| G.
Baley Price, Distinguished
Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Mathematics at
KU, was a pioneer during the golden age of mathematics and the earliest
development of computer science at KU and nationally. He began his career
at KU in 1937, five years after earning his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Price was instrumental in the development of the "New Math" nationally
and in the purchase of the first computer at KU in 1956. In 1970 he received
the Mathematical Association of America's Award for Distinguished Service
to Mathematics, recognizing him for establishing the Mathematical Reviews,
the NSF Summer Institutes for Mathematics Teachers Program, and the School
Mathematics Study Group. He was involved in many national and international
activities, earned many grants and awards, and showed a pattern of conceiving,
organizing, finding funding for and implementing new ideas, programs and
opportunities at the local and national level. Professor Price was named
the first E. B. Stouffer Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at KU in
1974, and retired in 1975. During retirement, Price has completed two mathematical
monographs. He also turned his interest to documenting the history of mathematics,
publishing a history of the KU Department of Mathematics in addition to
articles on the contribution of mathematics to the World War II effort and
related topics. His personal and professional papers are located in University
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Cora Lee
Beers Price retired
in 1979 from KU as Assistant Professor of Classics, a position she had
held since 1974. She had first taught at KU at the end of the Second World
War, and from 1962 had served as a lecturer and instructor in the departments
of English and Classics. Her teaching career began in California and Pennsylvania
in the 1930s, when she taught high school and college English and Latin.
She completed her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1940, the same year
she married and moved to Lawrence to become the mother of six and an active
leader in the KU and Lawrence community. In 1979 Cora Lee Beers Price
was chosen by the KU chapter of Mortar Board to receive an Outstanding
Educator Award.
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