The Statistical Lab was housed on the second floor of the Engineering Administration building.

Purdue's Statistical Laboratory

(1950) Professor I.W. Burr teaches statistical methods

(1953) Carl Kossack, Director of the Purdue Statistical Lab, and others look at a graph.

Graduate Students in the Stat Lab

Pictured (left to right): Back Row: Dwayne Pyle, Dick Segirs, James Norton, John W. Hamblen, John Tischendorf, Jerry den Broeder, Joe Navarro, M.Vasudeva Pai

Front Row: Robert Lundegard, James Stapleton, Gordon Sherman, Harlley McKean, Les Helms

1955 Pictured (left to right): Professors Steve Samuels, YS Chow, Paul Randolph, Marcel Neuts, Norman Zitron, and Lou Cote's graduate student Robert Rodine

(1964) Pictured (left to right): Professors Steve Samuels, Aryeh Dvoretsky, and Herbert Robbins in East Hampton, New York

(1964)
Pictured (left to right): Professors Marcel Neuts and Henry Teicher

(1965)
Professor Steve Samuels joined the Department in 1963.

(1965)
Pictured: (left to right): Charlie Moment, Eliahu, Shanti S. Gupta, Steve Samuels, Harlley McKean, Irving Burr, and Charlie Hicks at the spring Stat Lab picnic.

(1965)
Professor Glen E. Baxter joined the Department in 1965.
Pictured (left to right): Dorothy Penner, Ph.D. Student Kanta Jayachandran, Professor Lou Cote, and Myrna (Harrison) Studden

(1965-1966)
Visiting Professor Herbert Robbins

(1966) Pictured (left to right): Professor Harlley McKean, and Shirley Wolfe

(1966) Pictured (left to right): Professors Harlley McKean and Heebok Park

(1966)
Pictured (left to right): Professors Steve Samuels, Glen E. Baxter, Leo Katz, and Ronald Pyke at the IMS Meetings held at Purdue.

(1966)
Construction of the Mathematical Sciences building. The Department of Statistics occupied the fifth floor when the building opened in 1967.


Pictured (left to right): Sidney Resnick, Joe Dan Austin, Jim Tomkins, and Dennis Young at the spring picnic.

(1967)
Pictured (left to right): Suruso, John Gerwels, Sandy Sigmund, Gary Jouris, and Sally Jouris at the Christmas party.

(1967) Pictured (left to right): Professor and Department Head Shanti S. Gupta with his Ph.D. student, Jerone Deverman.

(1968) Pictured (left to right): Dorothy Penner, M. Hockema, and Myrna (Harrison) Studden at the Christmas Party.

(1968)
Pictured (left to right): Dave Root (back turned), Cherie Root, Eugene Klimko, Sandy Arveson, Phil Cohen, David Moore, Nancy Moore, and Dan Gans at the Christmas Party.

(1968) Pictured (left to right): Phil Cohen, Glennis Cohen, and Myra Samuels at the Christmas Party.

(1968) Pictured (left to right): Phil Cohen, Herman Rubin, Myra Samuels, and Steve Samuels at the Christmas Party.

(1968)
Pictured (left to right): Mildred Kroger, Professor Virgil Anderson, Professor Harlley McKean, Professor Paul Randolph, Professor Shanti S. Gupta, Myrna (Harrison) Studden, Professor I.W. Burr, Cletis Smith, Professor K.C.S. Pillai, Professor Marcel Neuts and Professor Steve Samuels at a going away party for Cletis Smith, a secretary in the Department of Statistics.

(Late 1960s)
Aerial Photograph of Purdue

(1968)
Students protesting in front of the Executive Building. Frederick L. Hovde was President at the time.

(May 1969)