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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1977
Student appointed to commission
By KYLE CREWS
Peggy Coghlan, Texas A&M Uni-
lersity graduate student, has been
[appointed by Gov. Dolph Briscoe to
he Texas Commission on the Status
|of Women.
She is one of 15 appointees to the
ommission that was created last
iveek by executive order.
The group is directed to distribute
Jinformation regarding employment
land activities of women. They will
lalso develop programs to insure that
women receive equal treatment in
all areas of life by developing pro
grams of home and community ser-
yice.
In an interview yesterday Coghlan
said that she was anxious to meet
with the other women on the com
mission so they could define their
goals. “I’m sure that after our first
meeting things will be more definite
and our scope will boraden,” she
said.
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Dr. H. O. Hartley, who stepped
lown from his administrative posi-
ion as director of the Institute of
Itatistics at Texas A&M University,
Sept. 1, has been elected president
of the American Statistical Associa
tion.
He will be serving as the
president-elect during 1978 and
president during 1979.
The American Statistical Associa
tion comprises approximately
13,000 professional and academic
members and is the largest
statistics-related scientific society in
the world.
This is the third time that Dr.
Hartley and the Institute of Statis
tics have received nationwide rec
ognition. In 1968, Dr. Hartley, was
elected president of the Biometric
Society (ENAR) and in 1973 he was
11 the recipient of the Samuel Wilks
Memorial Medal, a national award
given to the most outstanding
scholar in the area of applied statis-
leading to the bachelors degree.
During the 14 years of its existence
the institute has awarded 100 mas
ters and 83 Ph.D. degrees.
The institute has been conducting
from its initiation a so-called con
sulting service’ in which it provides
an advisory service in statistical
methodology for both faculty mem
bers and graduate students in Texas
A&M departments which use statis
tical methods as a research tool.
Dr. W. B. Smith, until recently
assistant dean of science, has been
appointed the new director of the
institute.
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The Institute of Statistics was es
tablished in 1963 with Dr. Hartley
as its first director.
It has established a higher degree
program leading to the M.Sc. and
Ph D. degrees in statistics and in
volving a full spectrum of courses in
statistical theory and methodology.
More recently, the institute in con
junction with the mathematics de
partment, initiated an under
graduate degree program in
"Applied Mathematical Sciences”
more than half the nation’s and
Texas’ population are women, and
that their opportunities to contri
bute to the growth of the country
should be maximized.
“As a student. I’m very interested
in the role of the female student on
college campuses and also the role of
women educators,’’ she said. “I’m
real happy to be in a college that
appreciates the role of women. The
woman has helped Texas A&M be
come one of the fastest growing uni-
verstities in the U.S. and I febl that
the female student will help A&M
continue its high degree of excel
lence in education.”
The commission will meet at least
every three months. Annual reports
are to be made to the Legislature and
the governor. Members will serve
without pay but will receive pay
ment for expenses.
Coghlan, a former instructor at
Kilgore College, is presently work
ing on her doctorate in Education
with a specialization in Educational
Curriculum and Instruction. Her
support areas are Educational Ad
ministration and Business Mange-
ment. This semester she is taking 12
hours of classes.
The wife of Howard P. Coghlan,
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ter ticket is a metal disc admitting
one person to a performance in
Rome’s Colosseum in A.D. 90.
Longview attorney, she has been
elected to Who’s Who in Women in
Education.
Earlier this year she was selected
to participate in the President’s
Forum of Educators and Business
Persons in Washington, D. C. She
will be included in the 1978 edition
of “Personalities of the South.”
Coghlan received her BA degree
from North Texas State in govern
ment where she graduated Summa
Cum Laude and was named to Who’s
Who in Government and Who’ Who
in American Universities.
While at Kilgore College, she
taught government, sociology and
freshman orientation. She was assis
tant director of the Kilgore
Rangerettes.
Coghlan owned and operated her
own school of self-improvement for
teenage boys and girls for 17 years in
Longview. She got involved in the
school because she felt that it
“helped build the self-image of the
students.” “I feel that one half of the
battle of reaching one’s potential is to
start with a good self-image,” she
said.
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the inconvenience to housewives,”
strike leader said, “but there will
be no bread from us until there is a
settlement.’’ And more strikes
seemed inevitable after Prime
Minister James Callaghan told Brit-
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its battle against inflation, would do
all it could to keep wage increases
low and spaced at least 12 months
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