PROCEEDINGS May 15, 16, 17, 18, 2005 - Casualty Actuarial Society

REPORT OF THE VICE PRESIDENT—ADMINISTRATION 785The initial focus of the program includes CEOs and CFOsin insurance, reinsurance, and consulting firms, and actuaries,recruiters, and decision makers in the “broader financial services”sector (e.g., investment banks and mutual fund companies).Immediate plans for the campaign include introducing an advertisingprogram to build grassroots understanding and involvementwithin the profession, developing a resource kit enablingactuaries to communicate their value more effectively, and implementinga public relations program targeting key decision makerson enterprise risk management.Another effort to promote the actuarial profession involvesreaching out to young people with interests in math and science.The CAS, in conjunction with the Minority Recruitment Committee,awarded four Baltimore high school students with $500college scholarships at the 2005 CAS Annual Meeting. The students,who were honored for their achievements in mathematics,were Nahathai Srivali, Desmond Cooper, Tyre Wise, and DenitaHill.OTHER CAS ACTIVITIESSeveral other CAS activities contributed to the ongoing vitalityto the organization during 2005. The Publications ImplementationTask Force (PITF) was created to implement the recommendationsof the Publications Task Force. Chief among thePITF’s tasks is to launch the new CAS journal and to integrate itwith existing CAS publications. The PITF recommended that theProceedings continue to be published with CAS specifics suchas meeting minutes, financial reports, and obituaries, and that allpeer-reviewed papers be published in the new journal. The contentsof the Yearbook, minus the membership directory, will alsobe included combined with the Proceedings to create a new CASpublication. A yearly hard copy of the membership directory willbe available to members who request it, though it is expected