Description: This is an article about the education provided for actuaries highlighting a paper presented to the Institute in London in January 1982 by W. W. Truckle, F.I.A., Director of that body's Actuarial Tuition Service. Written to provide a framework for oral and written discussion, it features questions rather than opinions.

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: In May 1981 the Academy distributed an exposure draft, “Qualification Standards To Sign Statements of Actuarial Opinion on NAIC Annual Statement Blanks.” In it we read, with pleasure, the following bit of proposed wording: “Before considering himself or herself qualified, the actuary should have sufficient experience . . . With that experience the actuary should have . . . developed a healthy skepticism concerning data and other information proffered by others . . .” This article describes that the healthy skepticism was removed in the future language and the editor's disagreement with the ommission.

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: 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: 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: The Society’s computer has obediently coughed up an array of our 4,646 Fellows by year of completing Fellowship. These figures, composed of the 4,480 Fellows shown in our current Yearbook as of November 1, 1981 increased by 178 who qualified in the November 1981 examinations and decreased by deaths and other terminations. There is also detail on the SOA budget for 1981-1982 and historical financial statements.

Description: Article on details of SOA member growth by decades. At the end of 1929 the roster of Fellows counting both the Actuarial Society and the American Institute but eliminating duplications totalled 360. Half a century later, the number was 4,024.

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: 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.