“Because of my scholarship [at the University of Denver], I was allowed to take overloads and I took enough overloads that I only was one or two courses away from a Master’s in math. So the counselor, God Bless Him, said why don’t you say you want to get a Ph.D. in math and I said, ‘I’m not smart enough for a Ph.D.,’ and he says, ‘You don’t lose anything by saying it and if you change your mind you can go.’ So I declared for a Ph.D. on the GI Bill and started my summer courses, and finished my Master’s and started toward my Ph.D.”

His Ph.D. thesis,  “Applications of the Computer in Teaching Second Year Algebra,” was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

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