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Math Association UpdateBy Danielle GuynupThe Math Association has had another successful year. With the wonderfulleadership of our president, Lennon Coronity, along with vice-president DanielleGuynup, secretary Greg Veras, and treasurer Jackie O’Donohoe, we were ableto accomplish many fundraisers and activities for the Math Department. Withthe help of many math majors and our advisors, Dr. Jon Maatta and Mr. RogerBlake, we were able to do much of our fundraising at the NASCAR races lastSeptember. During the fall semester, we enjoyed getting together for aspaghetti dinner and pumpkin carving at Dr. Maatta’s house. We also wentbowling and had our annual Christmas party and Yankee swap in December.This past spring, the Math Association had a “problem of the month” contestin which a problem was posted for students to try to solve, with movie tickets asa prize. We also helped the Math Department sponsor a lecture given by thewell-known Sudoku puzzle creator Wayne Gould.Our major event in April was the Annual Mathematics Banquet held at theCommon Man Restaurant. Many awards were presented to the senior mathmajors, and we presented the Teacher of the Year Award to Dr. Brian Beaudrie.We are looking forward to another great year. We are proud to have Lisa Morseas the new president, Jessica Skillin as vice-president, Danielle Guynup astreasurer , and Lianna Gray as secretary.Alumni NewsBy Gloria FerlandTops in our alumni news this year is recognition of prestigious awards given totwo PSU grads, Greg Superchi '93 ( G '99 ) and April (Stone) Guinness '03, fortheir successes in mathematics education.Greg was one of the 100 national recipients of the Presidential Award forExcellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, an award sponsored by theNational Science Foundation.Greg has been a math and pre-engineering teacher at Lisbon RegionalSchool since his graduation from PSU in 1993. He received his graduate degreein Mathematics Education at PSU in 1999, and is currently working toward hisCertificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS). He has been a leader inmathematics education around New Hampshire, having spoken at severalNHTM and NCTM conferences. At Lisbon Regional he helped update theschool's mathematics curriculum and he implemented Project Lead the Way, apre-engineering program for high school students. Greg received his award inWashington , D. C. in May and was honored again at the NH EDies reception inJune. Congratulations, Greg!April received the Fernand J. Prevost Mathematics Teaching Award, a
NHTM award, initiated in 1995 , which recognizes a beginning mathematicsteacher in N.H. in his/her first, second or third year of teaching who exemplifiesthe characteristics Dr. Prevost brought to his teaching during his many years asthe State Mathematics Consultant.April has been teaching at Mascoma Valley Regional High School for thelast three years. Her efforts, initiatives, and success with her students, especiallystudents in the alternative program at her school, have been greatlyappreciated and recognized by her administrators and fellow teachers. Aprilreceived a plaque, a $100 prize, and a year's membership to NHTM, all of whichwere presented to her at the NHTM Spring Conference held at PSU in March.Way to go, April!Other news...Jonathan Wixson ( G '04 ) is a graduate teaching assistant in the doctoralprogram at Montana State University at Bozeman. He is working toward his PhDin mathematics with a specialty in mathematics education.Jonathan did his undergraduate work at UNH and taught at SanbornRegional High School before entering the graduate program at PSU. He was aPSU Math Grad Assistant in 2003-2004 earning his master's degree inmathematics education that year. He hopes to complete his degree in 2008.Good luck, Jonathan!Faculty EmeritiBy Ted GiebutowskiI'm ba-ack. Well, not really. I was asked to write up something aboutmathematics faculty retirees a while ago and finding, this a.m., a postcard fromPaul and Gigi Estes on the department bulletin board reminded me to getcracking.Speaking of whom, at this writing, the Estes are spending four weeks in thesouth of France. Gigi's sister has an apartment near Nice which they are using as'home base'. They are just 3 km from Italy and write that they just walked there;should be a piece of cake for a couple who are starting on the second round ofclimbing all the > 4,000 ft. mountains in N.H.! And Gigi wants to do them all in thewinter! After that, they'll do them again; in the nude. Oh boy, I'm going to havesome fun with this job. Oh, Paul has finally quit for good; he didn't teach anypart-time courses at all this year.Bernadette Russek stopped by our house recently to collect a few veggieplants I had started from seed. She and Arnie are enjoying their home inCampton . . .Ed and Marilyn Wixson are keeping busy. Ed continues as chair of thePlymouth Hospital's board of directors and also as member of the board of the
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