Judy
Fraser is retiring
after 37 years of teaching, the last 31 years at St. Petersburg
College. She was honored as Professor Emeritus at the college's
spring graduation ceremony.
Retirement plans include building
a second home in the North Carolina mountains, adding to her
travel diaries, and sleeping past
4:45 in the morning.
Betty Pate
is retiring after 19 years at St. Petersburg
College. She has taught all courses from Prealgebra to Calculus as well as
College Geometry for the
College of Education at St. Petersburg College and
Math Methods at the University of
South Florida. She has always
put her students first and has done everything that she could do
to help them. Her motto: It is not so much what is poured into a
student's mind, but what is planted there that counts. Betty will
be going into the real estate business after retirement.
Jim
Rutledge participated
in the MERLOT Editors Midyear Meeting in Atlanta in January and
represented MERLOT Mathematics at the SERC Pedagogic Service
Collaborators Meeting at Carleton
College in March.