The First Fifty Years

Let me say at the beginning that this is not a history of the Casualty Actuarial Society. I have neither the time nor the talent to do the research and analysis necessary for such an undertaking, and more importantly, there are others eminently more qualified if a definitive history is to be written. This is but a footnote to that undertaking and if, in this presentation, you find a certain skewness to the story, an offbalance of the facts, if the wrong things are emphasized and the right ones omitted, please forgive my wayward pen. There is such a vast amount of material, important and trivial, serious and silly, dull and lively, that I have had to be selective to stay within considered and considerate limitation, and I have selected, quite frankly, what interested or amused me, thinking, I hope rightly, that it would interest or amuse you.