Joan loves traveling, cooking, reading, hiking, running, swimming, yoga, and spending time with her friends and family in Minneapolis. We share a love of books, food, music, humor, statistics, writing, walking, travel, socializing, and grandchildren. Joan had a huge influence on my musical taste and often recommends good books to read. We are fortunate to be able to spend time together each summer at The Homestead Resort on Lake Michigan in Glen Arbor, Michigan.

In 2001 Joan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She was first elected a Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2002. In 2005 the American Statistical Association gave her their Founder’s Award for distinguished service to the association. The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education gave her their lifetime achievement award in 2007.

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* University of Minnesota

* Wikipedia

* Facebook

* Blog

* Research

* Retiree Interview

* ASA Interview

* Tribute

* My Tribute

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Tom now lives in South Pasadena after many years in San Francisco. He was the winner of the first (and only) Clayton Invitational Table Tennis Tournament. Tom was one of four Clayton classmates to attend Yale, two of whom have been previous podcast guests, Gingy Scharff and Peter Krentz.

Tom loves to reminisce about the American Basketball Association. He convinced me to attend my first Final Four with him in St. Louis in 1978, and I have now been to 21 more (and counting).

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* LinkedIn

* Facebook

* Spirits of St. Louis

* Remember the ABA

* The night Freddie Lewis of the Spirits made the shot heard 'round the world

* High School Classmates at Hotel Cafe Stage

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I met Peggy through her husband, John Bommarito, who was my guest on the third episode of the podcast. Peggy and I share a love of food and playing games, especially euchre. She is an avid golfer.

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* The Guncle by Steven Rowley (mentioned by Peggy)

* #1 UNLV 95, #21 Michigan State 75 on December 15, 1990 in Auburn Hills, MI

* Air and Air Quality (Michigan State University Master’s Thesis)

* Outstanding Biology Teacher Award (OBTA)

* Using Play-Doh to Demonstrate the Development of Endochondral Bone

* Superintendent Honors Teachers

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I met Sierra at Knowledge Summit Dublin in 2025, the KM conference for which she leads marketing, branding, and social media. I currently serve as her mentor.

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* Sierra’s LinkedIn Profile

* Parascape Consulting Ltd.

* Rend Collective (Irish band Sierra mentioned)

* Mike Birbiglia (comedian Sierra mentioned)

* Knowledge Summit Dublin

* Humans in the Loop Podcast

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I met Cheyenne (then known as John) in 1965 in the seventh grade at Tenafly Junior School in New Jersey. He now lives in the Los Angeles area where I get to see him at least once during the winter. We also meet regularly via Zoom.

His latest book is Grace Notes. As an actor, he is known for The Rules of Attraction (2002), True Blood (2008) and Desperate Housewives (2004).

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* Grace Notes

* The Black List

* IMDb

* The Movie Database (TMDB)

* True Blood Wiki

* Wilbur Real Estate

* Real Estate Agent - Compass

* Instagram

* Nate Bergatze (the comedian who hosted the Emmys mentioned by Cheyenne)

* The Stand (the burger place across from the Pasadena Playhouse mentioned by Cheyenne).

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March Madness is an appropriate time to feature my friend Mark Edwards. Yesterday was Selection Sunday and the men’s and women’s tournaments begin tomorrow. I ran into Mark at the 2001 Final Four in Minneapolis and the 2003 Final Four in New Orleans, and he had a lot of success in the D3 tournament over his years at WashU.

I met Mark in 1981 when the basketball program at Washington University was restarted after a ten-year hiatus. I contacted Athletic Director, John Schael, with an offer to lead scorekeeping and stats, which John gratefully accepted. I became the official scorekeeper for the first two seasons of the resumed program, and I got to know Mark during this time.

Mark’s 685-293 (.700) overall record included back-to-back NCAA Division III national championships in 2008 and 2009. He received D3hoops.com (2008), NABC (2008, 2009) and Molten/DIII News Coach of the Year honors (2002, 2008, 2009), along with 10 University Athletic Association (UAA) Coach of the Year awards (1988, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2018).

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* Washington University in St. Louis

* Missouri Sports Hall of Fame

* Building a Championship Culture

* ‘He is Wash. U. basketball:’ Edwards to retire after 37 as head coach

* Two coaching legends, one court

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I met Janet in 1975 when she joined the Biomedical Computer Lab (BCL) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. We ended up sharing an office there, and later she worked for me as a computer programmer at St. Louis University School of Medicine. After I joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1983, Janet took a job there as well, eventually joining my sales support team.

She later became the operations manager in the St. Louis Application Center for Technology and then the leader of a team of client-server consultants. Janet finished her career as a senior application software engineer at Centene Corporation.

Janet is our son Roger’s godmother.

Links for this episode: BCL Progress Reports

* 1975

* 1976

* 1977

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