Description: Editor's version of how The Actuary got its start. Pays homage to E. Jack Moorhead and the original production staff.

Description: In this editorial, the author asserts that spring and summer are the times insurance companies should participate in the management process that reaffirms or revises their strategic plan. It is a time to reset one’s long-term aim.

Description: This article is an interview with Linda Emory in which she reflects on a few aspects of her new position as editor of The Actuary.

Description: President Gary Corbett cites the major issues he sees facing the SOA: education and examinations, research, actuarial principles, strengthening the profession, the future of the actuary/the actuary of the future, and employee benefits.

Description: This article highlights the nonroutine actions taken by the Board of Governors on January 21, 1988, in Chicago, Illinois.

Description: This article discusses the highlights of the 11th Conference of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries conference held in Munich, Germany on July 3-8, 1988.

Description: Vancouver actuary Bob Blake recently parlayed his knack for remembering odd facts into record breaking winnings of $82,501 on Jeopardy, television's most cerebral game show.

Description: In June, when champagne corks pop in celebration of the centennial of the actuarial profession, there will be something else to celebrate: the launch of the profession’s sparkling four-color magazine, Contingencies.

Description: I read with interest the article by Sheri Lynn Levine in the November 1988 issue of The Fibonacci Quarterly on ‘Suppose More Rabbits Are Born.’ Levine,like Fibonacci, assumes that rabbits never die and made additional assumptions regarding rates of reproduction.

Description: When I first became a member of the Society of Actuaries. I used to enjoy hearing, or reading the Secretary’s summary of the “nonroutine” business transacted by the Board. In those days I wondered how one determined what was “routine” and what was “nonroutine.” Somehow even the “nonroutine” often seemed pretty “routine!” with the benefit of a few years in the profession.