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1 327 OBITUARIES S. BRUCE BLACK WILLIAM BREIBY PAUL DORWEILER WILLIAM F. DOWLING S. BRUCE BLACK S. Bruce Black, a charter member of the Casualty Actuarial Society, died at his home in Waban, Massachusetts, on December 7, He was chairman emeritus and honorary director of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and the Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Black, for 32 years president and for six years chairman of the board of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, was a native of Wisconsin. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he joined Liberty Mutual in 1917 as treasurer of the firm. Two years later, he was elected vice president and actuary and in 1923 he was elected vice president and general manager. That same year he was elected vice president and treasurer of the Liberty, Mutual Fire Insurance Company. At the age of 32, in 1924, Mr. Black was elected president and a director of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and a director and vice president and general manager of the Liberty Mutual Fire Company. In 1942 he was also elected president of the Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In 1962, Mr. Black was made honorary chairman of the board of both companies and in 1966, he was elected chairman emeritus and honorary director of the two firms. From 1963 to 1966, he was a director of the Liberty Company. Life Assurance At the time of his death, Mr. Black was a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of the Mutual Boiler and Machin-

2 328 OBITUARIES ery Insurance Co., a trustee of Northeastern University, and a member of the boards of Ripon College and the Medical Foundation of Boston. In 1949, Mr. Black received an honorary Doctor of Laws and Letters degree from the University of Maine, and in 1957 he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Tufts. Mr. Black is survived by his wife, Adele; three sons, Donald T. Black of Burtonsville, Maryland, Robert Bruce Black, Glen Echo, Maryland, and Wallace Gordon Black of Hadley, Massachusetts, who is currently on a two-year work tour in Africa for the University of Massachusetts; nine grandchildren; a sister, Mary Stott Black of Whitewater, Wisconsin, and a brother, Harry Black of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. WILLIAM BREIBY The death of William Breiby, chairman of the board of Western Travelers Life Insurance Company and former vice president and director for Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, brought to a close a 66-year career in the actuarial field. He was a charter member of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He died in Los Angeles on August 5, 1968 at the age of 84. Mr. Breiby entered the New York office of consulting actuary David Parks Fackler in In 1919 he became a partner and with Edward B. Fackler continued as Fackler and Breiby, specializing in the investigation of insurance companies and pension funds. Their partnership continued until During this period he served as consulting actuary for the United States Veterans Administration Government Life Insurance and introduced that organization s policyholder dividend plan. He also appeared before United States Senate committees as a pension expert in relation to legislation for railroad employees. Later, in 1943, he assisted Governor Earl Warren and the California Legislature in revising the State Teachers Retirement Plan. His long relationship with Pacific Mutual Life began in 1937 when he joined the company as a vice president and continued beyond his official retirement 22 years later. His experience was exceedingly valuable during Pacific Mutual Life s successful steps toward complete mutualization which

3 OBITUARIES 329 was achieved in That same year, although Mr. Breiby retired as an executive and director, he opened his own offices as a consulting actuary and advisor on retirement plans and life company operations. He was elected to the chairmanship of Western Travelers board in Mr. Breiby was a member of the Fraternal Actuarial Association, International Congress of Actuaries, Insurance Society of New York, the Actuarial Club of the Pacific States, and the Los Angeles Actuarial Club. He also made substantial contributions to the literature of life insurance, in the field of management as well as actuarial science. Ethel DeGray Breiby preceded her husband in death in had been married for 49 years. They PAUL DORWEILER Paul Dorweiler, past president of the Casualty Actuarial Society, died in his sleep, May 18, 1968, after a day of typical activity. He was 88 years old and had been a member of the Society for fifty years, having become an Associate in and a Fellow in He was born in Kossuth Co., Iowa and grew up on the family farm there. As was not uncommon in those days, he taught elementary school for a time before he graduated from the University of Iowa in Thereafter he spent a dozen years as a mathematics instructor, first in the high school of Sioux City, Iowa, then at Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago and at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He studied also at the University of Chicago and at the University of Michigan in this period. His first insurance connection was with the Reliance Life Insurance Company in Pittsburgh. William Leslie was the actuary of that Company. Mr. Dorweiler had joined the staff of the National Workmen s Compensation Service Bureau at New York City, when his insurance career was interrupted for service in World War J. This organization was a forerunner of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters and the present Jnsurance Rating Board. At the Bureau he worked with others whose names are, like his own, familiar to casualty actuaries - Professor A. W. Whitney, G. F. Michelbacher, Marcus Meltzer, and Miss Olive Outwater.

4 330 OBlTUARlES When Dorweiler was separated from the service as Captain, U.S. Army, he returned to the Bureau, but immediately the Aetna Life Insurance Company invited him to Hartford for its casualty operations. His affiliation with this group of companies began on February 1, 1919, not to terminate until his retirement in He was elected actuary of the Accident and Liability Department of Aetna Life in 1928 and later actuary of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, when the business other than Life and Accident and Health was being consolidated in the latter company and other subsidiaries. Mr. Dorweiler not only served the companies well as their casualty actuary but also the industry as Ztna s representative on actuarial and related committees, over a period of three decades. Apposite comments on some of Dorweiler s professional contributions are found in the late Dudley Pruitt s delightful history entitled The First Fifty Years, in PCAS LI, specifically, on page 172. In 1932 Paul Dorweiler became President of the Casualty Actuarial Society and served two terms. His papers in the Proceedings, both before and after his presidency, and his presidential addresses were authoritative contributions to casualty actuarial technology, as witness the retention of several in the 1969 Syllabus of readings for students, years after their author s retirement. The last official act of Dorweiler s as President of the Society was to preside at the twentieth anniversary celebration in November Older members may recall, and smile again, with no disrespect to the memory of their past presidents, Tarbell and Dorweiler, over one of the skits citing the actuarial firm of Tarweiler and Doorbell. Paul Dorweiler s devotion to his profession and the Society carried beyond his death as he remembered the Casualty Actuarial Society in his will. In his last year before retirement, Dorweiler participated in the preparation of Multiple Line Insurance, a book of the McGraw-Hill Insurance Series, by G. F. Michelbacher and a group of cooperating specialists. Thereafter, for a few months he assisted with the actuarial work of the Connecticut Insurance Department. Among other things, Mr. Dorweiler was for many years a member of the American Standards Association s committees concerned with standardization of work injury experience. The American Statistical Association

5 OBITUARIES 331 and the Association of Casualty Accountants and Statisticians were also among his professional affiliations. He was also a member of the First Unitarian Congregational Church, Hartford, and retired Chairman of that Society s Committee. Mr. Dorweiler was of a rather large family. A bachelor himself, he cherished the members of the immediate generations of his family and devoted considerable time to research of the family tree. A man well versed in sports, particularly baseball, which he played in his youth as catcher on the West Bend town team, he would be found on a fall Saturday afternoon at the Yale Bowl, or at Trinity, Wesleyan, or Coast Guard. Paul Dorweiler was a friendly, kindly, and loyal man, mourned by all who knew him, withal of signal ability and integrity. WILLIAM F. DOWLING William F. Dowling, an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society since 1941, died in his home in Garden City, New York, June 29, Mr. Dowling attended Pace Institute in New York and shortly thereafter received his certificate as a Certified Public Accountant. He was employed at the Royal-Globe Insurance Company and thereafter with the consulting firm of Wolfe, Corcoran and Linder. He joined the Lumber Mutual Casualty Company in 1928 as chief accountant. In that company, whose name was subsequently changed to New York Mutual Casualty Company, he progressed to assistant treasurer, vice president, executive vice president, and then president. When the New York Mutual was merged with the Empire Mutual in 1965, Mr. Dowling became a principal in Nymco Insurance Agency and was with that organization until he retired in Mr. Dowling was a former director of the New York Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation, and he also served on the advisory committee of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Mr. Dowling is survived by his wife, Margaret; a son, Dr. William F. Dowling, Jr., a dentist; and three daughters, Sister Mary Regina, SSND, Regina, and Agnes; also five grandchildren, a brother, and three sisters.

OBITUARIES. Edward C. Andrews Russell 0. Hooker Ralph M. Marshall Nels M. Valerius Max S. Weinstein John C. Wooddy

OBITUARIES. Edward C. Andrews Russell 0. Hooker Ralph M. Marshall Nels M. Valerius Max S. Weinstein John C. Wooddy 485 OBITUARIES Edward C. Andrews Russell 0. Hooker Ralph M. Marshall Nels M. Valerius Max S. Weinstein John C. Wooddy EDWARD C. ANDREWS 1908-1987 Edward C. Andrews, an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial