Billy E. Rhoades

Background

Rhoades, Billy E. was born on September 27, 1928 in Lima, Ohio, United States. Son of Raymond Gerald Rhoades and Fern (Pickering) Finkenbiner.

Education

AB, Ohio Northern U., Ada, 1951; Master of Science, Rutgers University, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1958.

Career

Instructor, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1953-1956; assistant professor, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1956-1959; associate professor, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1959-1962; professor mathematics, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1962-1965; associate professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1965-1969; professor mathematics, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1969. Mathematician, programmer Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, summer 1956. Resident research associate Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, summers 1961, 62.

Instructor, associate director, director National Science Foundation Summer Institutions for High School Mathematics Teachers, 1959, 60, 61, 63. Director Academy Year Institutions for College Mathematics Teachers, 1967-1970.

Achievements

• Billy E. Rhoades has been listed as a noteworthy Mathematics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

With United States Army, 1946-1948. Member Mathematics Association American (associate director commission on undergraduate program in math.1963-1964, executive director 1964-1965, consultant bureau since 1989, chairman Indiana section 1968-1969, governor 1969-1972), National Council Teachers Mathematics American Mathematics Society.

Interests

• Avocation: summability and fixed point theory research.

Connections

Married Mary Lou Arant, August 27, 1949. Children: Raymond Shala, Mary Lou Fern.

Father:

Raymond Gerald Rhoades Finkenbiner

Mother:

Fern (Pickering) Finkenbiner

Spouse:

Mary Lou Arant

child:

Raymond Shala Rhoades

child:

Mary Lou Fern Rhoades