Bruce Murrie:  

Life Following high school, I studied mathematics, undergraduate at Yale, graduate at UNC Chapel Hill, where I met my wife, Olive. I taught math at UNC, and in high schools and junior colleges in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Maryland from 1967 until 1974, then worked in several defense logistics consulting firms in the Washington DC area for about 17 years. I joined the federal government in 1990, hired as a statistician at the U.S. Department of Education, but eventually became a garden-variety bureaucrat there, working in audit resolution. I retired in March, 2011, and have been spending quite a bit of my time in retirement studying mathematics and statistics again; I still attend many MAA and Washington Statistical conferences in both areas. I attend many science-related lectures, and continue to have way too many math and science journal and magazine subscriptions, I am the father of two daughters, Elizabeth Dalton, born in 1977, now living in Fairfax, VA, who married Michael Dalton in 2005 and gave birth to my grandchildren, Abigail in January, 2009 and Avery in 2011; and Martha...Expand for more