Former 'U' math Prof. Sally Elizabeth Carlson dies at age 104
By Lucy Y. Her
Star Tribune Staff Writer
When Sally Elizabeth Carlson graduated from Minneapolis South High School as class valedictorian, she decided to go to college. But she didn't have much support from her family.
Her father didn't think "postsecondary education was necessary for a young woman in 1913," according to the Minnesota, the University of Minnesota alumni notebook. And her mother didn't like that she wouldn't be home to help with chores.
She went anyway, and in 1924 was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from the university, according to the notebook.
Carlson, 104, who taught at the university for 41 years, died Wednesday at the Augustana Home of Minneapolis.
"I never thought of myself as a particularly good mathematician," she once said. "I was a teacher, not a researcher."
She was honored with the university's Distinguished Teacher Award.
"I tried to be fair," she said. "Students had to earn their grades. There were no gifts."
Patricia Kunert of Edina said her aunt was a mentor to students.
"She was an amazing woman," she said. "She was so fair and so lacking in the need to judge other people.
"She was just there to help, and whatever people decided to do she understood and saw their side of it. That's what I enjoyed the most about her."
Kunert said that after her father died, Carlson helped her and her brother pay for college.
Carlson started teaching math at the university in 1924, shortly after she received her doctorate. Before that she taught at Knox College in Illinois and at a high school in northern Minnesota. She retired in 1965.
Afterward she did some substitute teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, but spent most of her time teaching Sunday school at the Central Evangelical Free Church in downtown Minneapolis, which she helped start.
She also held Bible studies for women in her home.
Visitation will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at the chapel in the Augustana Home of Minneapolis, 1007 E. 14th St. Services will follow.
Lucy Y. Her can be contacted at [email protected]
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday, November 3, 2000 - Page 36 (B6)
By Lucy Y. Her
Star Tribune Staff Writer
When Sally Elizabeth Carlson graduated from Minneapolis South High School as class valedictorian, she decided to go to college. But she didn't have much support from her family.
Her father didn't think "postsecondary education was necessary for a young woman in 1913," according to the Minnesota, the University of Minnesota alumni notebook. And her mother didn't like that she wouldn't be home to help with chores.
She went anyway, and in 1924 was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from the university, according to the notebook.
Carlson, 104, who taught at the university for 41 years, died Wednesday at the Augustana Home of Minneapolis.
"I never thought of myself as a particularly good mathematician," she once said. "I was a teacher, not a researcher."
She was honored with the university's Distinguished Teacher Award.
"I tried to be fair," she said. "Students had to earn their grades. There were no gifts."
Patricia Kunert of Edina said her aunt was a mentor to students.
"She was an amazing woman," she said. "She was so fair and so lacking in the need to judge other people.
"She was just there to help, and whatever people decided to do she understood and saw their side of it. That's what I enjoyed the most about her."
Kunert said that after her father died, Carlson helped her and her brother pay for college.
Carlson started teaching math at the university in 1924, shortly after she received her doctorate. Before that she taught at Knox College in Illinois and at a high school in northern Minnesota. She retired in 1965.
Afterward she did some substitute teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, but spent most of her time teaching Sunday school at the Central Evangelical Free Church in downtown Minneapolis, which she helped start.
She also held Bible studies for women in her home.
Visitation will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at the chapel in the Augustana Home of Minneapolis, 1007 E. 14th St. Services will follow.
Lucy Y. Her can be contacted at [email protected]
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday, November 3, 2000 - Page 36 (B6)
Former 'U' math Prof. Sally Elizabeth Carlson dies at age 104
By Lucy Y. Her
Star Tribune Staff Writer
When Sally Elizabeth Carlson graduated from Minneapolis South High School as class valedictorian, she decided to go to college. But she didn't have much support from her family.
Her father didn't think "postsecondary education was necessary for a young woman in 1913," according to the Minnesota, the University of Minnesota alumni notebook. And her mother didn't like that she wouldn't be home to help with chores.
She went anyway, and in 1924 was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from the university, according to the notebook.
Carlson, 104, who taught at the university for 41 years, died Wednesday at the Augustana Home of Minneapolis.
"I never thought of myself as a particularly good mathematician," she once said. "I was a teacher, not a researcher."
She was honored with the university's Distinguished Teacher Award.
"I tried to be fair," she said. "Students had to earn their grades. There were no gifts."
Patricia Kunert of Edina said her aunt was a mentor to students.
"She was an amazing woman," she said. "She was so fair and so lacking in the need to judge other people.
"She was just there to help, and whatever people decided to do she understood and saw their side of it. That's what I enjoyed the most about her."
Kunert said that after her father died, Carlson helped her and her brother pay for college.
Carlson started teaching math at the university in 1924, shortly after she received her doctorate. Before that she taught at Knox College in Illinois and at a high school in northern Minnesota. She retired in 1965.
Afterward she did some substitute teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, but spent most of her time teaching Sunday school at the Central Evangelical Free Church in downtown Minneapolis, which she helped start.
She also held Bible studies for women in her home.
Visitation will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at the chapel in the Augustana Home of Minneapolis, 1007 E. 14th St. Services will follow.
Lucy Y. Her can be contacted at [email protected]
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday, November 3, 2000 - Page 36 (B6)
By Lucy Y. Her
Star Tribune Staff Writer
When Sally Elizabeth Carlson graduated from Minneapolis South High School as class valedictorian, she decided to go to college. But she didn't have much support from her family.
Her father didn't think "postsecondary education was necessary for a young woman in 1913," according to the Minnesota, the University of Minnesota alumni notebook. And her mother didn't like that she wouldn't be home to help with chores.
She went anyway, and in 1924 was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from the university, according to the notebook.
Carlson, 104, who taught at the university for 41 years, died Wednesday at the Augustana Home of Minneapolis.
"I never thought of myself as a particularly good mathematician," she once said. "I was a teacher, not a researcher."
She was honored with the university's Distinguished Teacher Award.
"I tried to be fair," she said. "Students had to earn their grades. There were no gifts."
Patricia Kunert of Edina said her aunt was a mentor to students.
"She was an amazing woman," she said. "She was so fair and so lacking in the need to judge other people.
"She was just there to help, and whatever people decided to do she understood and saw their side of it. That's what I enjoyed the most about her."
Kunert said that after her father died, Carlson helped her and her brother pay for college.
Carlson started teaching math at the university in 1924, shortly after she received her doctorate. Before that she taught at Knox College in Illinois and at a high school in northern Minnesota. She retired in 1965.
Afterward she did some substitute teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, but spent most of her time teaching Sunday school at the Central Evangelical Free Church in downtown Minneapolis, which she helped start.
She also held Bible studies for women in her home.
Visitation will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at the chapel in the Augustana Home of Minneapolis, 1007 E. 14th St. Services will follow.
Lucy Y. Her can be contacted at [email protected]
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday, November 3, 2000 - Page 36 (B6)
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