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.

Description: The article discusses the actuaries role regarding the recommendations made by the National Commission on Social Security Reform. That responsibility is to spread the word. To see that citizens within our reach know what the recommendations are and the need for Congress to promptly enact them into legistlation.

Description: The author laments the fact that the current Speaker's Kit of the SOA gives no credit of achievements to actuaries since 1875.

Description: The Actuary’s editor, using the example of an actuary appointed to an NAIC Advisory Group, and an analogy with Jeane Kirkpatrick’s comment as U.S. delegate-designate to the United Nations, raises questions of professionalism and conflict of interest.

Description: This article contains the results of the Query for Actuaries on the meaning and usefulness of calculated ruin probabilities of life insurance companies.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, that discusses the New South Life Case which happens to be one of the mercifully few life companies in which a major deficit has been directly linked to miscalculation of policy reserves.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, discusses 35 members, dubbed two-timers who earned Fellowship in both the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries before these two merged, by passing separate and distinct examinations in each body from the first Associateship part to the last Fellowship part.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1 which talks about the need for actuarial memorabilia.

Description: This article describes the “Arithmeter”, invented by Elizur Wright, to expedite the calculations made necessary by the legislation that he himself had drafted that required the Massachusetts Insurance Department to compute net level premium reserves on all policies in force. One of the few Arithmeters in existence was donated to, and is now in the possession of, the SOA.

Description: This article pays homage to the outgoing Editor of The Actuary, Andrew C. Webster.