Description: This keynote debate from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses if the Society of Actuaries is adequately equipping its members for the role their employers and clients should expect of them. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: The author has been gathering facts about actuaries who were active in North America before the Actuarial Society of America was founded in 1889. The purpose of this exercise is to compile a definitive history of the North American actuarial profession in time for the Society of Actuaries centennial year, 1989. Furthermore, the author encourages all Society members to take a personal interest in the history project, both for the pleasure it offers and because of its bearing upon observance of the fundamental values that justify actuaries in calling theirs a profession.

Description: This is a general session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting that includes panelists debating the topic of whether the SOA is failing to equip its members for the role their employees and clients should expect of them.

Description: This is a presidential address to the Society of Actuaries by Dwight K. Bartlett III. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984, Vol. 36.

Description: A discussion of recent experiences of actuarial volunteers visiting Egypt