Lenore E. Bixby

Lenore Alice Epstein Bixby (August 12, 1914 – April 5, 1994)[1] was an American statistician who worked with the Social Security Administration and the National Academy of Sciences.[2][3]

Leonore E. Bixby
Born
Lenore Alice Epstein

(1914-08-12)August 12, 1914
Buffalo, New York
DiedApril 5, 1994(1994-04-05) (aged 79)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationStatistician
Organization(s)Social Security Administration
National Academy of Sciences

Education

She was born in Buffalo, New York,[2] and some of her earlier publications are listed under that name.[4] As a student of the class of 1935 at Wellesley College, she became chairman of the school's branch of the League of Women Voters, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors as a Senior Durant Scholar.[5] She did graduate study in economics and statistics at Columbia University, earning a master's degree there in 1937.[3]

Career

After completing her studies, she came to work for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and then, after World War II, as an operations officer for the Marshall Plan. This work took her away from Washington to Paris. She joined the Social Security Administration in 1954,[3] and worked there as deputy assistant commissioner of the Office of Research and Statistics and later as director of the Division of Retirement and Survivors' Studies.[2][3] While there, she married F. Lovell Bixby, a prominent penologist, who died in 1975.[2][3][6]

She retired from the administration in 1977,[3] but continued to work as a statistician for the National Academy of Sciences, in their Committee on National Statistics.[2][3]

Awards and honors

In 1969, she was honored by the American Statistical Association, who elected her as one of their fellows.[7][3] She was also a fellow of the Gerontological Society.[3] She was a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.[8]

References
  1. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Social Security Administration.
  2. "Lenore E. Bixby, Social Security official", Buffalo News, April 14, 1994, archived from the original on November 7, 2017
  3. "Lenore E. Bixby, Social Security official", The Washington Post, April 13, 1994
  4. Research and Analysis by Lenore A. Epstein, Social Security Administration, retrieved November 2, 2017. See also their listing of Research and Analysis by Lenore E. Bixby.
  5. Pitcairn, Ruth L., ed. (1935), The Legenda: Nineteen-Thirty-Five, Wellesley College. See p. 100 for her portrait, p. 143 for Phi Beta Kappa, p. 144 for Durant Scholar honors, and p. 216 for League of Women Voters.
  6. "F. Lovell Bixby, penologist, dies", The New York Times, July 31, 1975
  7. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on November 21, 2019, retrieved November 1, 2017
  8. Arnone, William (March 8, 2017), International Women's Day, National Academy of Social Insurance, retrieved November 2, 2017
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