Description: The article is about William Gordon, a Massachusetts life insurance advocate from the eighteenth century.

Description: Article Why He's Who He Is - A Conversation With John O'Connor in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: The Society’s computer has obediently coughed up an array of our 4,646 Fellows by year of completing Fellowship. These figures, composed of the 4,480 Fellows shown in our current Yearbook as of November 1, 1981 increased by 178 who qualified in the November 1981 examinations and decreased by deaths and other terminations. There is also detail on the SOA budget for 1981-1982 and historical financial statements.

Description: Article on details of SOA member growth by decades. At the end of 1929 the roster of Fellows counting both the Actuarial Society and the American Institute but eliminating duplications totalled 360. Half a century later, the number was 4,024.

Description: discussion of the level and types of responses from members of the Society of Actuaries to enquiries of its members

Description: Discusses FIASCO”, the newsletter published in London that performs somewhat the same function for members of the Institute of Actuaries as The Actuary undertakes for Society members.

Description: A synopsis of the findings of a study group of the institute and the Faculty of Actuaries, which addresses three types of actuarial notation.

Description: The death of John S. Thompson shortly after his 95th birthday, reported in our January issue, caused us to wonder whether he was the oldest Fellow whose death is recorded in the Transactions.

Description: This article shows the census of pre-1889 actuaries in North America.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 7 that is extracted from E. J. Moorhead's address to the Actuaries Club of Philadelphia in April 1985.