Description: Article Portrait Of An Actuary by Moorhead in The Actuary, April 1979, Volume 13, Number 4

Description: Name correction to previous article November 1981 The Actuary

Description: This article is about a discussion at a 1919 joint meeting of the Actuarial Society and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors on prohibition.

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.

Description: The author, editor of the Actuary, presents a somewhat serious argument for Calendar Reform, specifically the use of the World Calendar, proposed some 50 years earlier to an international study group.

Description: The 1982-83 appeal for Minority Recruiting Project money is in full swing, says William E. Watson of our Subcommittee. As usual, appeals are made to two groups: companies that employ actuaries, and individuals such as you and me.

Description: This featured several amusing references to the actuarial profession in various venues including an open letter, a story and a play.

Description: This article is a book review of 'Adventures and Misadventures in the Stock Market' by retired actuary, James G. Bruce, who talks about his personal finances. Asked by the reviewer why he believes that actuaries might appreciate his book, Mr. Bruce mentions that actuaries have curiosity about how people, especially fellow actuaries, reason, act and react that they may relish judging how wise or foolish he’s been and that comparisons of his views with those of others may prove useful.

Description: This article discusses the works of Griffith Davies and other early writers on life contingencies.

Description: The article is about William Gordon, a Massachusetts life insurance advocate from the eighteenth century.