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34 association of washington business
Longtime AWB board member Dolores Kyle of
Superior Insurance Services brought down the
house with her emotional reaction to winning a
pair of tickets to anywhere Alaska Airlines flies
during a drawing at September’s Policy Summit.
Brian Mittge
It’s always exciting to win
a door prize, but Dolores Kyle’s enthusiastic
response to winning two
Alaska Airlines tickets at
Policy Summit was particularly impressive.
When Alaska CEO Brad
Tilden drew the stub and
read the number to give
away the pair of tickets to
anywhere his airline flies,
Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden presents free airline
Kyle’s reaction could be
tickets to longtime AWB member Dolores Kyle at
Policy Summit.
seen and heard across
the ballroom.
“I jumped out of my seat and said, ‘Oh my God!’ I was totally blown away,
I really was,” said Kyle.
Tilden congratulated her with a hug. Kyle told him she would use the tickets
to fly down to Arizona for a visit with her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, but
now she’s considering other options as well. Perhaps a trip to San Francisco.
“I’m still formulating plans,” she said.
Kyle said her late husband, Bill Kyle, wouldn’t have waited. They would have
used the tickets within a week. He was that kind of guy. If he took her to a
restaurant, he would call ahead to have a dozen roses waiting on the table.
Bill, an active AWB board member, died six years ago, shortly before their 60th
wedding anniversary. She fondly remembers the cake they enjoyed the year
before with the icing message “Fifty-nine years, no regrets.”
When Bill became sick, then-AWB President Don Brunell asked Kyle if
she would take over his seat on the AWB Board of Directors. While she
hesitated at first, she accepted the offer in the fall of 2007 and said it has
been a great experience.
Kyle, who runs Superior Insurance Services, the family’s medical insurance
sales firm, said she enjoys meeting and mingling at AWB events — but it’s the
association’s advocacy for small businesses that mea