November - CSA Fraternal Life

Movingto theFuture!Dear Brothers and Sisters,As some of you may know, CSAFraternal Life will be moving ourHome Office Headquarters. We’reheading about five miles west of ourcurrent location to Lombard, Illinois.We’ve had a nice run at our current(soon to be old) location in OakBrook, Illinois. In the mid 1990’s,we moved to Oak Brook from ourprevious location in Berwyn. Overthe years, the Oak Brook locationhas proved to be a great home for us.When we arrived in the 90’s, we hadin excess of 40 employees, and neededa building the size of our OakBrook facility to house our staff, ourhardware (which included hugeprinters, servers, and a lot of paper),and, of course, the CzechoslovakHeritage Museum.Well, times have changed….Today, we have fewer than 20employees. The need for monstersizedcomputer servers no longerexists. Over the years, our staff hasevolved, with the assistance of technology,into a much more efficientgroup. Ultimately, we no longer needthe 17,000 square feet the Oak Brookbuilding provides.With this, CSA will be movinginto the Oak Creek Center officecomplex in early December, 2013.Our new office is just over 8,000square feet, providing more thanenough space to continue to thrive inthe future. We’ll have a beautifulspace with all the amenities we need,which will save us thousands inoverhead. This will, of course, helpour bottom line, which in turn willallow us to continue to bring the bestproducts and services to you.Our new office will house a largemeeting room available for ourgroups that would like to utilize thespace for their meetings. Many locallodges as well as District CouncilNo. 12 have met at our Home Officelocation for the past few years andwe would like this tradition to continue.As a reminder, all membersare welcome to visit or tour our newHome Office. Stop by anytime!As we leave Oak Brook, theCzechoslovak Heritage Museum willmove as well. At this time, most ofthe beautiful artifacts from theMuseum will be placed in temporarystorage. CSA will continue to supportthe Museum, not only on a shortJohn J. Kielczewski, CLU, FLMIPresident, and his wife, Lynetteterm basis by helping with the costof temporary storage, but in thefuture, in assisting with finding apermanent home. In addition to myduties as President of CSA, I havethe honor of sitting on the Museum’sBoard as well. I am very fond of myfellow Board members, and theirpassion for our Museum. I canassure you that we’ll be leaving nostone unturned in the quest to find anew home for the Museum.Needless to say, things have beenvery busy around here, and will, nodoubt, continue to be. In the monthsto come, I will continue to keepeveryone updated on all things CSA.Always protecting your assets,Fraternally,John J. Kielczewski, CLU, FLMI,PresidentOur New Street Address:2050 Finley Rd., Suite 70Lombard, IL 60148Mailing address:P.O. Box 249Lombard, IL 60148Our phone numbers remainunchanged.1-630-472-05001-800-543-3272p r e s i d e n t ’ s b i zRead the Journal online at: www.csafraternallife.orgNOVEMBER 2013 — CSA JOURNAL — 3