Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 details a national report on health care. Most of the Report of the 1970 National Health Forum is given over to the formal papers and prepared commentaries thereon that served to stimulate discussion at the Forum. The papers themselves amount to statements by proponents of what were perceived to be three alternatives in the financing of health care and three alternatives in the organization of health care.

Description: The Society of Actuaries established the Board of Publications which proudly announces the birth of the Record. This publication will contain all presentations and discussions at Concurrent Sessions during meetings plus transcripts of some addresses, lectures, and teaching sessions.

Description: This article notes that E. J. Moorhead will become Editor of The Actuary in January, 1979, succeeding A. C. Webster, who has edited the newsletter since its initial issue of March, 1967.

Description: The 7th Annual Report 1866 of the New York Superintendent of Insurance, available in the New York Public Library, includes the following story: “The Superintendent has recommended the passage of an act establishing the English Life Table No. 111 for males as the legal standard of expected mortality.

Description: This is an article that discusses the retreat of savings banks from mutuality. As we ponder the future of mutual life insurance, we should be aware of the change sweeping through the mutual savings bank industry.

Description: The persistent failure of the actuarial profession to cast a suitable definition of can be accounted for by the varied roles actuaries fulfill. This article reviews the extraordinary changes that have taken place in the work and the institutions actuaries serve. in the 25 year existence of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1968 – volume 2 - Issue 1 summarizing a talk at the Nebraska Actuaries Club on Dec. 14, 1967. The discussion involved the SOA's education and exam process.

Description: John Frederic Entz, born 1795 or 1797 in Switzerland, appears entitled to be recognized as having been this continent's first consulting actuary. His office during a number of mid-19th-century years was at 52 Wall Street, New York City.

Description: Thank you to John Angle for sending us a translation into English of a rejection letter to would-be contributors used, it is said, many years ago by a Mandarin Chinese Journal of Economics