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Catching Up with HORAN retirees

DOUG MILLER Years with HORAN: 32 Former Role(s): Executive Vice President, Partner; Vice President of Sales, Vice President of Account Management Q: How have you spent your time since retiring from HORAN?

DM: I volunteer at DePaul Cristo Rey High School with their jobs committee and work part time helping a few young sales professionals

Q: Have you picked up any new hobbies?

DM: Before the COVID-19 pandemic we did quite a bit of traveling. We are expecting our 12th grandchild. My six adult children live in California, Minnesota, New York and New Jersey so seeing them involves quite a bit of travel.

Q: What is your fondest memory from your time at HORAN?

DM: Working with great people who consistently thought of creative ways to represent our customers' best interest.

Q: How have you spent your time since retiring from HORAN?

GM: Until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I spent time volunteering at a couple of local organizations. My husband and I enjoy traveling. We’ve been to Ireland, London, France and the New England coast. We also spend time in Hilton Head. We postponed our trip to Alaska this summer and hope to go next summer.

Q: Have you picked up any new hobbies?

GM: We love spending time with our seven grandchildren. We take a day each week in the summer and have an adventure. We’ve been to various parks, museums, the zoo and even toured a cave.

Q: What is your fondest memory from your time at HORAN?

GM: The people I met while at HORAN are my best memories: both my fellow co-workers and clients. I’ll never forget a nurse who called in to talk with Jack Horan. I had to tell her he had recently passed away. She began crying and had to end the call. We spoke later that day and she shared with me how Jack convinced her of the importance of saving for retirement.

GINNY MEADOR Years with HORAN: 23 years Former Role(s): Client Services Manager & Terry Horan’s Administrative Assistant GREG KROEGER Years with HORAN: 14 Former Role: Director of IT and Facilities Q: How have you spent your time since retiring from HORAN?

GK: My wife and I have traveled to Italy a few times and I play a lot of golf.

Q: Have you picked up any new hobbies?

GK: I have not picked up any new hobbies, but I am a Ranger at Pebble Creek Golf Course and I get unlimited free golf!

Q: What is your fondest memory from your time at HORAN?

GK: All the friendships I developed over the years working there.

Q: What is your greatest accomplishment or what are you most proud of from your time at HORAN?

GK: Moving all of HORAN’s servers to a secure data center and moving all users to laptop computers or tablets.

Q: What is your hope for HORAN in the future?

GK: Another 72 years of success.

FRAN MEYER Years with HORAN: 20 Former Role: Administrative Assistant, HORAN Wealth Q: How have you spent your time since retiring from HORAN?

FM: I am enjoying my retirement years doing what I did not have time for earlier in life: reading, walking, shopping, working in the yard and spending the winter on Jekyll Island in southern Georgia.

Q: What do you miss most about working at HORAN?

FM: I joined HORAN as an Administrative Associate working with Steve Meyer when he joined the firm. After receiving my insurance, Series 6 and Series 63 licenses, I elected to remain as an Administrative Associate because I greatly enjoyed this type of work. Needless to say, I wore many hats during the years.

Q: What is your greatest accomplishment or what are you most proud of from your time at HORAN?

FM: I would have to say my greatest accomplishment was helping the company to grow. When I joined HORAN, there was only a hand full of people. We were like family. When I retired, the number had grown to around 80.

SUSAN DIXON Years with HORAN: 14 Former Role: Case Design Specialist in the Life Insurance Department Q: How have you spent your time since retiring from HORAN?

SD: I celebrated my new “retiree” status by traveling a lot in 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to that for the time being). I took a Viking River cruise down the Danube River with a good friend from college, and we visited Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Prague and various towns in Germany.

Q: Have you picked up any new hobbies?

SD: My husband and I built a new home in 2019 in Milford, which is near our daughter and her family, so we’ve been busy getting settled into a new community. I’ve also been playing doubles tennis on a regular basis and walking/hiking with friends.

Q: What is your fondest memory from your time at HORAN?

SD: One of my fondest memories was a bike trip with Terry Horan and Greg Hoernshemeyer through Oregon. I failed to train properly before going on the trip so I got left in their dust most days, but it was a really exciting adventure with lots of laughs along the way.

Q: What is your greatest accomplishment or what are you most proud of from your time at HORAN?

SD: I’m always proud to tell people that I worked at HORAN, and it is amazing how many connections I still make on a regular basis to HORAN. The time you spend at work is substantial so it’s special if you can make the experience worthwhile for yourself, your co-workers and your clients. I feel very fortunate to be able to say I had that kind of experience. Also, you tend to forget any difficult days once you’re retired!

CHERY CAMPBELL Years with HORAN: 9.5 Former Role: Chief Marketing and Brand Officer Q: How have you spent your time since retiring from HORAN?

CC: I have more time to do things such as reading books; cleaning out the house; and reconnecting with my sorority sisters, long-term co-workers and people I haven’t been able to connect with in years. I learned patience and the importance of being still after spine surgery in the summer of 2018 – best COVID prep ever!

Q: Have you picked up any new hobbies?

CC: I love to bake, my favorite dish is cookies (if I don’t eat the dough first). I’m staying current with the world climate and doing volunteer work with non-profit organizations. There is a nature preserve in Anderson across from my house and I enjoy going there to birdwatch and feed the birds and squirrels that live there. I have made friends with a woodpecker (whom I call Buddy) and two blue jays. Their band name is Buddy & The Two Blue Jays.

Q: What is your fondest memory from your time at HORAN?

CC: The feeling of family–HORAN is a unique company unlike any other. I think it’s due to the standard of appreciation for employees and truly caring for them. The foundation was set by Terry Horan and Doug Miller and it has really shone through.

Q: What is your greatest accomplishment or what are you most proud of from your time at HORAN?

CC: Building the brand and reputation of the firm and having the opportunity to move from a sales to a marketing organization.

Q: What is your hope for HORAN in the future?

CC: Continue to grow and provide critical services to clients. HORAN sets the standard for community support (which we need right now). HORAN’s greatest strength is its employees. As firms grow, change is needed but continue to change and evolve in a positive way that engages employees.

MARY ANN WEBER Years with HORAN: 11 Former Role(s): Chief Operations Officer; Vice President of Human Resources. Q: How have you spent your time since retiring from HORAN?

MAW: We are avid golfers (avid, but not great!) and we like to travel–mostly US travel, but had a great trip to Ireland and a wonderful trip to the Canadian Rockies. We also have 13 grandchildren who are all active in school and sports activities that we love to watch (prior to COVID-19).

Q: What is your fondest memory from your time at HORAN?

MAW: I have many fond memories of HORAN, but the ones I like to recall the most are our celebration of Halloween— you should find some old pictures from those parties!! I also think our United Way campaign weeks were a wonderful and fun way to celebrate our corporate responsibility.

Q: What is your greatest accomplishment or what are you most proud of from your time at HORAN?

MAW: I am most proud of helping develop the HORAN culture—it was my strongest commitment to the company to hire people who will work hard, work together and root for each other to take care of our clients, without a lot of drama.

Cincinnati Ballet Dancers; "Swan Lake"; 2020; Choreography: Kirk Peterson; Photography: Hiromi Platt

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Conductor Louis Langrée with Pianist Inon Barnatan

DPAA; Dayton Philharmonic; Photography: Andy Snow

FOR THE ARTS, FOR ALL

A Conversation with Regional Arts Organizations

The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for the entire community but especially challenging for the arts.

As the 2021 ArtsWave Campaign Chair, Terence L. Horan, CLU, ChFC, CAP, President & CEO of HORAN, believes the regional community needs to pull together to support the arts now more than ever. A strong, healthy arts sector is paramount to our collective healing and a vibrant, economically and personally connected future.

We spoke with ArtsWave and many other regional arts organizations to discuss the importance of community support, how arts organizations are getting creative during the pandemic, the economic/cultural impact of reduced programming and the future of the arts for 2021 and beyond.

1. How are you continuing to make the arts accessible to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic?

(Victoria Morgan): For our dancers, there is nothing as joyful as performing live in front of audiences. When the pandemic struck, we immediately began reimagining the 2020-2021 Season. While we remained hopeful that developments would move in a positive direction, we have been prepared to transition to a digital model for sharing performances with the community. In addition, we were so humbled by the community’s incredible response to our free Ballet in the Park performances in September.

(Patricia McDonald): In June 2020, the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance introduced a brand new series of programs called Summer Streams, virtual performances created in an effort to continue to provide audiences with access to music, song and dance from Dayton Opera, Dayton Ballet and Dayton Philharmonic from the comfort and safety of their homes. In October 2020, the DPAA announced a full line-up of Virtual Streams performances, a continuation of Summer Streams, with a full schedule of virtual concerts through the end of December, including a wonderful reuniting of Dayton musicians on the Schuster Center stage for two beautiful concerts, a grand celebration of Dayton Opera and a Dayton Ballet retrospective of 25 years of "The Nutcracker," and much more.

(Jonathan Martin): Since mid-March, when the pandemic forced the suspension of large public gatherings, the CSO and Pops have remained connected with local and global audiences through the creation of new digital content and physically distanced pop-up concerts and events. Both the COVID pandemic and the societal issues we are experiencing have had a tremendous effect on our programming. To put it in context, we were in the midst of our 125th anniversary season when the pandemic curtailed our ability to give live, in-person concerts, and the murder of George Floyd not long after that added a layer of social responsibility issues we felt morally obligated to address.

(Michael Roediger): The Dayton Art Institute was closed from March 13–July 10 in response to the pandemic. The DAI established a Re-Open Team focused on the safety of our staff and guests and to follow the state and national guidelines. During the closure, our Education and Curatorial teams worked with our Marketing team to produce an extensive offering of virtual content. In addition, through social media, we have driven members and guests to our new website for virtual programs and access to our more than 27,000 objects in the collection, now available for online viewing.

(Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders): The coronavirus pandemic has challenged us to become not only innovative but also transformative in our response to it. The company celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018, and since then has inaugurated a new business model that enabled us to respond effectively and efficiently to the economic exigencies and operational contingencies created by COVID-19. To make the arts accessible to the public during the COVID-19 crisis, DCDC has implemented a new system for the digital delivery of programming called the Hybrid-Flexible model, which facilitates live performances before an audience in a theater, live streaming of an actual performance in real time or digitally recording of a performance to be offered at a future date.

(Chris Milligan): Prior to the pandemic, Cincinnati Opera was poised to celebrate its 100th birthday—ours is the second oldest opera company in the U.S., and our staff, artistic & production partners and volunteers had devoted years of planning to present a vibrant centennial celebration. Like so many in our industry, we quickly transitioned from producing fully-staged opera to producing digital content. We launched our digital opera hub, Opera at Home, and developed several new, free online series designed to be easily accessed and appealing to audiences of all ages.

Regional Arts Panel:

Alecia Townsend Kintner

President & CEO, ArtsWave

Patricia McDonald

President & CEO, Dayton Performing Arts Alliance (DPAA)

Victoria Morgan

Artistic Director, Cincinnati Ballet

Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders

CEO, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

Jonathan Martin

President & CEO, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Chris Milligan

General Director & CEO, Cincinnati Opera

Michael Roediger

Director and CEO, Dayton Art Institute

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company; Dancer: Michael Green; Photography: Scott Robbins

Dayton Art Institute

DPAA; Dayton Opera; Photography: Scott Kimmins

DPAA; Dayton Ballet; Photography: Scott Robbins

2. How can individuals get involved with the arts or give back to the arts during this time?

(Alecia Townsend Kintner): The pandemic has had a devastating effect on arts organizations, since they were among the first industry groups locally that closed to slow the spread of the virus. With the shutdown came the loss of tens of millions of dollars in ticket sales, contracts and other earned revenue. Museums have more capacity than needed to safely congregate, but they were all proactive in closing temporarily. Performing arts organizations are still not permitted to resume activity with capacity crowds, which means that resuming live performances is not financially viable even if it were safe. Sustained funding is more important than ever. It's not a time to pull back from supporting the arts; by contrast, we need to double-down and ensure the arts remain viable and capable of impact.

(Patricia McDonald): Now more than ever, the arts need the support of the community. We encourage everyone to continue to access the arts through the creative ways in which organizations are offering performances today and into the future. We also encourage individuals to continue to support the arts financially. As nonprofit entities, all arts organizations, including the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, rely on the people we serve. That has never been truer than during this pandemic. We ask individuals to consider the role that the performing arts play in their lives and how vital the arts are to the culture, vibrancy and very fabric of our communities. Take the time to give back to the arts so that those organizations will continue to be here to share the joy of live in-theater performances once more.

3. What is the culture impact from the reduction in arts events and programming to the community?

(Michael Roediger): It has been devastating to not just the DAI, but all of the arts organizations in the region. The Ohio arts and entertainment industry represents the largest unemployment sector in the state. While museums are open, with decreased attendance and program revenue lost, most theatre venues remain shuttered, and arts organizations are struggling to stay afloat by having to lay off performers and musicians. There is still a great unknown as to if the arts can survive. Dayton is an arts town with great support from the community. Dayton has seen great hardship historically and over the last two years; from the 2019 Memorial Day tornados to the Oregon District shootings, Dayton comes together to unite and prevail.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company; 2019; Photography: Scott Robbins

(Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders): The cultural impact of the reduction of arts events and programming in the community has been substantial and detrimental. The mission of the company is to recreate and celebrate African-American identity and culture in a society still struggling to manifest the American Dream of liberty and justice for all. DCDC’s art endeavors to be instrumental in facilitating interracial dialogue and collaboration centered on a commitment to social justice and racial equality.

(Patricia McDonald): The entire country is suffering from the culture impact that has come from arts organizations being stopped in their tracks in March. Aside from the devastating financial impact on the arts industry and on our overall economy, the arts are the one thing that unites communities, that allows us as humans to communicate our emotions and that provides us the opportunity to share in those emotions together. As a community, we need the arts now more than ever.

4. What is your organization most looking forward to in 2021?

(Chris Milligan): In September, we announced ambitious plans to return to live performance in 2021, provided we can do so safely. We intend to present five operas during our annual Summer Festival in June and July, including two world premieres, Castor and Patience and Fierce. Both works were commissioned as part of our centennial celebrations and feature diverse creators, cast members, and stories—we can’t wait to share them with the world.

(Victoria Morgan): 2021 is going to be a monumental year at Cincinnati Ballet. In June, we will open our new home in Walnut Hills, the Cincinnati Ballet Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance. The new facility will feature nine studios, double our current space in the West End, provide ample space for our Company rehearsals, as well as our thriving Otto M. Budig Academy and expanding community and engagement programming. It will be a truly historic moment in the history of Cincinnati Ballet.

(Jonathan Martin): We can’t wait until it’s safe to have a full house in Music Hall.

(Michael Roediger): We are excited to offer more virtual programs and events and hope to be able to bring more in-person programs and events back to the community in a safe and responsible manner. We are thrilled to present a full season of focus and special exhibitions as well as continued updates to all of the collection galleries.

Cincinnati Opera; "Aida" ft. Lisa Daltirus; 2007; Photography: Philip Groshong

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company; Photography: Scott Robbins

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