Mathematics Department from 1967 to 1977
The Park-Rose Years
In the spring of 1967 Professor Cell resigned as Head because of ill health and H. V. Park was appointed as Acting Head.
Park made some significant additions to the faculty during the 1967-68 academic year. Of the seven appointments, four remained in the Department and made notable contributions to research and teaching.Hubert Vern Park was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, and raised on a farm there. He received his undergraduate degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College and did his graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hubert V. Park In 1986, Hubert Park was awarded the Watauga Medal, the highest non-academic honor that the university bestows. Park's career was described nicely by Chancellor Poulton in presenting the Medal:
"In honoring Dr. Park, it has been necessary to create exclusively for him, a new academic title — `Professor Extra-ordinaire.' The reason is simple: he has earned or been awarded every other title of distinction as a teacher available at the University. He was selected as an Alumni Distinguished Professor in 1975 and returned the monetary award to the Alumni Association to establish a scholarship. He was cited four times by alumni as the teacher who had contributed the most to their education. He won the University's Outstanding Teacher Award twice and was the first chairman of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers. He has served in administrative capacities in mathematics, directed special training for mathematics teachers, and been president of the NCSU Scientific Society of Sigma Xi. His dedication for some 50 years, since his appointment here in 1934, is summed up in a tribute of colleagues and his former students: `His door was always open, students were always welcome.' He has taught without compensation since he turned 72—and he's still at it. A professor who really loves to teach."
Robert Hartwig received a Ph.D. from Adelaide University in Australia in 1966. He works in matrix theory and cryptography. Hartwig has written over 100 research papers and produced 4 Ph.D. students. He served on the editorial board of Linear Algebra and Its Applications for 20 years. Hartwig retired in 2008.Carl Meyer got his doctorate from Colorado State University in 1968. He does research in computational linear algebra. Meyer has written four books, over 80 research papers and supervised 8 Ph.D. students. He was managing editor of the SIAM Journal of Algebraic and Discrete Methods and has served on the editorial boards of two other journals. Meyer has received support for his research from NSF, NASA and Boeing. He was the first director of the Center for Research in Scientific Computation from 1986-1988. He also served as Associate Director of the Operations Research Program from 1997 to 2000 and Acting Director in 1998. In 2003, Meyer was honored with a conference Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra on the occasion of his 60-th birthday. Meyer was the recipient of the 2007 Mathematics Department Alumni Award from Colorado State University.
Jiang Luh obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1963. He is an algebraist who worked on prime rings and semisimple rings. He wrote a large number of research papers and supervised 7 Ph.D. students. Luh retired in 2002. In 2002 a Mid Atlantic Algebra Conference was held in honor of the retirement of Kwangil Koh and Jiang Luh.
Robert Silber earned a Ph.D. from Clemson University in 1968. He introduced and taught MA 127, a popular course in Recreational Mathematics.[The course number was chosen because 127 is the only Mersenne prime with 3 digits.] He provided "Brain Twisters" for all the issues of the Harrelson News. . He developed a Mathematical Magic Show which he performed in High Schools throughout the state. Silber was faculty advisor for Pi Mu Epsilon from 1980 until he retired in 2002.
In 1963 John Cell started a small departmental library for the convenience of faculty and students. In 1968, through the generosity of the Cell family and friends, the "John W. Cell Library" was expanded and formally recognized as part the the NC State Library System. The library was dedicated on May 20, 1968 in a ceremony in Harrelson Hall. I. T. Littleton, the Director of the University Library, stated:
"First, I would like to bring greetings and congratulations to the Mathematics Department from the staff of the D. H. Hill Library. We congratulate you, and Dr. Cell, posthumously, on the establishment and growth of the John W. Cell Library. Dr. Cell devoted much time and energy to building the Mathematics collection both in the D. H. Hill Library and in his own department. In his death, the Library Staff feels a tremendous loss. His enthusiasm for Library development on this campus was an inspiration to us. He believed, as any outstanding educator must, that a strong library is an indispensable requisite of a great university." [Cell Folder, UA # 9.3, NC State University Archives]Nicholas J. Rose was selected to head the Department of Mathematics in 1968. Rose was previously head of the Mathematics Department at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the first department head to be chosen from outside of the department.
Nicholas J. (Nick) Rose was born just five blocks from greater downtown Ossining, New York (population 15,000, mainly known as the home of Sing-Sing Prison). He was raised in Yonkers, New York (Rose used to say it was "next to the largest city in the world."). In 1941 he went to Stevens Institute of Technology and graduated in 1944. He was an ensign in the Navy during WW II. In 1946, after the war, he became an instructor in mathematics at Stevens. Rose obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the Courant Institute at New York University.
Nick Rose He became head of the mathematics department at Stevens in 1960. At Stevens, Rose helped establish the Ph.D. program in mathematics and managed a large M.S. program for Bell Labs. He had 7 Ph.D. students at Stevens and one more at NC State. Rose worked in control theory, differential equations and matrix theory.
When Rose arrived on campus he was shocked to find that there were only five telephones in a department consisting of 67 faculty and 50 graduate students. It took Rose several years of negotiating with the Dean to finally get a phone in every office.
It had been the custom in the department that 4 credit Calculus course would meet 5 times a week, and Algebra and 4 credit Algebra and Trig courses would meet 5 times a week with quizzes on Saturday morning. The Saturday classes were eliminated and the students in the four credit calculus courses were required to meet 4 times a week, with a fifth meeting optional (for extra help). It was also decided to stop teaching the slide rule in math courses, leaving whatever instruction was needed to the engineering and science departments who were the main users of the slide rule. At a social affair hosted by Chancellor John Caldwell, Rose casually suggested that a better name for the school of "Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics" (PSAM) would be "Physical and Mathematical Sciences" (PAMS), and to Rose's surprise, his suggestion became a reality in 1969.
The same year student protests of the Vietnam War were heating up nationwide. The Board of Trustees of N.C. State wanted to keep disruptions to a minimum and passed a resolution requiring that all future faculty appointees answer the following question satisfactorily:
"Have you ever been subjected to an inquiry, hearing, or proceeding relating to the violation of (1) any federal or state statute or local ordinance (other than traffic violation) or (2) any college or university rule or regulation while an undergraduate, graduate, or professional student or faculty member? if so, explain fully."
The administration even required that those who had accepted positions for the fall of 1969 be contacted by phone and asked to respond to the same questions. Rose had one such appointment but did not feel he could, in good conscience, ask these questions of a faculty member who had already accepted a position. He told that to Dean Menius and offered to resign. The Dean said that wouldn't be necessary and he would take care of it. Rose doesn't know how the Dean finessed the situation with the administration but everything went smoothly after that.
In the spring of 1970 the Kent State Massacre pushed student protests to a fever pitch throughout the nation. At NC State many classes were disrupted and the university faculty, responding to strong student pressure, voted to give individual faculty members wide discretion in grading for the spring semester.
One of the instructional innovations tried during the Rose years was the Proctorial system of instruction introduced in 1971. In this system students are allowed to advance at their own pace through the course material. The instructor and undergraduate proctors provide assistance. Students take tests whenever they are ready, and even retake tests as often as desired until a respectable grade is obtained. Several sections of beginning courses were taught under this system. TV tapes and interactive computer lessons were developed in an Audio-Visual Tutorial Center run by Bob Savage. Like almost all innovative systems of instruction, the Proctorial System soon ran its course (pun intended). However the Audio-Visual Center remained a permanent fixture in the department. It later morphed into the Multimedia Center under the direction of Lavon Page.
Some anonymous wit once quipped "Although Mathematics and Applied Mathematics do not exist as separate entities, the tensions between them do exist". This was certainly the case when Rose took over as head in 1968. The department offered undergraduate and graduate degrees in "Applied Mathematics". Yet there were substantial numbers who were interested in "pure mathematics"; many faculty felt the applied mathematics degree would not be suitable for such students. To take care of this situation the department obtained administrative approval to change all degrees to just Mathematics. Applied Mathematics became an option under the Mathematics umbrella.
In 1973 Carlotta Patton suggested that the department start an annual news letter to help keep the alumni and other friends of the department in touch with the affairs of the department. Thus started the Harrelson News which was published "almost periodically" from 1973 until 1985 and then again in 2000. Nahikian was the first Editor of the Harrelson News. Sagan took over in 1977 upon Nahikian's retirement. Many items in this Math History Website are based on information from the Harrelson News.
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| The Kitchen Kabinet Rose, Head; Chandler, Grad. Admin.; Park, Assoc. Head; Winton, Undergrad. Admin.; Nahikian, Ass't Head (Photo taken from 1974-75 Harrelson News) |
In 1973 Rose reorganized the department. Park was promoted to Associate Head of the Department, Nahikian became Assistant Head, Chandler became Graduate Administrator and Winton continued as Director of the Undergraduate Program. In 1974 Linda Maddry retired after serving as department secretary since 1937. Dianne Joyner (Hartgrove) took over this position and held it until her retirement in 2002.
Everyone addressed Linda Maddry as "Miss Maddry." She was an unusually well qualified departmental secretary. Besides her secretarial training she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Meredith College. She was efficient, well organized and ran the departmental office with an iron hand. She protected the secretaries who typed papers for the faculty. Miss Maddry had a rule that each paper typed could be submitted only once for corrections. Early in his career Professor Meyer pleaded with her to have corrections made a second time. Miss Maddry said "Professor Meyer, you don't seem to realize that assistant professors are a dime a dozen but good secretaries are hard to find."
Miss Maddry
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| Staff(back to front) Mary Wright, Gail Mattox, Blanche Bailey Frances Jones, Marla Christopher Cathy Hall, Dianne Joyner (Photo taken from 1974-75 Harrelson News) |
Emeritus Faculty(back to front) Daniel Peterson, George Watson, Howard Nahikian Charles Lewis, Lowell Winton, Roberts Bullock Carlotta Patton, George Speidel, John Querry Dorothy Brant, John Clarkson, H. Page Williams Ruth Honeycutt, Jack Levine (Photo taken from 1974-75 Harrelson News) |
A review of all courses and curricula in the mathematics department was undertaken during the Rose regime. Several new undergraduate courses were added: MA 410 (Theory of Numbers), MA 412 (Introduction to Combinatorics), MA 414 (Introduction to Differential Geometry), MA 425-426 (Mathematical Analysis I and II), MA 427-428 (Introduction to Numerical Analysis I & II), MA 530 (Introduction to Applied Mathematics) and a new course mainly for Industrial Engineers, MA 303 (Introduction to Linear Analysis). The undergraduate program was revised. As mentioned above, the name of the degree was changed from Applied Mathematics to Mathematics with Applied Mathematics as an option. The required hours for graduation were reduced from 131 to 126, however, the new program contained a more demanding group of core courses.
On the graduate side there were several courses introduced for math majors: MA 520 (Linear Algebra), MA 534 (Introductory to Partial Differential Equations) and MA 601-602 (Advanced Ordinary Differential Equations I and II). For non-math majors courses introduced were a new one-year survey course MA 501-502 (Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists) and a sequence of four courses designed to strengthen the mathematical background of high school teachers: MA 507 (Analysis), MA 508 ( Geometry), MA 509 (Abstract Algebra) and MA 510 (Selected Topics). Most of these courses have stood the test of time and are still being given in 2003 modulo some inevitable course number changes. The courses for high school teachers came about because of the very close working relations between the mathematics department and the mathematics education department.
The number of women students at State increased dramatically in the 1960's and 1970's. In 1959 there were 164 women students representing about 3% of the student population. By 1975 there were 4853 women, about 30% of the enrollment. In mathematics, Nancy E. Mumford was the first woman to received a B.S. degree in 1959. The first woman valedictorian at the university was a math major, Jane Carroll Pickard, who earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematics in 1971.[Beers and Downs, p. 120] Also in 1971 the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics was Jo Ellen Perry, an advisee of Kwangil Koh.
There were several women faculty members in the department over the years, in particular, Ruth Honeycutt, Carlotta Patton, Dorothy Brand, and Joyce Caraway played significant roles. However, it wasn't until 1973 that the first woman Ph.D joined the faculty---Sandra Paur.
The first African-American Ph.D. in mathematics at State was Hampton Wright who received his degree in 1973. He was a student of Jack Levine. He stayed at State in 1973 and was the first African-American to serve on the professorial faculty. Wright left in 1974 to go to Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he rose to be head of the mathematics department. The first African-American to be hired from the outside was James Nelson, Jr. who joined the department in 1975. In the 1980's Nelson left for Saint Augustine's College in Raleigh.
In 1976-77 the Audio Visual Center, under the direction of Professor Savage, completed its second full year of operation. The center was fortunate to hire Marilyn McCollum, a State graduate in Math Ed, as Educational Media Technician to assist in the operation of the center. In addition to individual tutoring, seven beginning courses were put on TV tapes. During the academic year students viewed about 50 tapes per day. Later Marilyn became an instructor, and besides teaching herself, took on the task of teaching Teaching Assistants to teach in 1985.
In 1976-77 there were 265 undergraduate math majors and 42 graduate students. The teaching assistants numbered 52, 10 of whom had majors in other departments. Bachelor's degrees were awarded to 37 students and 11 earned Master's degrees. No Ph.D.'s were awarded tin 1976-77. Regarding the absence of Ph.D. graduates, we quote from the "Report on the Graduate Program" by R. E. Chandler which appeared in the 1976-77 Harrelson News.
"We had no Ph.D. graduates this year for the first time to my recollection. I believe this is a result of two things. First we had an abnormally large number of Ph.D. graduates last year [7]. Second, the tight job market continues to discourage qualified students from continuing beyond the Master's degree. According to statistics from the American Mathematical Society, unemployment for new Ph.D.'s in the mathematical sciences was down about 10% last year. This figure dose not show 'underemployment' and it does show the number of unemployed 'old' Ph.D.'s. It seems to me that the job situation can stand a lot of improvement, but there is still a place (and a prospect of reasonable employment) for capable dedicated people, particularly in the applicable areas of mathematics.
"The total number of graduate students in the department has been declining somewhat for the past several years, but has reached a plateau, at least for the time being. This decline is almost entirely among out-of-state students and seems to be caused by the limited number of tuition remissions we can make. We have not lowered our standards of admission, however, and if there has been any change in the quality of incoming students it has been for the better."
Perhaps the most important accomplishment during the Park and Rose administrations was the hiring of a large number of excellent faculty members. As mentioned above Park added 7 new faculty in 1967. Rose added 27 more from 1968 to 1977. Fortunately, there were many excellent candidates to choose from. The launching of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957 and the nations's commitment to be the first on the moon had greatly increased the production of new Ph.D.'s in the mathematical sciences - the number of doctorates in mathematics conferred annually increased from 332 in 1960-61 to 1070 in 1968-69.
Of the 27 new faculty hired during the Rose administration 21 were brave enough to spend the rest of their careers at State.
Stephen Campbell came directly to NC State after getting his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1972. His research interests are differential equations, control theory and numerical methods. He has written 7 research books, 4 undergraduate text books and 200 research papers. Campbell has supervised 13 Ph.D. students. His research has been funded by the NSF, the Army, and the Air Force. Campbell is on the editorial board of two SIAM journals. He served as Director of the Graduate Program from 1997 to 1999 and from 2002 to the present. He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2001.
Lung O. Chung obtained a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1974. He started in the math department in 1975. Chung works in function theory and ring theory. He has written one book, 35 research papers and supervised 3 Ph.D. students. Chung retired in 2007.
Jo-Ann Cohen came to State after getting her Ph.D. from Duke University in 1976. Her research is in compact rings and evaluation theory. She has written 25 research papers and supervised 1 Ph.D. student. Cohen received an Outstanding Teacher Award in 1992 and the Alumni Distinguished Professor Award in 1995 and the Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001. Cohen served as Co-Director of the Graduate Program from 1993 to 1995. She has run a Math Summer Camp for young women in high school since 1995. Cohen was appointed Associate Dean of PAMS in 2001. She helped establish the Women in Science and Engineering Program in 2003. This is a living learning program to encourage women to go into science and engineering curricula and to continue on to graduate work.
Joe Dunn got his doctorate from Adelphi University in 1967 and began at NC State in 1976. His main interests are optimization and control theory. Dunn has written 59 research papers and supervised 6 Ph.D. students (2 in math, 2 in Operations Research and 2 at other institutions). He has been a member of the editorial board of Computational Optimization and Applications since 1992 and served as editor for Fuzzy Sets and Systems Journal. His research was funded by the NSF for 23 years. Dunn served as Director of the Graduate Program from 1999 to 2002. He retired in 2002.
Gary Faulkner joined the department in 1976 with a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. He works in set theory, topology and foundations of mathematics. Faulkner has written over 35 papers and has had 5 Ph.D. students. His research has been supported by the National Research Council of Italy for 12 years. Faulkner retired in 2005.
John Franke received a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1973 and came to State the same year. He is interested in discrete dynamical systems with applications to population dynamics. Franke has written 54 papers and has had 3 Ph.D. students. Franke served as Graduate Administrator from 1984 to 1993. He was Interim Associate Department head in spring of 2003 and Associate Department Head in 2003-2004.
Ronald Fulp graduated from Auburn University with a Ph.D. in 1965. He joined the NCSU faculty in 1969. Fulp works in geometrical and algebraic aspects of mathematical physics. Fulp has written 39 research papers and has supervised 6 Ph.D. theses. He received an Outstanding Teacher Award in 1997.
Carl T. Kelley obtained a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1976. He specializes in non-linear equations and optimization. Since he came to State in 1978, Kelley has written 3 books, over 100 papers and has had 18 Ph.D. students. His research has been supported by NSF and the Army for 25 years. He is editor in chief of SIAM Journal on Optimization and a member of the SIAM Council. He is on the editorial board of several journals including Optimization and Engineering, Advances in Water Resources and Pacific Journal of Optimization. Kelley was named a Drexel Professor of Mathematics in 2002. He elected a Fellow of SIAM in 2009.
Thomas Lada arrived on campus in 1973 and finished his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame in 1974. He works in algebraic topology and homological algebra. Lada has written one book, 17 research papers and has had 3 Ph.D. students. Lada has received research support from NSF.
Dana Latch earned her doctorate at CCNY in 1971 and joined the department in 1976. Her interests were in algebraic topology and theoretical computer science. She published many research papers and had one Ph.D. student. Latch served as Program Director for the NSF Computer Science Division. She retired early in 2000 because of health problems.
Robert H. Martin, Jr. came to NCSU immediately after getting his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1970. His area of research is non-linear differential equations and functional analysis. Martin has written 2 books, over 50 research papers and has supervised 6 Ph.D. students. His research has been partially supported by NSF, Army, NATO, and the Humboldt Foundation. Martin served as Department Head from 1989 to 1999. He received an Outstanding Teacher Award in 1989. The NC State Alumni Association named Martin an Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor for 2008-2010. (See also Dept. History, 1989-1999)
Lavon Page got a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1968 and joined NC State in 1969. From 1969 until 1982 Page did research in operator theory and wrote 10 papers. From 1982 until 1996 he worked in algorithms for reliability of complex systems and wrote 20 papers in this area. He became Director of the Multi-media Center in 1994 and held that position until 2003. He helped implement the use of MAPLE in undergraduate courses and the use of Web-Assign, a web-based homework delivery, collection, grading and recording system. Page was a pioneer in the development of on-line courses and developed three such courses. He twice won Honorable Mention in the Gertrude Cox Awards for distinguished performance in the use of technology in teaching. In 2004 Page was appointed by the Provost to "head the implementation effort" of NC State's LITRE (Learning in a Technology Rich Environment) program. Page retired in 2006.
Chen Ven Pao came to State in 1969, one year after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He works in non-linear parabolic and elliptic equations and the reaction-diffusion equation. He has published one book, over 150 research papers and supervised 8 Ph.D. students. Pao is on the editorial board of five mathematical journals. He retired in 2002 but continued his research work.
Sandra Paur obtained her doctorate from Indiana University in 1973 and joined the NCSU faculty the same year. Paur has written one book (with L. Page) and several papers in geometric measure theory, but her major efforts have been in undergraduate instruction and as Director of the Honors Program in Mathematics. The Honors Program had just a handful of students in 1980 when Paur was put in charge. Under her guidance the program has grown to 35 to 40 students with 10 to 12 graduating each year. Paur received an Outstanding Teacher Award in 2001 and the NCSU Faculty Adviser Award in 2007. (See also Dept. History, 1977-1980
Mohan Putcha was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1973. Putcha joined NC State in 1973 and works in algebraic monoids, groups and representation theory. He has written one book, 136 research papers, and has supervised 8 Ph.D. students. Putcha is on the editorial board of two journals. His has received research sponsorship from the NSF.
Stephen Schecter received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and joined State the same year. He is interested in travelling waves and shock waves. He has written over 40 research papers and has supervised one Ph.D. student.. His research has been supported by the NSF. Schecter was Graduate Program Administrator from 1993 to 1995. In 2008 a conference, "The Geometry and Analysis of Dynamical Systems", was held at NC State to celebrate the contributions of Xiao-Biao Lin and Steve Schecter.
James Selgrade became a member of the NCSU faculty after obtaining his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1973. He does research in dynamical systems and biomathematics. Selgrade has written 48 research papers and has had 3 Ph.D. students. His research has been supported by the US Forest Service and other agencies. Selgrade was interim director of the Biomathematics Graduate Program in 2002-2003.
Michael Singer got his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974. He joined the department in 1976 and does research in differential algebra and symbolic computations. He has written 2 books and 64 research publications and has supervised 7 Ph..D. students. Singer's research has been supported by the NSF for 15 years. He is editor of two journals. Singer was on leave from 2000 to 2003 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley first as Deputy Director and then as Acting Director.
Ernest Stitzinger arrived on campus in 1969 after obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He is an algebraist specializing in Lie algebra. He has written one book, 47 research papers and has supervised 16 Ph.D. students. Stitzinger received an Outstanding Teacher Award in 1988, a PAMS mentoring award in 1989, an Alumni Distinguished Professorship in 1991 and the Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence in 2002. He has been serving as Graduate Administrator since 1995.
William M. Waters, Jr. finished his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1971. He came to State in 1970 with appointments in both the Mathematics Department and the Mathematics and Science Education Department. His research is in mathematics education especially the teaching and learning of geometry. Waters has written 25 papers and has had 10 Ph.D. students. He received Outstanding Teacher Awards in 1972 and 1976. n the fall of 2006 , the NC Council of Teachers of Mathematics awarded him the W. W. Rankin Award for contributions to mathematics and the teaching of mathematics in North Carolina. Waters spent 3 years as Chinese interpreter for military intelligence while he served in the army prior to obtaining his Ph.D.
Robert White came to NCSU immediately after getting his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1973. He is interested in partial differential equations and numerical methods in multiprocessing computation. He has developed undergraduate courses in numerical methods and computation. White has written 3 books and 27 research papers and has supervised 3 Ph.D. students.
Personnel in 1976-77, the last year of the Rose admininistration:
Administration: N. J. Rose, Department Head; H. V. Park, Associate Department Head; W. Harrington, Assistant Department Head and Coordinator of Advising; R. E. Chandler, Graduate Administrator; C. Anderson, Scheduling Officer. Full Professors: J. S. Bishir, E. E. Burniston, R. E. Chandler , J. M. A. Danby, R. O. Fulp, W. J. Harrington, K. Koh, J. R. Kolb, J. Levine, P. E. Lewis, J. Luh, R. M. Martin, Jr., P. A. Nickel, H. V. Park, N. J. Rose H. Sagan, H. E. Speece, R. A. Struble, H. R. van der Vaart, O. Wesler.Associate Professors: S. L. Campbell, H. C. Cooke, W. G. Dotson, J. C. Dunn, R. Gellar, R. E. Hartwig, J. E. Huneycutt, Jr., D. M. Latch, C. H. Little, Jr., A. Maltbie, J. Marlin, C. D. Meyer, Jr., A. R. Nolstad, L. B. Page, C. V. Pao, D. M. Peterson, H. A. Petrea, J. A. Roulier, E. L. Stitzinger, W. M. Waters, J. B. Wilson.
Assistant Professors: C. N. Anderson, H. J. Charlton, L. O. Chung, J. E. Franke, M. L. Gardner, D. E. Garoutte, D. J. Hansen, T. Lada, C. F. Lewis, J. Nelson, S. O. Paur, M. S. Putcha, R. T. Ramsay, R. G. Savage, S. Schecter, J. F. Selgrade, R. Silber, J. L. Sox, Jr., D. F. Ullrich, R. E. White.
Instructors: D. L. Brant, H. L. Crouch, Jr., H. L. Davison, T. F. Gordon.
Of the 61 professorial faculty, 55 had Ph.D. degrees. There were four women on the faculty and one African-American. The faculty produced 68 research papers and presented 60 papers at professional meetings.