Personal
Born:
September 9, 1937 in Ft. Pierce, FL
Wed:
Suzanne (8/12/61)
Children:
Christopher Eric (12/13/69) Employer: Sears Home Improvements
Wed:
Jan Marie (8/9/91)
Children:
Zachary Warren (1/2/93)
Tyler Eugene (10/3/96)

Hope Elizabeth (9/1/72) Employer: Corporate Communications, SAS Institute
Wed:
Christopher Allen Squires (12/2/2005)

Education
Public Schools of Clewiston and Key West, FL
B.S.: Florida State University - 1959
M.S.: Florida State University - 1960
Ph.D.: Florida State University - 1963
Thesis Director: Morton Curtis

Honorary Societies
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Xi
N.C.S.U. Academy of Outstanding Teachers

Professional Employment
1963-1965: Duke University - Research Associate
1965-1967: N. C. State University - Assistant Professor
1967-1974: Associate Professor
1974-2002: Professor
2002-Present: Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. Students
1971: William W. Taylor
1974: Gary M. Brady
1976: Fu-Chien Tzung
1986: Josephine P. Guglielmi

Publications

 Books

• Hausdorff Compactifications, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1976.
• Neogene Fossils of North Carolina - A Field Guide, N.C. Fossil Club, Durham, NC, 1994 (with J. Timmerman).
• Cretaceous and Paleogene Fossils of North Carolina - A Field Guide, N.C. Fossil Club, Durham, NC, 1995 (with J. Timmerman).

• Cellular subcomplexes of piecewise-linear manifolds, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 16(1965), pp. 599-600.
• Applications of a function topology on rings with unit, Illinois J. of Math. 11(1967), pp. 580-585 (with K. Koh).
• A generalized contraction principle, Fund. Math. LXV(1969), pp. 93-95.
• An alternative construction of ßX and vX, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 32(1972), pp. 315-318.
• New compactifications from old, Amer. Math. Monthly 79(1972), pp. 501-503.
• The compactifications to which an element of C*(X) extends, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 38(1973), pp. 637-639 (with R. Gellar).
• Continua as remainders, revisited, Gen. Topology and its Appl. 8(1978), pp. 63-66.
• Remainders in Hausdorff compactifications, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 70(1978), pp. 196-202 (with F. C. Tzung).
• Singular sets and remainders, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 268(1981), pp. 161-171 (with G. Cain and G. Faulkner).
• Generalizing the Alexandroff-Urysohn double circumference construction, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 83(1981), pp. 606-608 (with G. Faulkner, J. Guglielmi, and M. Memory).
• Singular compactifications: the order structure, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 100(1987), pp. 377-382 (with G. Faulkner).
• On classes of compactifications which are always singular, Topol. and its Appl. 71(1996), pp.101-107 (with A.V. Arhangel'skii, G.D. Faulkner, M.C. Vipera).
• Hausdorff compactifications: a retrospective, Handbook of the History of General Topology, Volume II, C. E. Aull and R. Lowen, eds., Kluwer) (1998) (with G. Faulkner).

• The painter's algorithm, PC Tech Journal 3(Nov. 1985), pp. 181-187 (with G. Faulkner).
• Sixteen color graphics, PC Tech Journal 4(Aug. 1986), pp. 159-171 (with J. Davis and G. Faulkner).
• A virtual graphics screen, PC Tech Journal 4(Sept. 1986), pp. 134-145 (with G. Faulkner).
• A tracking algorithm for implicitly defined curves, IEEE Comp. Graphics & Appl. 8(1988), pp. 83-89.
• A recursive technique for rendering parametric curves, Computers and Graphics, 14(1990) pp. 477-479.

• Quantifying a possible Miocene phyletic change in Hemipristis (Chondrichthyes) teeth, Palaeontologia Electronica (2006#1) (with Karen Chiswell and Gary Faulkner).
• Rarely seen coleoid phragmacone steinkerns from the Eocene Castle Hayne Limestone of southeastern North Carolina, Palaeontographica, Abteilung A, 279 (2007), 159-165 (with Patricia Weaver and Charles Ciampaglia).
• Some additional echinoderms from the PCS (Lee Creek) Phosphate Mine, near Aurora, Beaufort County North Carolina, Southeastern Geology, 44 #2 (2006), 73-83 (with Patricia Weaver and Richard Webb).

• The calculations of stability constants using a high speed digital computer, J. Inorganic Chem. 21(1961), pp. 21-24 (with J. A. Chopoorian, G. R. Choppin, and H. C. Griffith).
• An experimental fixed increment war game, Operations Research Symposium, U. S. Army Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, March 29-30, 1966 (with F. J. Murray, W. E. Sewell, and L. E. Winslow).
• Some further cryptographic applications of permutation polynomials, Cryptologia XI(1987), pp. 211-218 (with J. Levine).
• The Hill cryptographic system with unknown cipher alphabet but known plaintext, Cryptologia, XIII(1989) pp. 1-28 (with J. Levine).
• The two-message problem in the Hill cryptographic system with unknown cipher alphabet, Cryptologia XVII(1993) pp. 1-30 (with J. Levine).
• Eudoxus Meets Cayley, American Mathematical Monthly, 110 (2003), pp. 912-927 (with C. Meyer and N. Rose).

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