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David
Dudley
Hi yall! How yew
doin? Ahm David Dudley. One of my earliest memories of
growing up in Beaumont, Texas, is being ships
mathematician while playing spaceship with the neighborhood
kids. This was even before all the kids in my
elementary school were hustled into the auditorium to watch
an early Mercury mission on the schools one
black-and-white television. I have been a math geek ever
since. At my twentieth high school class reunion, my wife
Anne got the giggles because everyone had the exact same
response when they found out that I was Chair of the
Mathematics Department at Phoenix College
"Why am I not
surprised?"
I attended the local college, Lamar University, where I was
one of 30 or so math majors in my graduating class; there
were only two other males. After earning my BA in 1973, I
moved to Arizona to attend Arizona State University. After
10 years and 150+ credit hours, they decided that it was
time for me to experience the real world. So with an MA and
ABD, I got a call from Phoenix College for a one-semester
contract and I have been there since then.
I am a member of AMATYC, ArizMATYC, NMMATYC, MAA, NCTM, AMS
(occasionally), AAUP, and have been active in the Faculty
Senate at PC. I received the Charles Wexler Distinguished
Teaching Award from ASU and AMATYCs Teaching
Excellence Award for the Southwest Region. I was the
founding Project Director of the Maricopa Mathematics
Project and one of the contributors to AMATYCs
Crossroads in Mathematics. I am a member of the
Encanto Village Planning Committee for the City of
Phoenix.
Our cabin in the mountains came with one of those big
satellite dishes, so I spend what little free time I have
scanning the skies searching for unusual wild feeds, in
addition to hiking and looking for large
ungulates.
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