Description: Article from The Actuary November 1992 – Volume 26, No. 9 is about seeking donations for minority recruiting scholarships

Description: This article announced the Executive Director for the SOA hired in 2000. Sarah J. Sanford, an executive with 20 years' experience in health care and association management, answered questions for The Actuary. From: The Actuary, January 2000, volume 34, issue 1.

Description: Letter from the president discussing the SOA’s emphasis on communicating with employers.

Description: Column discussing recent events at and around the SOA.

Description: Column from SOA president discussing opportunities for members of the SOA.

Description: In an article on the same subject, in the March 1976 issue of The Actuary, it was reported that the Sub-Committee on Notation of the International Actuarial Association had circulated a questionnaire among the various national organizations to sound out public opinion on the issue of linearization and expansion of the International Actuarial Notation. This article is an update on recent developments reflecting the Special Meeting on the International Actuarial Notation, held October 30, 1976 at the XX International Congress of Actuaries.

Description: The author, a professor of biostatistics, argues that the use of the terms “rate” and “probability” by epidemiologists, demographers-and actuaries, are often used incorrectly.

Description: The author discusses a definition of an actuary that he suggested several years earlier, noting that the public has a right to know why we think we constitute a profession, and why it should care. The author’s definition is: “that professional who is trained in evaluating the current financial implications of future contingent events.”

Description: This is Article No. 2 in a series about a current reform proposal about actuarial notation reform. Current reform negotiations have their origins in a paper presented to the 1968 International Congress of Actuaries by Boehm and Reichel in collaboration with nine other German-speaking actuaries.

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.