A Look Back

by Elizabeth A. Smith

Numbered in the photograph below are attendees of the sixth regular meeting of the Casualty Actuarial and Statistical Society, the precursor to the Casualty Actuarial Society. The group posed for the photo on May 26, 1916, following a luncheon held at the Hartford Golf Club in Hartford, Connecticut.

Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut hosted the meeting in its Assembly Hall on May 26 and 27, 1916. Thirty-one Fellows and three Associates attended the meeting. As of this meeting, the Society was composed of 139 Fellows and 13 Associates, for a total of 152 members.

Though not dressed in the customary business casual attire of today's CAS meetings, this group is decidely casual. Some of the Society's most esteemed members compose this assemblage. Numbers 20 and 25 would go on to form a prestigious firm and have a CAS prize named after them. Possibly the most influential of the group, Number 23, seems to be in another place as he looks away from the camera into the distance. Perhaps this Society president and CAS founder is thinking about the future?

1. Herbert Hess 2. George B. Buck 3. W. R. Williamson 4. L.G. Hodgkins 5. H. Pierson Hammond 6. James D. Craig 7. A. H. Craig 8. John M. Parker Jr. 9. Edward B. Morris

10. Charles Hughes 11. Leon S. Senior 12. George D. Moore 13. Edward S. Goodwin 14. Henry Farrer 15. S. Leon Levy 16. B.A. Hunt 17. Fred S. Garrison 18. Virgil M. Kime 19. U.H. Brockway

20. Joseph H. Woodward 21. Albert W. Whitney 22. Benedict D. Flynn 23. I.M. Rubinow 24. Claude E. Scattergood 25. Richard Fondiller 26. Harwood Ryan 27. S. Bruce Black 28. Everett S. Fallow