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: This is an article about the education provided for actuaries highlighting a paper presented to the Institute in London in January 1982 by W. W. Truckle, F.I.A., Director of that body's Actuarial Tuition Service. Written to provide a framework for oral and written discussion, it features questions rather than opinions.

Description: An article in which the author encourages members to exercise their right to vote and vote, especially given that steps have begun to expand the actuarial profession and its role in society.

Description: Discusses the book, Demography in Early America, Beginnings of the Statistical Mind, by James Cassedy. This book is an inquiry into the introduction and growth of statistical methods and ideas in early America, mainly insofar as they were applied to human vital events and population movements.

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 article summarizes disciplinary actions taken during May and June 2011 by Society of Actuaries' Discipline Committees convened to review matters referred by the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline ['ABCD'].

Description: This article discusses actuaries and their hobbies, in this case, sports cars.

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: The December 2013/January 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This content contains an addendum to the 1973 Society of Actuaries' Year Book to reflect liaison Committee appointments for Gerald Hartman, Horace McCubbin, George Morison, Wendell Milliman, and Robert Flott. Also described an addendum to Robert Myers' Medicare book.