John, it's my great pleasure to have published five books with you, for which I've thanked you five times in these books. I certainly don't want this farewell card to be the last chance to express my gratitude. It's sad to see you go, but I also feel pround of you for your illustrious career. I'm glad that you can finally devote time to your hobbies. I see youth in you regardless of your age.
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Yihui Xie
Dear John, Best wishes for a well-deserved retirement, John! You've been a wonderfully supportive editor and I'll be reluctant It was a pleasure to work with you, and thanks so to publish any more books without you! much for supporting Statistical Rethinking and Ben Baumer turning it into a successful book. All the best for your retirement, John! It has been wonderful All the best for retirement, to work with you on the books and I am grateful for your Richard McElreath encouragements all the way, incl. to a freshly graduated visiting professor in 1988! Merci and enjoy to the fullest this next stage. John, you played an important role in my academic life and Christian Robert really did so much to help in the success of all of my books. Best wishes in retirment. Dear John, Thank you for being my editor for all these years! I think we first worked together almost 20 years ago! It was real pleasure working with you.I am particularly Jim Albert appreciative that you believed in my data science book when there was so many books with similar titles already Was looking forward to Always a pleasure working out there. Also, thanks for letting me keep the open source even more books with you, with you, both writing and version online. but I feel priviliged to have reviewing. Thanks for done 3. Enjoy your your help and Enjoy your retirement! retirement, highly encouragement. deserved! Rafael Irizarry Norm Matloff Antony Unwin
John, Dear John,
Since the early 1990s, I've benefitted from your It was a wonderful experience working with you on professional and interpersonal skills. You were our my books. You always had the welfare of your editor for three books, and I served on the editorial authors in mind and that is very much appreciated. I board with you for 22 years. These provide wish you an active and rewarding retirement. sufficient data for me to state, "A job very, very well done!" I wish you the very best in your retirement. My best wishes, David Best regards,
our Tom John, Thanks for all y David Ruppert pport with my encouragement and su s, Harry Tom Louis first book. Best Wishe Crane Dear John you have pushed a myriad projects to fruition and made a lot of things happen in statistics through the decades. Thanks for two centuries of Many many thanks. help - David David Stoffer It was a pleasure to work with you.
Best regards Dear John: Thank you very much for your leadership and Constantine G. friendship over the years. My very best wishes for a great retirement! Lance Waller Constantine Gatsonis
John, having your motivation to write and complete my Dear John book and having your sage advice all along the way made major impacts not just on the book but on my I have so much enjoyed getting to know you, even a little bit, over career. Our lunchtime discussions always needed a few the years. You have had such a great impact on our field. Thank more hours. Your worldview and your recommendations you! on novels to read have changed me. Thank you for being who you are, to so many of us! Sincerely, Frank Harrell David Blei Dear John, it was a real pleasure to work with you and I hope Congratulations John. This is well-deserved. It was always a you enjoy your pleasure working with you. George Casella once told me that you retirement. were the only editor he would ever work with. Enjoy retirement. It's Robert Gentleman getting closer to a time when we can freely travel again. Jeff Gill
John, I'm so glad Ingram introduced me to you and we had a chance to work together! Just yesterday I gave an invited talk "at" the 150 Years of Women at UC Berkeley. program The Betty book (Equivalence: Hi John! I am so grateful for all the help and support you have given Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley) continues to make an impact. Thank you for me over so many decades. As Ogden Nash said, "With all of the joy of a this opportunity to preserve an important part of our history. It was a bride in her bridalness, I hope you look forward to hours of idleness". Of pleasure to work with you. I hope you have many wonderful adventures in course, I doubt you shall be idle, but I hope you relish the opportunity to your retirement! Amanda do new things. Amandas Golbeck David Banks
John, Dear John: Very much enjoyed working with you. It has always been such a real pleasure working with you on Wishing you good heqalth and happiness in all the Handbook series; I will certainly miss having you involved. of your endeavors. Wishing you all the best and much happiness and good health in your retirement. Karl Peace All the best, Garrett
Garrett Fitzmaurice
Dear John,
Enjoy the next chapter of your Hi John, I genuinely appreciate all of the help life! If you are ever in Chicago, you provided in publishing my book with Jim drop me a line - I owe you a beer! Albert, and the rather atypical offering on Grade Inflation. Without your help I think it's unlikely Congratulations on your retirement! both would have made it. In any case, I hope Health and happiness, you enjoy your retirement and thanks for all of your support. Best wishes for the future. Valen Johnson Martin Tanner
All the best wishes to you, Dear John, So many good books!! Enjoy John. Happy Retirement. Congratulations on your retirement! I will your retirement. Thanks a lot for your help. miss being able to catch up with you at Julian Faraway Xuelin Huang meetings and hope you have plenty of time to relax and enjoy! John, thanks for helping to Very best, make statistical computing Amy Herring what it is today! Best wishes, Kurt Hornik Dear John, What can I say? I will miss seeing you at meetings and working with you. You have been a great help to me and to the statistics community Hi John, generally. You have been a beacon during a tumultuous time of change. I I can't imagine that you will retire! You have *always* hope you have many happy years following retirement and time to do some been there, for as long as I have been traveling to things you have been too busy to do. conferences. When perusing our books, I have always All the best, Mitch been thinking of you and I always will. You made them happen. It has been wonderful to have been able to Mitch Gail interact with you all those years. Let's keep in touch. Warmest regards, Geert M
Happy retirement. Geert Molenberghs Jen-pei Liu
Hi John, Hi John,
I really enjoyed working with you for 4 projects. I I'm envious that you retired young and are able to always rememberd your guidance and encouragement spend more time with your family. especially in my early career. I was always looking forward to meeting you at ENAR, JSM and other It has been a real pleasure working with you on several conferences when they were held in person. book projects. Although the royalties I received from the sales of those books put me in a higher tax bracket, I could not belive that you will retire. I will really miss I'm happy that I was able to make some contributions you. I do wish that you will enjoy your retirement and to the field, with your exceptional help. :) explore new ventures in your life. Hope to see you in person in some occasssions in the future. Thank you so much for your generous support and guidance and wish you a wonderful retirement! Keep in touch! Best regards, Best, Harry Yang Ming-Hui Chen Thanks for your making my work possible, for so many years! It has been a pleasure working with you. Marco Scutari
Dear John, Dear John! Alhough I only joined the editorial team recently, like many others have said, you "have always been there", It was such a pleasure working with for my entire professional life. I will miss seeing you at you! Wish you all the best for the conferences and I really enjoyed working with you on the future, especially much health and series. Enjoy your retirement! happiness!
Liza Levina Thorsten Dickhaus
John, all best wishes to the best editor I have ever had the Dear John, Thanks a lot for your service to the stats community and opportunity to work with. Your cheery presence will be especially the statistical software community over decades! Best, Torsten sorely missed at JSM. I hope we meet again. Torsten Hothorn Nick. Nicholas Fisher Hi John, thank you for the many years of nice Dear John, collaboration, the meetings at statistical conferences, and your support Best wishes for your throughout the years. I wish you all the retirement - enjoy your best in the future and I hope you will enjoy life! some well-deserved rest. Tom Geert Verbeke
Tom Snijders
John, John, all the best in your retirement! I still It WAS wonderful to work with you. No one else would remember signing the original Carlin and Louis have let an author use such a crazy title. or the contract with you back in the day; that turned purple cover. thanks for all your guidance. have a out to be a key moment in my career. Take care relaxing and enjoyable retirement. best wishes and I hope to see you around conferences from time to time. ----Larry Larry Wasserman Cheers, Brad Thanks for all your help over the years, John. The book Brad Carlin with Thomas would never have happened without your persistence. Hope you have a All the very best for your Keep running, John. It is a John, great retirement, and sorry I retirement statistical fact that the longer you Congratulations. It was a never got around to working Brian Everitt run, the older you get. pleasure to work with you hard on the other book idea. Wim van der Linden over the years. I always enjoyed our conversations Mike Kattan you changes statistics and your support of the Michael Kattan forever. you will be missed!! various projects on which we As always: Never forget to have Giovanni Parmigiani collaborated. Enjoy your fun! -Peter retirement. Peter Dalgaard Best, Hal Stern Congratulations! Kjell Kjell Doksum
John, many congratulations on your retirement. A huge thank-you for your great support, and considerable patience Dear John, It was a pleasure working with you over the years with me, in bringing Pattern Recogntion and - and wonderful to have your enthusiasitic support. Wishing Machine Learning to fruition! It was an you a happy and healthy retirement! Cheers, Richard honour to work with you. Very best Richard Cook wishes for the future. Chris Bishop
Thanks for the great support on Geocomputation with R, career-making stuff and useful for people world-wide. Best John, you've been an amazing part of the statistics world for wishes and happy retirement (he says decades. I can't count how many times I've been reading a enviously)! foundational text and see that you were the editor. It's been a Robin Lovelace great pleasure to have had the opportunity to work with you on multiple projects over time. Best wishes for your future pursuits: you'll be missed! Warmly, Nick Nicholas Horton
It was great chatting with you at many meetings over the years, John, and publishing two books with your guidance. Warm regards and best wishes for the days ahead. Jerry Lawless
Dear John Best wishes in your retirement. Enjoy! But I will miss Hi John, I heard you're retiring. Thanks for our chats at meetings. the time we worked together in past book projects. Enjoy the new stage of your life. Your encouragement and support have been instumental in the success of George's and my book, as well as so many Enrique del Castillo other fine books. Thank you for everything. Industrial Engineering Department Penn State University Best wishes, Roger Berger
Dear John, I have anjoyed working with you Thanks John. It has been on a variety of projects over the great fun working with you. thank you for all your years. I hope you will find May you enjoy your days help with the retirement a nice place to be! reimagined. Geocomputation with R Peter Guttorp Best wishes, book and your whole Nancy impact on many books' Nancy Flournoy authors and their readers.
Happy retirement! Jakub Nowosad
thanks for all of the support you provided to my Dear John, husband, George Casella, with his adventures in I am very grateful for all your support over writing statistics textbooks. I know he liked and these years. Your patience and encouragement respected you enormously. best of luck in helped tremendously in my professional retirement - you will love it. it is a very sweet time of development. life. Big achievements are real! My 2015 edited volume on modern adaptive randomized clinical Anne Casella trials and 2019 book on mathematical and statistical skills in the biopharmaceutical industry would not have been possible without John, you. Your work enouraging and helpin so many authors of important books on statistics, data science and applications is deeply appreciated by the I wish all the very best to you and all your whole profession. family!!! Many of us will miss talking and catching up with you at Meetings and Conference and wish you a most healthy and enjoyable retirement-- A retirement is just the beginning! Best wishes Alex Sverdlov Joe G
Joseph Gastwirth Best wishes to you in your retirement, John. It has been a pleasure working with you (and your authors) over the years on various articles for Significance.
Brian Tarran
John, John--just to say that you've been such a fixture on the I am happy for you, and wish you all the best. statistics scene for so long it is impossible to imagine how Someone will succeed you, but they can't replace things will be without you. But seriously I want to thank you your combination of knowledge, wisdom and integrity. both for everything you've done and also for being such a No one in the publishing business has the level of good colleague and friend. Your influence on science more respect and admiration that we have for you. generally, through all the work on statistics, is incalculable. I Thanks for doing such great work and providing very much hope that you will enjoy a long, healthy and such remarkable leadership to the statistics fulfilling community. retirement. We will miss you. My very best wishes Warmest regards, Bernard Ron Wass Bernard Silverman Ron Wasserstein
John Thanks for all your support on publishing our Dear John, clinical trials text over a number of editions. Best wishes for your retirement It was an honor to work Dave DeMets with you for my first experience as a book David L DeMets author. Enjoy your retirement!
Heather Mattie
Dear John Dear John, I so enjoyed your involvement with thanks for all the support on my book, and for pairing me my book projects over many years. with such an awesome teammate in Jim Albert. Thanks so much for your efforts. Publishing the book was the last step that helped me get Enjoy your retirement in whereever the job of my dreams, so you played a huge role in that. that takes you! Enjoy your retirement, and should you decide to travel Best regards, around the world, drop me a line when you visit Italy. -Michael Friendly Max Marchi
John, You are a great editor. Thank you for your role in John, my books, and for your large contribution to the field of statistics as a whole. Best wishes, Paul I wanted to wish you a long and happy Paul Rosenbaum retirement. I have warm memories of our discussions at conferences...sadly lacking in the John, last year or two!
Thanks from me personally and for the profession. Very best wishes You've done an incredilble job of promoting Statistics. It is much appreciated. Enjoy retirement! Peter Diggle Len Stefanski (NC State U)
Hi John: It has been a long time since we worked Dear John, together on a project. I guess we have been at this a very it was a great pleasure working with you! Thanks a lot! long time. It was a pleasure working with you. Best Enjoy your well-deserved retirement! wishes on your retirement. All the best, Ron Christensen Jannes
Jannes Münchow
Retirement is great. Enjoy. Thanks for all your help on our books. I still remember your help with the CART book back in 1983. I think it was a success. All the best. Dear John, Thank you for your support and professionalism over the Jerry. 3 years of preparing my book Explanatory Model Jerry Friedman Analysis. I am very pleased to have had the opportunity to work with such an experienced Executive Editor. I'm Hi John, Congratulations on your excellent career, in which you have had really impressed by how many great books have been such an important impact in the Statistics community. (I'm sure there published thanks to your support. could not possibly have been any other editor to have nearly the record Przemysław Biecek you have had!) It seems that a high proportion of the quality books published in Statistics that I have looked at for many years have a "thanks" to you in the Preface! Maria and I feel so grateful to have had a chance to work with you and to have your support and guidance. Alan Agresti
John, congratulations on the retirement! It was a pleasure working with you, thanks again for all your guidance and John, in an email to you on Nov 19, 2019, I help for my book! May all the years ahead bring you great wrote: "I'm just hoping to finish the book joy and relaxation! before you retire (and before I do)!" Tahir Ekin You've now made that very difficult! At least I'll try to get it moving to the next stage. Thanks so much for your long- continuing friendly but patient nudges with Enjoy your retirement! New Best wishes for your my next book, and your help with my life begins! retirement! It was a previous (first) one. I hope you get to Best, pleasure working with enjoy time with your granddaughter and Bin you. other family! John Fox David Hiebeler Bin Li
Dear John, John, John, Thanks for your good Congratulations on starting a new chapter of life! Thank Thanks for the continual work over the years, and you for starting me writing a book. Your guidance and encouragement and best wishes for the years to support has benefited me tremendously. You have support. I hope you have a come, Ken Land, Duke inspired a lot of us! I wish you a happy retirement filled long and enjoyable University with fun and happiness! retirement. Qingzhao
Qingzhao Yu Dale Zimmerman
Dear John,
Congratulations for the coming retirement. I wish you Hola John! health, happiness, and fulfilment in the next stages of life. Enjoy your family and friends and remember all of us who are cheering for you in the Statistics community. We will miss you, but hope to see you visit us soon. I want to wish you all the best in your very deserved retirement. I am very happy I had the chance to meet you at ENAR 2019. You were very nice and All the best, helped me a lot. From choosing my book's title to explaining me how publishing works. I am very Ofer Harel happy for you so you now have all the time to enjoy University of Connecticut with your family. I was hoping to see you again and see how you are doing in Spanish but I am sure you are already doing very well
Dear John, I appreciate your support and guidance. It has Muchas gracias por todo y disfruta mucho!!! been a pleasure to know and work with you. Wish you the best of luck in the new chapter of life. Binbing, AstraZeneca Oncology Biometrics Binbing Yu Paula Moraga
Dear John, Dear John, Thanks so much for your Wishing you very happy and healthy days in your support in getting my book written and retired years. You know that with the retired life you published (after 12 years of trying.) You never actually get a day off! have given a great service to the So enjoy your days to fullest. Thanks for all your help statistical community all of these years. and encoyragement with the BSM book project. Enjoy your lfe! ===Sujit Ghosh Best wishes, Betz Halloran
Dear John, Hope you enjoy your John, you set the bar high, as Thanks for your help in publishing new lifestyle. Thank you so much the Best statistics editor. Happy our work! It was great to work for serving statistical community retirement, my friend! with you. and publishing so many wonderful statistical books. In particular, my Sam Behseta Michael Love co-authors and I would like to thank you for supporting us in getting our book published last Dear John: You are wonderful! Your exceellence is second to none. I was year. fortunate to start my 1st book with you 12 years ago and am now among the last group of CRC handbook editors working with you. It's sad that my Runze Li 3rd book hasn't been finished before your retirement, and I wish I would John, I hope you find work with you for my 4th book soon. It's difficult to think that you are not retirement as busy and there to offer fantastic help to book authors. You'll be greatly missed. I pleasant as I have. wish you all the best. Enjoy a well deserved retirement! Phil Lavori Grace Y. Yi
Dear John, Congratulations and all the Thanks for all best for your retirement, you've done for John! Glad to have had the the statistics opportunity to work with community, and Congratulations on your retirement! We've only worked you. enjoy your together on the sports analytics book, but I wish I could retirement! have made the effort to develop other projects with you. I Rand Wilcox hope you enjoy the next phase in your life, and I do hope Karl Broman you find it rewarding and relaxing.
Best wishes in All the best, retirement. I'll miss seeing you at JSM. Dear John, It has been so - Mark Glickman David Marchette graateful to know and work Dear John, with you and I appreciate your helps somuch. Have a Very best wishes on your retirement. You are truly an icon of the great retirment!!! Statistics profession! I am incredibly fortunate to have worked with you -- thank you for your encouragement and most of all your Tony Sun, Univ. of Missouri patience. You will be sorely missed by all of us!
Marie Davidian
Hi John, Congratulations! Here's Dear John, Dear John. I wish you a time as great and joyful as wishing you the best for your I wish you the Best and be Happy! during your career. It was a pleasure working with post-retirement adventures. Sam Efromovich you when writing my book on competing risks and Murali multi-state models. Ronald Geskus Murali haran
Dear John - Congratulations on a fantastic career. It was a pleasure to work with you. Good luck on your next leg of the journey. Stay in touch. -- Sandeep Menon Dear John, It has been a great pleasure working (Pfizer). with you, starting from my early career. You are truly incredible. I meant it: All of my three Dear John. books published with your help. The first book took 2 years, the second one 5 years and third I wish you all the best for your upcoming retirement. It has one 10 years. Withour your help, this would been a pleasure having you as contact person when have not been possible. Probably, I will not write publishing books, and it is just too bad that you are not any book in the future because of your around when finalizing the current one. retirement. You definitely deserve a break! Happy retirement! Best wishes, Jianqing With best wishes, Per Kragh Andersen
Thank you for everything! Best of John, you are really a fantastic editor! I (we) have luck with your new endeavors! We followed you from Wadsworth, to Springer, and then to will all miss you! Chapman and Hall. You helped us make the pdf of ESL free, as well as SLS. You have also been a very good Vance friend. I might have to retire too now!
Hi John, Reading this greeting list it is clear you have had a huge influence on our field. Thanks for being so patient with us! It was a long, winding road to publishing BMLR but well worth the journey. I will always appreciate All the best for the years ahead your wise counsel and support. Trevor Best wishes, Trevor Hastie Paul Roback
Dear John, John, Congratulations on We really appreciate your your retirement and efforts on behalf of thanks for everything! Statistics. You have made Haipeng Xing a real difference, and we are thankful. Dennis Boos
Many best wishes on your retirement John, and sincere thanks for all your support with the Handbook. All my authorly loyalties continue to reside with Chapman and John, Hall! It's been a great 20-some years that I've enjoyed working with you Paul and seeing you occasionally at Paul Gustafson conferences! Since you're retiring from editing, I'm retiring from writing. Hope you'll be able to follow some John; It has always been a pleasure working with you. Thank you of my itineraries in retirement, and for your patience, guidance and assistance. I, like others, have a maybe our paths will cross book project that I had hoped to entice you with. It is a shame that somewhere in our travels. I have moved too slowly on it. All the best, Jim Please enjoy your retirement. James E. Gentle
Barry Barry C Arnold
Dear John, Congratulations on your retirement after a long and very distinguished career as an Editor and latterly, Executive Your support and experience made my working on books Editor. much less painfull and much easier. Huge thanks for it! Good luck on any plans that you might have for the future. If You and I go back a long way and throughout that long any help from me might be needed or useful, just whistle. period, you regularly impressed me by the breadth of your knowledge of statistics and statisticians. The great stature of Cheers. the Series is in no small measure due to your efforts in Tomasz Burzykowski applying those standards. Thanks for contributing so much to its development.
Finally, you will be much missed.
Jim Z
Dear John, Jim Zidek I would like to express my sincerest gratitude for your help for the book publication. Enjoy your retirement life!
Jianrong Wu
Hi John, John, it was a priviledge to know you. What a wonderful and illustrious career! You're one-of-a-kind. Even though I haven't It has been such a pleasure to work you with on the published with you, I know several of the authors you've guided book with Jim, and signed another contract before you through the publication process and have never heard a bad word. retire. I have always been amazed by your good I'dd definitely miss you at the JSM and ENAR meetings. judgement, patience, encouragement, and swift responses to emails. I wish you the best and happy All the best in retirement. Stay healthy retirement! Abhijit Best, Monika Hu
Dear John, Dear John, Congratulations on your retirement! Thanks so your unwavering support and sympathetic understanding made all much for all of your help. It has been great the difference to Jeff and me for our book of more than 10 years ago! We could not have completed it without you. It has been a working with you. pleasure and a privilege to work with you. I hope that you enjoy All the best for the future! and long, uninterrupted, retirement! Babette Brumback Very best wishes
Andrew Andrew Robinson
Dear John, Cher John,
Many thanks for your support all these years in Merci pour les excellentes relations que nous publishing and promoting my book. I wish you a nice avons eues à l'occasion de la publication de notre retirement period. livre avec Marco.
Best, Tous mes souhaits de santé, sérénité et Dimitris Rizopoulos satisfaction vous accompagnent tout au long de cette nouvelle étape de votre vie.
Dear John Bien à vous It was a great pleasure to work with you, and we would JBD not have finished our book without your guidance, Jean-Baptiste Denis patience and persistance. I wish you a healthy and happy retirement, Dear John, It's been great working Many thanks for all you have done for the field of with you over the years. Statistics over the years! Ruth Pfeiffer You will be sorely missed. Enjoy your Enjoy those grandchildren. retirement. With best wishes, Butch Tsiatis Steve Marron
Wishing you a very happy and You were the best editor I enjoyable retirement which you ever had. I wish you well in richly deserve - it has been great retirement, good travel, having you as an editor. good friends, good books, and good wine.
BEst wishes, Best, GeofF McLachlan Ken Lange
Dear John: time flies! It was a long and winding road. First we were at Thank you so much for your warm support with the Wadsworth. Then you got traded to Chapman and preparation of the first edition of my book on Clinical Hall and I ended up at Duxbury. Finally thanks to Prediction Models in 2007, eventually being published Linkedin I found you at CRC. Throughout it all in 2009. You were always a great optimist and you were the best editor I ever had. I can provided constructive comments, which helped me a remember that you didn't like living in Monterey lot to keep up good spirits. since the weather wasn't sunny enough. Hope you find a nice beach to retire on! I wish you and your family all the best! Ewout Steyerberg Rick Durrett
Thank you for your editorial support and advice and John, not least your patience in the production of our book which finally emerged last year - only four I feel sad that our tradition of meeting more-or- years later than we had planned! It was a pleasure less annually at JSM appears to have come to an to work with you and I wish you a long and happy end (after something like 25 years). I always retirement. looked forward to our conversations and sharing Bob Haining thoughts not only about the world of publishing but about other topics as well.
I hope you're well and that life is good!
I'll just stay quiet about how grateful I am for your Best regards, David Harville contribution to my books over the years (decades); otherwise I would go hoarse. Best wishes for your retirement. I hope you have left some good team behind John, because what will happen when you grandchildren start writing books?? You are a superstar. Good wishes on your retirement. You helped me with my first book for Springer and I thank you for that and for Nick Longford being a good friend. Be healthy and stay away from other people!
Best wishes, Alan. Alan J. Izenman
Dear John, Thank you for your support all these years. I really Dear John: Wishing you all the best in retirement! I appreciate it. I still remember vividly the occasian when never would have thought to write a book without your we first met and you told me about your graduate school encouragement and support. More than a decade on, I days at John Hopkins with Rudy Beran (one of my Ph.D. still appreciate so much all the time you gave to help me advisors). You are a great treasure to the scientific see the project to fruition, as well as your patience with community, and I have been benefited greatly through the inevitable delays. reading many books that you have edited and Nicole Lazar encouraged others to write. I have written my book (with Xin Tian) partly because of your encouragement and Dear John, Congratulations on your retirement after a patience. long illustrious carrer in publishing. I wish you health, happiness and great success! Colin O. Wu Be well! Joe Glaz
Hi John, Best wishes to you! Congratulations on your Dear John, Congratulations on your retirement, and achievements. You and me were elected as ASA happy travels! Thank you for all your friendship and fellows at the same year, 2009, 12 years ago! advice over the years, and for encouraging me to write It was very pleasant experiences working with you the crime statistics book and the third edition of my on the book project "Modern Issueses and sampling book. It has been a privilege and an honor to Methods in Biostatistics." be able to work with you, and I wish you all the best. Mark Chang Sharon Lohr
From the Preface of our book, a message John has no doubt received scores, if not hundreds of times: Dear John, I wish you a very happy and "We also thank John Kimmel, our editor. Throughout this healthy retirement. You will be missed in the long evolution John patiently waited and supported our statistics workld and I hope you willl find a project." way to stay in touch. - Nilanjan Nilanjan Chatterjee This was heartfelt then (2000) and remains so.
Thank you John! It was a pleasure and and an honour to work with you. I wish you all the best for the future, wherever you may go and whatever you may do. Many thanks for your support and encouragement over Terry Speed the years, John. I hope you have a wondeful retirement.
David David Oakes Welcome to (the good) Hi John, life after retirement :-) All the best for a long Jason and happy retirement. Jason C. Hsu Byron
Byron Morgan
John, Hi John,
It was great to work with you. You know what a difficult Thanks very much indeed for all your help with our time Kjell and I had with our previous publisher and you were book. We finished just in time for you to see it over a breath of fresh air. We've really appreciated you and wish the line! I enjoyed working with you over these past you the best for retirement. . few years. It was a privilege to have such professional, high-quality support. Max Max Kuhn I wish you all the best for a very happy and fulfilling retirement!
Best wishes, Dear John Ian Thank you for everything, not only the help with my Ian Dryden book but also all the other contacts we have had over the last 25 years. I hope you will have a wonderful retirement. Best wishes Dear John, Many thanks for all your support and engorgement all over the Philip years. It was a real pleasure to work with you and to publish with Philip Hougaard your team.
Enjoy the retirement !!!! Ziv Shkedy.
Dear John, Congratulations on a great career and a heartfelt thank you for your support and the fruitful collaboration throughout the years. All the best for the future.
Ciao, Claus Weihs
Dear John,
Congratulations on such exemplary career in promoting statistical sciences! It is not an exaggeration to say that many research results and new directions in statistics would not happen if not you. I will miss our chats at JSM and hope to see you in person with a glass of wine in post-COVID times.
Thank you again very much for supporting our research! ENAR 2014
With the very best wishes, Yulia R. Gel.
Congratulations on Your Retirement john. i Dear John, have truly enjoyed working with you the past ten years and will soon be following I wish you all the best in your retirement. It has really been your lead into what hopefully will be my pleasure to work with you on several projects throughout productive and enjoyable retirements for the years. I really believe that you have been an outstanding both of us. best wishes to you and your editor and that you have had a huge impact on our field and family as you enter this new phase of life. how academic books in Statistics are being written steve nowadays. Steve Heeringa Buena suerte con tus clases de castellano. Espero que nuestra próxima conversación sea en este idioma. :)
Un abrazo muy fuerte. Hi John! Virgilio Gómez-Rubio
You were the first person to get me a book deal! Thank you so much for all of your help earlier in my career. I hope you have lots of fun in your retirement!!! John, it was a great pleasure and a real honor to work Sincerely, with you - the R community will miss you, it wouldn't Steve Millard have been what it is today without your silent contributions! I wish you all the best during retirement, Best wishes for the future and hope you'll find the time and energy to enjoy life and John. do exciting things, with your loved ones. Many regards, Rob Henderson Edzer Edzer Pebesma
My good friend John,
Never imagined that retirement would come before our next meet-up. So, I guess the meet-up will have to come after the retirement. But, let's not push our luck too far. Let's grab Dear John, that beer while still we can. Th ank you John for getting me Wish you a very happy retirement filled with fun and off my backside and into print. But, also, for kindling no end happiness! Congrats, now the fun begins! of interests. among which the r eading of Joyce's Ulysees. Bani Mallick That alone is a good reason for us to grab that beer somewhere - so you can explain to me what it was all about. riters ever itor we book w ubt the best ed ide r beyond a do were on our s John John, You we wieh you. You days working em, Bill d. I miss those ith much este encountere e for a chat. W ntact me anytim . Feel free t co 100% Bill Cleveland John O'Quigley
Thanks so much John for all of your **excellent** service to the Statistics and Probability communities! Best wishes for your future adventures. Enjoy your Susan Murphy retirement, John Douglas Bates
Dear John, John, Congratulations on your long and quietly influential career. I never did have the chance to For decades I was puzzled why God never allowed me write a book for you, but I certainly enjoyed our to finish the book that I promised you (in excahge of conversations about trends in ecological and the 40% author's discount). It finally dawned on me environmental statistics. And, I definitely bought that God knew that you would never abandon any more books from you than anyone else at author. Thank God that I was not allowed to finish my Springer or CDC! book --- I’m sure you will be waiting for me at JSM Enjoy whatever new activities you plan in 2025. retirement! Philip Meanwhile, tell CRC to increase your salary by 40% annually, and tell them don’t even try to blink unless they want God throw the book at them. Philip Dixon
See ya, Xiao-Li
Many congratulations, John, on an Dear John: I sure will miss you! Seeing you at JSM outstanding career. You will be was always always a real treat. You have more than missed at JSM, always thoughtful, deserved your retirement, but I will nontheless miss patient and engaged. You can retire our interactions. Thank you for all your help and with great pride in all you have advice over the years! accomplished. With warmest regards, Karen Kafadar Best, Nancy Reid
Dear John, John, I HAVE GREATLY ENJOYED YOUR it has been a pleasure to publish a few books with ADVICE AND APPRECIATED YOUR you under two different editors. Always ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS AND GENTLE competent, patient, effective. PERSISTANCE IN KEEPING ME ON TRACK THINKING ABOUT FUTURE WRITING I wish you all the best for your bright new future! PROJECTS. I WISH YOU THE BEST AS YOU PIVOT FROM PUBLISHING. I am sure I'll new stop. Stefano Iacus BEST REGARDS,
TOM Tom Santner
Dear John, Congratulations on a truly wonderful and highly impactful career! Wishing you all the very best for your retirement and hope you get to do everything you wanted in life and didn't find the time for!
Best wishes, John, Sudipto. I was amazed at your patience through the long process of publishing our textbook. Thank you so much for your Sudipto Banerjee guidance, and may God bless you in your future years in retirement! Tucker McElroy
Dear John, Dear John. Thanks for all It was a pleasure to your help with our book Dear John, know YOU! about survival analysis! I Best wished and enjoy wish you a good I never met you in person but it was a your life! retirement. real pleasure to work with you! I wish Sam Best regards, you all the best for all your future Sam Efromovich Odd O. Aalen projects. Have a great time! Randal Douc John, you likely won't But why retire?. Better you wqrite a book on all remember me, but we met at a the colorful characters you have met and who few JSMs over the years. My have masquereded as authors. I did. Nozer students and I have built our Nozer Singpurwalla knowledge and careers on books you helped publish! Thank you for all you've done Thanks John, it has been a for the community! Have a pleasure working with you, great retirement! and I hope I will find time to Hi John − Thanks for your skilful smoothing of the publication Andrew Finley process. I hope you enjoy your retiremenet as much as I do finish the manuscript I mine.. All good wishes, Philip promised you... Best Philip Dawid regards Arthur Charpentier
Hi John. Dear John, It is truly my honor to get to know you and work with you in the last several years! You have been so supportive and encouraging! You have done so much to As a 'nominal' retiree, I statistics profession by publishing so many wonderful books welcome you on board that we use everyday. Hopefully one day, I will finish the and can assure you that Dear John project that we started! Enjoy your retirement and I wish you retirement opens all doors Thank you for all you've done all the best. to happiness. Enjoy it! over our 25 year collaboration! You've been Hongzhe Li such a positive force in the field--we will miss you! Welcome to retirement! I've just started and it turns out I'm not very good Howell I wish you healthy and happy at staying retired. I hope you do better. Actually, I hope you have the golden years! same problem I have. I'm writing a new book, with a working title Dimitris "Calculus if it had been invented for computer scientists with a strong Dimitris Politis interest in data and statistics." I can't think of any other editor who'd be willing to touch such a thing. So when you start your next career, think Calculus! Hi John - I guess you now get more time for travelling, as Best, if that's new! And perhaps writing? Enjoy a relaxing Danny retirement. Danny Kaplan Best regards, Mike Mike West Best wishes to your retirement. Congratulations! Xiaochun Li Beth Chance
Hi John, I really thank you so much for encouraging me It was great to work with you, John, both to write books and your great support. I enjoyed having when you were with Springer and with good time with you. I hope you enjoy your new life. Chapman Hall. My decision to publish books with both companies had a lot to do with Best wishes my many positive interactions with you. I Toshiro Tango wish you the very best in retirement. Being a bit ahead of you on that, I can assure you that the water's fine! John, Retire? Who is going to push the statistics field forward? Thanks for My best, being a leader in the statistics book business all these years. It has been our Frank privilege to know and work with you. Enjoy Francisco J. (Frank) Samaniego the next phase of life, wherever it takes you. With admiration. Scott Scott L. Zeger
Dear John, ohn, Dear J Targeted Enjoy your retirement! k with you on the first It was a delight to wor nk you for your It was great working with over ten years ago! Tha It was always a pleasure to Learning book that I, And for being unphased talk to you, either about you and chatting at the JSMs. and belief in our work. kindness r a book like he time, would co-autho business or pleasure. May a graduate student at t All the best, our retirement. :-) you enjoy retirement to the this! I hope you enjoy y Jaroslaw Harezlak fullest. Sherri Terry Therneau Sherri Rose
Congratulations John! Wish you all the best All the best for a happy John - You have been a Enjoy your in your next stage of retirement wonderfyul asset to the retirement. life, with the family Andrew Lawson Statistics community and I Mike Daniels and grandchildren. wish you the best in You were a wonderful retirement. - Alan Congrats to you John for a and respected Alan Gelfand distinguished career in advancing colleague John, To a very well- statistics through publishing! All Mark van der Laan deserved retirement! You I hope you have a very the best wishes! have so indelibly pleasant retirement! Thanks J. Jack Lee impacted the field of to all your exceptional Statistics. Best, Marc service to the field. Marc Suchard Best wishes, Thank you John, you We've had several David Dunson were the nicest publisher! occasions to work together - it was so Sara van de Geer good to have known you! Best wishes for your next What a great ride it's been, John. 8 books over nearly 40 years! Thank you for your help and journey! Not possible without your encouragement and continual support. advices in writing my first Ronghui (Lily) Xu But even more, the pleasure of knowing you, our many book in English. It has been a conversations and shared events. Every good wish for a happy pleasure working with you. retirement! enjoy your Enjoy your retirement! John Chambers retirement period! Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro Emmanuel Lesaffre
Dear John Thank you very much for recruiting me as Editor more than Dear John:: 25 years ago and for many entertaining contacts back then Thank you for your stellar and towering contribution to the as well as after your return to C&H. dissemination of statistics! Your net of contacts is impressive, but your permanent good My best wishes for your well deserved retirement - with very spirit is the winner! many beautiful and happy days! I wish you a fruitful retirement! Peter Bühlmann
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Niels Keiding
Dear John, John - Just thinking about you always makes me Congratulations on your retirement. I expect you have want to write the next book. Best wishes exciting plans. Thank you for your sage wisdom and and always so glad I got to work with you. many contributions to statistics and society. Your impact is deep and lasting. Robert Weiss
Sending well wishes, Kathy Ensor, President-Elect of ASA (and then after that maybe just maybe I might finish that book....!)
Hi John is has been a real pleasure Congratulations, John, Dear John, interacting with you over the years. on your retirement. I Thank you for your invaluable contribution to the I wish you all the best hope your halcyon days statistical profession. Through the numerious important are fruitful as well as books you helped to publish, our community will restful. Don continue to benefit from your effort long after your well Francesca Dominici Don Berry earned retirement. All the best wishes, Wing Wing Wong
Dear John, It's been great working with you over the last twelve (!!) years. I appreciated you taking a chance on a book written by a Hi John, PhD student and it's been a pleasure to Those golden years are beackoning both of us work with you on subsequent books. I -I go emeritus Sept 1. Thanks for hope you enjoy your well desired being such a grood friend to statistics all retirement and keep up the yoga! these years, it hasn't gone unnoticed. Hadley Hadley Wickham The AARP calls to us... best wishes\ Brad
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Hi John, Dear John, Best wishes for your retirement and thanks for all you I remember you telling me "your lecture notes are 90% of did to bring such awesome textbooks into the world of the way to being a book." Well, that was a stretch, but statistics. without this statement and your encouragement, the book -Art wouldn't have been written. Have a great retirement, Art Owen Peter Hoff
Enjoy your retirement Dear John John...more time to curl up John, with a good book! Best It's been wonderful Thanks for all you have done for the fields of Probability wishes - Noel working with you. and Statistics, by bringing to us some many great books. Noel Cressie Congratulations on your All best wishes in your retirement, retirement! I wish you the best on your next Ioannis Karatzas Congratulations! Enjoy adventure! Ioannis Karatzas your retirement. Maria Tackett
All the best, Mei-Ling Mei-Ling Lee
Dear John, Congratulations! You have contributed so much to the Dear John - It was a pleasure to briefly get to know you both as a statistics profession and it has been great knowing you! I forget review and an editor. Just scrolling through all of the other signees when we first met but it must have been easily thirty years ago. makes me so grateful for all the wonderful books you have brought I can especially remember having a very nice dinner with you in into being and which I and so many others treasure. Thanks so Istanbul once - that must have been 1997 during the ISU meeting. much for all you have done and best wishes for a fantastic It's the little things like this you remember long after the event retirement! - Emily itself has passed. I hope you get to do many fun things in your Emily Riederer retirement! Richard Smith
Dear John. It has been an absolute pleasure knowing you and working with you. You are true gentleman - genuine, sincere, generous, calm, warm and kind. John, Congratulations on such a As others have noted, you have seen the field of Statistical long and illustrious career. I am Computing grow from niche to mainstream and you have lucky to have you as my first editor, been a significant factor in that. Impact and a great person and i promise i'll finish my next book to boot. Thank you for all your support and opportunities. for you before you get too settled I hope you thoroughly enjoy your retirement and this new in your retirement. Thanks for your stage in your life. You truly deserve it. help and infinite patience. Best, Eric Duncan Zivot Duncan Temple Lang
Congratulations on your Dear John, retirement. Thank you so much for your decades of successful Thank you for all you work in this realm. The list of important books that have done for the you were involved in is incredible, and collectively profession and most these books have had an immense positive impact recently CRC Press. on the field. I am very grateful to have had the Byron Jones chance to work with you as an author and series editor. I hope you have a wonderful, well-earned retirement! As many others have written here, your influence on many fields and authors has been profound. Your ability to match what you Best, perceived we could write with the readerships you also know in Joe Blitzstein ways that respected and empowered us is, I'm sure, unique. So, thank you for all your help and guidance, and best wishes for a happy retirement.
Roger Bivand Dear John, congratulations on your retirement, and I do hope you have a proper one! It's been a pleasure to work with you over such a long period. with my best wishes, David David Spiegelhalter
Dear John Dear John, You and I have had a long history working together to get several of my textbooks published. Although Mitch and I are First, thanks for being such a positive force for the principal authors of these texts, you nevertheless have Statistics for the past 40 (?) years.The canon of played an enormous role in developing them to the highest great Stats books would have been much thinner pedagogical level of production. I can’t thank you enough for without you. Even when it didn’t work out, I the guidance and suggestions to myself and Mitch. I wish you thoroughly enjoyed our conversations and always a very happy retirement life, allowing for travel, new projects appreciated your insights. And thanks again for of your own interest, and a happy overall life. not signing my first book. It turned out to be the David Kleinbaum best thing that ever happened to me! :) Best wishes for your retirement and hope our paths will cross again soon.
Cheers, Dick John, you have made such an impact in Statistics through Richard De Veaux your editorial contributions in bringing important books and monographs to fruition. Given how much the business has changed over the past decade, it has been an inspriation to see how you have kept this process fresh and relevant. I've enjoyed working with you and wish Thanks for all your help you all the best in the next phase of your life! over the years ! Chris Wikle Jay Kadane
John, Dear John, I very much enjoyed working with This is a doubly sad letter for me to write, since not only will you on my book with Springer the field be losing a highly competent and premiere editor, (Introduction to Empirical Processes but we both got a PhD from Hopkins at the same time, so and Semiparametric Inference). You what does this say about my own academic clock? But this were very encouraging, patient, and message is about you and is supposed to be laudatory and Helpful. I am very happy with the happy, so let me wish you all the best in your next chapter! results of the book. I also enjoyed You certainly did a fine job in your last one and deserve the discussing other book ideas with you best. over the years (even if they haven't yet m.p. materialized). I hope you have a wonderful retirement. Marcello Pagano Best regards, Michael R. Kosorok
John, you were the best Best Wishes John out there, always pulling Jay Herson for the authors. Going to miss you. Bill Clevealnd
dear John, John, I am very grateful to you for giving me the Congratulations on a fantastic opportunity to write a book in total freedom. This career and a well-earned retirement! has played an important role in my work and my You were the man who gave me my career. I wish you the best in your new life beginning down this publishing Marc Lavielle avenue, and I'll always be grateful. Have a wonderful time doing things that don't require author contracts! With my very kindest wishes, Walt Piegorsch Dear John,
I am very glad I had the chance to work with you over the past 10 years. Your positive energy will be missed. It is now time to put it to good use in your new adventures ! John, It is hard to imagine attending a professional statistical With my very best wishes, Flori conference and not seeing you there. You were allways Flori Bunea welcoming and encouraging to authors. As I scramble to wrap up a 3rd book that you signed, I can't imagine a better editorial colleague. I wish you the best of luck as you start on our next adventure in life.
With great respect and best wishes, John Bailer
John, John, It has been a pleasure working with you; I'm sorry we Many congratulations on your retirement! Thank you never had a chance to meet in person. We definitely for your encouragement over the years. Your editorial appreciated all your encouragement on our long (very skills are without peer-- but what is truly staggering is long) journey. the number of books and authors you have edited over Enjoy your retirement! your illustrious career. You have left an incredible Regards, impact on the field of statistics and our communty, that Kim will last for generations. But what affected me the most Kimberlee Gauvreau is your kindness, positive outlook and your integrity--I am lucky to have known you! Hey John, It's hard to believe we met in 1982, Nick (Jewell) almost 40 years ago. Thanks for your help, knowledge, and professionalism. Not to mention playing some tennis (though not nearly enough for the both of us). May you thrive during your retirement! All the best, Joe Joseph Romano
Hi John, Co ngrats on a fine career. I hope your retirement is most enjoyable. Dear John, Best regards, Thanks for taking a chance on this first time author! It Ross was a pleasure working with you every step of the way. Ross Prentice You'll be missed. Enjoy the next adventure! Jonathan Regenstein
John, Dear John:
Thank you for your encourragement and support for that I am very grateful you offered me the opportunity first book with Andrew all those years ago. "Forest to publish my first book. Analytics with R" would not have been possible without your guidance. Countless researchers, students and I hope the best of your retirement. practitioners have you to thank for bringing enlightenment and understanding to statistics, Thank you, computation and publishing. I hope you find your Naitee retirement as rewarding as we have found in pages you Naitee Ting have brought to the world.
Respectfully, Jeff D. Hamann Dear John, Thanks for all the help Jeff Hamann with the stats book, Thank you for John B. & I appreciate everything you've done the care! Best of luck. John, it has been such a joy to work over the years. It Rosemary Pennington with you during the process of writing was great working and editing our book. Your perspective with you. Have a and experience have made so many wonderful Jay Ver Hoef books better, including ours. I send you retirement! warmest congratulations on your retirement! Larry Julia Silge Larry Friedman
Hi John, John,
I am very grateful for your superb book editing Than k you for b eing my ed services. I still remember the talks we had in the You've k itor on my ept me on very first b p track and a ook! conferences and the reminders you sent to me in the rocess. dvised me t hroughout early years about my book plan. I am very fortunate the to know you, to work with you, and to be able to For instan ce, telling m ha e to rewri publish my book right before your retirement. I think d no clue h te the prefa ow to write ce, becaus you deserve a service award from the statistics first v a preface e I ersion. Or r and wrote eminding m a terrible community. I am going to miss you there at the comprehe e, "Your i nsive. Whe nstinct is to au ther this is be conferences. I wish you the best for your next dience." a virtue de pends on th chapter of life. e C heers to yo ur retireme the c nt! Hopefu ause for it lly, my boo ... k was not Paul Peng Claire Bow Hi John, en Yingwei Peng (Paul)
Congratulations on your retirement! Wishing you all the best on the next John, it was an honor working with chapter of your life! you. It's a great pity that we couldn't finish the book projects together. I Best wishes, wish you all the very best for the Dylan coming years. Dylan Small Shravan Vasishth
Dear John, Hello John, Thanks to you, I only have to work for a couple of hours you were my very first editor, and I thank you sincerely per week for the rest of my life. I think that says it all. for having made the process so seamless. Your professionalism and immense patience will be If you ever visit Scotland, give me a shout, and I will missed. show you around! I trust you will enjoy and make the most of this new and well deserved chapter of your life. Alain Zuur Cheers! PS. And thanks for allowing us to use the penguin photo Guillaume as a book cover (it was a golden decision). Guillaume Coqueret
Best wishes on your It always was a pleasure retirement! Thank you to meet and talk. Our working together was for all of your support Thank you for your unfortunately brief but I for statistical methods; support. I will always be think of your advice very often! we have been lucky to grateful. Best wishes for Your insights and wisdom have you as an advocate! your retirement. will be missed! Liz Stuart Paul Have a wonderful time Paul De Boeck in your retirement!
Norma Hubele
Hi John, Hi John,
Congratulations on your retirement! I trust you will Congratulations on your retirement! I feel very lucky to enjoy every moment of it. Take care! have you as my editor for a published book and a book manuscript in progress. You are so helpful and always Best wishes, responsive to my needs and concerns. Stay happy and healthy! Will update you once the new book is completed. Thomas Lee best, PS: I will let you know once the book is finished - it won't take long, I promise! Jun Jun Xu Dear John,
Wishing you all the best in your retirement. Thanks for all your help Dear John, and patience in helping me bring my first book into this world! I wish you all the best for this next chapter in your life! Derek Thank you for helping us to starting our book project. :-) Derek Briggs Best wishes, Paul Paul C. Bauer
Hi John, John, I have enjoyed working with you over the (many!) years. Your contributions to the statistics literature have Thanks so much for the help that you provided me been enormous and we have all benefitted greatly from your and John Kloke in getting our book published. dedication and know-how. I hope that you have many years Thanks for the advice on other publishing matters that you to enjoy your retirement in good health. I will miss your were always happy to provide. advice,
Happy retirement. Alicia
Cheers, Joe McKean John: It is my honor and previlage to work with you on my first ever book "Correlated Data Analysis". Your professional advice, patience and flexibility have made the project a big success. It was indeed pleasant experience and journey. Enjoy your retirement! We will Thanks John for your contribution to the statistical miss you very much. profession! Peter Song
Best wishes for your retirement.
Marina Vannucci Rice University Houston, TX
Hey John, it has been such a priviledge to get to work Dear John, with you, and Steve Fienberg, on my first book, and on more books afterwards! You have helped so many It has been a pleasure. The Statistics statistics classics get published that it is pointless to even profession is losing a great supporter. I start counting. Thank you for your contribution to our have benefitted much from your insights (and field; you cared and you made it better. gentle nudging).
I wish you the best during your retirement! I know Steve All the best for a fulfilling retirment! though very highly of you too, and if he was still with us, he would offer you his very best wishes as well! Best wishes, Alex Take care, Edo Airoldi Alexander Aue
Dear John,
Dear John – Thank you for your contribution to our I'll always remember your great help and advice even when my profession! Best wishes to your next chapter! book was honor-bound to go elsewhere. Our community will miss you, but every best wish for the future! Cheers, Iain Johnstone Min-ge Xie Rutgers University
Dear John, I've enjoyed our chats over the years, Hi John, and have appreciated your encouragement. You Thanks for all of your help with my book. It has been a fun have been a great supporter of statistics, and have two years working on my first book with you. guided many great texts to completion. I hope you have some good books to read in your next phase, Since I have started working with you, I have starting and I don't recommend "Bayesian and Frequentist noticing who the editor is for books that I like. I have been Regression Methods"! AMAZED at the scope of books that you have been a part of.
Very best wishes, Congratulations and best wishes in retirement! Jon Darrin Speegle Jon Wakefield
Congratulations and best wishes! I enjoyed working John, with you over the years and appreciate all the help You were a wonderful editor to work and encouragement you gave me. with. I can't Imagine any better. Hope Bill Notz there is some Tennis playing for you on your Horizon! Bon Courage! Mike Steele Thank you for your strong Statistically, you're the best editor support of statistics, and myself I've ever had! Thanks for getting in particular. us to the finish line. It's been a Enjoy your retirement! Heping Zhang pleasure. Din Chen Bryan Clair
Dear John, Congratulations on a brilliant career; you've done more for Statistics than most of us working in it. Thanks for all the help -- you were great to work with. Best wishes for the Future! Dear John, Giles Hooker
Congratulations on your retirement! It was a pleasure working with you on my book. You provided such kind encouragement and a wider perspective as I was beavering away on my chapters. I’ve kept the post-it-note with your advice: Am I saying more than I need to accomplish my goals? Sound Dear John, counsel for all non-fiction writing. Congratulations on your retirement! I feel very lucky to have worked with you on two books. Your talents I wish you the best in your post-T&F life. I will miss seeing you at JSM! helped make those books better, and they have helped make the field of statistics better for Warm regards, decades. Chaitra H. Nagaraja Best wishes in whatever the future brings you. Jeff Simonoff
Congratulations, John. You have been awesome! It has been such a pleasure for me to have worked with you. I hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable retirement. Michael Proschan
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