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Veteran reflects.


Since FEI FEI

Fédération Équestre Internationale.
 is more than 70 years old, the organization has thousands of veteran and retired members. From time to time, we will feature some of those who were there to help FEI grow, and who particularly credit FEI for the value they gained from membership.

One such individual is Harold R. DeJager, a life-retired member. Still a member of the New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 Chapter, he's been with FEI for 55 years, having begun his membership in 1948. DeJager served in a variety of chapter and national committee and leadership positions. Among those, at the chapter level: Director, Vice President, President; and at the national level: Chairman, Admissions Committee; FEI, and FERF FERF Financial Executives Research Foundation
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 Treasurer, Committee on Corporate Pension Programs, and more.

DeJager began his career working with Ernst & Ernst from 1936-46, traveling on the road all winter while studying for his degree from the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher.

http://umn.edu/.

Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
 (it took him 1-1/2 years to complete a three-year program, going to classes in the summer, spring and fall). He then took his first job in the private sector in Buffalo, N.Y., as Controller and Secretary for Welch's Grape Juice Co. (now Welch Foods Inc.).

It was following this job that his membership with FEI--then the Controllers institute--became a seminal event in his life, DeJager said in an interview. FEI helped him get his next job with Oxford University Press Inc., based in New York City. At that time, DeJager said, getting a job for a member was "frowned upon Frowned Upon is an intergender comedy duo made up of Devon T. Coleman and D'Arcy Erokan. Their base of operations is New York City. For the most part, their sketches are a complex analysis of their strange relationship. ." But, for him, the job became his life's career, as he rose from controller to vice president and treasurer within the same company.

"It seems rather strange to write a letter like this, but time does keep on moving, regardless of one's wishes," DeJager wrote FEI in the letter announcing his retirement in 1980. Since retirement, he's been living in Punta Gorda Punta Gorda may refer to:
  • Punta Gorda, Florida
  • Punta Gorda, Belize
  • Punta Gorda, Nicaragua, the place where Hurricane Felix made landfall as a category 5 hurricane in 2007.
, Fla., with his wife of 62 years and has some feisty comments about what he reads and hears through the media about his profession. Asked what he enjoyed most about his career, he replied without hesitation: "Working with people. People make the organization run." He advises finance executives to "get the best people you can afford."

What qualities does DeJager believe are necessary for today's financial professionals to get it right? "Competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like.
     2.
, integrity and a sense of humanity," he asserts.
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Publication:Financial Executive
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Date:Jan 1, 2004
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