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2. The Joint Committee on the Career Brochure will be charged generally
with considerations relating to statistics as a career. A specific continuing
task will be the preparation and revision of a Career Brochure.
3. The Joint Committee on Educational Opportunities will be charged with
the preparation of a brochure designed to inform students and others interested
in statistics as a career of the appropriate available training facilities,
both graduate and undergraduate.
4. The Joint Committee for Liaison with the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) will represent the statistics profession in
anewsectionwithintheAAAS.
5. The Joint Committee on Organizational Changes is charged with the study
of constitutional changes among the societies and with recommending
those which may facilitate more effective and efficient collaboration between
them and between members of the profession generally.
6. The Joint Committee on News and Notes has the task of working out
arrangements for The American Statistician to carry news and notes for
the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Biometric Society as well
as for ASA.
As the report continued, creation of these six joint committees was to be
hailed as a major step forward toward more effective collaboration between
statistical societies in pursuing common ends.
The joint publication of a directory of members was part of the initial
thrust for avoiding duplication, and for a cooperative venture on the part of
statistical societies. However, the needs of the member societies did not always
coincide, and directories have been published jointly in 1973, 1978, 1987, and
1991, and separately by IMS in 1981. In 1996 it was generally agreed to plan
for a joint directory to appear no less frequently than every three years. With
the advent of computer technology, an up-to-date member directory became
available at any time. However, the joint directory was concrete evidence of
the benefits of collaboration between the statistical societies.
A meeting of the full COPSS Committee was held on Monday, September
10, 1962, to discuss a memorandum prepared by H.L. Lucas on (7) COPSS
and its activities; (8) membership of COPSS Committees; (9) charges to
COPSS Committees; and (10) Committee reports. The revised version of this
report became the official document of COPSS. In addition to discussing the
topics listed, COPSS established the following committees: (11) Standardization
of Symbols and Notations; and (12) Memorial Session in Honor of Sir
Ronald A. Fisher, who had died in Adelaide, Australia, on July 29.
The COPSS Committee on Organizational Changes and COPSS Executive
Committee held a meeting on Friday, March 1, 1963, to discuss a
number of items dealing with cooperative arrangements among societies in
COPSS, including certain possible structural changes within the societies.