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| Knights
of Columbus Supreme Chaplain, Bishop Thomas V. Daily
(left) and Knight's
Executive Vice President,
Joseph R. Mauro (second from right) pose with
Knight's Field Agents Bill Walsh, Dennis Riley and
Joe Jones, who were named the Supreme Knights Club
Field Agents from the Arlington Diocese in 1999. The
top 75 of 1,200 field agents in the U.S. and Canada
are eligible for membership in the Supreme Knights
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| Bill
and his wife Barbara have seven children. All of his five
sons are members of the Knights of Columbus. The three
oldest, pictured here with Bill (Bill IV, Kevin, and
Tim) made their Fourth Degree in 1993. |
Brothers
Christopher and Brian Walsh, celebrating with their
parents, Barbara and Bill, after receiving their fourth
degree in the Knights of Columbus in Williamsburg,
November 1999
Chris
is a 2000 graduate of the College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, his mother's Alma Mater. Brian is a 2002
graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, Bill's
Alma Mater.
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| Bill
Walsh and his wife Barbara Pose with Supreme Knight Carl
Anderson in the occasion of receiving the Supreme Knights
Club Award. |
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| Bill
Walsh receives a certificate from Supreme Knight Carl
Anderson upon the completion a Marketing Seminar at
Supreme Headquarters in New Haven Connecticut |
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| As a field agent, Bill
offers the following services and financial products
to the knights and families of the knights he
serves:
SERVICES
- Introduction and orientation to the Knights of
Columbus, with a PowerPoint presentation on the
historical origins of the Knights of Columbus,
selected fraternal and charitable works and,
explanation of benefits.
- Family financial reviews, review of family
financial objectives, and a computerized
assessment of life insurance needs.
- Assistance with retirement planning, education
planning (including explanation of Knights of
Columbus loan and scholarship benefits), and
estate planning (including an explanation of how
DuaLife and whole life with a beneficiary's
guaranteed purchase option works).
- Seminars on Planned Giving in cooperation with
the Office of Planned Giving, Catholic Diocese
of Arlington.
- Assistance when a knight or a member of a
knight's family dies.
PRODUCTS
- Knights of Columbus whole life insurance, term
insurance (including 5, 10 and 15 year level
term and the Discoverer (a cost effective blend
of whole life and term insurance).
- Knights of Columbus annuities, IRAs and Roth
IRAs.
- Knights of Columbus Long Term Care insurance.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Northern Virginia Association of Life
Underwriters, Board of Directors, Chairman,
LUPAC (Life Underwriters Political Action
Committee).
- National Association of Fraternal Insurance
Counselors, American Foreign Service
Association, The Foreign Affairs Retirees
Association of Northern Virginia, National
Institutes of Health Alumni Association.
- Catholic Business Network, Diocese of
Arlington.
RECENT AWARDS
- Supreme Knights Sales Club (Top 75 of 1200
field agents in the U.S. and Canada), FIC
President's Award.
- Million Dollar Round Table 2003 (Top 6% of
life insurance agents worldwide).
Prior Experience Related to Insurance
Before he became a field
agent with the Knights of Columbus, Bill served for
28 years in the Executive and Legislative branches
of the Federal Government. During his years of
federal service, Bill had three assignments related
to insurance:
- Senior Economist, Automobile Insurance
& Compensation Study, US Department of
Transportation.
- Research Director, Secretary's
Commission on Medical Malpractice, Department of
Health, Education and Welfare (now HHS).
- Director, International Training Program,
National Center for Health Statistics which is
the government agency that develops the
mortality tables on which life insurance rates
are based.
Bill retired from the U. S.
Department of State in January, 1988. At the time of
his retirement, he had spent twelve years as
Coordinator for Biomedical Research and Health
Affairs in the State Department's science bureau.
Special assignments on that
job included:
- Senior Staff Advisor, Presidential
Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Epidemic.
- Senior Staff Officer, Commission on
Life Sciences, National Research Council,
National Academy of Sciences.
- Vice Chairman and Executive Secretary,
Working Group on Biotechnology Transfer, OSTP,
the White House.
Between January, 1988 and
August, 1992 Bill served as a consultant to several
organizations. The two most interesting assignments
were:
- U. S. Congress, Office of Technology
Assessment: Advisory committee for the study,
Biotechnology in a Global Economy: Options for
the U.S. Wrote a report for the study on the
U.S. involvement in the international regulation
of biotechnology.
- New York Medical College (Archdiocese of New
York) assisted the Chancellor, Monsignor
Cassidy, in the conceptualization and
implementation of the Vatican's 1989 Conference
on AIDS, "Vivre, Pourquoi? le SIDA".
Also, prepared a briefing book for Cardinal
O'Connor's meeting with President Castro in
Havana, 1988.
Bill graduated from the
College of Arts & Sciences at Georgetown
University in 1960. He also served as Senior
Teaching Fellow in the Graduate Department of
Economics in 1963-64.
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