Description: This is the presidential address by SOA president, Richard S. Robertson. He laments how few actuaries are involved in university actuarial education. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1986 Vol. 38.

Description: This article discusses the ACTUCROSSWORDS, the crossword puzzle published in The Actuary Newsletter.

Description: This article outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the present actuarial notation and the reasons for proposing to change the notation.

Description: Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with their counterparts at Oxford University, probing the future, have explored proton decay to estimate that the universe will last for many years, by which time there will be no heat, no light, no matter, no anything time itself will have ceased to exist. This helpful information puts a new cast on such notions as “infinity” and “forever.”

Description: In October 1971, a committee of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia proposed a new actuarial notation, built on the proposal of Boehm, Reichel et al, but more practical. This article highlights the proposed notation.

Description: Arthur Pedoe Obituary: Summary of many essays Mr. Pedoe published on a variety of topics dealing with the actuarial profession

Description: The article discusses the actuaries role regarding the recommendations made by the National Commission on Social Security Reform. That responsibility is to spread the word. To see that citizens within our reach know what the recommendations are and the need for Congress to promptly enact them into legistlation.

Description: This article discusses the results of a survey completed by the Subcommittee on Actuarial Opportunities of the Career Encouragement Committee about the demand for actuaries.

Description: Editorial about two giants in the actuarial field, Reinhard A. Hohaus and James E. Hoskins, who both died in January 1987, two days apart.

Description: Provides highlights of the results of a 1985 Career Encouragement Committee Survey, which solicited information from 1,400 U.S. and Canadian employers about their actuary and student hiring processes. 270 companies responded.