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M.E. Thompson 207TABLE 19.1The 14 Canadian women who attended the 34th Session of the InternationalStatistical Institute held in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1963.Marjorie M. Baskerville Dominion Foundries and Steel Ltd, HamiltonM. Anne Corbet Department of Secretary of State, OttawaI. June Forgie Department of Transport, OttawaGeraldine E. Fulton Sir George Williams University, MontréalIrene E. Johnson Department of Labour, OttawaElma I. Kennedy Department of Forestry, OttawaPamela M. Morse Department of Agriculture, OttawaMonique Mousseau Radio-Canada, MontréalSylvia OstryUniversité deMontréalDorothy J. Powell Bank of Nova Scotia, TorontoMargaret R. Prentis Department of Finance, OttawaJean R. Proctor Department of Agriculture, OttawaJoan Grace Sloman Ontario Department of Health, TorontoDorothy Walters National Energy Board, Ottawawas the first woman working in Canada to be elected a Fellow of the AmericanStatistical Association.Among statistical researchers in Canada who were born in the 1930s andearly 1940s, many (both men and women) have worked in the area of the designof experiments. One such is Agnes M. Herzberg, who was a student of Dr.Norman Shklov at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Dr. Herzbergwent to England on an Overseas Fellowship in 1966, soon after obtaining herPhD, and stayed as a member of the Department of Mathematics at ImperialCollege until 1988, when she moved back to Canada and a professorship atQueen’s University. She was the first woman to serve as President of theStatistical Society of Canada, in 1991–92, and the first to be awarded theSSC Distinguished Service Award in 1999. In recent years, in addition toher research, Dr. Herzberg has focused much of her energy on organizing aseries of annual conferences on Statistics, Science and Public Policy, held atHerstmonceux Castle in England. These meetings are attended by a widevariety of participants, from science, public service and the press (Lawless,2012).Canada is the adopted home of Priscilla E. (Cindy) Greenwood of theUniversity of British Columbia (PhD 1963, University of Wisconsin, Madison),a distinguished probabilist who has also worked in mathematical statistics andefficient estimation in stochastic processes. Her work and love of science havebeen celebrated in a special Festschrift volume of Stochastics published in2008 (vol. 80). In 1997, she was awarded a grant of $500,000 from the PeterWall Institute of Advanced Studies for their first topic study: “Crisis Pointsand Models for Decision.”