One Million is an impressive number.

On March 2, 1966, the Ford Motor Company produced its one millionth Mustang. It was a white convertible. Here’s a story about it; and here’s a picture:

ONE MILLIONTH FORD MUSTANG
MARH 2, 1966

1966 was an important year for Ford.

1966 was an important year for our “One in a Million” Association, as well.  Back in those days – as you know from reading The History of the ADTA (1941-2008), we were known as the Association of Insurance Attorneys (AIA). 1966 marked the Association's 25th Birthday, which members, spouses and guests celebrated at the AIA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.  The following year's Annual Meeting was in my neck of the woods, Boston, Massachusetts.  It took 43 years for us to get back to Boston, which we did - as many of you know by first-hand experience - with great gusto in 2010.

Please do not wait 43 years to attend your next ADTA Annual Meeting!  Mark your calendars now, and plan to attend the Association's 73rd Birthday celebration at the 2014 ADTA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.  The dates are Tuesday, April 22 to Saturday, April 26, 2014.  The location is the spectacular Fairmont Pan Pacific Hotel.  Here’s information about the hotel venue, and here’s a picture of the hotel:

FAIRMONT PAN PACIFIC HOTEL
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

The ADTA 2014 Annual Meeting in Vancouver will start on Tuesday instead of Wednesday, with a final night Gala on Friday not Saturday, to allow for more flexibility in your travel plans (and so you might consider extending your stay to include a "post-trip" that is being planned to nearby, beautiful Victoria Island).  Meeting Hosts Leon Beukman and Anita Parke have a party for the ages in store for you!  You won't want to miss it!  And Mike and Debbie Aylward are hard at work planning the post-trip to Victoria Island.

For those of you who have attended an ADTA Annual Meeting (or two, or three, or ??), I am preaching to the choir.  For those of you who have not, I cannot overemphasize that annual meetings offer ADTA members, spouses, friends and families the most valuable benefit of ADTA membership - opportunities to develop close collegial relationships with colleagues from the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. 

A warm welcome and the promise of fellowship await you! 

And, of course, The Tradition of Excellence Continues!

Have a great week, my friends.

David W. Zizik

May 5, 2013