JUST 35 years after he was awarded a fellowship of the Institute of Actuaries in Britain Sept. 25, 1968, Stephen T. Meldrum celebrated the anniversary in Shenzhen with his colleagues in Ping An Insurance Company.

　　Meldrum arrived in Shenzhen in 1999 as chief actuary of Ping An after three decades with Lincoln National Life Insurance.

　　He was conferred a 2001 friendship award, a national award to expatriates for their outstanding contribution to China’s economic and social development bestowed by the Chinese Government.

　　Now living in the Silver Lake area, he is quite content with life in Shenzhen. Sometimes he goes to Hong Kong for cultural events and entertainment.

　　He has found himself something of a popular personality in China. Once he attended a seminar in Nankai University in Tianjin. Among the guests were highly ranked people from the international actuary industry such as the president of the International Actuaries Association. When the guests finished speeches and left, Meldrum found about a hundred people waiting for him outside. They all wanted to take photographs with him, ignoring the other VIPs.

　　When he went to the northern China coastal city of Dalian for a meeting, he found hundreds of posters in the streets with his picture and wording which read: Stephen T. Meldrum has come to Dalian!