Description: A description of the election process within the SOA, the role of the Board of Governors, and how the process has evolved from an on-the-spot balloting process to a mail-in process.

Description: Article Editorial Board Changes by Moorhead in The Actuary, April 1979, Volume 13, number 4

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: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Presentation by a panel of historians on the aspirations of actuaries who established our profession in North America, or who helped to organize the four actuarial bodies formed in 1889, 1909, 1914 and 1916.

Description: Article Why He's Who He Is - A Conversation With John O'Connor in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: discussion of the level and types of responses from members of the Society of Actuaries to enquiries of its members

Description: Discusses FIASCO”, the newsletter published in London that performs somewhat the same function for members of the Institute of Actuaries as The Actuary undertakes for Society members.

Description: The death of John S. Thompson shortly after his 95th birthday, reported in our January issue, caused us to wonder whether he was the oldest Fellow whose death is recorded in the Transactions.

Description: Asks readers to consider having SOA's Board impose discipline on special committees entrusted with matters requiring prompt resolution.

Description: The total number of actuaries-casualty, life and pension-in North America last year was 9,229 see our June 3, 1981 issue, page 7. The world is shrinking in actuarial affairs these days, just as it is in all other respects. But how lively an interest do actuaries in North America take in actuarial activities elsewhere on the globe? This article looks at these facts and the IAA membership of North American Actuaries.