Description: Article On Making Ourselves Useful In Our Communities by Moorhead in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6. Gasoline conservation.

Description: The total number of actuaries-casualty, life and pension-in North America last year was 9,229 see our June 3, 1981 issue, page 7. The world is shrinking in actuarial affairs these days, just as it is in all other respects. But how lively an interest do actuaries in North America take in actuarial activities elsewhere on the globe? This article looks at these facts and the IAA membership of North American Actuaries.

Description: FIASCO has reported from London that the Institute President and at least thre other members of its 35-member governing body are left-handed, a proportion said to be above their national average, though not necessarily significantly so.

Description: Asks readers to consider having SOA's Board impose discipline on special committees entrusted with matters requiring prompt resolution.

Description: This article gives an overview and recommendation of the book, Protecting Against Inflation - And Maximizing Yield by John M. Bragg. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 4

Description: This is an editorial about what to charge retirees for meetings. In general, the Society’s treatment of its retired members is enlightened and humane. The dues waiver system had been adopted long ago. The new question of the meeting charge for retirees has now been raised.

Description: This is an editorial about the expression of professional opinion about matters outside the special professional competence of actuaries, and we aren’t urging that Article X be either amended or violated.

Description: The minority program reached its goal for 1981. Our thanks to five companies and fifteen individual actuaries who saw the appeal in our December 1981 issue and responded with cheeks totalling $3,935 for the Minority Recruiting Program.

Description: In the fall of 1983, the Actuaries’ Club of the Southwest set an example that other clubs and writers would do well to follow. Its president proposed as one of its projects a “history of the Club and actuarial practices in the Southwest.” Would that other laborers in the historical vineyard could be half as fortunate!

Description: Messrs. George Calat, Kenneth T. Clark, Stephen C. Frechtling, Frank L. Griffin, Thomas P. Tierney and Dale H. Yamamoto answered our January Query with ideas for the imaginary advisory pamphlet. This article is a somewhat humorous summary of their replies.