Ph.D. 1972 Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI 48824
Major: Mathematics Education Minor: Curriculum
M.A.T. 1967 Michigan State University
Major: Mathematics Minor: Education
B.S. 1965 Alma College, Alma, MI 48801
Major: Mathematics and Chemistry Minor: Physics
Certificate: Michigan Secondary Provisional
Tenured Professor of Mathematics 1991 - present. Duties - The teaching of mathematics and mathematics education courses. Supervisor - Dr. Philip McNeil, Chair-person Department of Mathematics, Norfolk State University, 2401 Corprew Ave, Norfolk, VA 23504.
Consultant to IBM Corporation, Sept. 1989 - 1991. Duties - Act as consultant and present workshops on networking, mathematics, multimedia, and science courseware. Supervisor - Mr. Robert Baraban, IBM Corporation, 1051 E. Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23219.
Director of Computer-Assisted Classroom Instruction, August 1983 - August 1989. Duties - To provide leadership in all phases of computer support and instruction and develop software for use throughout the system at all instructional levels. Supervisor - Mr. Edward L. Daughtrey, Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Support Services.
Assistant Chairman, May 1979 - August 1983, Assistant (1973) and tenured Associate Professor (1977). Duties - The teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics education, computer education, computer science, and mathematics. Supervisor - Dr. Betty H. Yarborough, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23508. June 1973 - August 1983.
Assistant and Associate Professor of Mathematics and Education, Sept. 1968 - June 1973. Duties - The teaching of undergraduate courses in education and mathematics. Olivet College, Olivet, MI 49076.
Graduate Assistant, Sept. 1971 - June 1972. Duties - The teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses in methods of mathematics for elementary teachers. Supervisor - Dr. C. C. Collier, Chair-person, Dept. of Elementary Education, Michigan State University.
Served an internship in a Lansing elementary school, working with 120 first graders. Sept. 1970 - June 1971.
High school mathematics teacher - Leslie Public Schools, Leslie, MI 49251, Sept. 1967 - June 1968 and Corunna Public Schools, Corunna, MI 49251, Dec. 1966 - June 1967.
President of the Norfolk State University Faculty Senate from 1 Jan.
2009 to 31 Dec. 2009, 1 Jan. 2006 to 31 Dec. 2007 and 1 July 2002 to 31
June 2003.
Listed in Madison’s Who’s Who, 2006-2007 Edition.
William C. Lowry Outstanding Mathematics Teacher of the Year 1984. Presented by the Virginia Council Teachers of Mathematics.
Teacher of the Year 1982 - 1983. Awarded by Delta Sigma Lambda of Old Dominion University.
Outstanding Young Man of America. Selected to appear in the 1972 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America.
Sigma Zeta National Science Honorary. Awarded a charter membership on 17 December 1969 at Olivet College.
Books:
with Yousef Alavi, Gary Chartrand, Linda Lesniak, and Don Lick, Editors, Graph Theory with Applications to Algorithms and Computer Science, Wiley-Interscience, New York, New York, 1985.
Articles:
with, Nikki Harris and James A. Jacobs, “MST-Online: The Updating of an Educational Internet Resource in Materials Science and Technology,” National Educators Workshop: Update 02, NASA Conference Publication CP-2003-212403, pp. 199-202, May 2003.
with Gary Chartrand and Ping Zang, "The Convexity Number of a Graph," Graphs and Combinatorics, Springer-Verlag (2002) 18:209-217.
“TCTM and SOL’s,” published in the newsletter of the Tidewater Council Teachers of Mathematics Newsletter, p.1 Vol. 5 No. 1, Fall 2001.with Gary Chartrand, Alice Chichisan, and Ping Zang, "On Convexity in a Graph," Congressus Numerantum, 148 (2001), pp. 33-41.
with James A. Jacobs, "Using MST-Online to Improve Instructiion," National Educators Workshop: Update 00, NASA Conference Publication CP-2001-211029, pp.429-436..
with S. Raj Chaudhury, James A. Jacobs, and Mathew Sanders, "MST-Online: The Design of ann Internet Gateway For Educational Resources in Materials, Science, and Technology," National Educators Workshop: Update 99, NASA Conference Publication CP-2000-210325, pp.461-472, October 2000.
with Gary Chartrand, Reza Rashidi, and Farrokh Saba, "Degrees in Stratified Graphs," Proceedings of the Eight Quadrennial International Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Applications, 1998, Vol. I pp. 193-204.
with Mushtaq A. Khan, "Computer-based Mathematics Instruction for Engineering Students," National Educators Workshop: Update 95, NASA Conference Publication 3330, May 1996, pp. 115 -123.
with Gary Chartrand and Michelle Schultz, "Quadrilateral Line Graphs," Utilitas Mathematica, 50 (1996), pp. 3-17.
with Gary Chartrand, Heather Gavalas, and Michelle Schultz. "Anti-Connected Digraphs," Utilitas Mathematica, Nov. 1994.
with Gary Chartrand, Frank Harary and Michelle Schultz, "Forced Orientation Numbers of a Graph," Congress Numerantium, 100 (1994), pp. 183-191.
with Nancy Eure Wall. "Checkered Flag Race," and "Leftovers," Math-O-Gram, Fall 1990, pp. 12 & 17.
with Nancy Eure Wall. "Divide and Conquer," and "Dice Throw," Math-O-Gram, Spring 1990, pp. 6 & 14.
with Gary Chartrand, Wayne Goddard, M.A. Henning, Linda Lesniak, and Henda Swart. "Which Graphs are Distance Graphs," Ars Combinatoria, 29A(1990), pp. 225-232.
with Izak Broere, Gary Chartrand and Ortrund R. Oellermann. "On the Edge Independence Number of a Regular Graph with Large Edge Connectivity," Combinatorial Mathematics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Vol 555, May 28, 1989, pp. 94 - 102.
with Gary Chartrand and Sergio Ruiz, "Smallest Regular Graphs Without Near 1-Factors," Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Ser. A 41 (1986), no. 2 pp. 193-210.
with Nancy Eure Wall. "Multiplication Racetrack," MATH-O-GRAM, Spring, 1984.
with Nancy Eure Wall. "Fraction Race," MATH-O-GRAM, Winter 1984.
with Nancy Eure Wall. "Sum Bingo," The Virginia Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 9 Winter 1983, p. 13.
with Nancy Eure Wall. "Division Devil," MATH-O-GRAM, September 1983, p. 8.
with Don R. Lick. "Some Analogues of Turans Theorem," Mathematicae Japonica, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1983, pp. 37 - 41.
with Gary Chartrand, John Cooper and Linda Lesniak-Foster. "The Traceability of a Graph," Indian Journal of Mathematics, Vol 25, No. 1, January 1983, pp. 17 - 28.
with Nancy Eure Wall. "Subtraction Shoot Out," MATH-O-GRAM, April 1982, p. 13.
"Pyramid Math" and "Take It or Leave It," The Virginia Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 8, Winter 1982, pp. 9 - 10.
with Nancy Eure Wall. "Fracto," MATH-O-GRAM, Feb. 1982, p. 7.
with Gary Chartrand and Linda Lesniak-Foster. "Homogeneously n-Traceable Graphs," Ars Combinatoria, Vol. 12, 1981, pp. 311-317.
with Gary Chartrand, John Cooper, Frank Harary and Farrokh Saba. "Smallest Cubic and Quartic Graphs with a Given Number of Cut Points," International Journal of Mathematics and
Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 5 Number 1, 1981, pp. 41 - 48.
with Gary Chartrand, Ron Gould and Albert Polimeni. "Biographical Sets," The Theory of Applications of Graphs, John Wiley and Sons 1981, pp. 181-188.
with Nancy M. Eure. "Presidential Puzzle," MATH-O-GRAM, V.E.A., February 1981, pp 5-6.
with Gary Chartrand and Linda Lesniak-Foster. "Balanced Ramsey Numbers," Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 28, December 1980, pp. 271-279.
with Gary Chartrand. "Graph Theory and the High School Student," School Science and Mathematics, Vol. LXXX Number 6, October 1980, pp. 479-485.
with Nancy M. Eure. "Honeycomb" and "Remainder Race," The Virginia Mathematics Teacher, V.C.T.M., May 1980, pp. 19 - 20. Also, selected for reprinting in Quick and Easy, V.C.T.M., September 1980, pp. 26-27.
with Nancy M. Eure. "Easter Surprise: A Multiplication Puzzle for Easter," MATH-O-GRAM, V.E.A., February 1980, pp. 12-13.
with Gary Chartrand. "An Encounter with the Four Color Problem," School Science and Mathematics, Vol. LXXX Number 1, January 1980, pp. 49-56.
with Nancy M. Eure and Jean S. Eure. "The Beanstick Game," MATH-O-GRAM, V.E.A., December 1979, pp 2-3.
with Murray Rudisill. "Circular Geoboard Tasks," Manipulative Activities and Games in the Classroom, N.E.A. 1979, pp., 51-76.
with Nancy M. Eure. "Some Metric Games and Activities," Manipulative Activities and Games in the Classroom, N.E.A., 1979, pp. 78-81.
with Ann M. White. "Graphs, Charts, and Tables," Practical Ways to Teach the Basic Mathematics Skills, V.C.T.M., October 1978, pp. 129-147.
with S. F. Kapoor and A. D. Polemini. "Degree Sets and Their Graphs," Fundamenta Mathematica, Vol. XCV (1977), pp. 189-194.
with William R. Brown. "A Look at the Integration of School Science and Mathematics," School Science and Mathematics, Vol. LXXVI, No. 7, November 1976, pp. 551-562.
with Gary Chartrand. "On Regular Bipartite-Preserving Supergraphs," Aequatioues Mathematica, October 1974, pp. 198-202.
with Gary Chartrand and M. J. Stewart. "On Homeomorphically Irreducible Graphs," Nanta Mathematicae, Vol. VII, pp. 61-65.
with Gary Chartrand. "On the Hamiltonian Index of a Graph,." Studia Scientarum Mathematicarum Hungarica, December 1973, pp. 43-48.
with Wayne S. Petroelje. "Graph-Valued Functions and Hamiltonian Graphs," Lecture Notes in Mathematics: Recent Trends in Graph Theory, Vol 186, Springer Verlag, 1971, pp. 211-213.
with Mehdi Behzad and Gary Chartrand. "On Minimal Regular Digraphs with Given Girth," Fundamenta Mathematicae, Vol. LXIX, 1970, pp. 227-231.
"Arc Digraphs and Traversbility," Lecture Notes in Mathematics: The Many Facets of Graph Theory, Vol. 110, Springer Verlag, 1969, pp. 287-290.
with Gary Chartrand and Hudson V. Kronk. "The Point-Arboricity of a Graph," Israel Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 6, 1968, pp. 169-175.
with Nancy Wall,
“Add Spark to your Mathematics Class” presented at the annual fall meeting of
TCTM,
“Tesselations:
Escher and Beyond” presented at the annual fall meeting of TCTM,
with Nancy Wall,
“Middle School Math on the Move” presented at the annual fall meeting of TCTM,
with
Nancy Wall, “Using Mathematical Games in the Middle School Classroom,”
presented at the fall meeting of TCTM at
"Calculator Activities for the Intermediate School using the TI Explorer," Presented at the Fall Meeting of TCTM at Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, VA on 5 October 1996.
"The Geometer's Sketchpad in the Mathematics Classroom, "The Virginia Urban Corridor Teacher Preparation Collaborative's Summer Conference held at Virginia Commonwealth University 2 - 7 August 1996.
"Degrees in Stratified Graphs," Presented at the Eight Quadrennial International Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algorithms and Applications in Kalamazoo, MI on 7 June 1996.
"Using the Geometer's Sketchpad in your Classroom," Presented at the Joint Fall Meeting of School Science and Mathematics, VCTM, and VAST in Williamsburg, VA on 11 November 1995.
"Puzzles, Games, and Graphs," Presented at the Joint Fall Meeting of School Science and Mathematics, VCTM, and VAST in Williamsburg, VA on 11 November 1995.
"An Introduction to Computer Based Laboratories," Presented at the Joint Fall Meeting of School Science and Mathematics, VCTM, and VAST in Williamsburg, VA on 10 November 1995.
"Computer-Based Mathematics Instruction for Engineering Students," Presented at the National Educators' Workshop: Update 95 at Oakridge, Tenn. on 6 Nov. 1995.
"Calculator Activities for the Middle School using the TI Explorer," Presented at the Fall Meeting of TCTM at Wilson High School in Portsmouth, VA on 14 October 1995.
"Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Technology," A Pre-conference workshop presented at the NECC Conference in Baltimore, Maryland on 15 June 1995.
"An Introduction to the Geometer's Sketchpad," Presented at the Fall Meeting of TCTM at Churchland High School in Portsmouth, VA on 15 October 1994.
"TI-82 Calculator Activities for College Pre-Calculus Courses," Presented at the VMATYC meeting in Staunton, VA on 9 April 1994.
"Using the Geometer's Sketchpad in your Classroom," presented at the Richmond regional meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Richmond, VA on 25 February 1994.
"Using the Geometer's Sketchpad in your Classroom," presented at the Annual Technology Conference of the local school districts at Hampton H.S. on 20 Nov. 1993.
"Using the Geometer's Sketchpad in your Classroom," presented at the Fall Meeting of TCTM at Indian River H.S. on 2 Oct. 1993.
"Uses of Geometer's Sketchpad," presented at the MICCA Coordinators in Owings Mills MD on 11 May 1993.
"Using Computers in the Mathematics Classroom," presented at the 1993 Annual MICCA Conference in Baltimore MD on 25 Feb. 1993.
"Advances in Multimedia for the MS-DOS Computer," presented at the Southwestern Technology Conference in Roanoke, Virginia on 2 May 1992.
"Multimedia in the Science Classroom," presented at the annual Virginia Association of Science Teachers annual convention in Roanoke, Virginia on 25 April 1992.
"Using Computers in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom," presented at the annual WHRO School Consortium Conference on 16 November, 1991.
"An Introduction to Multimedia for MS DOS Computers," presented at the Sixth Annual Interactive Technology in Education Conference in Norfolk, VA, on 3 November, 1990.
"Using Math Exploration Toolkit in the Classroom," presented at the Sixth Annual Interactive Technology in Education Conference in Norfolk, VA, on 3 November, 1990.
"Using IBM's Elementary Math Programs," presented at the School Science and Mathematics Association national convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 12 October - 13 October, 1990.
"An Introduction to The Personal Science Laboratory," presented at the School Science and Mathematics Association national convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 12 October - 13 October, 1990.
"An Introduction to Turtle Graphs," presented at the ATMNE fall conference at their request in Providence, Rhode Island, on 30 November - 1 December, 1984.
"Curing Mathetosis," presented at the regional meeting of the National Council Teachers of Mathematics at their request held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 9 - 11 November 1983.
"Computer Literacy Programs In Virginia," a panel discussion held at the Fall Conference of the Virginia Council Mathematics Supervisors meeting at their request in Roanoke, Virginia on 4 November 1983.
"Mathercise: Help Your Students Exercise Their Math Skills," presented at the regional meeting of the National Council Teachers of Mathematics in Knoxville, Tennessee at their request on 13 - 15 October 1983.
"Middle School Mathematics Programs in Virginia," a panel discussion presented at the annual meeting of the Virginia Council Teachers of Mathematics at their request held in Fredricksburg, Virginia on 18 - 19 March 1983.
"Teaching Mathematics to the Pre-School Child." presented at the Tidewater Child Care Association meeting at their request in Norfolk, Virginia on 19 February 1983.
"Drilling for Facts," presented at the regional meeting of the National Council Teachers of Mathematics in Boston, Massachusetts on 2 - 4 December 1982.
"Games that Reinforce Skills," presented at the State Department's Annual Mathematics Conference at their request in Richmond, Virginia on 22 - 23 October 1982.
"Drilling for Facts," presented at the Annual State Mathematics Conference at the request of the Michigan Council Teachers of Mathematics in St. Joseph, Michigan on 9 October 1982.
"Computer Literacy for Secondary School Administrators," presented at the Secondary School Administrators Conference held in Virginia Beach, Virginia on 26 February 1982.
"Smallest Cubic and Quartic Graphs with a Given Number of Cut Points," presented at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society held in Cincinnati, Ohio on 11 - 18 January 1982.
"Prescription for Painless Drill," presented at the regional meeting of the National Council Teachers of Mathematics held in Hartford, Conn. on 5 - 7 November 1981 at their request.
"Homogeneously n-Traceable Graphs," presented in a special session on Graph Theory at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society held in San Francisco, CA, on 5 - 11 January 1981 at their request.
"Prescription for Painless Drill," presented at the regional meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics held in Marquette, Michigan, on 25 - 27 September 1980 at their request.
"Biographical Sets," presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Graphs on 6 - 9 May 1980.
"Graph Theory and the High School Student," presented at the annual meeting of the National Council Teachers of Mathematics at their request in Seattle, Washington, on 17 April 1980.
"Get Your Facts Straight," presented to the Michigan Council Teachers of Mathematics at their request on 20 October 1979 at their annual meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
"Graph Theory and the High School Student," presented as a colloquim talk to the departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Mathematics of the University of Kansas in April of 1979.
"Games That Teach Multipication Facts," presented at Project Mathematics, the Alabama State Mathematics Meeting 16-17 February 1979.
"Graphs, Charts and Tables" presented at the regional meeting of the National Council Teachers of Mathematics held in Richmond, Virginia on 3 November 1978 at their request.
"More Patterns and Games in Multiplication," presented to the Michigan Council Teachers of Mathematics at their request on 12-14 October 1978 at their annual meeting in Port Huron, Michigan.
"Some Uses of the Geoboard," presented to the Associated Teachers of Mathematics of New England, 11 November 1977, at their request.
"Patterns in Multiplication," presented to the Michigan Council Teachers of Mathematics at their request on 13 October 1977 at their annual meeting.
"Graph Theory and the High School Student," presented to the Peninsula Council Teachers of Mathematics at their request on 2 May 1977.
"Some Analogues of Turan's Theorem," presented to the American Mathematical Society at its annual meeting in St. Louis, January 1977.
"Integrating Science and Mathematics in the Elementary School," presented at the Annual State Elementary Science Teachers Convention, Virginia Beach, VA, on 8 March 1975, at their request.
"A Mathematics Laboratory for the Learning Disabled Child," presented to the annual VACLD Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, on April 1975, at their request.
"On Regular Bipartite-Preserving Supergraphs," presented to the American Mathematical Society at its annual meeting in San Francisco on 18 January 1974.
"Puzzles, Games, Graphs, and their use in the Classroom," presented at the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual region five meeting, St. Mary's Lake, Michigan, on 5 May 1973.
"Open Workshop for Elementary Teachers," presented at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics name-of-site meeting, at E. Lansing, Michigan, on 24 August 1972.
"The Point Arboricity of a Graph," presented at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, January 1969.
"Arc Digraphs and Traversability," presented at the Western Michigan University Graph Theory Conference.
Presented an inservice workshop on the use of the Geometer's Sketchpad to selected mathematics teachers of Norfolk Public Schools on 12 November 1996 at Norview High School.
Presented a series of workshops on Computer Based Laboratories to Chesapeake Public School Science Teachers in February 1996.
Presented "Computer Aided Instruction for the Mathematics Classroom," to the faculty of Jefferson Middle School of Washington D.C. at the Maryland Technology Center in Bethesda, Maryland on 10 Nov. 1995.
Presented an inservice workshop on the use of the Geometer's Sketchpad to selected mathematics teachers of Hanover County Public Schools on 9 October 1995 at Patrich Henry High School.
During the Summer of 1995 presented a series of workshops on Computer Based Laboratories to Chesapeake Public School Principals.
Presented a workshop on Science and Math activities at Severn H.S. Annapolis MD 22 Feb. 1993.
Presented an inservice on the use of computers in math and science classrooms at Courtland H.S.
on 12 May 1993.
Presented a 3 day inservice on the use of computers in Math and Science Classrooms for Spotsylvania Public Schools on 20 - 22 July 1993.
Presented an inservice on Science materials to the Southwest VA Governors Schools in Pulaski VA on 19 - 20 August 1993.
Presented an inservice on Science materials at Campbell County H.S. on 30 Sept. 1993.
Presented a workshop on "Using Manipulatives with Computers in the Elementary Classroom" at Upper Tract Elementary School on 16 Sept. 1993.
Presented a workshop for mathematics teachers on using computers in the classroom in Colonial Heights, VA on 4 November 1992.
Presented a workshop on using computers in the secondary mathematics classroom to secondary mathematics teachers at Cumberland High School, Cumberland County, Virginia on 1 Sept.1992.
Presented a workshop on computer based laboratories in the science classroom to secondary science teachers at Wytheville High School, Wytheville, Virginia on 20 August 1992.
Presented a three day workshop on Mathematics and Science Instruction with computers in Charlotte, N.C. 4, 5 and 6 August 1992.
Presented a workshop on using computers in the secondary mathematics classroom to secondary mathematics teachers in Weaton, Maryland on 10 June 1992.
Presented a workshop on using computers in the secondary mathematics classroom to secondary mathematics teachers at Buckingham High School, Buckingham County, Virginia on 6 April 1992.
Presented a workshop on remedial mathematics programs for the Apple computer to Chapter I teachers of Norfolk Public Schools at Tarrallton Elementary School on 24 September 1983.
Presented a workshop on the computer language Logo to mathematics teachers of Norfolk Public Schools at the Norfolk Vocational Technical Center on 25 September 1983.
Presented a series of three workshops on childrens' error patterns in arithmetic to the faculty of Port Norfolk Elementary School on 13 October, 10 November and 8 December 1982.
Presented a workshop to the faculty of Williams School, Norfolk, Virginia, on the concepts of measurement and metric measurement on 26 January 1981.
Presented a series of five workshops to Weslaco Independent School District teachers on alternative methods of teaching mathematics on 9 - 13 June 1980.
Presented a workshop on diagnosing error patterns in arithmetic to Lynchburg Title IV - C teachers during July 1979.
Presented a series of fifteen workshops to all K - 3 teachers of Portsmouth, Virginia, during the 1977 - 1978 school year.
Presented a four hour workshop/talk to all (170) 5th and 6th grade teachers of Hampton Public Schools on 3 October 1977.
Presented a two day metric workshop for Norfolk City employees on 7 - 8 March 1977.
Presented a workshop on "Early Childhood Mathematics Activities" to the faculty of Churchland Primary School in Portsmouth, Virginia, on 21 October 1976.
Presented a workshop for elementary teachers from Friends School on 20 May 1975 and 30 January 1976.
Presented a workshop for Portsmouth Skill Teachers on skill activities on 26 January 1976.
Directed an in-service meeting at Lee Elementary School in Hampton, Virginia, 1974.
Presented a workshop to the coordinators of intern teachers on mathematics laboratory activities in Battle Creek, Michigan, on 25 April 1973.
IBM Corp. on school Mathematics and Science courseware and networking.
Providence United Church of Christ, Rev. Alexander Jamison, Ph.D., 2200 Vicker Ave., Chesapeake, Virginia .
Western Michigan University, Department of Mathematics and the Office of Naval Research, on Discrete Mathematics.
Willard Model School on networking, hardware and software.
Cumberland County Virginia Public Schools on computer applications of mathematics.
Buckingham County Virginia Public Schools on computer applications of mathematics.
Fairfield Shell, 5200 Providence Rd., Virginia Beach, Virginia on software and hardware selection and networking.
Karn-Shriner Insurance Agency, 160 Newtown Rd., Virginia Beach, Virginia on software and hardware selection.
The Williams School, 419 Colonial Ave., Norfolk, Virginia on trends in networking during 1988.
Hampton Roads Academy on implementing computer instruction, networking, and business applications since January 1983.
A Child's Day Learning Center on the purchase and utilization of a computer during January 1983.
Management Information Concepts, Virginia Beach, Virginia, on systems analysis and educational computer applications, Jan. 1981- Jan. 1983.
Audio Visual Products and Calibration, Grafton, Virginia, on micro-computer applications since the spring of 1981.
Weslaco Independent School District, Weslaco, Texas, on their mathematics objectives and strategies for achieving these objectives during the summer of 1980.
Evaluator for the Lynchburg Title IV-C project during the spring of 1979.
Norfolk Public Schools on the development of new system wide K-3 mathematics objectives.
Portsmouth Public Schools Continuous Assessment of Progress program during the 1977-1978 school year. The duties of this position included the presentation of eight workshops to all K -
3 teachers.
Portsmouth Public Schools Title III Project during the 1976 - 1977 school year.
Portsmouth Public Schools on their 5th and 6th grade mathematics skills project during the 1974-1976 school years.
Riverview School (K - 12) in school mathematics from Sept. 1973 to June 1978.
Advised teachers from Norfolk Christian Schools on textbook selection on 14 May 1975.
Norfolk Public Schools text adoption committee during the 1973 - 1974 school year.
Organized the
annual fall meeting of TCTM,
Produced and
revised a course for the Virginia DOE titled “Geometry for the Highly Qualified
Mathematics Teacher,” 2004 and 2005.
President of the Tidewater Council of Teachers of Mathematics from Sept. 2000 to May 2002.
Served
as an external reviewer of the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Debbie Haver for
Principal Investigator for the "Integrated Mathematics Engineering Course for Non-Science Students" which was submitted in 1995. Funded for 1996 - 1998.
Participant in "Mathematical Modeling in the Sciences" grant submitted to FIPSE in 1995 and funded for 1996.
Participant in "Summer Science Camp" grant submitted to NSF in 1995 and funded for 1996.
Participated in the writing (1994) of the "Tidewater Young Scholars Program" Submitted to NSF in 1994 and funded for 1995 and 1996.
Participated in the Dwight D. Eisenhower grant "Mathematics Institute for Teacher's of Young Children." This project was funded for the 95-96 School Year.
Wrote and received a mini-grant "Excellence in Education Grant" in 1993.
Participated in the Willard Model School at Lakewood Technology/Science Day on 30 Nov. 1994.
Served as a judge at the "Great Computer Challenge" at Churchland H.S. on 4 April 1993.
Director of the Fifth Quadrennial International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Graph Theory, with a special emphasis on comprising, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, June 1984. Also, an editor of the conference proceedings.
Appeared on CBN's 700 Club to demonstrate new uses of the computer in the home and schools on 6 May 1983.
Interviewed by WTKR-TV on computer Literacy as part of a special report "The Children of High Tech," aired on 24 -25 February 1983.
Participated as a judge, head judge, and problem captain for "Olympics/Odyssey of the Mind" local competitions in the Hampton Roads area, 1983 - 1989.
Selected to serve as the toastmaster for the Annual State Mathematics Meeting in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on 24 Oct. 1981.
Selected to serve on two doctoral committees at Western Michigan University as the off campus member of the committee and as an external reviewer for a doctoral dissertation at George Washington University.
During the summers of 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995 appointed as an (unpaid) guest faculty member of the mathematics department of Western Michigan University. The purpose of these visits was to learn about new trends in Graph Theory through attendance at seminars and colloquiums and to do research with personnel at W.M.U. in Graph Theory.
Reviewer for the Journal of Graph Theory, the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Prindle, Weber and Schmidt Publishing Co., the Journal of the Virginia Council Teachers of Mathematics, Wadsworth International, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., and the Math Reviews of the American Math Society.
Chosen as chairman of section meetings at the third annual meeting of the Eastern Educational Research Association, the National Educational Computing Conference, the International meeting of the American Mathematical Society in San Francisco (1975) and various regional meetings of the National Council Teachers of Mathematics.
Chosen by local mathematics groups and the National Council Teachers of Mathematics to be workshop chairman of the Norfolk regional meeting held on 4 - 6 Nov. 1976. This position was responsible for one third of the program.
Served as an external reviewer of the scholarly work of a member of the mathematics department at the request of the University of Louisville.
Member of the membership committee for the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for the Boston meeting.
Chairman of workshop support services for the annual meeting of the Virginia Council Teachers of Mathematics held in Hampton, Virginia, in March of 1980.