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

Description: An exciting array of reader responses has more than quadrupled our list of actuaries who practiced in North America too early in the nineteenth century to have become members of the Actuarial Society see May issue, page 6. Though still incomplete, the roster now contains 59 names. From The Actuary VOL. 16, No. 7

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the national commission on social security reform. Topics included: 1. Current financial status of the OASDI and HI programs short range and long range? 2. Options for solving the financing problems. 3. Goals of the NCSSR in solving these problems and recommendations determined to date. 4. General public understanding of the issues?

Description: This discussion at the San Francisco and Washington 1966 Regional Meetings covers three topics - Disability Benefits under Life or Health Insurance Policies, Changes in Individual Medical Expense Insurance in the Light of Medicare, and Optional Modes of Settlement.

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings covered topics related to individual life and health insurance including health topics, individual life underwriting, reinsurance, individual policy pension fund expenses, tax sheltered annuities, and market testing products.

Description: In the January issue of FIASCO is a suggestion from M. A. Pomery. There is also a vigorous exchange of views on whether the general insurance business that, to quote one writer, “for nearly 250 years has been conducted with a remarkable record of success by non-actuaries”, is in vast need of actuarial expertise.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 7 that is extracted from E. J. Moorhead's address to the Actuaries Club of Philadelphia in April 1985.

Description: This newsletter’s nominee for the most spectacular American at last summer’s International Congress is Prof. William S. Jewel1 of the University of California, Berkeley, who, as Mr. Hazelcorn reports in this issue, introduced the Congress subject, Generalized Models of the Insurance Business. Prof. Jewel encouraged actuaries to be receptive of, and tolerant towards, new methods, models, and paradigms.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1992: 1. 'Broken Promises: The Inside Story of the Failure of Executive Life' by Vic Modugno, 2. 'Within the System: My Half Century in Social Security' by Robert J. Myers, 3. 'Insurance Risk Models' by Harry H. Panjer and Godon E. Willmot, and 4. 'Social Security: What Every Taxypayer Should Know' by A. Haeworth Robertson. Notices of Social Security notes and studies are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1992, Vol. 44.

Description: Among actuarial newsletters these days, we have one that's new one that's using a computer, one that sports a new editor and one that has both a new editor and an increased issue frequency.