The ASA turned 180 years old in November! To celebrate, we designated November 22, 2019, ASA Day. Prizes were awarded for several contests, and the winners are below.
History Quiz Contest
Question 1: What library is used to archive ASA historical materials?
Answer: Iowa State University Parks Library
Winner: Karl Broman
Question 2: What ASA president served as president (chancellor) of the University of Rochester and served as an adviser to US presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan?
Answer: W. Allen Wallis
Winner: Steve Wang
Haiku Contest
Student Entry First Place: Doha Akad
As a bird far flies
As stars are above the skies
Statistics applies
Non-Student Entry First Place: Larry Lesser*
So much more than math
ASA illuminates
like Nightingale’s lamp
Non-Student Entry Second Place (Tie): Anne Milley
Many shades of gray
Statistics leads the way to
understand much more
Non-Student Entry Second Place (Tie): Barry Nussbaum
One eighty years old
Helping a profession grow
ASA still bold
*Larry Lesser has previously published statistics poetry (e.g., April 2018 Amstat News) and has several more statistics poems (including a haiku) in this month’s issue of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
the additional statistics poetry mentioned is at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol10/iss1/29/