Description: Affiliate Memberships aren’t new to the Institute of Actuaries, but they are rare. Only 16 such members are listed in its current Year Book of these, however, 6 are in the United States. These actuaries have had “the same rights and privileges as Honorary Members.”

Description: Early in 1982 our Committee sought the views of a random sample of 1,158 Fellows on the Society's election process. 776 67% of these questionnaires came in thus we got answers from one-sixth of all our Fellows to a series of questions that were expressed in agree-disagree form. This article summarizes the results of the survey.

Description: Discusses movement of the SOA's book collection from the Library of the Insurance Society of New York to SOA offices.

Description: An interview with Jennifer Gillespie, chairperson of SOA Public Policy Strategy Task Force.

Description: Education department article that outlines the new SOA General Insurance fellowship track that puts the SOA in the position of offering actuarial education in the full range of actuarial practice areas.

Description: Profile of an actuary who owns Woodward Cave, a bat cave in Pennsylvania and Profile of an actuary who is training to be a chef de cuisine at culinary school in Paris.

Description: The letter from the president details recent developments and plans to increase the Society of Actuaries’ role in the arena of public policy research.

Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This editorial by the Editor of the Actuary discusses the shrinkage of volunteers contributing to the SOA, and discusses the importance of volunteers to the SOA and the benefits of such volunteering to our societal well-being.

Description: Staple Inn, London, has been used by actuaries since 1887 when the Institute of Actuaries was first based there. This article tells of a November 1992 visit to Staple Inn by Morris Chambers and Walter S. Rugland, then presidents of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the SOA respectively. They were both greatly impressed with the Staple Inn hall and particularly with its historic stained glass windows, but noted that a few panes contained only plain glass. Here was an opportunity to contribute a very special gift to the Institute, especially with its 150th anniversary six years away. Chambers and Rugland championed the idea to the SOA, the CIA, and the American Academy of Actuaries. The result was three windows, all designed by the same artist, Ted Goodden, for consistency, and presented during the Institute’s 150th anniversary celebration.