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When did you first join the ASA?

Mohammed Shayib

Mohammed Shayib04-20-2016 13:10

I recall I joined in 1978. Thank you.
Phillip Allman

Phillip Allman04-21-2016 09:39

  • 1.  When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-18-2016 15:27

    This month, we honor our longtime members (35 or more years of membership) in Amstat News!

    How long have you been a member of the ASA? Why did you first join?

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    Lara Harmon
    Marketing and Online Community Coordinator
    American Statistical Association
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  • 2.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-19-2016 07:12
    Hello all I am a 50 year plus member. PhD VPI 1962. John Bartko


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  • 3.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-20-2016 01:22
    I joined in 1974 when I started graduate school at Virginia Tech.

    Margaret A Nemeth, Ph.D
    Statistical Consultants Plus, LLC
    636-305-0043
    314-973-3822 (Mobile)
    Sent from my iPad


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  • 4.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-20-2016 10:19

    I joined in 1974 while a student at SUNY at Buffalo.  Thanks.

                    Steve


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  • 5.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-19-2016 08:03
    Edited by Raid Amin 04-20-2016 09:57

    I joined ASA as a student member in the 1970's (undergraduate student at Baghdad University) while I still lived in Iraq. I remember not being able to fully understand the articles in JASA! I later studied at Virginia Tech for Ms and PhD in Statistics. 

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    Raid Amin
    Distingiished University Professor
    University of West Florida

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  • 6.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-19-2016 08:55

    I am a 75-year old retired Ph.D. statistician.  My original background was theoretical statistic, specifically, stochastic theory and its application.  I came to the National Cancer Institute as a Fogarty scholar in 1975 and joined the ASA probably next year. Because of illness and job changes, I had a year or two when I was not a member. My first exposure to applied statistics was a course on advanced regression and analysis of variance that John Bartko taught at NIH.  He was great.  I also enjoyed our discussions on John's passion and experience of worldwide shortwave radio!Thanks John.

    Ajit K. Thakur, Ph.D.

    Retired Statistician


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  • 7.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-19-2016 10:01

    I joined in 1964 when I starting teaching at the University of Maryland. I retired in 2008 and carelessly let my membership lapse for a year but rejoined in 2010. So I have been a member for 52 years with a gap. 


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  • 8.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-19-2016 10:46

    I joined in 1974, when I entered grad school to earn my PhD.  I joined in order to identify myself as a statistician and to be part of this group of professionals.  I must say, out of all the years I've been a biostatistician, I cannot recall even one day that I didn't want to go to work.  That may sound corny, but it's true.  What a great profession!  (even though most of my friends have no idea what I do...)

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    Martin L Lesser, PhD
    Director, Biostatistics Unit
    Feinstein Institute for Medical Reseach
    Northwell Health
    Manhasset, NY, USA

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  • 9.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-19-2016 14:25

    I first joined in 1966.

    David Levine


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  • 10.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-20-2016 02:15

    I think I first joined in 1978, when I started grad school, but I could be off by a year or so :-)


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  • 11.  membership

    Posted 04-19-2016 19:09

    I became a member in 1967.  The Department of Statistics at Colorado State University presentef the membership to me as a student and I have been a member ever sense.  I recommend that all departments of statistics provide student memberships to all of their majors---undergraduate as well as graduate.



  • 12.  RE: membership

    Posted 04-20-2016 01:49

    I became a member in 1967 - my second year in grad school in statistics. At the other end of my career, when I retired (emeritus, actually - if I were totally retired I would not be looking at this site!) I bought lifetime membership in ASA. That is a good bargain, I think, especially if one is an ASA Fellow. Thank you ASA. 


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  • 13.  RE: membership

    Posted 04-21-2016 11:16

    1972 in grad school.

    from my ZMAX ZTE




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  • 14.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-20-2016 07:35

    I joined in January of 1967 and now hold the post of Professor Emeritus at the University of Louisiana in Monroe since 2010.  My mentor at the time of my joining was Dr. Lonnie Bennett, PhD Oklahoma State University.  I received my doctorate from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and latter did a post doctorate at Mississippi State University.


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  • 15.  Membership

    Posted 04-20-2016 13:10

    I recall I joined in 1978. Thank you.



  • 16.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-20-2016 21:46

    I joined ASA in 1955, 61 years ago. 

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    Robert Riffenburgh
    Naval Medical Center

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  • 17.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-21-2016 01:04

    It was either 1976 or 1977 - pretty sure it was 1977. I was still a graduate student at the University of Kentucky. Defended my dissertation December, 1978. Move to Lincoln, NE in July, 1979. Never looked back.

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    Walter Stroup
    Univ Of Nebraska

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  • 18.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-21-2016 06:08

    Joined ASA in 1948 as an undergraduate in Applied Statistics at NYU, was at the Census Bureau 1950-63, then made a career as a demographer at Florida State.

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    Charles B. Nam

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  • 19.  Membership

    Posted 04-21-2016 09:39
    Edited by Phillip Allman 04-21-2016 10:09


  • 20.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-21-2016 20:05

    I joined in 1964 or 1965 and I've  benefited greatly from my membership.  Now, in retirement, I keep up reading JASA, TAS, Amstar News, and ASA Connect.

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    David Salsburg

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  • 21.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-22-2016 20:26
    Dr. Salsburg:
     
    And along with all the reading let's hope you find the time to update/revise your 2001 book The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century...
     
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    David Bernklau
    (David Bee on Internet)
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  • 22.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-25-2016 08:32

    Back when I was a graduate student at Cornell, in 1969 or thereabouts.  I've kept up my ASA membership throughout a career as a director of market research and database marketing.   I'm back to working as a statistician, not quite ready to retire.

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    Morris Olitsky
    Statistician
    USDA

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  • 23.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-25-2016 11:41

    I joined in 1966 (+/- 1 year). Fred Mosteller coerced all of us new grad students at Harvard into joining up, and I am very glad he did.

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    Herbert Weisberg
    President
    Causalytics, LLC

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  • 24.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 04-26-2016 07:45

    I'm not quite up to 30 years yet ... I joined in 1988 when I decided to start looking for a job in this field.

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    David Kenny
    AOPA Foundation Air Safety Institute

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  • 25.  RE: When did you first join the ASA?

    Posted 05-02-2016 09:00

    I believe I joined the Washington Statistical Society in 1969, when I was looking for a job after graduating from American University.  I asked about possible job leads and promised to join the ASA once I got a job.  In 1974 I joined ASA so that I could give my first technical presentation at JSM and attend my first annual meeting in St Louis.  It was the beginning of a long and rewarding association! 

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    Wendy Alvey

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