A native of Flint, Michigan, Richard “Dick” Sher was born on January 21, 1939 and obtained his mathematics degrees from The Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in 1960. After one year of graduate work at the University of Utah, he served for two years in… Continue reading…
Born in Oneida, Tennessee on 25 January 1921, Eldon Eugene “Gene” Posey received his B.S. in Mathematics from East Tennessee State before obtaining his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee. While enrolled at East Tennessee State, Posey left college and signed up as a Cadet in the… Continue reading…
Helen Barton was born in Baltimore, Maryland on August 9, 1891. She attended Goucher College (Woman’s College of Baltimore until 1910) and graduated in 1913. The year after her graduation, Helen Barton served as an assistant in physics at Goucher and the following year did graduate work in mathematics and physics at… Continue reading…
Born in Atlanta on April 17, 1919, Dr. Anne Lewis was educated at the Randolph-Macon Women’s College (A.B., 1940), receiving her Master’s (1941) and Doctoral (1943) degrees at the University of Chicago. Dr. Lewis began her tenure as an instructor at the Woman’s College Department of Mathematics in 1945, and served… Continue reading…
Katherine Henrietta Taylor was born on March 19, 1909, in Salisbury, North Carolina. She graduated from the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG) in 1928 and was one of two alumnae elected to membership in the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a national honorary scholastic fraternity. Taylor received her… Continue reading…
Joseph Allen Bryant Jr. was born on November 26, 1919 in Glasgow, Kentucky. He was married with two children, Joseph Allen III and Garnett Woodruff. Bryant received his bachelors at West Kentucky Teachers College in 1940, his masters at Vanderbilt University in 1941, and his doctorate at Yale University in… Continue reading…
Peter H. Taylor was born on January 8, 1917 in Trenton, Tennessee. He attended Southwestern in Memphis for one year, Vanderbilt for one year, and Kenyon College for two years, finally receiving his bachelors degree in 1940. Taylor was drafted into the Army in the spring of 1941 as Sergeant;… Continue reading…
Mereb Ethna Mossman was born on December 1, 1905 in Winfield, Kansas. She received her bachelor’s degree from Morningside College in 1926 and her masters from the University of Chicago in 1928. She was a social worker in Chicago at the Chicago Orphan Asylum and head of the Department of… Continue reading…
After receiving a diploma from Statesville Female College (now Mitchell Community College), Laura Hill Coit enrolled at State Normal in 1894. During her time as a student, she worked as a student assistant in the science department. She graduated in 1896. In 1901, she took on the role of secretary of… Continue reading…
Born in Warrenton, NC, and educated at the Chowan Baptist Female Institute (now Chowan University), Lucy Owen Robertson arrived at State Normal in 1893 as the head of the History Department. She had previously taught at Greensboro Female College, and, in 1900, she returned to Greensboro Female Collegeas its lady principal…. Continue reading…
