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a Sign of the Times

market leaders combine to revolutionize life insurance industry

National Agents Alliance (“The 8 Steps to Success, Millionaire Maker Alliance”), one of the country’s most Manual, Inside the Circle and The Alliprominent insurance marketing ance House of Values & Behaviors. organizations (IMOs) is joining forces Albright says the partnership with Integrity Marketing Group, allows the corporate staff to enjoy LLC (“Integrity”), the nation’s largownership in the company. est independent distributor of life “I love the generosity of Integrity,” and health insurance products, the Albright says. “For years I’ve wanted companies recently announced. The to find a way to give ownership to partnership merges two companies our team. With this Integrity partnerthat are market leaders in the life ship, the 150 employees who have insurance industry. The Alliance has helped me build The Alliance now helped more than 1.5 million Amerhave the opportunity to own part of a icans with their life insurance needs multibillion-dollar company with an and has sold over $1.6 billion in life incredible growth trajectory. insurance premiums to “The world of provide families with The Alliance Partners with Integrity Marketing Group opportunities that more than $150 billion to Reach More American Families Integrity brings, from in life insurance proteccarriers and product tion. Financial terms of the transacaging Partner at Integrity. Albright is development to accessing a full-sertion were not disclosed. recognized as a serial entrepreneur vice advertising and marketing agen

Andy Albright, President and CEO who is achieving incredible success cy — it just blows my mind. But you of The Alliance, will continue to lead building The Alliance into one of the know what? When you open a door all operations of The Alliance while largest IMOs in the United States. and see the opportunity, you need to also becoming an owner and ManHe is the author of four books: The be ready to move. I'm glad The Alli

The Alliance & Integrity join forces

ance was ready, because we are fired up about joining this partnership with Integrity.”

The Alliance joins an already impressive stable of insurance giants.

“For almost 20 years, Andy has had a profound impact on the way the life insurance industry operates," says Bryan W. Adams, Co-Founder and CEO of Integrity. "He and his team at The Alliance have transformed the life insurance market with their innovative sales and marketing systems. By Integrity and The Alliance joining forces, we will be able to provide more coverage to American families than ever before, while helping our agents, agencies and insurance carrier partners grow faster at the same time.”

“The Integrity partnership model has attracted a long list of industry icons," says Steve Young, Chairman of the Board of Integrity, "and I am so proud to welcome Andy Albright to that list. Our focus is on bringing together an incredible team of leaders to shape the future of the industry. Andy has been a dynamic force in the industry for many years and we are excited to bring his vast experience and unmatched energy into the Integrity family.”

“It is an honor to be a part of the Integrity team," says Albright. "The Integrity platform is leading the market and we want to be part of that story. “This partnership raises the bar for the industry as a whole and I’m confident our best days are ahead of us! We’re about to really take off, as we grow together with Integrity!”

“The synergies between The Alliance and Integrity will open many doors,” says Jim Henson, Chief Operations Consultant of The Alliance. “The insurance needs of this country

are massive, and the market is still underserved. With Integrity’s tools and resources behind us, there is no telling what we can do to help more American families be prepared for major life events.” “The world of opportunities that Integrity brings, from carriers and product development to accessing a full-service advertising and marketing agency, it just blows my mind — but you know what? When you open a door and see the opportunity, you need to be ready to move. I'm glad The Alliance was ready, because we are fired up about joining this partnership with Integrity.”

—Andy Albright, President/CEO National Agents Alliance

raising the bar

Through Integrity’s partnership pro- gram, The Alliance will have access to the diverse and exclusive products available only to Integrity partners, as well as the support of industry-leading sales and marketing systems. The Alliance will also be able to streamline its business functions by integrating with Integrity’s extensive infrastructure and utilizing its platform of resources and services, including human resources, IT, compli- ance, social media, lead generation and operational areas of support.

“Integrity has raised the bar by show- ing all employees that they are valued and appreciated through participation in Integrity’s Employee Ownership Plan," says Steve Young. "This program allows our employees to be eligible for mean- ingful company ownership."

ABOUT "THE ALLIANCE"

The Alliance is an insurance marketing organization that recruits life insurance agents across the United States. As one of the nation’s largest IMOs, The Alliance works with more than a dozen highly rated carrier partners to help select the right products for each situation and each client. The Alliance was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina. For more information, visit www. naaleads.com.

ABOUT "INTEGRITY

MARKETING GROUP"

Integrity Marketing Group, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the leading independent distributor of life and health insurance products focused on serving Americans. Integrity develops exclusive products with insur- ance carrier partners and markets these products through its distribution network that includes other large insurance agen- cies throughout the country. Integrity’s almost 1,200 employees work with more than 270,000 independent agents who service over 5 million clients annually.

In 2020, Integrity expects to help insurance carriers place more than $3 bil- lion in new premiums. For more informa- tion, visit www.integritymarketing.com.

For more information about Integrity’s acquisition of The Alliance and to view the announcement video, please visit www.integritymarketing.com/alliance.

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THE ALLIANCE CONTINUES HELPING CLIENTS DURING COVID - 19 PANDEMIC

As COVID-19 methodically led to many things being restricted or even closed, The Alliance was forced to adapt and evolve in terms of how it attracted new people to its business. The pandemic reached a point where holding HotSpot meetings in cities all over the country was no longer possible. Thankfully, agents quickly found that Zoom was a great tool to continue meeting with clients and potential agents when doing so in person just wasn't possible.

These virtual “Show The Plan” opportunity meetings allowed The Alliance to continue helping others find out about the company and what it does all over the United States. Agents were able to spread the message to interested people, who didn’t even have to leave their homes to find out what the company does. Several times each week agents took turns hosting virtual meetings on different days and times in an effort to continue reaching potential new agents to work with The Alliance. On any given day, you could hear from top leaders like The Alliance president and CEO Andy Albright. This allowed agents and potential recruits the chance to hear from leaders of The Alliance — when they might not otherwise be able to actually see these leaders speak. “We were at a point where we couldn’t do in-person meetings the way we had before this happened,” Albright explains. “We quickly decided this was what we were going to do and our team ran with it. It was a big hit, and people we hadn't known before tuned in. We realized this was a great way to easily reach people.” These virtual “STP” meetings were not drastically different than in-person except that audience members were not in the same room. This newfound manner of showing others The Alliance opportunity allowed the company to welcome thousands into its house, together safely and, more importantly, legally! Potential agents that might have been hesitant to attend a meeting in person had fewer objections than before. You don’t have to dress up because nobody has to see you. You don’t have to drive to attend the meeting. You don’t have to touch objects or people. All of those objections were eliminated.

Outside of virtual meetings, The Alliance, fortunately, was deemed as an essential service to people and continued protecting clients and their families throughout this pandemic. It was not business-as-usual, but The Alliance made adjustments to what has become the new “normal” for all of us. This included fewer in-home appointments, but it didn’t mean fewer people covered. Carriers changed rules for issuing policies. Sales normally made in the home were now made over the phone and via video chats. Some clients wanted to meet in person, but not inside their homes. To honor this request, agents set up at a table outside the home to meet with the clients. Whatever it takes, The Alliance is meeting the needs of clients.

It is a prime example of what can happen when you make the most out of a tough situation. “We were happy to be deemed essential and that really freed us up to get more creative with our clients,” Albright said. “It really brought our team together even more than before because we all had questions we hadn’t dealt with before in terms of what we could do for clients. We made the most of the situation our country was faced with. I am proud of our agents, to say the least.” Doing this allows The Alliance to reach an audience no matter where they are in the country. It helps reach people that previously might not have attended a meeting in person. With many people being out of work, the last six months also afforded the company the opportunity to offer people work at a time when they need a way to continue making a living.

Countless agents saw their sales numbers skyrocket. The Alliance proved to people that what they do matters, and people realized they needed the very products it offers. Some agents were afraid of evolving when COVID-19 hit, but quickly found support from other agents to assure them they could adapt and thrive. The Alliance was important and essential before this pandemic, but that realization is made even clearer now.

National Agents Alliance "The Alliance" 1214 Turrentine Ave Burlington NC 27215 (336) 227-3319 naaleads.com

Practically everyone in Burlington has traveled along Rauhut Street, or at least knows where it is, but very few know for whom it is named: Charles Frederick Rauhut, Sr. He was born near Pleschen, Prussia (now Pleszew, Poland) on March 21, 1826 and came to the United States in 1849, reportedly to avoid being drafted into the Prussian army. He had been trained as a cabinet maker and began doing woodwork and building furniture for wealthy German families in New York City for the next several years.

Shortly after marrying Louisa Eliza Ritz, a native of Saxony, in 1854, Charles and his new wife moved to Anderson, South Carolina, where he found work as a carpenter on the Cincinnati, Charleston & Louisville Railroad, doing finishing work on the interiors of the passenger cars. When South Carolina seceded from the Union at the end of 1860, Charles, Eliza, and their two young children, relocated to Company Shops, where Charles found work building and repairing freight cars for the North Carolina Railroad. Since the railroad only provided housing for its highranking employees, the Rauhut family first lived in two sidetracked box cars and then moved into a tiny log cabin on what is now East Morehead Street.

The railroad paid in gold and the very frugal Charles Rauhut, Sr. saved his money throughout

the Civil War and during the hard times which followed. He used some of this money to buy a large tract of land northwest of Company Shops, and at what is now the corner of Fisher and Rauhut streets he built a large, two-story brick house—reportedly the first private brick home constructed in town. There he died on July 16, 1904, at the age of 78. Charles Frederick Rauhut, Jr., who was called “Charlie,” was born on July 13, 1857 and married a local girl, Julia Elizabeth “Lizzie” Holt, a descendant of Michael Holt I, on November 16, 1882. Charlie had been trained as a carpenter, and also worked for the North Carolina Railroad, but when the railroad began slowly winding down operations at Company Shops, he decided to become a merchant. He leased a piece of property on what is now East Front Street, and in either late 1883 or early 1884 erected a two-story frame building on it. The first floor housed a general store and he and his family lived on the second floor.

When that building was destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of October 20, 1884, Charlie quickly rebuilt on the same site. Later, in August 1887, he had a two-story brick building erected at the corner of Spring and East Front streets, which is still standing. It has housed dozens of Burlington businesses over the last 133 years and is now home to a coffee shop. In addition, Charlie had a building constructed on

Spring Street that housed Sing Lee’s Laundry for many years. In 1914, he also had new two-story building constructed on the site of the original Rauhut store (which has since been demolished). Charlie died June 29, 1925. Hilary Edwin Rauhut, born December 4, 1890, was Charlie and Julia’s only surviving son and the last of the male Rauhut line. Like his father, Hilary was a businessman. He ran a successful bicycle and battery store out of the family building at the corner of Spring and East Front streets and dabbled in the restaurant business. He had the Dairy Lunch building constructed on Spring Street and ran a fast food establishment between Elon and Gibsonville. But Hilary preferred the arts to commercial endeavors. After graduating from Elon College with a degree in art, he gave private lessons. He was also an accomplished musician. But he was best known as a dog lover and breeder of the best hunting dogs in the county. On September 6, 1919, Hilary married Sadie Leigh May, the youngest daughter of locomotive engineer Henderson R. May. They had one daughter, Elizabeth “Betsy” Rauhut. Hilary died on March 17, 1951, thus preventing the Rauhut name from being passed on to future generations. But he has many descendants living today. Additionally, the 1887 Rauhut building at the corner of Spring and East Front streets, and the street named after Charles Frederick Rauhut, Sr., ensures that the name of the family that helped build a bigger, better Burlington will long endure.

WALTER BOYD contributor

Attorney and native of Burlington, North Carolina, Walter Boyd developed an interest in Burlington’s history at a very young age. As a child, he often interviewed people and collected old photographs and documents, which led to his fondness for writing about Burlington’s rich history.

Charles Duncan McIver, founder and first president people considered this a threat to private, the first vote of the State Normal and Industrial School for Girls (now McIver ever cast was to establish such a school in Durham. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, was born There he served as teacher, principal of the high school, in a part of Moore County that became Lee County in and acting superintendent from 1882 to 1884. He then 1907. His family soon moved to the home he lived as a became principal of the high school in Winston. While in child; it still stands on Highway 421 north of Sanford. Winston he married Lula Verlinda Martin. The son of Matthew Henry and Sarah Harrington McIver, McIver's interest in the education of teachers led his paternal grandfather, Evander McIver, owned 6,000 him to offer a “normal” course at the Winston Graded acres and a hundred slaves; his School. In the spring of 1886 other grandfather, William he was elected vice-president of D. Harrington, also owned the North Carolina Teachers’ a large plantation in Moore Assembly. The following County. McIver's father had summer he made the first of a farm, a gristmill, a lumber many speeches advocating mill, and part interest in a improved education for store in Sanford. The first women. At that time the state school he attended was provided a university for white built by Henry McIver and men and normal schools for some neighbors. He later black men and women, but prepared for college at a there was no such provision for school operated by John E. white women. Kelly. Entering University In 1886 McIver accepted of North Carolina in 1877, a position as head of the he graduated in 1881. Other literary department at Peace future educators who studied Institute in Raleigh, where he with him were Charles established the first normal Brantley Aycock, James Y. course in a private institution Joyner and Edwin Alderman. in North Carolina. The His alma mater subsequently following summer the Teachers' awarded him two honorary Assembly made him chairman degrees: a doctor of literature of the committee to introduce in 1893 and a doctor of laws a bill to the General Assembly in 1904. providing for a teacher

After graduation, McIver The 7.5-foot bronze statue with a training school. Undaunted became assistant headmaster of 3.5-foot granite pedestal is a monument by its failure, he went to the Presbyterian Male Academy, to education pioneer Charles McIver, a Yadkinville to teach a normal a small private school in Durham. founder and first president of the State school for Yadkin County. Shortly after the term began, Normal and Industrial School for Women On the last Sunday there he the headmaster took another (now known as UNC Greensboro). It conducted a "Sunday School job and left him the school. At depicts McIver standing in a dignified Normal" because he believed that time the graded-school manner with a book in his left hand; his Sunday schools also needed movement was growing in North right hand rests on his waist. There are four improvement. In 1888 McIver Carolina, and though many plaques, one on each side of the pedestal. taught the state “normal” at

Wilson and at Sparta. Again the Teachers' Assembly appointed him to petition the legislature for a normal school for white girls. In 1889 a school for Indians was established, but after passing the senate, the bill that McIver advocated to train white women teachers failed the house by sixteen votes.

The same legislative session abolished the eight summer normal schools then in operation and in their place set up county institutes that were to both educate teachers and inform the public about the need to improve education. In July 1889 McIver and Edwin Alderman began a three-year stint as conductors of these institutes.

The legislature of 1891, prodded by the Farmer’s Alliance, King’s Daughters, Teachers' Assembly, Charles McIver, Edwin Alderman and State Superintendent Sidney M. Finger, finally approved the establishment of the State Normal and Industrial School for Girls. Its purpose was to prepare young

Death Mask of Charles Duncan McIver

McIver married Lula V. Martin and they had four children: Annie Martin in 1886 (Mrs. James R. Young), Charles D., Jr., in 1887, Verlinda Millie in 1895, and Lula Martin in 1899 (Mrs. John Dickinson. On September 17, 1906 he suffered a stroke and died while on a train taking William Jennings Bryan from Raleigh to Greensboro NC.

women to earn a livelihood in teaching or in business. Major Finger announced the selection of Greensboro as the site, adding his hope that one day the institution might be for both sexes. This hope was realized in 1964. Both McIver and Alderman received support for the post of first president and each expressed a willingness to serve the other should he be chosen. McIver was the ultimate choice at a salary of $2,250. In October 1892 he was at the railroad station to greet the 176 students when they arrived to attend the new college. The school prospered despite the activities of some detractors: a typhoid epidemic that cost fifteen lives and closed the school in 1899, and a fire that destroyed the major dormitory in 1904. In addition to his duties at the college, McIver held offices in many professional organizations. He was president of the Southern Education Association and of the Normal School Department of the National Education Association, a trustee and member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of The University of North Carolina, and secretary and district director of the Southern Education Board. He also was considered as a candidate for governor of North Carolina and for president of The University of North Carolina but refused to allow his name to be submitted, choosing to remain at his post in Greensboro.

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Facts & images for article colleced from third-part resources, textbooks, North Carolina Archives and citizen journalism sources. Article is intended to be as factual as possible.