Math Professor Has Watched Students Work for 45 Years
Daily Kansan Wednesday, November 3, 1965
For the last 45 years Miss Wealthy Babcock has been watching students struggle through the rigors of the KU math program.
Asked what changes had occurred in the many years of her teaching, she said, "The department has grown so much. There is much more graduate work being done now. Research work has also greatly increased. There were only two men engaged in
Miss Babcock became an assistant instructor in 1920 when she was beginning her graduate work in mathematics. She received her master's in 1922 and her doctor's degree in 1926 from KU, all the while continuing to teach.
research when I first came here. Now practically all are engaged in some aspect of research."
Miss Babcock, who says she can still remember some of her first students' names, says she enjoys teaching.
Miss Babcock has been honored by KU and the mathematics department in particular by having the mathematics library named after her.
Margery Golden, Ottawa sophomore, was reported as resting comfortably last night in a local hospital, according to a hospital spokesman.
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Miss Golden received minor facial cuts in a one-car accident early Friday morning. She was a passenger in a car driven by William Wayne Buck, Louisburg sophomore, who was treated at a local hospital and released.
"One would have to after all these years," she said.
Car Mishap Victim Rests Comfortably
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