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Lida Baker Kittrell 21 May 1927 Female Harris Pleasant William Kittrell Maidel Baker
Pleasant W Kittrell 47 1882 Texas Head White Houston, Harris, TX
Maidel Kittrell 38 1891 Wife Houston, Harris, TX
Norman J Kittrell 5 1924 Son Houston, Harris, TX
Lida B Kittrell 3 1926 Daughter Houston, Harris, TX
Maidel Kittrell 1 1928 Daughter Houston, Harris, TX
Class of 1943 Lida Kittrell Barrett - (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX) San Jacinto High School
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Kittrell, Lida Baker 5-21-1927 F Maidel Baker Pleasant William Kittrell
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Lida Kittrell Barrett B.A. 1946 Rice University M.A. 1949 University of Texas Ph.D. 1954 University of Pennsylvania Major field: Mathematics Certificate: Institute for Educational Management, Harvard, Summer 1981 Academic Employment 1995-Present Professor of Mathematics, United States Military Academy 1987-91 Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University. 1980-87 Associate Provost and Professor of Mathematics, Northern Illinois University1973-80 Department Head, Mathematics Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville1970-80 Professor of Mathematics, University of Tennessee 1961-69* Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Tennessee 1956-61 Lecturer, University of Utah 1959-60 Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin 1955-56 Instructor, University of Connecticut, Waterbury Branch (two-year college)
Non-Academic Employment: 1991-95 Senior Associate, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation1964-75 Consultant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory1964-69* Independent Mathematical Consultant (on leave while husband was department head)1949-50 Mathematician, Defense Research Laboratory, University of Texas1946-47 Mathematician, Schlumberger Well Survey corporation
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Lida Kittrell Barrett B.A. 1946 Rice University M.A. 1949 University of Texas Ph.D. 1954 University of Pennsylvania Major field: Mathematics Certificate: Institute for Educational Management, Harvard, Summer 1981 Academic Employment 1995-Present Professor of Mathematics, United States Military Academy 1987-91 Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University. 1980-87 Associate Provost and Professor of Mathematics, Northern Illinois University1973-80 Department Head, Mathematics Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville1970-80 Professor of Mathematics, University of Tennessee 1961-69* Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Tennessee 1956-61 Lecturer, University of Utah 1959-60 Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin 1955-56 Instructor, University of Connecticut, Waterbury Branch (two-year college)
Non-Academic Employment: 1991-95 Senior Associate, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation1964-75 Consultant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory1964-69* Independent Mathematical Consultant (on leave while husband was department head)1949-50 Mathematician, Defense Research Laboratory, University of Texas1946-47 Mathematician, Schlumberger Well Survey corporation
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Lida Barrett
Lida Barrett
May 21, 1927 -
Lida K. Barrett is a mathematician and mathematics educator. Born in Houston, Texas, she holds a baccalaureate from Rice University (1946), a masters from the University of Texas (1949), and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania (1954)--all in mathematics. Her dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania was on "Regular Curves and Regular Points of Finite Order," written under the supervision of John Kline and Dick Anderson.
Immediately following graduation from Rice she was employed as a mathematician at the Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation. The academic year 1947-48 she taught at the Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman's University.) Following her doctorate she taught one year at the University of Connecticut while her husband held a postdoctoral appointment at Yale.
She has served as a mathematics faculty member at the University of Utah and the University of Tennessee and as Head of the mathematics department at the University of Tennessee from 1973 to 1980. She has served as an administrator and mathematics faculty member at Northern Illinois University, where she was Associate Provost, and at Mississippi State University, where she was Dean of Arts and Sciences. After retirement as Dean Emerita from MSU, she was a Senior Associate to the head of the Education Directorate at the National Science Foundation for three years and then a Professor of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point for three years.
While at Tennessee, during her husband's tenure as department head, she ran an independent mathematical consulting business, including editorial work for book publishers, primarily for calculus texts, and work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her thesis work and initial publications were in General Topology. At Oak Ridge, her work and publications were in applied mathematics. Her recent work and publications have been in mathematics education.
She has been active in the American Mathematics Society, including chairing the Committee on Employment and Educational Policy (1979-82). In the Mathematical Association of American she served on a large number of committees and as President in 1989 and 1990. As the second female president of the MAA, she sought to increase minority membership and involvement in the MAA and within the mathematics community. She helped initiate and enhance MAA programs and committees highlighting minority interests. In 2008 the Mathematical Association of America presented Barrett with the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics [Citation].
She was on the planning committee for the International Congress in Mathematics Education in Madrid, Spain, in July of 1996. She was a member of the advisory committee of the Harvard Calculus Consortium and of the Adolescence and Young Adult/Mathematics Standards committee for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.
References
1.Personal communication
2.Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett, 1989-1990 MAA President, Mathematical Association of America website
3.Interviewed by Kenneth Ross, MAA Focus, December 2103/January 2014, p30-31.
4.Author Profile at zbMath
5.MathSciNet [subscription required]
6.Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett, 1989-1990 MAA President
Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett, 43rd MAA President
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Leonard Gillman Deborah Haimo
Born: May 21, 1927, Houston, Texas
Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett is a retired mathematics professor and administrator with an extensive record of service to mathematics. She continues to serve on many committees and boards and contribute to mathematics, mathematics education, and increasing the participation of members of underrepresented groups in mathematics.
Presidency: 1989-1990
Barrett advocated keeping the MAA headquarters at its current location and supporting its historical preservation. She supported national awareness initiatives such as Mathematics Awareness Week (later Mathematics Awareness Month) and strengthened the relationship between the MAA and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) that remains to this day.
As the second female president of the MAA, she sought to increase minority membership and involvement in the MAA and within the mathematics community. She helped initiate and enhance MAA programs and committees highlighting minority interests.
Education and Career
1946 Rice University, B.A.
1949 University of Texas, M.A.
1954 University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D.
Barrett has taught at the Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman's University), the University of Connecticut, and the University of Utah. She was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Tennessee (department head, 1973-80), Northern Illinois University (associate provost), and Mississippi State University (Dean of Arts and Sciences).
While at the University of Tennessee, she also worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in applied mathematics. Barrett's professional interests also include general topology and mathematics education.
After leaving Mississippi State University, Barrett served as a senior administrator in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation for four years and then returned to teaching mathematics as a professor at West Point for three years.
Barrett has been active in MAA committees, the AMS, the Harvard Calculus Consortium, the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, and the Mathematical Science Education Board. Her extensive record of service earned her the 2008 MAA Gung and Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award.
External Resources
Agnes Scott College biography
Gung and Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award citation
MAA Officers Records, Lida K. Barrett, President at the Archives of American Mathematics
The Mathematics Genealogy Project
"Mathematics Goes Public," MAA FOCUS, Volume 12, Number 2, pages 1-2