John Reeder hears the thanks of his fellow math faculty at a dinner honoring his 26 years of service to the department.held numerous positions in the department and on University committees.
A gift of original art marks Richard Crownover's retirement after 35 years of teaching and research. Crownover held numerous positions in the department and on University committees.
Pictures taken by Brenda S. Frazier.
A May Day retirement party for Professors Richard Crownover and John Reeder and their wives, Mary Crownover and Jeanne Reeder, celebrated the professors’ combined 60 years of service to the math department.
As a tribute to the retirees, the faculty contributed to a fund to present each retiree with two paintings by local artists. Crownover received a Haitian landscape by retired art Professor Robert Bussabarger and a scene of Gans Creek by MU alumus Mark Grundy, who studied under Professor Frank Stack. Reeder received a Missouri landscape by art Professor Jerry Berneche and a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, landscape by Bussabarger.
It was an evening to reminisce about the significant changes in the department during the past 35 years.
Crownover came to MU in 1964 after receiving his PhD from Louisiana State University and his undergraduate degree in physics from Georgia Tech. He served the department as associate chair, director of undergraduate studies and director of graduate studies and held positions on numerous University and department committees. Crownover’s research areas are analytic functions, computational mathematics, fractal geometry and image analysis.
Reeder came to MU in 1973 after completing his PhD at Northwestern University. He received his bachelor’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology. He held visiting appointments at numerous institutions including the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oregon State University, University of Alberta, University of Victoria and Centre de Recherches de Mathematiques Appliques at the University of Montreal.
His research is in partial differential equations, specifically existence theory for waves.
