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M.E. Thompson 209time series, the study of determinism in time series, and the computation offractal dimension.Professor Nancy M. Reid of the University of Toronto, another formerPresident of the SSC, is the owner of “firsts” in several categories. Most notably,she was the first woman, and the first statistician working in Canada,to receive the COPSS Presidents’ Award, in 1992. She is the only Canadianbasedstatistician to have served as President of the Institute of MathematicalStatistics (IMS), in 1997. In 1995 she was awarded the first Krieger–NelsonPrize of the Canadian Mathematical Society — a prize “in recognition of anoutstanding woman in mathematics.” She was also the first woman in Canadato be awarded a Canada Research Chair in the statistical sciences, and is theonly woman to have served as Editor of The Canadian Journal of Statistics.In this International Year of Statistics, for the first time ever, the ProgramChair and the Local Arrangements Chair of the 41st SSC Annual Meetingare both women, respectively Debbie Dupuis of HEC Montréal and RhondaRosychuk of the University of Alberta. The meeting was held in Edmonton,Alberta, May 26–29, 2013.19.4 AwardsI have always had conflicted feelings about awards which, like the ElizabethL. Scott Award, are intended to recognize the contributions of women. Whydo we have special awards for women? Is it to compensate for the fact thatrelatively few of us win prestigious research awards in open competition? Oris it rather to recognize that it takes courage to be in the field as a woman,and that those of us who are here now should be mindful of the sacrifices anddifficulties faced by our forerunners.In general, the awards in an academic or professional field recognize a fewin the context of achievements by the many. Perhaps it is as well to rememberthat awards are really mainly pretexts for celebrations. I will never forget thetoast of a student speaker at a Waterloo awards banquet: “Here’s to thosewho have won awards, and to those who merely deserve them.”The SSC has two awards named after women, and open to both menand women. Besides the Isobel Loutit Invited Address, there is the biennialLise Manchester Award. Lise Manchester of Dalhousie University in Halifaxwas the first woman to receive The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award, in1991, the second year of its bestowing, for a paper entitled “Techniques forcomparing graphical methods.” The community was saddened at the passingof this respected young researcher, teacher, and mother. The Lise ManchesterAward, established in 2007, commemorates her “abiding interest in makinguse of statistical methods to provide insights into matters of relevance tosociety at large.”