Bio – Hallam, William Alton


Born: October 12, 1903 (Massachusetts)

Died: January 7, 1995 (Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia)


Education:

  • B.S. Washington and Jefferson College
  • M.A. Johns Hopkins University
  • A.M.Johns Hopkins University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Graduate work

Served: 1928-43; 1946-73


  • Community Council: 1945-1950
  • Community Council Committee: Educational Affairs 1954-1955
  • Community Council Committee: Fraternities 1946-1947
  • Community Council Committee: Publications 1956-1959
  • Faculty Committee: Absences 1930-1931
  • Faculty Committee: Administration 1956-1959
  • Faculty Committee: Athletic Eligibility 1929-1931
  • Faculty Committee: Athletics 1934-1943; 1947-1960
  • Faculty Committee: Attendance 1942-1943
  • Faculty Committee: Class Absences 1929-1930
  • Faculty Committee: Curriculum 1939-1940
  • Faculty Committee: Extension 1946-1947
  • Faculty Committee: Fraternity-Sorority 1942-1943
  • Faculty Committee: Library 1938-1943
  • Faculty Committee: Personnel 1942-1943
  • Faculty Committee: Tournament 1930-1939

Taught:

  • Professor of Mathematics 1928-1943
  • Associate Professor of Mathematics 1946-1959
  • Professor of Mathematics 1959-1973
  • Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus 1973-1995

Notes:

  • Spent 27 months in the Army, teaching Mathematics and Meteorology to Army Air Corp pilot trainees during World War II.

Sources:


PLM 7/2/18