D'Arcy Wins President-Elect; Miller to Become CAS President

ARLINGTON, Va.— CAS members elected Stephen P. D'Arcy as CAS President-Elect for 2004. D'Arcy will take on his new position at the close of the 2003 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Mary Frances Miller will succeed Gail M. Ross as CAS president, who in turn will become chairperson of the 2004 CAS Board of Directors.

Balloting for the CAS election closed on September 2, 2003, and tellers verified the election results. A total of 1,273 Fellows, or 50.8 percent, voted in this year's election. Those Fellows voting in the 2002 election numbered 49.1 percent; 58.2 percent of Fellows voted in the 2001 election.

D'Arcy, who earned his CAS Fellowship in 1975, is a professor in the department of finance for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served as CAS liaison to the American Risk & Insurance Association since 1994. He is currently the chair of the Long Range Planning Committee

Election Counts According to the 2002 election procedures approved by the Board, all vote counts are released to the membership. President-Elect Candidate Votes Stephen P. D'Arcy 1,113 Total     1,113 Director Candidate Votes Sholom Feldblum 778 Andrew E. Kudera 573 Robert V. Deutsch 569 Robert F. Wolf 564 Chester J. Szczepanski 415 Jay B. Morrow 399 Clive L. Keatinge 385 David L. Menning 363

and a member of the Committee on Review of Papers. Among his many CAS activities, D'Arcy has served on the CAS Board of Directors (1999-2002), Textbook Rewriting Committee (1998-2001), and the Exams 3 & 4 Contingency Plan Task Force (2000-2001). D'Arcy has also written numerous Proceedings and Forum papers.

Members also elected Robert V. Deutsch, Sholom Feldblum, Andrew E. Kudera, and Robert F. Wolf to the CAS Board of Directors. They succeed Ralph S. Blanchard III, Janet L. Fagan, Michael J. Miller, and Deborah M. Rosenberg.

At their meeting in September, the board elected Ms. Rosenberg to serve as vice president-administration, succeeding Sheldon Rosenberg, who has completed a three-year term. All incumbent vice presidents were re-elected by the board, including Thomas G. Myers, vice president-admissions; John C. Narvell, vice president-international; Roger A. Schultz, vice president-marketing & communications; Christopher S. Carlson, vice president-professional education; and Donald E. Mango, vice president-research and development. [In a later development, the board appointed Joanne S. Spalla to replace a retiring Schultz as vice president-marketing & communications.]

Members of the 2003 Nominating Committee are Chairperson Patrick J. Grannan, Robert F. Conger, Doreen S. Faga, Leon R. Gottlieb, Anne E. Kelly, Steven A. Kelner, and Julia Causbie Stenberg.