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: Presidential letter addressing the abundance of opportunity for actuaries.

Description: Author, a past general chairperson of the E&E Committee and currently a member of the Education Policy Committee and the Board of Governors, explains why the Actuarial Mathematics Exam 150 contained written-answer questions.

Description: Early in 1982 our Committee sought the views of a random sample of 1,158 Fellows on the Society's election process. 776 67% of these questionnaires came in thus we got answers from one-sixth of all our Fellows to a series of questions that were expressed in agree-disagree form. This article summarizes the results of the survey.

Description: Historical background on John Ruskin, the man responsible for the motto of the Society of Actuaries: “The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions.”

Description: Interview featuring Andrew Lin the SOA’s youngest FSA to date.

Description: National Office of the Employee Plans Division of the IRS has included two “visiting actuaries,” Karen Krist and Amy Viener. We are each on leave from our private sector jobs, visiting the IRS for two and one years, respectively. The program is new, and in this article we would like to give our fellow actuaries some idea of why we are here.

Description: The vice president of Professional Services for the SOA gives an overview of the activities in his area.

Description: Provides a look at the present and future of E&E and the job of the SOA Board Task Force on Education formed in 1994.

Description: This article is a thank you letter to all people who volunteered to administer and supervise examinations. It is also an encouragement for people to continue volunteering.