Millennium Magazine_4th Ed

364 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine and Professor Jerzy Nayman. Although Dr. Read’s career appears to be very mathematics-based, he has many hobbies outside of numbers that include bridge, golf, skiing and the cornet. He was a member of the Berkeley Californians while they won the 1957 International Barbershop Chorus contest and captured runner-up in 1960. He has also spent more than 12 years as a member of the Monterey Cypress Aires, Chapter Chorus, along with other choir ensembles. Over the years, he additionally spent time as a youth league baseball coach and a participant of multiple bridge golf competitions. Dr. Read is a member of many prestigious organizations, including the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society. He notes a major highlight of his career has been a paper of his appearing in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. D r. Robert R. Read exhibited his mathematical skills during the formative years in Ohio and subsequently developed a passion for statistics at the postgraduate level when removed to California. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1951 with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, and in 1958, received his PhD from the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Dr. Read’s career began as a lecturer and research statistician at UC Berkeley. He went on to become an assistant professor at the University of Chicago and then a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he retired in 2004. Despite changes in his career track in his college years, Dr. Read seemed to always return to the subjects of probability and statistics. Dr. Read started in the engineering field, which required substantial mathematics work in the early stages. During the crowded post-wartime years, the mathematics department decided to segregate the strong students and support them with permanent faculty in their courses. This was a major influence in Dr. Read’s decision to transfer from engineering to mathematics. During the Berkeley years, he credits two UC professors as his greatest influencers, Professor Lucien LeCann ROBERT R. READ, PHD MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS EDUCATOR (RETIRED) Naval Postgraduate School Carmel, CA TECHNOLOGY