Harrison Morton Wadsworth Jr.
Harrison Morton Wadsworth Jr. died August 3 at the age of 85. Wadsworth was born in Duluth, Minnesota, grew up in Miami Beach, Florida, and lived most of his life in Atlanta, Georgia. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Irene Hawkins Wadsworth.
Wadsworth earned his BIE degree and MS degrees from Georgia Tech and his PhD from Case Western Reserve University. He was a professor of statistics in the industrial and systems engineering department at Georgia Tech for 31 years and taught in China and Turkey. He operated his own quality auditing consulting business since retirement in 1991.
Wadsworth served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean conflict. He was a U.S. delegate and subcommittee chair to the International Standards Organization and the American National Standards Institute. He authored or coauthored several textbooks and served as editor of the Journal of Quality Technology. He received numerous awards and medals, including the American Society for Quality’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal. He also was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Burt Holland
Burt Holland, a professor at Temple University, died of ALS at home on June 21. He was 64 and is survived by his wife, Margaret, and children, Andrew, Ben, and Irene.
After earning a PhD in statistics from North Carolina State University in 1969, Holland served as a professor in the department of statistics at the Fox School of Business and Management. He taught a variety of courses and supervised doctoral dissertations, often helping candidates secure employment upon graduation. He was chair from 1991–1996.
In 2006, Holland created “Statistics in the News,” a course that has grown popular, for Temple’s quantitative literacy program. His graduate textbook, Statistical Analysis and Data Display, is a contemporary presentation of statistical methods that features extensive use of graphics for exploring data and displaying analysis. His research covered several topics, but particularly multiple comparison procedures.
Holland was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. His interests included travel, tennis, Philadelphia sports, and classical music.
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