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0_100 | public libraries; renovation and construction of local high schools; and improving city parks and |
0_101 | street projects. He was also instrumental in expanding the Spokane Convention Center, Group Health |
0_102 | Exhibit Hall, and the Agricultural Trade Center, which had been the Washington State Pavilion |
0_103 | during the World's Fair. |
0_104 | City politics |
0_105 | On November 4, 1993, Geraghty was elected to serve as the 39th mayor for the City of Spokane. |
0_106 | During his term in office, he focused his efforts on public safety, economic development, |
0_107 | streamlining city government, and improving the infrastructure of the city streets, transportation |
0_108 | system, and traffic corridors. He also began working on reviving the local economy, by revitalizing |
0_109 | the city's central business district with the development of River Park Square and restoration of |
0_110 | the historic Davenport Hotel. He also hired 30 additional police officers and established nine |
0_111 | neighborhood centers throughout the city, which have served reduce crime and empower citizens to |
0_112 | improve and strengthen the voice of neighborhoods in city decision-making. In 1997, he ran for a |
0_113 | second term in office to commence in 1998, but was defeated for re-election by John Talbott. |
0_114 | Community involvement |
0_115 | Geraghty has been involved in public and private organizations throughout the Spokane since 1964. |
0_116 | As a prominent civic leader, he has worked with the Sister Cities Society and the City of Spokane |
0_117 | to establish and maintain international relationships with the cities of Nishinomiya, Japan and |
0_118 | Limerick. In honor of his Irish heritage, Geraghty and his wife co-founded the Spokane Limerick |
0_119 | Sister City Society and established the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. In 1996, Geraghty's wife, |
0_120 | Kerry, was named as the Irish Woman of the Year. In 1997, Geraghty served as Grand Marshal of |
0_121 | Spokane's St. Patrick's Day parade, established by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. In 1999, he |
0_122 | served as the parade chairman. He was named as president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in |
0_123 | 2000 and 2001. In 2013, he was named Irish Man of the Year, while his daughter, Sheila, was named |
0_124 | as the Irish Woman of the Year. |
0_125 | Geraghty is the founder of the Citizen's League of Greater Spokane that championed the election of |
0_126 | Freeholders and established a charter to unify city and county government in Spokane. He served as |
0_127 | President and Vice President of Programs of the Public Relations Society of America. He also served |
0_128 | as the President of the Manito Golf and Country Club, Spokane Press Club, and Spokane Public |
0_129 | Relations Council. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Eastern Washington University, just |
0_130 | west of Spokane. |
0_131 | Board and committee memberships |
0_132 | Citizen's League of Greater Spokane Founder
Community Action Council Steering Committee Member |
0_133 | Eastern Washington University Member of the Board of Trustees |
0_134 | Eastern Washington University Chairman of the Board of Trustees (twice) |
0_135 | Expo '74 World's Fair Vice President of Exhibitor and Guest Relations |
0_136 | Friendly Sons of St. Patrick President (2000–2001)
FutureSpokane Board President |
0_137 | Manito Golf and Country Club President |
0_138 | Public Relations Society of America Vice President of Programs |
0_139 | Public Relations Society of America President
Spokane Press Club President |
0_140 | Spokane Public Relations Council President |
0_141 | Spokane Community Mental Health Center Board of Trustees |
0_142 | Spokane–Limerick Sister City Society Founding Member |
0_143 | Honors and awards
1997: North Central High School Distinguished Alumnus Award |
0_144 | 1997: Grand Marshal of Spokane's St. Patrick's Day parade |
0_145 | 1999: Parade Chairman of Spokane's St Patrick's Day parade |
0_146 | 2011: University of Washington Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame |
0_147 | 2013: Irish Man of the Year of the Friendly Sons of St Patrick |
0_148 | References |
0_149 | County commissioners in Washington (state)
Mayors of Spokane, Washington
Living people
1934 births |
0_150 | University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni |
1_0 | The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) is an American institute that researches |
1_1 | statistical science and quantitative analysis. |
1_2 | History |
1_3 | In 1985, the National Science Foundation funded a proposal by the Institute of Mathematical |
1_4 | Statistics (IMS) to assess the status of cross-disciplinary statistical research and to make |
1_5 | recommendations for its future. The IMS formed a panel consisted of twelve members from statistics, |
1_6 | pure and applied mathematics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, and public affairs, |
1_7 | including Ingram Olkin (Co-Chair), Jerome Sacks (Co-Chair), Alfred Blumstein, Amos Eddy, Bill Eddy, |
1_8 | Peter C. Jurs, William Kruskal, Thomas Kutz, Gary C. McDonald, Ronald Peierls, Paul Shaman, and |
1_9 | William Spurgeon. In 1990, the panel published a report on Cross-Disciplinary Research in the |
1_10 | Statistical Sciences that led to the founding of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. |
1_11 | The National Institute of Statistical Sciences was established in 1990 and located in Research |
1_12 | Triangle Park, North Carolina by the American Statistical Association, the International |
1_13 | Biometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Duke University, North Carolina |
1_14 | State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and RTI International |
1_15 | (formerly Research Triangle Institute). Dan Horvitz of RTI became the interim director. Jerome |
1_16 | Sacks became the founding director in 1991. Alan F. Karr joined NISS as the associate director in |
1_17 | 1992 and became the director in 2000. Nell Sedransk appointed as the associate director in 2005 and |
1_18 | became the director in 2015. James L. Rosenberger became the director of NISS in 2017. |
1_19 | In 1993, the first NISS postdoctoral fellows joined. There are now nearly 80 of former NISS |
1_20 | postdoctoral fellows around the world and in various organizations in each sector: academia, |
1_21 | government, and industry. Here is a list of notable alumni: |
1_22 | John Aston, Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge |
1_23 | Adrian Dobra, Associate Professor at the University of Washington |
1_24 | Shanti Gomatam, Mathematical Statistician at U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
1_25 | Murali Haran, Professor and Head of Statistics at Penn State University |
1_26 | Jiming Jiang, Professor of Statistics at the University of California - Davis |
1_27 | Xiaodong Lin, Associate Professor at Rutgers Business School |
1_28 | Matthias Schonlau, Professor of Statistics at the University of Waterloo |
1_29 | Minge Xie, Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University |
1_30 | Haibo Zhou, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina |
1_31 | In 2000, the NISS affiliates program was created to address challenges arising in government and |
1_32 | industry. In 2005, the NISS affiliates program was recognized by the American Statistical |
1_33 | Association with the Statistical Partnerships among Academia, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) |
1_34 | Award. |
1_35 | In 2002, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute was funded by the National |
1_36 | Science Foundation, and it was partnered with Duke University, North Carolina State University, the |
1_37 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. |
1_38 | From 2011 to 2018, the NISS and Duke University collaborated on the Triangle Census Research |
1_39 | Network (TCRN), one of eight research nodes that worked on the National Census Research Network |
1_40 | (NCRN). In 2017, the NCRN was recognized by the American Statistical Association with the |
1_41 | Statistical Partnerships among Academia, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award. |
1_42 | Jerome Sacks Award |
1_43 | The Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research was created in 2001 in honor of |
1_44 | Jerome Sacks, the founding director of NISS. The following are the winners of the award: |
1_45 | 2018: G. Jogesh Babu (Penn State University)
2017: Jun S. Liu (Harvard University) |
1_46 | 2016: William F. Eddy (Carnegie Mellon University) |
1_47 | 2015: Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University) |
1_48 | 2014: Terry Speed (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research in Melbourne) |
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