James Kemper, Jr. Dead at 88

The following obituary was released by Kemper Insurance Company yesterday:James S. Kemper, Jr., the former head of the Kemper Insurance Companies who transformed the mutual insurance company his father founded in 1912 into a major financial services complex, died yesterday at the age of 88. After successfully overcoming his own alcoholism, he became a leader in the fight against alcohol abuse, creating a trend-setting employee assistance program at Kemper and serving on numerous organizations in the field, including the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving and its successor organization, ...