More Volunteers Join ASA Committees
Jim Dickey, Committees Coordinator
Advisory Committee on Continuing
W
ith this August’s Joint Statistical have long histories as ASA volunteers. Both
Meetings fast approaching, 2008 have been association members for more Education. She also has been the president
President-elect Sally Morton than 30 years. of the ASA’s San Antonio Chapter.
continues to name volunteers to serve on Immediately joining the Committee on Another education committee appointee
the ASA’s more than 50 committees.
Applied Statisticians (to complete the term
is Brian A. Harris-Kojetin of the Office of
Beginning with the new committee
of a resigning member) is Marlene Egger of
Management and Budget to the Advisory
chairs for 2009, Edward A. Blair of the
the University of Utah. Egger, a long-time
Committee on Continuing Education.
University of Houston will take on that role
ASA member, comes to the committee with
Harris-Kojetin was recently a member of
for the Committee on Energy Statistics.
a strong volunteer résumé, including service
the Survey Review Committee.
Vincent Iannacchione of RTI International
as chair of both the Council of Chapters
Roger E. Tourangeau of the University
was just appointed to the committee and
Government Board and the Section on
of Maryland reverses Harris-Kojetin’s volun-
began serving immediately to replace a
Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences.
teer path. A former member of the Advisory
resigning member. Interestingly, both Blair
Marilyn M. Seastrom of the Department
Committee on Continuing Education (as
and Iannacchione joined the ASA in 1978.
of Education will become a member of the
well as the Census Advisory Committee),
Three new members join the
Deming Lectureship Committee next year.
Tourangeau will join the Survey Review
Committee on Membership Retention and
Seastrom recently served as secretary of the
Committee in 2009. Appropriately, he is
Recruitment: Jeanne Lorenson of Silver
Section on Survey Research Methods.
also a past chair of the Section on Survey
Spring, Maryland; Ronald D. Fecso of the
Nandini Kannan of The University
Research Methods.
General Accounting Office; and Michael
of Texas-San Antonio takes a slot on the
Finally, Michael Messner of the EPA
T. Longnecker of Texas A&M. While
Committee on Outreach Education. No
takes on the task of helping select the
Lorenson is new to both the association and
stranger to educational matters, Kannan
recipient of the W. J. Youden Award in
committee service, Longnecker and Fecso
served in 2004–2005 as the chair of the
Interlaboratory Testing, given by the ASA
committee of the same name. This will be
his first volunteer assignment.
Each year, more than 100 ASA volun-
teers are appointed to serve on the associa-
tion’s more than 50 committees. You can
volunteer for committee service or recom-
mend another at
www.amstat.org/comm/
nominations. n
Volunteers Wanted
Have you ever thought about serving on
an ASA committee of interest to you? The
success of the ASA depends on the ASA
committees and the volunteers who
serve on them.
Each year, vacancies are filled in nearly all
of the ASA’s 50+ committees, usually for
a three-year term. A list and description
of all the committees can be found at
www.amstat.org/comm.
You can volunteer or recommend
another by going to
www.amstat.org
and clicking on the blue-gray button
in the right-hand column, labeled
“Volunteer or Make Recommendations
for ASA Committee Membership.”
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