History of the Marshall University Mathematics Department

The document "History of the Department of Mathematics" by Elizabeth Hines Czompo, dated May 5, 1976, has a detailed account of the history of the Marshall University mathematics department from 1869 to 1975.

The history of the department from 1975 to 2005 has been collated by Dr. Evelyn Pupplo-Cody.

Notable faculty

• Edith Clarke (1883–1959) taught at Marshall before her renowned career as an engineer.

Former department chairs

Lillian Hackney 1907-1940	Anna DeNoon 1940-1947	James Barron 1947-1963	Thomas Bauserman 1963-1971	Hunter Hardman 1971-1972
John Hogan 1972-1977	Steven Hatfield 1977-1982	John Lancaster 1982-1984	Charles Peele 1984-1995	Bruce Ebanks 1995-2000
Judith Silver 2000-2002	Ralph Oberste-Vorth 2002-2011

Departmental secretaries

The first administratived assistant for the department was hired in 1969.

• Mrs. Sylvia Sears was the first secretary to work in the Mathematics Department. She began in 1969 and worked until at least 1975.
• Mrs. Pauline Weiler was secretary in 1978 and at least until 1985.
• Mrs. June Adkins was secretary in 1989 until c. 1995.
• Mrs. Kitty Kelly-Smoot was the program assistant from c. 1995 until c. 2002.
• Ms. Stacy Good has been the program assistant from 2002 until the present.