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 discusses the previous age 25 year old requirement for Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Affiliate Memberships aren’t new to the Institute of Actuaries, but they are rare. Only 16 such members are listed in its current Year Book of these, however, 6 are in the United States. These actuaries have had “the same rights and privileges as Honorary Members.”

Description: Discusses movement of the SOA's book collection from the Library of the Insurance Society of New York to SOA offices.