Description: The author, editor of the Actuary, presents a somewhat serious argument for Calendar Reform, specifically the use of the World Calendar, proposed some 50 years earlier to an international study group.

Description: Recent instructions to Commibtee Chairmen from the Society’s outgoing Director of Publications the deservedly respected Robert E. Hunstad contained the following admonition: Hyphenation should be properly used. The Editor of the Record tells me that this is the most common error made in the transcribing done by our Recorders-improper hyphenation. Please use the dictionary.

Description: Ed. Note: We hope readers will find this account composed from the Minutes by one who wasn’t there so inadequate that they will complain to the Secretary at his Ontario address. 1. A Year Book Editor was appointed.See his message elsewhere in this issue. 2. Rules for expressions of opinion by Society committees were drafted. 3. A task force was appointed to explore new guidelines for professional conduct. See its message in our March issue. From The Actuary VOL. 15, No. 8

Description: In May 1981 the Academy distributed an exposure draft, “Qualification Standards To Sign Statements of Actuarial Opinion on NAIC Annual Statement Blanks.” In it we read, with pleasure, the following bit of proposed wording: “Before considering himself or herself qualified, the actuary should have sufficient experience . . . With that experience the actuary should have . . . developed a healthy skepticism concerning data and other information proffered by others . . .” This article describes that the healthy skepticism was removed in the future language and the editor's disagreement with the ommission.

Description: A sample is shown of age-adjusted death rates by cause in the United States population, compiled by H.E.W.‘s National Center for Health Statistics, which appear on pages 77-84 of the T.S.A. 1978 Reports distributed November 1979.

Description: Addresses U.K. actuarial discussion regarding “maturity guarantees”, i.e., the reserves necessary to support promises contained in investment-linked contracts.

Description: An article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no.17, issue no. 3 that discusses the math exam prizewinners and the ultimate impact this prize has the actuarial profession in terms of growth.

Description: This editorial, from the September 1983 issue of The Actuary, provides obituary information for Lucius McAdam, the first President of the American Institute of Actuaries, who died in 1913.

Description: This article shows a comparison of the growth rates of the S&P 500 common stock index vs. the U.S. Consumer Price Index over various 5 and 10 year periods.

Description: This paper undertakes to give dossiers of essentially all the actuaries who entered the profession in Canada or the United States up to about 1872. It includes those who died or left the profession before the Actuarial Society of America was formed in April 1889, and those who, in due course, became Fellows of that Society when or after it came into being. The paper also mentions some of the conditions under which the Actuarial Society was organized, and suggests that a yet fuller story of how the actuarial pioneers coped with circumstances and events of more than a century ago would be a desirable record to document. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984, Vol. 36.