Sir Andrew Herrick Rowell died on 27 August 1973 in his 84th year. To members of the Institute one tribute overshadows all the rest. He was our Centenary President. It was in June 1948 that the bonds of friendship and affection, so strong among actuaries the world over, but which had been so hard to sustain in the preceding years of war and its aftermath, were gloriously restored with the Centenary Assembly of the Institute of Actuaries in London at which Andrew Rowell, newly knighted by His Majesty, presided so memorably. To his contemporaries the Centenary Assembly was a time for old friends and new resolves. To one young actuary, not yet fully qualified, and he cannot have been alone, it was the kindling of a flame of love of and pride in his profession which still burns brightly today.