Description: Perhaps readers will send us additions to the following short list of events in the mathematical world associated with years ending in the digits 82. These are taken from IBM’s history chart, “Men of Modern Mathematics.”

Description: JAMES L. COWEN’S figures in this issue, juxtaposed with a tabulation of present Fellows furnished by the Society office, permit constructing-for the first time, we believe-an abridged survival table recognizing the major decrement death from our professional ranks as well as the consistently minor one withdrawals. In the past ten years, net losses by Fellowships being dropped were only 25 out of 32,000 exposed. From The Actuary VOL. 16, No. 7

Description: Provides some history on Emma Warren Cushman, the first woman to be accepted as a member of any American or European actuarial society - when she was accepted to the Actuarial Society in 1895.

Description: This newsletter’s nominee for the most spectacular American at last summer’s International Congress is Prof. William S. Jewel1 of the University of California, Berkeley, who, as Mr. Hazelcorn reports in this issue, introduced the Congress subject, Generalized Models of the Insurance Business. Prof. Jewel encouraged actuaries to be receptive of, and tolerant towards, new methods, models, and paradigms.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 4, that highlights what the actuarial pioneers were like. One major characteristic is that, unlike most of us, many brought with them the stamp of previous business or professional experience they had had before becoming actuaries.

Description: This article is about a discussion at a 1919 joint meeting of the Actuarial Society and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors on prohibition.

Description: This article analyzes the number of FSAs attending SOA meetings in the period 1966-1983.

Description: The Pacific Insurance Conference is an organization strongly supported by actuaries. At present all its officers are members of the Society in fact, of its 23 member Executive Committee, 12 are actuaries, 10 of these being members of the Society. The Conference exists for the purpose of helping to spread ideas about the conduct of life and health insurance through the countries in the Pacific Rim area. Its sixth biennial meeting was held this year at Hotel Mt. Fuji, Lake Yamanaka, 80 miles north of Tokyo. This event was attended by 143 delegates and 32 spouses of these, 26 delegates and 13 spouses were from U.S.A. and Canada.

Description: This discussion is about the increasing unit expense rates even in light of increases in insurance amount, simplified procedures and greater mechanization, methods to allocate agency expenses in to the premium structure and the importance considerations in determining the level of gross premiums. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961 Vol. 13 pt. 2

Description: This paper describes the development and construction of persistency tables for use by the actuary in valuing future expenses and in various types of forecasting. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.