Assurant’s Perseverance Hall of Fame Recognizes Unbreakable Spirits
April 06 2015 - 5:15PM
Business Wire
Actor, Author J.R. Martinez and Assurant to Salute Inductees for
Their Resilience During May 27 Ceremony
Strength. Courage. Perseverance. These are the three traits
Assurant Employee Benefits recognizes in honorees chosen for the
Perseverance Hall of Fame and that are exemplified in their ability
to endure life’s challenges, overcome severe accidents, injuries or
illnesses, and to help others in their personal comebacks.
During a ceremony on May 27, special guest, actor and author
J.R. Martinez, a burn survivor who received the company’s Shining
Star of Perseverance award in 2008, will help pay tribute to this
year’s Perseverance Hall of Fame inductees. This year’s honorees
are Charity Tillemann-Dick, double lung transplant survivor, and
Deliece Hofen, breast cancer survivor and mother of a child with
cancer. All were selected for their courageous comebacks and their
unbreakable spirits, ability to rally support and inspire others on
their journeys, and their ongoing efforts paying it forward as
motivational speakers, hope givers and charity supporters.
“We want people from coast to coast to hear the incredible
stories of our Perseverance Hall of Fame inductees and how they
used the experience for the good of others,” says Joe Sevcik,
senior vice president of marketing at Assurant Employee Benefits.
“Together, their motivational stories and our charitable grants to
support organizations that encourage perseverance will help more
people make big comebacks from illness or injury.”
The Perseverance Hall of Fame is sponsored by Assurant Employee
Benefits, an employee benefits and services provider, as part of
Project Perseverance. In addition to being inducted into the Hall
of Fame, Assurant’s philanthropic organization, the Assurant
Foundation, contributed $15,000 in grants to nonprofits selected by
Martinez, Tillemann-Dick and Hofen.
Formerly known as the Shining Star of Perseverance award,
Assurant developed the award in 2003 to honor those overcoming
disability in recognition of National Disability Employment
Awareness Month, which Congress enacted in 1945 to raise awareness
about disability employment issues. Past inductees include mountain
climber Aron Ralston (2003), Senator Bob Dole (2004), Tourette’s
patient Jeff Matovic (2006), Rwanda genocide survivor Gilbert
Tuhabonye (2009), and Paralympic skier Chris Waddell (2010).
Tillemann-Dick and Hofen will be inducted at the Kauffman Center
for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, May 27 at 3 p.m. CT.
Following the induction ceremony, opera soprano Tillemann-Dick will
perform a concert featuring selections from her best-selling
classical CD, American Grace. Complimentary tickets to the
induction and concert are being offered to Kansas City business,
civic, and arts community by Assurant Employee Benefits.
To learn more about Project Perseverance, visit
www.projectperseverance.com. Tickets are available on a first come,
first serve basis at www.persevere.eventbrite.com.
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About the Assurant Foundation
Assurant embraces a core set of enduring values: Common Sense,
Common Decency, Uncommon Thinking and Uncommon Results. The
approximately 17,500 employees of Assurant strive to provide
superior service to customers and clients, while improving the
quality of life in local communities where we live and work. The
Assurant Foundation extends that commitment by providing
financial assistance to designated nonprofit organizations that
focus on health and wellness, homes and property or help in the
hometowns where we operate.
About the Assurant Employee Benefits
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benefits and services, including long-term and short-term
disability, life insurance, voluntary benefits such as cancer,
critical illness and accident, dental coverage, and disability
reinsurance management services. Assurant Employee Benefits is the
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Insurance Company and for prepaid dental products provided by an
affiliated prepaid dental company. In New York, insurance products
are underwritten and prepaid products are provided by Union
Security Life Insurance Company of New York, which is licensed in
New York and has its principal place of business in Syracuse, New
York. www.assurantemployeebenefits.com
Assurant Employee Benefits is part of Assurant, a premier
provider of specialized insurance products and related services in
North America, Latin America, Europe and other select worldwide
markets.
Assurant, a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500,
is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AIZ.
Assurant has approximately 17,500 employees worldwide and is
headquartered in New York's financial district. For more
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