Eugene Baylis Shanks

Background

Shanks, Eugene Baylis was born on November 17, 1913 in Sumrall, Mississippi, United States. Son of James William and Minnie Elnora (Baylis) Shanks.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Millsaps College, 1938; Master of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1947.

Career

Faculty mathematics, Wallace University School, Nashville, Tennessee, 1938-1939; summer school faculty, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, 1941; teaching fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1941, 46-47; teaching fellow, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1939-1940; instructor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1940-1941; assistant professor mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1947-1949; associate professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1949-1954; professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1954-1979; chairman mathematics department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1956-1969; professor emeritus, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1979-1992. Director summer institutions for high school teachers science and mathematics National Science Foundation and Vanderbilt University, 1959, 60. Civilian instructor Air Force Preflight Navigation School, Maxwell Field, 1942.

Consultant to computation division George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1962-1969. Instructor summer school George Peabody College, Nashville, 1948-1955.

Achievements

• Eugene Baylis Shanks has been listed as a noteworthy Mathematician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member holding board American Baptist Theological Seminary Served from Second lieutenant to captain United States Army Air Force, 1942-1946. Fellow Tennessee Academy of Sciences (chairman mathematics section). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American (chairman Southeastern section 1961-1962, consultant 1962-1992, lecturer 1962-1963), Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association (president 1955, past chairman finance committee), Alumni Association Millsaps College (director), Sigma Xi, Pi Mu Epsilon.

Club: Kiwanis.

Connections

Son of; married Mary Olivia Harris, June 13, 1940. Children: Judith Olivia Shanks Denton, Eugene Baylis Junior.

Father:

James William Shanks

Mother:

Minnie Elnora (Baylis) Shanks

Spouse:

Mary Olivia Harris

child:

Judith Olivia Shanks Denton Shanks

child:

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