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The First One Hundred Years The Maryland‐District of Columbia‐Virginia Section of the Mathematical Association of America: The First One Hundred Years Caren Diefenderfer Betty Mayfield Jon Scott November 2016 v. 1.3 The Beginnings Jon Scott, Montgomery College The Maryland‐District of Columbia‐Virginia Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) was established, just one year after the MAA itself, on December 29, 1916 at the Second Annual Meeting of the Association held at Columbia University in New York City. In the minutes of the Council Meeting, we find the following: A section of the Association was established for Maryland and the District of Columbia, with the possible inclusion of Virginia. Professor Abraham Cohen, of Johns Hopkins University, is the secretary. We also find, in “Notes on the Annual Meeting of the Association” published in the February, 1917 Monthly, The Maryland Section has just been organized and was admitted by the council at the New York meeting. Hearty cooperation and much enthusiasm were reported in connection with this section. The phrase “with the possible inclusion of Virginia” is curious, as members from all three jurisdictions were present at the New York meeting: seven from Maryland, one from DC, and three from Virginia. However, the report, “Organization of the Maryland‐Virginia‐District of Columbia Section of the Association” (note the order!) begins As a result of preliminary correspondence, a group of Maryland mathematicians held a meeting in New York at the time of the December meeting of the Association and presented a petition to the Council for authority to organize a section of the Association in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. On the surface at least, it seems those “Maryland mathematicians” did have our entire region in mind all along. At any rate, what we now officially know as the Maryland‐District of Columbia‐Virginia Section became the seventh section of the MAA, the first beyond the mid‐west region of the country. [For the record the first six sections were: Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, and Minnesota (now part of the North Central Section). The claim of who was actually first is a constant source of discussion.] The first Section Meeting was held at Johns Hopkins University on March 3, 1917, and was attended by 38 people, including 23 members of the MAA. Of those 23, 17 were from Maryland and 6 from DC. An Executive Committee of three was elected: Abraham Cohen of Johns Hopkins University, President (Chair); Ralph E. Root of the US Naval Academy, Secretary‐Treasurer; and Walter D. Lambert of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, member of the Executive Committee. The program consisted of two papers, with moderated discussion: “The Aims and Possibilities of this Local Section” by R. E. Root (USNA), and “A College and University Course for Teachers of Secondary Mathematics” by L. S. Hulburt (JHU). Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we knew more of the content of these papers and the discussions that followed? Alas, we do not. 1 Before the Section Let’s return to the beginning of the MAA itself at the end of December, 1915 to note participation by members in what will become our Section. Of the 104 persons in attendance at that first meeting in Columbus, just three were from what would be our section, two from Maryland and one from the District: Professor Ralph E. Root of the US Naval Academy, C. F. Van Orstrand of the US Geological Survey, and J. R. Musselman, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Root was appointed to a committee to nominate the first slate of officers and executive council members. He was also appointed to the Committee on Libraries. Abraham Cohen, of JHU and our first Section Chair, and who was not at this meeting, was appointed as an Associative Editor of the Monthly. Professor Root on January 4, 1916, wrote to the Board of Editors of the Monthly (published in the February,1916 issue) on the topic of what he referred to as “economic considerations … of very vital import to the average teacher of mathematics.” Stating that salary, rank, and professional standing mostly have depended on research, and that this has “…resulted in great emphasis on activities in research and small emphasis on effective teaching, when appointments and promotions are considered,” he goes on to recommend “…The new association should become an avenue through which an effective teacher may gain the good opinion of the profession at large because of the quality of his work and through contributions to the solution of the problems of the teacher.” Individuals who joined the Association prior to April 1, 1916 were deemed Charter Members. A total of 58 individuals from the future MD‐DC‐VA Section became Charter Members of the MAA: 26 from Maryland, 15 from DC, and 17 from Virginia. U.S. Naval Academy Postgraduate Department class of 1913. Professor Ralph Root, the Department’s first civilian faculty member after whom Root Hall is named, is in the second row, far left. 2 The First Ten Years of the Maryland‐DC‐Virginia Section of the Mathematical Association of America, 1917‐1926: Reflections Ezra Brown Virginia Tech The early years of the Maryland‐District of Columbia‐Virginia Section of the Mathematical Association of America are fascinating. Let’s begin with a sample of current levels of meeting activity. At the 2016 MD‐ DC‐VA Spring Section meeting, there was a Section Officers Meeting, a workshop, a reception, a banquet with welcoming address by the president of the institution, a banquet address, a host of activities for our Section NExT, forty‐three contributed papers spread over seven sessions involving forty‐nine authors or coauthors and including twenty‐seven students, three panels (on inquiry based learning, the mathematical preparation of future high school math teachers, and calculus and the HS/College interface), two invited hour addresses, lunch, a meeting of the general membership, a Radical Dash competition, a student poster session with seven posters involving nine students, a Student Jeopardy competition, and an undergraduate prize session. Including the invited speakers, there were forty‐six talks given at the meeting, and there were more than 150 attendees. In contrast, during the first ten years there were twenty section meetings with a total of 150 talks presented in all, and only one of them was a joint paper. Of these talks, the speakers for 99 of them came from three institutions. Two of them were Johns Hopkins University and the United States Naval Academy. The third was – and this is not a misprint – the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. The first contributed talk by a woman in our section was at the third section meeting, and women were regular attendees and presenters almost from the very beginning. One of the early talks was by a woman at Hood College. One of the early meetings was at the Drafting Room at the US Capitol. Talks I wish I had heard o “The aims and possibilities of this local section,’’ by Professor R. E. Root of the US Naval Academy (USNA), was the very first talk ever given at a MD‐DC‐VA Section meeting, held at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on March 3, 1917. Just to be at the first meeting and hear the first talk … just to be in on the beginning of it all. o Most of Frank Morley’s talks, especially one at the tenth section meeting about Ptolemy’s Theorem. o A talk from the Ninth Section meeting on May 7, 1921 by Mr. W. E. Heal on Fermat’s Last Theorem. Always an interesting topic, but in addition, it was given by a researcher at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey (!) at a meeting held (for the first and only time) in the Drafting Hall of the United States Capitol! o A talk from the Third Section meeting on May 4, 1918 at Catholic University of America “On the Missouri system of grading students” by Professor Florence P. Lewis of Goucher College. Women were giving talks at our section meetings almost from the very beginning. A good sign of our Section’s health. o From the Sixth Section Meeting (GWU, December 1919), a talk by Mr. A. S. Hawkesworth of Naval Ordnance: “Proof that in a plane world infinite in extent, but finite in thickness, gravity would be a constant at any altitude.” I would certainly have been at that talk. 3 o A talk from the Tenth Section meeting (JHU, December 10, 1921) entitled “The fluctuating attitude toward mathematics” by Mr. Harry English of the Washington DC High Schools. Nearly a century later and not much has changed! o A talk on binary octic forms. Famous or especially interesting speakers o At Section Meeting 2, a talk on differential equations by Professor Arthur Byron Coble of JHU. Professor Coble did research in finite geometries, their associated symmetry groups, and general geometric transformations. At the time of this meeting, he was vice‐president of the AMS and eventually served as AMS President in 1933‐34. To hear one of the pre‐eminent American mathematicians of the day give a talk at the second of our section meetings: that would have been a treat. o At Section Meeting 3, a talk by Frank Morley of JHU, who was A. B. Coble’s doctoral advisor, famous in his own right about his remarkable Trisector Theorem. Morley spoke at eleven of our Section’s first 20 meetings. o The eminent mathematical physicist George Y. Rainich of JHU gave talks at four of our early section meetings, including one “by invitation” about number theory.
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