Description: This article describes the membership of the SOA outside of the United Sates. An informal count places the number of such members in active practice at 406.

Description: This article shows the census of pre-1889 actuaries in North America.

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

Description: Our distinguished colleague Oswald Jacoby had never reported Alan Truscott in The New York: Times held a hand in tournament play as potent as the one he picked up on March 22nd. From The Actuary VOL. 16. No 6

Description: The article discusses the actuaries role regarding the recommendations made by the National Commission on Social Security Reform. That responsibility is to spread the word. To see that citizens within our reach know what the recommendations are and the need for Congress to promptly enact them into legistlation.

Description: Headquarters having kindly sent the data, we are able to display the spread of new Fellows’ ages. The data is from 1981 and prior.

Description: In the fall of 1983, the Actuaries’ Club of the Southwest set an example that other clubs and writers would do well to follow. Its president proposed as one of its projects a “history of the Club and actuarial practices in the Southwest.” Would that other laborers in the historical vineyard could be half as fortunate!

Description: This editorial, from the September 1983 issue of The Actuary, provides obituary information for Lucius McAdam, the first President of the American Institute of Actuaries, who died in 1913.

Description: At least three of our members have received attention lately in The New York Times. This is a series of short pieces focusing on unusual and amusing stories of actuaries.

Description: This article contains the results of the Query for Actuaries on the meaning and usefulness of calculated ruin probabilities of life insurance companies.