I got a surprise gift from the Department Chair today. My mug design for celebration of the Department’s golden anniversary this year got literally materialized! Thank you, Elly! My design concept is that understanding and learning from variation is the essence of what we do. So, I went with a design that looks like a histogram with each letter of STATISTICS as a bin or category, and to emphasize the 50th anniversary, I stacked the number 5 and 0 for the bars in the histogram.