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In 1983, the University of Washington received a substantial gift from Grace
Milliman Pollock and her husband S. Wilson Pollock, to establish an endowed
fund in tribute to the achievements of Mrs. Pollock's brother Wendell Alfred
Milliman.
The gift was used to establish
the Wendell Alfred Milliman Endowed Fund in the
Department of Mathematics. In establishing this fund, Mr. and Mrs. Pollock
also sought to recognize the association of the Milliman family with the
University of Washington, as described below.
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Wendell Alfred Milliman received his Mathematics degree from the University
of Washington in 1926. He went on to enter the Actuarial profession and
served as President of the Academy of Actuaries in 1968, and of the
Actuarial Society of America in 1969. He founded the actuarial firm of
Milliman & Robertson, based in Seattle, which is now one of the largest such
firms in the world. The fund was enlarged in 1990 by a gift from this firm
The income from this endowed fund is used by the department to further the
scholarly objects of the department. It enables the Department of
Mathematics to invite prominent mathematicians to visit the University and
participate in the mathematical life of the department.
The most visible benefit of the Fund has probably been the Department's
very successful series of annual Milliman Lectures.
Archives of the Milliman Lectures