Conference rusure::math

709.0. "Richard V. Andree" by COOKIE::ROLLOW (Murphy's Law applies.) Sat May 23 1987 17:55

	   Co-founder of the Mu Alpha Theta club and former chairman of
	the University of Oklahoma mathematics and astronomy department
    	Richard V. Andree died last Friday morning.  Memorial services
    	were held Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church.

	   He taught mathematics and computer science for 37 years.  He
	was president of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national honorary mathmatics
	society.  In 1957, Andree and his wife, Josephine Peet Andree,
	founded Mu Alpha Theta, a national high school mathematics club.

	   He served as chairman of the O.U. mathematics and astronomy
	department from 1961 to 1969 and was a fellow of the American
	Association for the Advancement of Science.  He was awarded the
	O.U. Regents Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Mu Alpha 
	Theta Distinguished Service Sward and the Oklahoma Association 
	for the Gifted and Talented.

	   Survivors are his wife, Josephine of Norman (Oklahoma); two
	sons David Delbert Andree of Boulder, Colorado, and Peter Walter
	Andree of Redwood City, California; two daughters, Suzanne Andree
	Hodgson and Jeanne Lellian Andree, both of Norman; and one grand-
	daughter Alethea Andree also of Redwood City.

	   The family has asked that expressions of sympathy be made
	through the scholarship fund at the University of Oklahoma 
    	math department.
    
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    	The preceding was reproduced without permission from "The Oklahoma
    	Daily", Thursday, May 14, 1987 edition.
    

    I'm sorry to hear that; I learned my Boolean algebra from his book
    - as this was around 1960, its probably out of print now. I should
    have bought a copy.