004 JACK WESTBROOK TO BE INDUCTED INTO TENNESSEE INSURANCE HALL OF FAME

July 20, 2006
CONTACT: Tom Tozer, 615-898-5131
Dr. Ken Hollman, 615-898-2673

MURFREESBORO—Jack K. Westbrook, of Knoxville, whose career in insurance spans nearly 50 years, many with the College Life Insurance Company and recently as a personal producer, will be inducted into the Middle Tennessee State University Robert E. Musto Tennessee Insurance Hall of Fame on Monday, July 31.
The ceremony and banquet, which will begin at 5:30 p.m., will take place at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs, Franklin, Tenn.
Friends and professional associates of Westbrook are invited free of charge to the banquet and ceremony. The hotel is located at 700 Cool Springs Boulevard, and the phone number is 1-615-261-6100.
Westbrook will be inducted along with William Seaton Phillips of Memphis, and Roy Ketner McDonald, of Chattanooga, the latter of whom who will be honored posthumously.
"The Musto Insurance Hall of Fame was created to identify and honor those insurance professionals whose names will be mentioned most prominently when a history of the insurance industry in Tennessee is written," Dr. Ken Hollman, holder of MTSU’s Martin Chair of Insurance, said.
Westbrook, CLU, RHU, ChFC, is a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, the American Society of Financial Service Professionals and the Knoxville Estate Planning Council. He qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table in 1957, the first Knoxville agent to qualify in his first full year of business. He became a Life Member of MDRT in 1960, the first Knoxville agent to receive that designation.
He has served as president of the Knoxville Association of Life Underwriters and the Knoxville Chapter of the Society of CLU and ChFC. During his tenure as vice president of the Tennessee Association of Life Underwriters (1979-1980), the membership reached its highest point in history at 4,460 members. He was elected president of TALU in 1980 and was named TALU “Man of the Year” in 1985.
Westbrook is active in community outreach and public service, serving with the United Way for several years. A P51 fighter pilot during World War II, Westbrook subsequently was active in the reserves forces and is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Air Force. He served five terms as president of the Tennessee Air force Association and was AFA’s “Man of the Year” in 1987 in both Tennessee and the nation. Colonel Jack K. Westbrook scholarships in the ROTC program were established in his honor at UT-Knoxville in 1998 by the East Tennessee Military Affairs Council.
In 1997, Robert L. Musto, son of Robert E. Musto, presented a $10,000 gift to MTSU's Martin Chair of Insurance in honor of his father, which provided the foundation for the hall of fame. The late Robert E. Musto served as vice president of the former National Life and Accident Insurance Company. Robert L. Musto of Nashville is regional sales manager of the company his father helped build.
To register your attendance for the banquet and ceremony, please contact Hollman at 615-898-2673.

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