SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICS IN YOUR FATHERS NIH

Samuel Greenhouse was born on January 13, 1918, in the Bronx (New York ). He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from the City College of N ew York in 1938, an M.A. degree from George Washington University in 1 954 and a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from George Washington Univ ersity in 1959. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association , the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Association f or the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and an elected Fellow of the Roya l Statistical Society. He is also an elected member of the Internation al Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American College of Epidemio logy and a Fellow of the Council of Epidemiology, American Heart Assoc iation. He is a past President of the Eastern North American Region of the Biometric Society and served on the Council of the International Biometric Society. He has served as President of the Washington Statis tical Society, as Chairman of Section U (Statistics) of the AAAS and a s a member of the AAAS Council Executive Committee. He has been an Ass ociate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Clinical T rials. His tenure at the National Institutes of Health included the ye ars 1948-1974, where he began as a mathematical statistician at the Na tional Cancer Institute. He served next as Chief of the Theoretical St atistics and Mathematics Section in the Biometry Branch of the Nationa l Institute of Mental Health (1954-1966), with an interlude as Visitin g Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. He joined the Nation al Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in 1966 as the Chief of the Epidemiology and Biometry Branch. He wore two hats at NICHD, as Associate Director for Epidemiology and Biometry and as Act ing Associate Director for Program Planning and Evaluation at the time of his retirement from NIH in 1974. Since leaving the NIH, he has bee n Professor of Statistics at George Washington University, serving as Head of the Department of Statistics 1976-1979 and 1986. During this t ime he was also Visiting Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard Sch ool of Public Health. He is currently Associate Director for Research Development at the Biostatistics Center of George Washington Universit y, and Professor Emeritus, George Washington University.