Gregory
V. Serio, New York State
Superintendent of Insurance,
receives Neil
D. Levin Memorial
Award from Bruce W. Boyea (right),
chairman and
CEO of Security
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New
York, and Israel
Bonds president
and CEO Joshua Matza.
Photo by
Richard Lobell
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ISRAEL BONDS
Insurance Super Gets Award
Named for His Predecessor
By Tim Boxer
 HEN
Israel Bonds insurance division honored New York State insurance
superintendent Gregory V. Serio, they set a new record. The luncheon
at the Waldorf-Astoria raised $16,552,000.
That
inspired Serio to announce his own purchase of a $1,000 Israel Bond
in honor of his three-month-old granddaughter.
“That’s
all,” he explained. “We’re in public service with a fixed
income.”
Luncheon
co-chairman Richard Allen, of American Corporate Benefits, who is 50
years old, said that his mother attended the very first Israel Bonds
event 51 years ago.
“I
was an embryo,” he said, “so I can say I attended the first
Israel Bonds dinner. The honoree was Harpo Marx. I can’t watch a
Marx Brothers movie without recalling that.”
Serio
noted that Israel Bonds has grown since the days of Harpo Marx.
Serio
received the Neil D. Levin Memorial Award. It is named in memory of
the man who preceded Serio as superintendent. Levin perished on
9/11.
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