Overview

The Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture is named for noted economic authority and author Carl Snyder, who died in 1946.  Established in 1960 with a bequest from the estate of Snyder’s wife, Madeleine Raisch, the memorial is used to bring to the campus an outstanding lecturer in the field of economics.

Carl Snyder was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa on April 23, 1869.  He attended the University of Iowa and later attended lectures in Paris but was chiefly self-taught.  At the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell, and later became an editorial writer on the Washington Post.  He was a past president of the American Statistical Association; a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a member of the Institut International de Statistique.  During the years when he served as a statistician at the Federal Reserve Bank, he lectured at some of the leading universities in the United States and contributed frequently to economic journals.