Avis de décès de William-Harvey Lawton - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

->Lawton, William Harvey Rochester, NY: July 9, 2012. Bill was born in Indianapolis on November 1, 1937, in the depths of the Great Depression. He began school in the city of his birth, moved to Denver, Colorado in 1945, and Kensington, California, adjacent to Berkeley and El Cerrito, in 1950. He graduated from El Cerrito High School in 1955. After earning a master's degree in statistics as U.C.B., Bill joined the Management Systems Development Division (MSDD) at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY, having declined a more lucrative job with a defense contract in order to follow his passion for photography. After two years at Kodak working with leaders in quantitative analytics such as Richard A. Freund and J.E. "Ted" Jackson, he realized the need for more advanced analytics techniques and returned to U.C. Berkeley for a his Ph.D. in statistics under Erich Lehmann. A paper based on his dissertation was published in the Annals of Mathematical Statistics as "Concentration of Random Quotients," a hint of things to come.Returning to Kodak, Bill's assumed a leadership position first as Group Leader of the Mathematical Analysis Group and later as Supervisor of the Applied Mathematics Section; his team, including Mary Maggio, Dick Scott, Ed Sylvestre, and others, applied their mathematic and statistical skills to a variety of scientific and business problems, ranging from chemistry to marketing to medicine to management. They disseminated their work with talks and published articles on topics such as self-modeling curve resolution, analysis of chemical spectra, and rate of adoption of new products. Bill's work expanded beyond Kodak, as he assumed editorship of Technometrics, a statistical journal focused on applications to chemistry, physics, and engineering.In 1985, after a year as Director of Strategic Information, Bill became Corporate Director of Business Research for the Eastman Kodak Company, serving on the company's Corporate Quality Advisory Council. This role included corporate business planning and research for all national and international divisions. Retiring from this position in 1990 after 27 years with Eastman Kodak, Bill was named professor of marketing at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. He also became a Senior Research Associate with Joiner Associates of Madison, Wisconsin, a firm focused on promoting quality improvement in both the public and private sectors.Survived by: 1-brother: Dr. Stephen B. Lawton & his wife: Ann of Phoenix, AZ; 1-nephew: Jefferay Lawton; 1-niece: Sarah Lawton; 1-aunt: Vera Lawton of Jackson, NJ. Preceded in death by: parents: Burrell C. & Emma Loretta (McCord) Lawton; Date, Time & Place of Funeral: 1:00 pm, Monday, July 16, 2012, Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, 208 Ferry Street Vevay, Indiana. Place of Interment: Vevay Cemetery, Vevay, Indiana. Date & Time of Visitation: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Monday, July 16, 2012, at the Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home 208 Ferry Street Vevay, Indiana 47043. Memorial Contributions: Donations in Bill's name to the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film or to the charity of donor's choice, as well as flowers, are appreciated by the family. ONLINE CONDOLENCES MAY BE SENT TO THE FAMILY VIA THE FUNERAL HOME'S WEBSITE AT www.haskellandmorrison.com.