I wanted to thank you for posting the information regarding Peter Scholtes passing on your blog. Seeing the picture of you, George Box and Peter together reminded me of a time way back when I met your dad.

I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with your father in September ’85, at a DOE seminar during hurricane Gloria, that was arranged by Joiner Assoc. for PACE in Philadelphia PA. It was a 5 day DOE course on Statistics for Experimenters and JASS software that he and George Box delivered over a 3 week period, your dad did the first 3 days. On the first day he “fried our brains” with his “matter of fact” presence in Statistics. He said not to worry, it would all make sense later. By the third day it did. George Box handled the last two days of the seminar about 2 weeks later. As a follow-up, we kept them up to date on some of our projects, which led to our second meeting.

The second time was about a month later, we applied their DOE methods in a screen tensioning project at Microcircuit Engineering. The experiment was conducted by a department of about 20 people, many of whom hadn’t completed high school. He thought the shop floor project was so special, that he came out to our plant in Mt. Holly, NJ and had the group’s final presentation on the DOE video taped. He was very excited and roundly complemented the group for an outstanding job; he told everyone that he intended to use the video of their presentation for a graduate class that he was teaching at UW.

He was a very intense, friendly and exciting personality.

Thanks again for the memories, John

We’re into day two of having comments disabled on the site and it comes at the worst possible time, that being New Year’s and the import of thinking and discussing our first and best steps into it. I’m still slogging……

I’ve bar-hopped with The Knack. Back in the early 90′s I lived in Mountain View, CA and I went to see The Knack at the Shoreline Amphitheater……

This sounds like fun! Thanks for including me in the fun. Now I have to go and look up the other people you tagged.

Interesting, I didn’t know airforce one wasn’t airforce one unless the pres was aboard. Thanks! Oh boy. I love games.