By John D. Neff (March, 1992)

1 Dedication

This history is dedicated to the 20 members of the Southeastern Section whose membership in The Mathematical Association of America dates back to 1942 or earlier.

• Stewart R. Baker (1932)
  Black Mountain, NC
• Floyd E. Bowling (1941)
  Athens, TN
• Donald M. Brown (1936)
  Hendersonville, NC
• Edward A. Cameron (1936)
  Chapel Hill, NC
• Frank L. Celauro (1941)
  Nashville, TN
• Francis G. Dressel (1931)
  Durham, NC
• Leaman A. Dye (1926)
  Charleston, SC
• Edgar D. Eaves (1937)
  Knoxville, TN
• Charles H. Frick (1934)
  White Rock, SC
• Walter J. Harrington (1942)
  Raleigh, NC
• Gerald B. Huff (1938)
  Athens, GA
• Lee P. Hutchison (1937)
  Charleston, SC
• William I. Layton (1941)
  Newberry, SC
• Jack Levine (1929)
  Raleigh, NC
• Dan C. Moore (1941)
  Oxford, GA
• John O. Reynolds (1941)
  Greenville, NC
• John H. Roberts (1927)
  Chapel Hill, NC
• George C. Watson (1934)
  Raleigh, NC
• Ernest Williams (1934)
  Auburn, AL
• C. Ray Wylie (1936)
  Greenville, SC

2 Before 1922

For some years prior to 1915, there was a growing feeling among the members of the American Mathematical Society (founded in 1888) that this organization, which had done so much to encourage research, was no longer meeting the widening needs of the teachers of college mathematics. The Mathematical Association of America was formally organized at a meeting on December 30 and 31, 1915, at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Of the 104 persons listed in attendance at this meeting, none were from the six southeastern states.

Shortly after the appearance of the American Mathematical Monthly in January, 1916, Dean R.P. Stephens of the University of Georgia wrote the Editor of the MONTHLY, H.E. Slaught, about organizing a Southeastern Section. The reply from the Association President, E.R. Hedrick, was encouraging and included a copy of the regulations for establishing sections.

On March 15, 1916, Dean Stephens sent out letters to the leading universities and colleges in the southeast, suggesting that a Southeastern Section be formed. With many favorable responses, Dean Stephens called for an organizational meeting in Athens, Georgia, in June, 1916. This choice of times was unfortunate, and with so few able to attend, this organizational meeting was postponed for one year, until June, 1917.

The first summer meeting of the Association was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 1 and 2, 1916. There were 111 members present, including J.R. Messick of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Winona M. Perry of Judson College and Dean Stephens.

The second attempt to hold an organizational meeting was not successful, since June, 1917, found the country in the midst of World War I. Once again, this first meeting was postponed. In the fall of 1921, at the home of Floyd Field in Decatur, Georgia, organizational plans were made for the third time. Attending this meeting were M.T. Peed, Douglas Rumble, J.F. Messick, W.W. Rankin, Jr., R.P. Stephens and Floyd Field.

3 The Beginning Year 1922

On April 29, 1922, the organizational meeting was finally held at the Main Building of the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. There were 63 persons present at the meeting, including the 15 members listed as Founders of the Section. At the business meeting, it was decided to present a petition to the Trustees of the Association asking permission to form a Southeastern Section, to include the following states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The main interests were to be presentation and discussion of mathematical papers, improvement in the teaching of mathematics, the building up of mathematical libraries and cooperation with other organizations.

The meeting program included five papers:

1. “Some Possibilities of the Slide Rule” D.M. Smith, Georgia School of Technology
2. “Marking Systems at the University of Georgia” D.F. Barrow, University of Georgia
3. “Zero and Infinity in Elementary Mathematics” J.F. Messick, Emory University
4. “History of Mathematics” W.W. Rankin, Jr., Agnes Scott College
5. “Einstein Theory of Relativity” W.S. Nelms, Emory University.

At this meeting, it was also decided that the Section would hold a meeting each alternate year near the center of the Section, but invitations from distant colleges would be accepted in the other years. The Secretary was given permission to accept invitations for meeting places for three years in advance.

4 The Years 1923-1929

The second annual meeting was held at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, on March 10, 1923. The Section inaugurated the custom of having a speaker of national prominence be the guest speaker. The first national speaker was M.A.A. Past-president David Eugene Smith of Columbia University, who gave two major addresses, “Teaching the History of Mathematics in College” and “Present Reforms in College Entrance Requirements in Mathematics”, as well as a talk at the banquet on Friday night on the topic “Ten Great Epochs in the Human Development of Mathematics”. There were 85 persons registered at the meeting, including 24 members.

The third annual meeting was held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, on March 7 and 8, 1924. The invited speaker was M.A.A. Past-president H.E. Slaught of the University of Chicago, who also gave two addresses at the meeting in addition to a talk at the banquet. There were 50 persons registered at the meeting, including 17 members. The program also included 4 contributed papers and a group discussion led by Tomlinson Fort.

The fourth annual meeting was held at Phillips High School in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 20 and 21, 1925. The invited speaker was M.A.A. Past Vice-president Oswald Veblen of Princeton University. The banquet on Friday night honored the invited speaker as well as Archibald Henderson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A total of 7 contributed papers were shown on the program. There were 49 persons registered at the meeting, including 16 members.

The fifth annual meeting was held at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 19 and 20, 1926. The invited speaker was L.E. Dickson of the University of Chicago, who spoke at the banquet at the Henry Grady Hotel in Atlanta. There were 70 persons registered at the meeting, including 20 members, and a total of 6 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The sixth annual meeting was held on April 15 and 16, 1927, at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. The invited speaker was W.B. Fite of Columbia University, who spoke at the Friday evening banquet. There were 40 people registered at the meeting, including 19 members, and a total of 7 contributed papers was delivered.

The seventh annual meeting was held on April 13 and 14, 1928, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The invited speaker was G.C. Evans of Rice Institute in Houston, Texas, who spoke on “Functions of a Physical Character” at the meeting, and on “Mathematics, Practical and Aesthetic” at the Friday evening banquet. About 100 persons were registered at the meeting.

The eighth annual meeting was held at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, on April 19 and 20, 1929. The invited speaker was E.P. Lane of the University of Chicago, who gave the banquet talk on Friday night as well as two addresses on Saturday morning. There were 4 contributed papers given at the meeting. No attendance records could be located.

5 The Thirties

The ninth annual meeting was held on May 2 and 3, 1930, at the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. The invited speakers were recorded as G.C. White and E.R.C. Miles of Duke University. A total of 10 contributed papers was listed on the program, of which 3 were delivered by secondary school teachers. This was apparently the first time that the program included talks by secondary school teachers. The usual Friday night banquet was apparently held, with a talk by G.C. White. No attendance records were located.

The tenth annual meeting was held at Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on April 24 and 25, 1931. The invited speaker was R.D. Carmichael of the University of Illinois, who spoke on “The Nature of Mathematics” at the Friday evening banquet. A total of 12 papers was presented, including a second talk by Professor Carmichael on “Recent Researches on Number Theory”. No attendance records were located.

The eleventh annual meeting was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, on March 18 and 19, 1932. The invited speaker was M.A.A. Past-president Dunham Jackson of the University of Minnesota, who spoke on “The Study of Mathematics” at the Friday evening banquet, as well as on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. A total of 9 contributed papers was shown on the program. There were 48 persons registered at the meeting, including 17 members.

The twelfth annual meeting was held on April 7 and 8, 1933, at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The invited speaker was Frank Morley of the Johns Hopkins University, who spoke on “The Old Order Changeth” at the banquet on Friday evening. He also spoke on either “Regions and Paths” (from the MONTHLY) or on “Algebra and the Plane” (from the program). There were 68 persons registered for the meeting, including 16 members. The program showed a total of 10 contributed papers. The banquet cost was 50¢.

The thirteenth annual meeting was held at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on March 30 and 31, 1934. The invited speaker was M.A.A. President Arnold Dresden of Swarthmore College, who spoke on “The Mathematical Association of America and American Mathematics” at the Friday evening banquet, and on “Some Aspects of the Logical Foundations of Mathematics” on Saturday morning. There were 128 persons registered for the meeting, including 29 members. A total of 21 papers was delivered. The banquet cost rose to 75¢.

The fourteenth annual meeting was held at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, on March 22 and 23, 1935. The invited speaker was K.P. Williams of Indiana University. This meeting was held in conjunction with the Georgia Academy of Science, the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society and the Southern Section of the American Physical Society. The banquet speaker was Nobel Prize winner (Physics, 1927) Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago, who spoke on “Cosmic Rays”. A total of 159 persons registered for this meeting, including 37 members. Overnight accommodations at the nearby Candler Hotel in Decatur were advertised as $1.50 for singles and $2.50 for double rooms.

The fifteenth annual meeting was held on April 17 and 18, 1936, at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. The invited speaker was Walter Bartky of the University of Chicago, who spoke on “The Expanding Universe-Pro and Con” at the Friday evening banquet, whose cost remained at 75¢. A total of 24 papers was delivered. A timely paper entitled “An Analysis of LITERARY DIGEST Polls” was delivered by Pope Hill of the University of Georgia.

The sixteenth annual meeting was held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 16 and 17, 1937. There were 150 persons registered for the meeting, including 48 members. The invited speaker was once again the M.A.A. Past-president R.D. Carmichael of the University of Illinois, who spoke on “Discovery of the Freedom to Inquire” at the Friday evening banquet, and on “Abelian and Tauberian Theorems” on Saturday morning. Nearby hotel accommodations were advertised as $2.50 to $4 at the Sam Davis and as $1.25 to $2.50 at the Tulane. A paper entitled “Examining an Examination” was delivered by H.M. Cox, University System of Georgia, who later became the Director of the Annual High School Mathematics Examination co-sponsored by the Association.

The seventeenth annual meeting was held on April 1 and 2, 1938, at the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. The invited speaker was M.A.A. Past-president F.D. Murnaghan of the Johns Hopkins University, who spoke on “The Basic Ideas of Arithmetic and Algebra” at the Friday evening banquet. There were more than 250 persons from 55 institutions registered for the meeting, including 73 members. While the cost of the banquet remained a modest 75¢, nearby hotel prices had risen to $2 to $5 at the Georgian Terrace and to $3 to $7 at the Atlanta Biltmore, both within walking distance from the campus.

The eighteenth annual meeting was held at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 24 and 25, 1939. The invited speaker was W.B. Carver of Cornell University, who spoke on “The Mathematical Puzzle as a Stimulus to Mathematical Work” at the Friday evening banquet, as well as on “Closely Packed Spheres” on Saturday morning. There were about 140 persons registered for the meeting and a total of 29 contributed papers was shown on the program.

6 The Forties

The nineteenth annual meeting was held at the University of Georgia on March 29 and 30, 1940. About 300 persons, including 81 members, registered for the meeting. The invited speaker was Tomlinson Fort, Dean of the Graduate School at Lehigh University, who was also one of the Founders of the Section while he was at the University of Alabama. He spoke on “Mathematics and the Sciences” at the Friday evening banquet. There was a total of 42 papers delivered at the meeting.

The twentieth annual meeting was held on March 28 and 29, 1941, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The invited speaker was M.A.A. Past Vice-president L.P. Eisenhart of Princeton University, who spoke on “The Teaching of Mathematics” at the Friday evening banquet. There were about 200 persons from 47 institutions registered for the meeting, including 51 members. A total of 22 contributed papers was shown on the program. At the business meeting, J.W. Lasley, Jr., of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill was elected chairman and Ruth W. Stokes of Winthrop College was elected Vice-chairman. The Section agreed to have its next meeting at Emory University in March, 1942.

There were no meetings of the Southeastern Section during the World War II years 1942-1945. Professors Lasley and Stokes remained Chairman and Vice-chairman, respectively, during these years. While some sections of the Association met irregularly during these years, the call of Colonel Henry A. Robinson, our Secretary-Treasurer, to active duty at the U.S. Military Academy made program arrangements a nearly impossible task to perform.

The twenty-fifth annual meeting was held at North Carolina State College at Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 19 and 20, 1946. There were 125 persons registered for the meeting, including 46 members. The invited speaker was G.T. Whyburn of the University of Virginia, who spoke on “Surface Topology and Mappings” at the Friday evening banquet. While the price of accommodations at nearby hotels were listed as $6 per day for two in a room, the banquet cost cost rose once again, to $1. There was a total of 20 contributed papers shown on the program.

The twenty-sixth annual meeting, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Section, was held on April 18 and 19, 1947, at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. There were 141 persons registered for the meeting, including 77 members. The invited speaker was L.M. Graves of the University of Chicago, who spoke on “Undergraduate Mathematics Curricula” at the Friday evening banquet, as well as on “Functional Analysis” at the Saturday morning session. A total of 24 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The twenty-seventh annual meeting was held at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 19 and 20, 1948. The invited speaker was Lt.Col. R.C. Yates of the U.S. Military Academy, who spoke on “Some Properties of Plane Curves” at the Saturday morning session. Tomlinson Fort led a discussion on “Common Problems Due to Overcrowding, Poor Preparation and Inexperienced Instructors” among the audience. At 4:30 on Friday afternoon, there was a dress parade by the Corps of Cadets in honor of the members of the Association. There were about 150 persons registered for the meeting, including 78 members. A total of 21 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The twenty-eighth annual meeting was held on March 18-19, 1949, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. There did not seem to be an invited speaker at this meeting. A total of about 200 persons registered for this meeting, including 106 members. Instead of the traditional Friday evening banquet (and speaker), a barbecue was held at a nearby state park with cost $1. There was a total of 31 papers printed on the program, including three 40-minute addresses by Section Chairman L.A. Dye of The Citadel, by G.B. Huff of Arlington, Massachusetts, and by F.L. Wren of Peabody College.

7 The Fifties

The twenty-ninth annual meeting was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, on April 7 and 8, 1950. There were about 250 people registered for the meeting, including 111 members. The invited speaker was Walter S. Snyder of the University of Tennessee, who spoke on “The Monte Carlo Method” at the Friday evening banquet. A total of 44 contributed papers was shown on the program. This appears to be the first time that student papers were printed on the program and presented at the meeting. There were 10 student papers from 5 schools in the Section: Agnes Scott College (2), Rollins College (1), University of Georgia (4), University of Florida (2) and Vanderbilt University (1).

The thirtieth annual meeting was held on March 16 and 17, 1951, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The invited speaker was M.A.A. President Saunders MacLane of the University of Chicago, who spoke on “What Makes Students Think?” at the Friday evening banquet, as well as on “Connectivity and Homotopy Groups” at the Saturday morning session. A total of 33 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The thirty-first annual meeting was held at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, on March 21 and 22, 1951. The invited speaker was A.C. Coble of the University of Illinois and visiting professor at the University of North Carolina, who spoke at the Friday evening banquet. A total of about 250 persons registered for the meeting, including 126 members. There were 38 contributed papers listed on the program. In the directions for getting to Agnes Scott College, the following information was included: taxi fare from downtown Atlanta was about $2 and trolleys cost 15¢ per ride (or 4 tokens for 45¢). A sightseeing tour of the area was planned for Saturday afternoon under the direction of C.L. Cope of the Atlanta Division, University of Georgia (now Georgia State University).

The thirty-second annual meeting was held on March 13-14, 1953, at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, Alabama. There were about 200 persons registered for the meeting, including 108 members. There did not appear to be any invited speaker from outside the boundary of the Section. The program listed two talks on Friday evening, one by Section Chairman H.K. Fulmer of the Georgia School of Technology and the other by E.A. Cameron of the University of North Carolina. There did not seem to be a dinner or banquet for the group at this meeting. A total of 37 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The thirty-third annual meeting was held on March 19 and 20, 1954, at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. The invited speaker was Emil Artin of Princeton University, who spoke on “The Theory of Braids” at the Friday evening banquet. About 200 people were registered at the meeting, including 116 members. A total of 43 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The thirty-fourth annual meeting was held at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville, Tennessee, on March 11 and 12, 1955. The invited speakers were M.A.A. President E.J. McShane of the University of Virginia and A.W. Tucker of Princeton University. About 180 people registered for the meeting, including 99 members. A total of 39 contributed papers was shown on the program. The Friday evening banquet cost rose to $1.50, though motel accommodations remained a modest $4.00 for single rooms.

The thirty-fifth annual meeting was held on March 16 and 17, 1956, at the U.S. Navy Supply School on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. There were about 250 persons registered at the meeting, including 148 members. The invited speaker was George Polya of Stanford University. A total of 49 contributed papers was shown on the program. For the first time, the MONTHLY did not list the names of the members in attendance at this meeting.

The thirty-sixth annual meeting was held at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 15 and 16, 1957. The invited speaker was Paul Halmos of the University of Chicago, who spoke on “One + One = One” on Friday evening. For the second time in succession, there did not appear to have been a banquet on Friday evening. About 300 persons registered for the meeting, including 185 members. A total of 43 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The thirty-seventh annual meeting was held on March 14 and 15, 1958, at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The major invited addresses were given by F.A. Ficken of the University of Tennessee and by Trevor Evans of Emory University. The banquet cost rose to $2.50. There were 219 persons registered at the meeting, including 139 members. A total of 35 contributed papers was shown on the program. A display was made of 63 mathematics books published by members of the Section, as had been done some twenty years earlier.

The thirty-eighth annual meeting was held at East Tennessee State College in Johnson City, Tennessee, on March 20 and 21, 1959. The invited speaker was once again W.S. Snyder of the University of Tennessee, who spoke on “Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Some of the Mathematical Problems They Raise” at the Friday evening banquet. There were 210 persons registered at the meeting, including 140 members. A total of 45 contributed papers was shown on the program.

8 The Sixties

The thirty-ninth annual meeting was held on April 1 and 2, 1960, at the Wade Hampton Hotel in Columbia, South Carolina, with the University of South Carolina acting as the host institution. The invited speaker was John a. Kemeny of Dartmouth College, who spoke on “Markov Chain Theory-Expository Treatment”. At the business meeting, a committee was formed to propose a plan for splitting the Section. There were 176 persons registered at the meeting, including 140 members. A total of 27 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The fortieth annual meeting was held at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on April 7 and 8, 1961. There were 139 persons registered at the meeting. The invited speaker was R.M. Thrall of the University of Michigan, who spoke on “Double Description and Duality in Linear Systems” on Saturday morning. There did not appear to be any planned banquet on the program. At the business meeting, two motions were passed: one, that the term of office of the Secretary-Treasurer be changed from one year to three years and no holder of the office be re-elected for more than one term, and two, that the present boundaries of the Section be maintained.

The forty-first annual meeting was held on March 30 and 31, 1962, at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina. There were 198 persons registered at the meeting. The invited speaker was Magnus R. Hestenes of the University of California at Los Angeles, who spoke on “An Algebra for Rectangular Matrices” at the Friday evening banquet. A total of 23 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The forty-second annual meeting was held on March 29 and 30, 1963, at the Hotel Patten in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with the University of Chattanooga acting as the host institution. The three invited speakers were M.A.A. Past-president G. Baley Price of the University of Kansas, Edwin Hewitt of the University of Washington and A.D. Wallace of Tulane University.There were about 260 persons registered at the meeting. A total of 29 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The forty-third annual meeting was held on March 20 and 21, 1964, at the Frances Marion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, with The Citadel acting as the host institution. The major addresses were given by Section Vice-chairman M. Kirk Fort of the University of Georgia and by R.P. Agnew of Cornell University, who spoke on “Counting Up” at the Friday evening banquet (cost now $3.75). There were 242 persons registered at the meeting. A total of 26 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The forty-fourth annual meeting was held at Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, North Carolina, on April 9 and 10, 1965. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. President R.L. Wilder of the University of Michigan, by E.E. Floyd of the University of Virginia, and by L.W. Cohen of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. There were 308 persons registered at the meeting, with 236 members. A total of 36 contributed papers was shown on the program, including one by Tomlinson Fort, a Founder of the Section, now at Emory University. Professor Wilder spoke at the Friday evening banquet.

The forty-fifth annual meeting was held on March 25 and 26, 1966, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The invited speakers were Paul Halmos of the University of Miami and Leonard Carlitz of Duke University. A total of 32 contributed papers was shown on the program. There were 340 persons registered at the meeting, including 268 members. At the business meeting, there was considerable discussion on the question of splitting the Section, particularly with respect to the possible formation of a separate Florida Section of the Association.

The forty-sixth annual meeting was held at Florida Presbyterian College in St. Petersburg, Florida, on March 31 and April 1, 1967. The invited speaker was once again F.A. Ficken, now at New York University, who spoke at the Friday evening banquet. The Section Vice-chairman, A.D. Wallace of the University of Miami, also gave a major address. A total of 36 contributed papers was shown on the program. There were 278 persons registered at the meeting, including 196 members.

The forty-seventh annual meeting of the (new) Southeastern Section was held on March 29-30, 1968, at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. The three invited speakers were Victor L. Klee, Jr. of the University of Washington, Trevor Evans of Emory University, and Herman Meyer of the University of Miami. The film “Fixed Points” with Solomon Lefschetz was shown after the Friday evening banquet. There were three special sections of the meeting devoted exclusively to students. There were 313 persons registered at the meeting, including 194 members, and a total of 39 contributed papers was shown on the program. Since the last Section meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Florida Section has been officially formed, so there were no speakers from the state of Florida (except for Professor Meyer). Abstracts of the papers at meetings were no longer printed in the MONTHLY.

The forty-eighth annual meeting was held at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on March 28 and 29, 1969. Major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Gail S. Young of Tulane University and by Section Vice-chairman Emilie Haynsworth of Auburn University. There were 265 persons registered at the meeting, including 175 members. A total of 20 contributed papers was shown on the program. At the business meeting, the membership voted to (a) elect a second Vice-chairman to represent the community and junior colleges in the Section, (b) to charge a registration fee of $1 at all future annual meetings of the Section, and (c) to establish an award of $25 for the student in the Section who scores highest on the Putnam Examination.

9 The Seventies

The forty-ninth annual meeting was held at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, on March 20 and 21, 1970. Major addresses were given by Hans Sagan of North Carolina State University, by the Section Vice-chairman Andrew Sobczyk of Clemson University, and by J.W. Mettler of the Pennsylvania State University, who spoke on behalf of C.U.P.M. A total of 297 persons registered for the meeting, including 217 members. There were 24 papers given at the contributed papers sections. Memorial resolutions honoring Tomlinson Fort and D.F. Barrow, Founders of the Section, were passed by the members. The first Vice-chairman for two-year colleges was elected and the first Putnam Prize of $25 was given by the Section to student R.N. Parker of Vanderbilt University.

The fiftieth annual meeting was held at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on March 26 and 27, 1971. Major addresses were given by Frank T. Birtel of Tulane University and by Section Vice-chairman W.E. Jenner of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The invited speakers were R.P. Boas of Northwestern University and Donald Bushaw of Washington State University, who spoke on Saturday morning under the auspices of C.U.P.M. A total of 227 persons registered for the meeting and 28 contributed papers were shown on the program.

The fifty-first annual meeting was held at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 24 and 25, 1972. The first person to be elected Section Lecturer, C.H. Edwards, Jr., of the University of Georgia, spoke on “Manifolds, Geometry and Mechanics”. R.D. Anderson of Louisiana State University and John W. Jewett of Oklahoma State University also gave major addresses, the latter under the auspices of C.U.P.M. There were 215 persons registered for the meeting, including 172 members. A total of 25 contributed papers was shown on the program, including some from a special session for undergraduate students. The By-laws discussed at the previous meeting were adopted at the business session.

The fifty-second annual meeting was held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 9 and 10, 1973. A total of 332 persons registered for the meeting, including 247 members, and there were 44 contributed papers shown in the program. The three major addresses were given by the second Section Lecturer, Richard F. Arenstorf of Vanderbilt University, who narrated a film on “Periodic Earth-Moon Bus Orbits”, by Alex Rosenberg of Cornell University, who spoke on “The Impact of Computing on Freshman and Sophomore Mathematics Courses”, and by J.R. Shoenfeld of Duke University, who spoke on “Martin’s Axiom”. There was again an active section on student papers.

The fifty-third annual meeting was held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 29 and 30, 1974., A total of 324 persons were registered at the meeting, including 234 members. The major addresses were given by the Section Lecturer, John W. Neuberger of Emory University, by Ernst Snapper of Dartmouth College and by R.J. Plemmons of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. There was a Symposium on Mathematics in the Two-year Colleges. Two M.A.A. films were shown on Friday evening. A total of 50 contributed papers was shown on the program.

The fifty-fourth annual meeting was held at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21 and 22, 1975. This was the first meeting of the Section in conjunction with a regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society. A total of 225 persons registered for the meeting, including 177 members. There was 28 contributed papers shown on the program. The major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Henry O. Pollak of Bell Laboratories, by R. Creighton Buck of the University of Wisconsin and by the Section Lecturer, W. Robert Mann of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The fifty-fifth annual meeting was held on March 26 and 27, 1976, at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the local arrangements responsibilities shared with the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. A total of 265 persons registered for the meeting, including 195 members. The three major addresses were given by the Section Lecturer, Joel V. Brawley of Clemson University, by M.A.A. First Vice-president Ivan Niven of the University of Oregon and by Murray S. Klamkin of the University of Waterloo, Canada. A total of 44 contributed papers was shown.

The fifty-sixth annual meeting was held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, on April 1 and 2, 1977. Once again, this Section meeting was held in conjunction with a regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society. The major addresses were given by the Section Lecturer, Lida K. Barrett of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, by M.A.A. President Henry L. Alder of the University of California–Davis, and by Charles C. Lindner of Auburn University. Once again, there was a Symposium on Mathematics in the Two-year Colleges. A total of 269 persons registered for the meeting, including 210 members. There were 32 contributed papers shown on the program.

The fifty-seventh annual meeting was held on March 31 and April 1, 1978, at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. The major addresses were given by M.A.A. President-elect Dorothy L. Bernstein of Goucher College, by the Section Lecturer, J. Harvey Carruth of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, and by Harley Flanders of Tel Aviv University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. There were 35 contributed papers shown on the program. A total of 338 persons registered for the meeting, including 204 members. The 86 students who registered for the meeting reflected the first major effort by the Section and by Clemson University to attract potential graduate students to the meetings. For the first time, there were two winners of the Putnam Prize in the Section and each was given the $25 prize for the highest score.

The fifty-eighth annual meeting was held at the University of Chattanooga in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 6 and 7, 1979. A total of 312 persons registered at the meeting, including 204 members and 60 students. The major addresses were given by the Section Lecturer, Trevor Evans of Emory University, by the M.A.A. First Vice-president Peter J. Hilton of Case Western Reserve University, and by Leonard J. Carlitz of Duke University. A total of 30 contributed papers was shown on the program.

10 The Eighties

The fifty-ninth annual meeting was held on April 11-12, 1980, at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. A total of 238 persons registered for the meeting, including 41 students and 197 members. The three major addresses were given by the MONTHLY Editor Ralph P. Boas of Northwestern University, by Bruce C. Berndt of the University of Illinois, and by the Section Lecturer, Billy F. Bryant of Vanderbilt University. There were 39 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. At this meeting, the Executive Committee appointed DeWayne S. Nymann of the University of Tennessee–Chattanooga to be the Editor of the new Section Newsletter.

The sixtieth annual meeting was held on April 10 and 11, 1981, at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Richard D. Anderson of Louisiana State University, by the Section Lecturer, Daniel D. Warner of Clemson University, and by B.F. Caviness of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Company. There were 35 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A total of 174 persons registered for the meeting, including 156 members. A memorial resolution for Henry A. Robinson of Agnes Scott College was adopted by the membership.

The sixty-first annual meeting was held on April 9 and 10, 1982, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. This time is about three weeks short of the sixtieth anniversary of the first (organizational) meeting of the Section and this location is within five miles of the planning meeting and of the first meeting. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. First Vice-president Lynn A. Steen of St. Olaf College, by the Section Lecturer, C. Ray Wylie of Furman University, and by Marshall Hall, Jr., of California Institute of Technology and Emory University. A total of 294 persons registered for this meeting, including 248 members and 35 students. There were 49 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A memorial resolution for Andrew Sobczyk of Clemson University was adopted by the membership.

The sixty-second annual meeting was held on April 15 and 16, 1983, at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Ivan Niven of the University of Oregon, by William T. Trotter, Jr., of the University of South Carolina, and by the Section Lecturer, John D. Neff of the Georgia Institute of Technology. A total of 255 persons registered for the meeting, including 232 members and 21 students. There were 48 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A memorial resolution for Nell Gentry was adopted by the membership. This meeting had, for the first time, a formal session for Department Chairman and a formal session for M.A.A. Departmental Representatives. The meeting registration fee was raised to $4.

The sixty-third annual meeting was held on April 6-7, 1984, at the Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. Treasurer Leonard Gilman of the University of Texas–Austin, by the Section Lecturer, Carl D. Meyer, Jr., of North Carolina State University, and by Garrett Birkhoff of Harvard University and Georgia Institute of Technology. There were 38 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A total of 223 persons registered for the meeting.

The sixty-fourth annual meeting was held on April 12 and 13, 1985, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. Finance Committee Member Donald F. Kreider of Dartmouth College, by Michael F. Barnsley of the Georgia institute of Technology, and by the Section Lecturer, John W. Kenelly of Clemson University. There were 34 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. A total of 326 persons registered for this meeting.

The sixty-fifth annual meeting was held on April 11 and 12, 1986, at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. The three major addresses were given by the M.A.A. Publications Committee Chairman, Alan C. Tucker of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, by Carl Pomerance of the University of Georgia, and by the Section Lecturer, John V. Baxley of Wake Forest University. Professor Baxley dedicated his talk to Professor Robert H. Kasriel of the Georgia Institute of Technology, which created a very widespread favorable reaction in the audience. A total of 246 persons registered for the meeting, including 226 members and 20 students. There were 36 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers.

The sixty-sixth annual meeting was held at Armstrong State College in Savannah, Georgia, on April 3 and 4, 1987. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. Secretary Kenneth A. Ross of the University of Oregon, by the Section Lecturer, Mary F. Neff of Emory University, and by Henry Frandsen of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. A total of 290 persons registered for the meeting, including 277 members and 13 students. There was a record high of 55 papers presented at the sections for contributed papers. This meeting saw the first Short Course offered by the Section. It was given by Colonel Frank Giordano of the United States Military Academy at West Point on the topic “Teaching Mathematical Modeling”. Registration fee is now $5.

The sixty-seventh annual meeting was held on April 15 and 16, 1988, at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. The three major addresses were given by M.A.A. President Leonard Gilman of the University of Texas–Austin, by Stephen Puckette of the University of the South, and by the Section Lecturer, F. Lee Cook of the University of Alabama–Huntsville. The second Short Course, on “Teaching Calculus with an HP-28 Calculator” was given by John Kenelly of Clemson University. This meeting saw the first “T.A. Rush”, which attracted a number of university representatives and potential graduate students. There was a new high of 56 papers presented at the section for contributed papers. A total of 333 persons registered for the meeting, including 291 members and 42 students.

The sixty-eighth annual meeting was held at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tennessee on April 7 and 8, 1989. The 361 persons registered for the meeting included 298 members and 63 students, a large increase due to the second “T.A. Rush”. The three major addresses were given by MONTHLY Editor Herbert S. Wilf of the University of Pennsylvania, by the Section Lecturer, Charles C. Lindner of Auburn University, and by Harold Reiter of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The sections on contributed papers saw a new record of 63 papers for the annual meeting. A Short Course on “Microcomputer Use in the Mathematics Curriculum” was given by Larry Husch of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. The registration fee was raised to $7.

11 The Nineties

The sixty-ninth annual meeting was held on April 6-7, 1990, at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina. A record high of 420 registrants, including 335 members, was set at this meeting. The 85 students also attending reflects the increasing popularity of the “T.A. Rush”. The three major addresses were given by the M.A.A. Secretary, Gerald L. Alexanderson of the University of Santa Clara, by the Section Lecturer, Irl C. Bivens of Davidson College, and by Jerald Dauer of the University of Tennessee–Chattanooga. A Short Course on “Creating an Alternative for a Freshman Mathematics Course” was given by Harvey Carruth of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. A new record of 77 contributed papers was also set at this meeting. A session on “Mathematics in Industry”, featuring speakers from five major corporations, was offered for the first time and was very well received. For the first time in many years, a banquet dinner was held on Friday evening on the campus.

The seventieth annual meeting was held on April 5 and 6, 1991, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. The three major addresses were given by N.C.T.M. Past-president Shirley Frye of Scottsdale, Arizona, by the Section Lecturer, Stephen E. Puckette of the University of the South, and by Daphne Smith of the University of Georgia. A Short Course on “Computers in the Mathematics Classroom” was given by Lester Senechal of Mt. Holyoke College and Ladnor Geissinger of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. There were 42 papers presented at the sections on contributed papers. A total of 202 persons were registered for this meeting on the Section boundary, including 173 members and 29 students. The “T.A. Rush” and the meetings for department chairs and for department representatives continue to be popular features of the meetings.

The seventy-first annual meeting will be held at Kennesaw State College, Kennesaw, Georgia, on April 10 and 11, 1992. The major addresses will be given by the M.A.A. Executive Director, Marcia Sward, by the Section Lecturer, Carl Pomerance of the University of Georgia, and by the MONTHLY Editor, John H. Ewing of Indiana University. Professor Ewing has been designated as the first Polya Lecturer, in honor of the late George Polya of Stanford University. This meeting will be held in conjunction with regional meetings of the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) and of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC). Student participation will be enhanced with the support of a grant from the M.A.A. Three workshops will be given at the meeting on Friday morning: (1) “Earth Algebra” by Nancy Zumoff and Chris Schaufele of Kennesaw State College, (2) “Statistics With the TI-81 Calculator” by Iris Fetta of Clemson University and Richard Stephens of Western Carolina University, and (3) “Implementing Calculus as a Formal Laboratory Course Using Mathematica” by Martha Abell, James Davenport and Arthur Sparks of Georgia Southern University. The winners of the second “Section Distinguished Service Award” and of the first “Section Outstanding Teaching Award” will be announced at the meeting. As with the sixtieth anniversary meeting at Emory University, this meeting on the seventieth anniversary of the Section will be held within a few days of the date and a few miles of the location of the first (organizational) meeting of the Section in 1922.

12 Reflections From 1982

12.1 Trevor Evans (1925-1991), Emory University

I can speak only of the meetings of the Section from 1952 onward, almost all of which I attended and enjoyed. In thirty years of these meetings, two aspects stand out very vividly: the health and vigour of the Section, with large and enthusiastic attendance, and the quality of the invited lecturers, maintaining a standard set by the main speakers at earlier meetings. From my rather limited experience with attending other section meetings, I claim that our Section is one of the leaders and is perhaps even predominant, in terms of the quality of its meetings. I think that this is because of (rather than despite) the large geographical area encompassed by the Section. Throughout the years, we have consistently been able to present outstanding lecturers from allover the country, as well as first-class supporting speakers from within the Section.

Some of these visitors and their lectures stand out very clearly in my memory–George Polya at the University of Georgia on Picture Writing in 1956; Paul Halmos on the Banach-Tarski Paradox at Emory University in 1957; Victor Klee on Combinatorial Polytopes at East Carolina University in 1968; Richard Arenstorf on Periodic Earth-Moon Bus Orbits at North Carolina State University in 1973; Ivan Niven on Maxima and Minima Without Calculus at Central Piedmont Community College in 1976–but there were many other enjoyable lectures and I hope that I may be forgiven by the speakers involved if I do not list them individually. (We have also had some “duds”, too, but the less said about these, the better).

Other episodes come to mind. The trauma of integration was surmounted with dignity, although there were some undignified incidents, such as the abandoning of banquets. The state of Florida split off from the Section in 1966 when the rapid growth of the university and community college system in that state seemed to justify a separate section. We participated in the experiment of holding joint meetings with the American Mathematical Society for two years, but this did not turn out to be a very successful idea. Some good ideas which influenced our program and meetings in recent years are the introduction into our meetings of sections reserved for junior colleges and for talks by undergraduate students, and the establishment of a prize for the student in the Section who scores highest on the Putnam Examination.

Looking back on thirty years of this Section, I am proud to have be been a part of its growth. The quality of papers presented has remained high. Incidentally, I enjoy the presentation of “little” research results at M.A.A. meetings (even though the publication of such papers is now discouraged by the MONTHLY, which is perhaps an understandable attitude today in view of the proliferation of research and the demand for publication). Our meetings seem to contain a mixture of contributed papers on teaching at all levels, from two-year colleges to the graduate level in universities, as well as the research talks (which actually are often relevant to the upper level under-graduate and graduate course work). The programs are apparently varied enough to be pleasing to the wide variety of mathematicians who attend.

To sum up, our Section is in a healthy state. Long may it flourish!

12.2 Wyman L. Williams (1902-1986), University of South Carolina

I joined the Mathematical Association of America in the fall of 1924 and attended the first meeting of the Southeastern Section at Phillips High School in Birmingham in the spring of 1925. I have attended almost all of the meetings of the Southeastern Section since that time and have been asked to write briefly about some of my reminiscences of the Section.

In the early years of the sectional meetings, the banquets were the highlight of the program. The food was usually good, the fellowship around the table was always most enjoyable, and the speakers for these occasions were, for the most part, outstanding. Then, one year, there was no mention of a banquet. I wondered why. I was told the reason was that the administration of the host institution was afraid that some blacks would attend if there was an announced banquet. I am sure that the institution took this action reluctantly. But those were the days when the segregation-integration issue was beginning to heat up.

In 1960, when the meeting of the Section was at the University of South Carolina, I had to move all of the meetings, including the banquet, away from the campus to a local hotel. This was done so that if any blacks showed up, the hotel, not the University, would have to handle the matter.

This reminds me of an experience I had while a graduate student at the University of Chicago, which I entered for the first time in the summer of 1925. One of the social highlights of the summer quarter was a banquet sponsored by the Department of Mathematics for its students. After attending several of these, they were suddenly dropped. When I inquired, I was told that two blacks were present at the last one.

I mention this incident at Chicago to show that the race problem was never confined to our territory. Let us be grateful that we no longer have to contend with this problem.

One more word about banquets. In 1948, we met in Charleston at The Citadel, where General Mark Clark was President at that time. I have heard about the great Roman feasts of centuries ago, but none of them could have come up to the one the General had for the Southeastern Section when it met on his campus. After we had eaten what we thought was a full meal, the real meal began to come. There was every kind of meat one could name. The salads and vegetables were numerous. The desserts looked like a display in a fancy delicatessen. The cost? Compliments of the General.

Let me close by changing from banquets to people. The Southeastern Section is regarded by the national organization as one of the best sections in the country. We have achieved this distinction by the leadership we have had over the years. As I think back over these years, many names and faces come before me of those who have made outstanding contributions to our success, but space will allow me to mention only one–Henry A. Robinson.

I remember Henry, not only as a highly efficient Secretary to the Section for twenty-six years, but as a Christian gentleman of the highest order. He was a quiet and unassuming man, possibly timid to some extent. When he retired from being Secretary, it was my pleasure to present him with a silver platter from the Section. I do not recall that he made any response to my remarks. This was not because of any lack of appreciation for the gift; it was just his quiet nature. Henry Robinson was a good man.

13 Reflections from 1992

13.1 Billy F. Bryant, Vanderbilt University

Sometimes it is said that organizations have life cycles similar to human beings. Accordingly, the Southeastern Section of the M.A.A., at seventy, is mature but lively.

My “linkage” with our Section goes back almost to the beginning. Professor W.L. Williams, who wrote the second Reflections article for this booklet, joined the M.A.A. in 1924. I had calculus under Professor Williams at the University of South Carolina while an N.R.O.T.C. student during World War II. The Southeastern Section was quite young (27 years old) when I joined in 1949 and attended my first meeting at the University of Alabama.

I felt like a kid watching the likes of Babe Ruth and Red Grange as I got to hear talks by some of the giants of our profession, e.g., Raymond Wilder, Saunders MacLane, Emil Artin, George Polya and E.J. McShane. Our own Section supplied plenty of “heroes”, such as Tomlinson Fort, A.D. Wallace, F.L. Wren, F.A. Ficken and Leonard Carlitz. The vigor of our Section has always been reflected by the well-attended meetings and the excellent programs of contributed papers. National leaders like to come to our Section, so we have continued to have such outstanding speakers such as Paul Halmos, Ivan Niven, Peter Hilton, Creighton Buck, John Kemeny and Ralph Boas. Members also like to come to our meetings because they always learn something and in addition get to see friends in a congenial setting.

But the years slip by too fast, just as in our human lives, and suddenly we are no longer young people, but have grown children of our own. I do not have exact statistics, but it is my impression that a majority of our members are “our children”, that is, they have done their graduate work at institutions in our Section. This situation is in marked contrast to the early days of the Southeastern Section.

We hardly get accustomed to having children before we have grandchildren. At Mobile, we all shared the pride of Sylvia Bozeman as she introduced her former student, Daphne Smith, who gave one of our major lectures. Sylvia is one of our children (B.A., Alabama A.&M.; M.A., Vanderbilt; Ph.D., Emory) and hardly seems old enough to have children of her own.

Reminiscences of the old usually are politely tolerated by the young. However, emphasis on looking backward is dangerous for organizations. There are many indications that the Southeastern Section is not looking backward. Leadership in our Section is passing to a new generation. Our members are playing important roles nationally by winning writing awards and leading major committees, for example. At least one (and often two) of our featured speakers are from the Southeast, and both the quality and quantity of contributed papers continue to increase at our meetings. In addition, new activities abound, such as the T.A. Rush, our Section Distinguished Service Award and our efforts to encourage more women and minorities to enter mathematics. For these reasons (and many others), it seems clear we are heading in the right direction.

In his Reflections article, Trevor Evans said, “Our Section is healthy. Long may it flourish!” It has flourished, and at seventy it continues to flourish, so everyone is invited to “come along with us, the best is yet to be” (approximately Browning).

13.2 Ivey C. Gentry, Wake Forest University

My long interest in undergraduate mathematics education led me to join the M.A.A. in 1952, after my graduate studies at Duke University.

I have served one term as Governor, one term as Chairman and two three-year terms as the Secretary of the Southeastern Section. One of the things I noticed about our Section was the support we received from our senior members. I have in mind such people as Professor Trevor Evans of Emory University and Professor Wyman Williams of South Carolina. They were always present and always willing to help. Another thing was what I had to do, as Secretary, with reference to the programs. Many times the deadline would approach and I would not have received enough titles for contributed papers. I would have to make a few telephone calls and then they would come in. The third and possibly the best part of our programs were the invited addresses given by people in and out of our Section. They were always good and very strong.

Back in the seventies, our business meetings were always very dull. While I was Chairman of the Section, this was not true for my business meeting, When our Nomination Committee report was given, Professor Evans objected to the person who had been nominated as Section Lecturer. He said this person had not given our Section enough support. He made a substitute nomination and it passed.

At another business meeting, I made a substitute motion for the Meeting Sites Committee. This substitute motion passed. These things made at least two business meetings more interesting and our Section stronger.

We have had the Section meeting at Wake Forest several times. I remember when we used to have banquets. I decided that we would not have a banquet at one meeting and I so moved. I then had a telephone call from another member in another state. He wanted to know if I knew what I was doing. I told him that we would have the banquet and that all members of the Southeastern Section were invited. Everything went just fine.

I was chairman of the Nominating Committee one year. The Committee met and our report was ready. But, I never had a chance to give the report. Dr. Alfred Brauer from Chapel Hill and I were to drive to the meeting. On our way, we ran into a very large snowstorm and could not continue. I had to give the report by telephone.

Finally, I will always appreciate the support given to me by my colleagues at Wake Forest. They always attended our Section meetings in large numbers. On several occasions, all of the department members would attend. This made me feel very good. Professor Waddill is one of those people. He followed me as chairman of mathematics at Wake Forest and is now serving as Secretary of our Section. I was very pleased when he agreed to take this job.

My greatest honor in the Section was when I was chosen to receive the Meritorious Service Award from the Mathematical Association of America. This was the second time that this award was given, and I followed my good friend, John Neff.

14 Founders of the Section

The following members of the Mathematical Association of America attended the first (organizational) meeting of the Southeastern Section on April 29, 1922, in Atlanta. The ten persons marked (*) were also Charter Members of the Mathematical Association of America.

	D.F. Barrow (died 1970)	University of Georgia
	J.B. Coleman (died 1955)	University of South Carolina
	T.R. Eagles (died 1936)	Howard College, Birmingham
	Floyd Field (died 1958)	Georgia School of Technology
	Tomlinson Fort (died 1970)	University of Alabama
	Leslie Gaylord (died 1991)	Agnes Scott College
	J.F. Messick (died 1951)	Emory University
	A.B Morton (died 1933)	Georgia School of Technology
	M.T. Peed (died 1925)	Emory University
	W.W. Rankin, Jr. (died 1961)	Agnes Scott College
	H.A. Robinson (died 1981)	University of Georgia
	Douglas Rumble (died 1967)	Emory University
	W.V. Skiles (died 1947)	Georgia School of Technology
	D.M. Smith (died 1962)	Georgia School of Technology
	R.P. Stephens (died 1954)	University of Georgia

15 Historical Documents