has had many opportunities to
obtain t he fundamentals of that business. He has traveled
widely in this country and has considerable knowledge
of the functions of not only the cc-ntral offices of an insurance
company, but also the duties of the territorial
,~alesmen. T\vo years or summer work in insurance
ollices have given him mallY contacts \vith people associatcd
with thc business .
PRACTICAL TRAIN ING
In preparation for entrance into the insurance business,
Peters has made a broad analysis ormany insurance
company functions. H e has investigated the fields or
Finance, Production, and Distribut ion, and has placf'd
special emphasis on those suhj ~c ts that will be of real
assistance to him later. He has gained a well-rounded
comprehension of the ways of drtermining the insurance
market , throUf[h
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studies in statistical methods. Problems
in Business Management and Finance have been present