Helen M Berg was an American statistician and politician.
18 Facts About Helen Berg
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Helen Berg moved to Corvallis in 1957 and began working as a statistician at Oregon State University in 1963, initially as an operator of electromechanical calculators in the Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Helen Berg then spent two years as a researcher at the University of Illinois, working half-time with the Department of Economics there and half-time in the Bureau of Economic and Business Research.
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Helen Berg returned to Corvallis in 1975, and became the director of the Survey Research Center at Oregon State.
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Helen Berg continued to work as the center's director, teaching statistics classes at the university, until her retirement in 1993.
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Helen Berg's research, published in many journal papers both as Helen M Lowry and as Helen M Berg, concerned feminist economics and "the statistical differences of social opportunity by gender".
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Helen Berg served on the Corvallis city council, representing Ward 7, for two consecutive terms from 1991 until 1994.
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Helen Berg successfully ran for her first term as mayor of Corvallis in 1994 when she was 62 years old.
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Helen Berg would hold office for three consecutive terms, until her retirement in 2006.
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Helen Berg oversaw the planning and construction of the Howland Plaza at Riverfront Commemorative Park, which opened in May 2004.
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Helen Berg was succeeded as mayor by Charlie Tomlinson, whom she had previously defeated in the 2003 mayoral election.
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Helen Berg moved to multiple parts of the US as a child, eventually finishing high school in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Helen Berg interrupted her undergraduate studies to marry Norman Ward in 1952; he became an engineer for CH2M in Corvallis, and they had a son and a daughter.
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Helen Berg was a forestry professor at Oregon State who had served on the Corvallis city council from 1973 to 1978 and served as mayor from 1979 to 1986; he died in 1989.
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In 1993, Helen Berg donated to the local Audubon Society over 5 acres of land near Corvallis on which she had pastured horses.
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Helen Berg moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2007 soon after leaving office to be closer to her family.
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Helen Berg died on August 13,2010, in Portland, of the asbestos-related disease peritoneal mesothelioma at the age of 78.
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Helen Berg's papers are kept in the special collections of the Oregon State University library.