Scott Evans, 2011 ASA Development Committee Chair

The generous support of about 570 ASA members led to a record total of contributions to the ASA’s Annual Fund Drive during 2011. Nearly $50,000 was received, up $16,000 from last year’s record figure. Of this $50,000 figure, about $12,000 was for memorial gifts designated for scholarships honoring Bernie Harris and Martha Aliaga. The remaining $38,000 still exceeds the 2010 record figure by about 12%. Any way you look at it, ASA members have set new marks for generosity.

These funds helped the ASA promote the practice and profession of statistics in several ways during 2011. Here are a few examples of the ways gifts from ASA members were put to good use:

• Advocating to Congress and others promoting statistical literacy for K–12 students
• Addressing statistical education in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
• Supporting student travel awards
• Supporting a number of small conferences in developing countries
• Developing the new STATtr@k website for young statistics professionals

Supporters of the 2011 annual fund drive are listed at the end of this article. Also listed are those members who have taken part in the last three annual fund drives. The ASA is deeply fortunate to have such consistent support.

“I have come to realize how much ASA has given to me and how fortunate I have been to know so many of its members,” said Susan Spruill, a statistical consultant. “I rely on ASA’s publications and its members to help keep me up to date on methodologies and issues facing our profession. That’s why it is important to be a member of the ASA and to contribute to its continued efforts to educate the next generation of statisticians and promote our profession’s significance in all areas of science, humanity, finance, and education while upholding and promoting professional integrity.”

“I have had a very exciting and rewarding career in statistics for the past 30 years,” noted Eileen King of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “My career has allowed me the opportunity for continual growth both in the statistical and health care arena. I am always looking for opportunities to promote the field of statistics as a career to anyone with an aptitude for math and science. I gave to the ASA Annual Fund because I wanted to help fund opportunities for promoting the field of statistics and for providing funds to students who are interested in a career in statistics.”

Carol Thompson of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said, “I consider the membership dues I pay to be a fair reimbursement for the benefits I receive and of which I can take advantage. I choose to donate additionally as my ‘investment’ in what ASA can provide in the future to our members and to further enhance our profession’s role in society.”

The ASA Annual Fund Drive is further improved by organizations that supply matching funds to employee donations. We received matching funds this year from the following companies (ASA member donor name in parentheses):

• Amgen (George Williams and Steve Snapinn)
• GE Foundation (Tim Keyes)
• Millennium Pharmaceuticals (Mingxiu Hu)
• Monsanto (Margaret Nemeth)
• Pfizer (Christy Chuang-Stein)

The 2012 annual fund drive will kick off in late spring, though members have the opportunity to contribute throughout the year when they renew their memberships. On behalf of the ASA and the development committee, thank you for your support.

<$100

Athula Abeyratne
Suja Aboukhamseen
John Abowd
Erin Abrahams
Michael Adena
William Aflleje
Rabia Ahmad
Khalid Algabir
Diahn Allen
Rich Allen
Lily Altstein
Wendy Alvey
Jana Anderson
Alexander Andronov
Consuelo Arellano
Valerie Arneson
Selwyn Au
Stanley Azen
Geraldine Baggs
Jarrett Barber
Laurie Barker
Mary Bartholomew
Donald Bauder
Carolyn Beaudot
Cynthia Beller
Maria Beltrami-Carter
Alan Berger
Veronica Berrocal
Charles Berry
Wayne Bialas
Vadim Bichutskiy
Luigi Biggeri
Brian Birch
Gerard Blais
Todd Blessinger
Ricardo Bolado
Andrew Booker
Suko Bose
Nicholas Bowersox
Carles Breto
William Bridges
Lori and Marc Brody
Nancy Brucken
Babette Brumback
Rebecca Buchanan
Leonard Buchner
Janet Buckingham
Vicki Burt
Carolee Bush
Norman Bush
Patricia Busk
Shail Butani
Thomas Butts
Allen Buxton
Terri Byczkowski
Gregory Campbell
Joseph Cappelleri
Frank Caridi
Michael Carson
Daniel Casey
Grace Chan
Anne-Sophie Charest
Len and Judy Charles
Mon-Gy Chen
Cheng Chen
Janet Cherry
Sandra Clarkson
David Collins
Peter Compton
Margaret Connolly
Kimon Constas
Charles Contant
Tara Cope
John Cornell
Michael Costello
Michael Crane
Shirley Crary
Jeff Cromwell
Harry Cullings
Nina Cunningham
Jeanne Cushing
Veronika Czellar
Yahya Daoud
Nairanjana Dasgupta
Benjamin Davis
Alan Davis
Roger Day
Kweku Degraft Johnson
Yves Deville
Norou Diawara
David Dillard
Kevin Dobbin
Chris Dorger
Brian Drury
Joel Dubin
Richard Dudley
Michelle Dunn
Isabelle Dupzyk
Brenda Edwards
Michael Elliot
Tina Enemuoh
Thomas Erdahl
Nurtan Esmen
Daniel Feaster
Wenjuan Feng
Huaguang Feng
David Fennell
David Findley
Dianne Finkelstein
Terry Flanagan
Margrethe Flanders
Peter Flom
Julie Fondurulia
Doris Fontes
Richard Forshee
Samuel Fourie
Ralph Frankowski
Morton Frankson
Roger French
Julie Frentz
Brenda Fujikawa
Neal Fultz
Gary Gadbury
Mitchell Gail
A. Gallant
Constantine Gatsonis
Alexios Ghalanos
Arundhati Ghosh
Richard Giambrone
Phillip Gilley
Michael Ginevan
James Gleaton
John Glynn
Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
Emma Godfrey
Cynthia Goldstein-Hart
Joe Gonzalez
William Goodman
Arnold Goodman
Leonard Gordon
Jerry Gorham
James Grady
Robert Gray
Theodore Gray
Michael Greene
Natalia Gridneva
Susan Groshen
Arun Prasad Gurubaramurugeshan
Irwin Guttman
Adam Hafdahl
Gerald Hahn
James Hall
Michael Hallman
Katherine Halvorsen
Darrell and Jean Handrich
James Harris
Bradley Hartlaub
Gary Hatfield
Nathaniel Heckert
Donald Hedeker
Irene Helenowski
Jon Helgeland
David Higdon
Klaus Hinkelmann
Chiang-Hong Ho
Erin Hodgess
Thomas Hoffman
Heike Hofmann
Richard Holcomb
John Holcomb
Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat
Welling Howell
Yu-yi Hsu
Ernst Hyacinthe
ICF International
Manabu Iwasaki
William Iwig
Justin Jacobs
Peter Jaehnig
Gareth James
Imke Janssen
Amara Jayewardene
Jewish Primary Day School
5th Grade Class
Robert Johansen
Brian Johnson
Borko Jovanovic
Masato Kagihara
Ihsan Karabulut
Alex Kartashov
Charis Kaskiris
Richard Kasul
Talbot Katz
Elizabeth Kelly
Arthur Kennickell
Sibusisiwe Khuluse
David Kimble
Martin Klein
Carol Klein
Barbara Klotz
Henry Kranendonk
Mitchell Krask
Laura Kubatko
Lee Kucera
Scott Kush
Herbert Lacayo
Jodi Lapidus
Mary Larson
Eugene Laska
Lisa LaVange
Philip Lavin
Jerald Lawless
Louise Lawson
Martin Lee
Kelvin Lee
Sal Leggio
Eric Leifer
Cleridy Lennert-Cody
Russell Lenth
Sally Lesik
David Letcher
Adele Levine
Ernst Linder
Samuel Litwin
Gang Liu
Colin Loftin
Anthony Lonardo
Thomas Love
Kimberly Love-Myers
Wenbin Lu
Dennis Luckey
Gheorghe Luta
Timothy Lutz
Ryan Machtmes
Wendy Mack
Greg Maislin
Dalisay Maligalig
Michael Marron
Jack Marshall
Nami Maruyama
Joseph Massaro
Shelley Matsuba
Ryan Mattson
Margaret Maxfield
Jacinth Maynard
Alexander McClung
Thomas McCoy
Monnie McGee
Kimberly McGuigan
Raymond McIntyre
John McKenzie
Edward McLeod
Donald McMahon
Linda McWilliams
Michael Meredith
Ruth and Al Michaelsen
William Mietlowski
Mary-Jane Mietlowski
Steven Millard
Gregory Miller
Renee Miller
Mark Miller
George Milliken
William Morgan
Charles Nam
Rocco Napoli
Joyce Narine
Ronald Neath
Long Ngo
Michael Nolte
Eric Nordmoe
Chioma Nwosu
Daniel Oberle
Bryan Oberle
Claire O’Connor
Tetsuji Ohyama
Maria Ojeda
David Olive
Frank Olken
Alistair O’Malley
Nicholas Pajewski
Anita Palmer
Mari Palta
Eric Panken
Charles Papsadore
Won Park
Ian Parke
Paul Patterson
Raymond Peck
James Peluso
David Person
Luigi Pieri
Jose Pinheiro
Martha Pohl
Laila Poisson
William Pollard
Martin Posch
Philip Prorok
David Pyne
Jing Qian
Weiliang Qiu
James Ramsey
Ronald Randles
Sudhakar Rao
Ray Redd
Paul Reed
Melissa Reitkopp
Joel Reynolds
Robert Reynolds
Julian and Katherine
Rheaume
Matthew Riebel
Mary Ritter
Douglas Robson
Richard Rode
Juan Romo
Michael Rossi
Clayton Ruffino
Estelle Russek-Cohen
Rachel Rutkowski
George Ryan
William Sabol
Susan Sanchez
Ulderico Santarelli
Robert Santos
Niraj Sapkota
Sandra Kay Savik
Terrance Savitsky
Arnold Saxton
Robert Scheer
Nathaniel Schenker
Christopher Schmid
Paul Schmidbauer
Mildred Schmidt
Paul Schneeman
David Schoenfeld
John Schoolfield
John Schuenemeyer
Stephen Senn
John Senner
Nagambal Shah
Ningyan Shen
Patrick Shrout
Michael Shwartz
Satya Siddani
Eric Siegel
Miles Simpson
Craig Slinkman
Jeffrey Smith
Brian Smith
Stephanie Smullen
Steven Sonder
Henry Sopher
Susan Spruill
Christopher Sroka
Nancy Stambler
Ryan Steckel
Marco Steenbergen
Susan Stewart
John Stickler
Daniel Stram
Robin Streeter
John Strohm
Mark Strong
Walter Stroup
Ruth Swanton
Glenn Swetman
Jeffrey Switchenko
Daniel Tancredi
Kezhen Tang
Eshetu Tefera
Thomas Tenhave
Erin Thomas
Steven Thomson
Surya Tokdar
Tamara Tom
Robert Torotra
Shirley Tsai
Jay Tuthill
Esa Uusipaikka
Sean Vadney
David van Dyk
Cynthia Van Landingham
Julia Volaufova
Roger Walker
John Walsh
Liuxia Wang
Naisyin Wang
Ferdinand Wang
Daniel Wardrop
Michael Wathen
Watts Landscaping Service
Michael Weaver
Clarice Weinberg
James Wendelberger
Brady West
Peter Westfall
Anton Westveld
James Whipple
Charles White
Linda Whitehand
Mark Wilcoxen
Kenneth Wilkins
G. Williamson
Othmar Winkler
Deb and Jon Winkler
Michael Wolf
Derek Wong
Caleb Wright
Michael Wulfsohn
Kazunori Yamaguchi
Jie Yang
Hung-Wen Yeh
Lisa Ying
Marian Yong
Tonglin Zhang
Jun Zhang
Georgia Ziemba Morgan
Corwin Zigler

$100–$499

Dorothee Aeppli
Alfredo Aliaga
Albert Anderson
Arlene Ash
Vincent Barabba
Carol Bigelow
Richard Bittman
Mary Ellen Bock
John Boyer
James Breneman
Peter Bruce
Kenneth Burnham
Bruce Craig
David Cross
Cytel
Robert Davis
Jay Devore
Jim Dickey
Marie Diener-West
Jonas and Susan Ellenberg
Scott Evans
Ronald Fecso
Justin Fisher
Christine Franklin
Stephen Ganocy
Joseph Gastwirth
John Gaudiosi
Thomas Gerig
Robert Gerwien
Dennis Gilliland
Yesvy Gustasp
Donald Guthrie
John Hall
Susan Handrich
Choudary Hanumara
Frank Harrell
Brian Harris-Kojetin
Xuming He
Susan Hilsenbeck
David Hoaglin
Nicholas Horton
Michael Ikeda
Nicholas Jewell
Richard and Roberta Johnson
Gerald Joireman
Henry Kahn
Lee Kaiser
Theodore Karrison
Jerome Keating
Tim Keyes
Eileen King
Elizabeth King-Sloan
Gary Koch
Uwe Koehn
Nicholas and Georgia Kolettis
Peter Lachenbruch
James M. Landwehr
Audrey Lee
Rod Little
Thomas Louis
Marcus Theatres of Madison
Robert Mason
Madhuchhanda Mazumdar
Donald McClure
Barbara McIntyre
Jeri Metzger
Katherine Monti
Jerry Moreno
Motomi Mori
Michael Mout
Ed and Jeri Mulrow
Mary Mulry
Wayne Nelson
Margaret Nemeth
Rebecca Nichols
Robert T. O’Neill
Jean Opsomer
J. Keith Ord
Roxy Peck
Eva Petkova
Martin Ribe
Barbara Robles
Joan Rosenblatt
Charles Rowland
V. Samaranayake
Adriano Sarmiento
Stanley Sclove
Richard Smith
Marla Smith
Dolores Smith
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Daniel Solomon
Ed Spar
Nancy Spruill
Robert Starbuck
John Stewart
Lev Sverdlov
Wendy Swanson
TDS Construction
Ronald Thisted
Carol Thompson
Alan Tupek
Vassiliy Voinov
Christine Waternaux
Sanford Weisberg
Andrew White
George Williams
Gooloo Wunderlich
Donald Ylvisaker
Jerome Yurow
Marvin Zelen

$500–$999

Christy Chuang Stein
Nancy Geller
Mark Gunderson
Dallas Johnson
Daniel Kasprzyk
Jon Kettenring
Margaret Martin
Sally Morton
Sastry Pantula
Robert Rodriguez
Steve Snapinn
Juanita Tamayo Lott
Jessica Utts
Leland Wilkinson

$1,000 +

David Banks
Keith Crank
Marie Davidian
Susan Harris
Mingxiu Hu
J. Stuart Hunter
Ron Wasserstein

Participants from the last three annual fund drives

Erin Abrahams
Michael Adena
Dorothee Aeppli
Alfredo and Martha Aliaga
Lily Altstein
Wendy Alvey
Alexander Andronov
Arlene Ash
Stanley Azen
David Banks
Jarrett Barber
Laurie Barker
Maria Beltrami-Carter
Todd Blessinger
Mary Ellen Bock
Ricardo Bolado
John Boyer
Nancy Brucken
Janet Buckingham
Norman Bush
Thomas Butts
Frank Caridi
Anne-Sophie Charest
Christy Chuang Stein
Sandra Clarkson
Peter Compton
Margaret Connolly
Charles Contant
Harry Cullings
Veronika Czellar
Benjamin Davis
Jay Devore
Joel Dubin
Isabelle Dupzyk
Nurtan Esmen
Scott Evans
Ronald Fecso
Huaguang Feng
Dianne Finkelstein
Julie Fondurulia
Samuel Fourie
Christine Franklin
Ralph Frankowski
Neal Fultz
Joseph Gastwirth
Nancy Geller
Thomas Gerig
Robert Gerwien
Alexios Ghalanos
Michael Ginevan
Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
Joe Gonzalez
Arnold Goodman
William Goodman
Susan Groshen
Donald Guthrie
Adam Hafdahl
Choudary Hanumara
Jon Helgeland
Susan Hilsenbeck
David Hoaglin
Heike Hofmann
Richard Holcomb
Nicholas Horton
Welling Howell
Yu-yi Hsu
J. Stewart Hunter
Michael Ikeda
Manabu Iwasaki
William Iwig
Peter Jaehnig
Imke Janssen
Ananda Jayawardhana
Masato Kagihara
Lee Kaiser
Ihsan Karabulut
Theodore Karrison
Daniel Kasprzyk
Jerome Keating
Elizabeth Kelly
Elizabeth King-Sloan
Martin Klein
Gary Koch
Uwe Koehn
Peter Lachenbruch
Jodi Lapidus
Eugene Laska
Eric Leifer
Russell Lenth
David Letcher
Anthony Lonardo
Juanita Tamayo Lott
Thomas Love
Timothy Lutz
Ryan Machtmes
Wendy Mack
Dalisay Maligalig
Nami Maruyama
Robert Mason
Joseph Massaro
Madhu Mazumdar
Alexander McClung
Barbara McIntyre
Raymond McIntyre
John McKenzie
Mary-Jane Mietlowski
William Mietlowski
Steven Millard
Katherine Monti
Jerry Moreno
Sally Morton
Ed and Jeri Mulrow
Mary Mulry
Margaret Nemeth
Claire O’Connor
Jean Opsomer
J. Keith Ord
Sastry Pantula
Charles Papsadore
Raymond Peck
Luigi Pieri
Martha Pohl
David Pyne
Paul Reed
Melissa Reitkopp
Martin Ribe
Robert Rodriguez
Rachel Rutkowski
William Sabol
V. Samaranayake
Ulderico Santarelli
Robert Santos
Robert Scheer
Paul Schmidbauer
Mildred Schmidt
John Schoolfield
John Schuenemeyer
Stanley Sclove
Nagambal Shah
Patrick Shrout
Satya Siddani
Eric Siegel
Dolores Smith
Marla Smith
Steve Snapinn
Daniel Solomon
Steven Sonder
Ed Spar
Nancy Spruill
Christopher Sroka
Robert Starbuck
Marco Steenbergen
John Stewart
Susan Stewart
Mark Strong
Walter Stroup
Wendy Swanson
Ruth Swanton
Glenn Swetman
Ronald Thisted
Carol Thompson
Cynthia Van Landingham
Vassiliy Voinov
Ron Wasserstein
Andrew White
Linda Whitehand
Derek Wong
Jie Yang
Hung-Wen Yeh
Donald Ylvisaker
Marian Yong
Marvin Zelen
Corwin Zigler