Obituary
Myles Hollander, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Professor Emeritus at Florida State University, passed away peacefully in Tallahassee, FL, on January 27, 2025. He was born in Brooklyn, NY on March 21, 1941. As an only child, Myles spent many afternoons at Ebbets Field and counted Jackie…
Pressley Warwick (Warry) Millar, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, passed away surrounded by his family, due to complications of heart failure on August 27, 2024. He was 85 years old.
Warry was born in Beverly, Mass., on June 1, 1939, to Norval Pressley and Marian…
Joseph George Caldwell died on April 16, 2024. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on March 23, 1942, and moved with his family to the United States in January, 1953. His family lived in Lakeland, Florida, and Newark, Delaware, before settling in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in June of 1956.…
John H. Wolfe, an IMS Life Member, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2024, in San Diego, California, after a battle with metastatic cancer. He was 90 years of age. He is best known in statistics as the inventor of model-based clustering in the 1960s, a field that has seen…
William (Bill) Strawderman, a brilliant mathematical statistician and a wonderful colleague and leader, passed away on October 1, 2024.
Born on April 25, 1941, Bill received a BS in Engineering Mathematics from University of Rhode Island in 1963, an MS in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1965, and an MS…