Grannan to Become
President; Conger Chosen President-Elect

ARLINGTON, Va.—At the close of the 2000 CAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. this month, Patrick J. Grannan will officially succeed Alice H. Gannon as CAS president. Robert F. Conger will assume the responsibilities of CAS president-elect.

CAS Fellows voted in October to elect Conger as president-elect. A CAS Fellow since 1979, Conger is a consulting actuary with Tillinghast-Towers Perrin in Atlanta, Georgia. The CAS vice president-administration from 1988-1991, Conger also served on the CAS Board of Directors from 1994-1997. Conger has served on the Audit Committee, both as a member and chairperson, the Examination Committee, and the MIS Task Force. He is currently a member of the Long Range Planning Committee and chairperson of the New Fellows Committee.

Four new directors were also elected to the CAS Board of Directors: Ralph S. Blanchard III, Janet L. Fagan, Michael J. Miller, and Deborah M. Rosenberg. The new directors will serve three-year terms. They succeed Paul Braithwaite, Jerome A. Degerness, Michael Fusco, and Stephen P. Lowe. As the most recent past president, Gannon will serve as chairperson for the CAS Board of Directors during 2001.

The number of Fellows voting this year was 820, or 39.7 percent of the total number of Fellows. Ballots cast last year totaled 881 or 45.7 percent of the total number of Fellows eligible to vote. Members of the CAS Nominating Committee for the 2000 CAS elections were chairperson Robert A. Anker, Albert J. Beer, Allan M. Kaufman, Steven G. Lehmann, and Mavis A. Walters.