Anna Marie Whelan was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 6, 1894. Her parents had each emigrated from Ireland in about 1875 and had married eight or nine years later. After Anna Marie Whelan graduated from Western High School in Baltimore in 1914, she entered Goucher College and graduated four years later. She began her graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the fall of 1918. Except for the year 1920–21 when she taught in Pullman, West Virginia, she attended Johns Hopkins continuously until she received her doctorate in 1923. She attended the summer school in 1919 and held a university fellowship in mathematics 1919–20. A Johns Hopkins directory indicates that she also taught in the summer sessions of 1919 and 1920. While her dissertation was written under the direction of Frank Morley, in her dissertation vita she also acknowledged the “valuable suggestions” received from A. B. Coble, an earlier Ph.D. student of Morley and former Johns Hopkins faculty member, who was then on the faculty at the University of Illinois. Her subordinate subjects at Johns Hopkins were Applied Mathematics and Geophysics.
After receiving her Ph.D. in 1923, Anna Marie Whelan, who sometimes used the name A. Marie Whelan professionally, taught for two years each at Olivet College in Michigan and Dominican College of San Rafael in California. She joined the faculty at Hunter College as an instructor in 1927 and was an assistant professor from 1932 until her retirement in 1965. During her first decade there she often was associated with the evening and extension sessions.
In addition to the two plays she published in the Mathematics Clubs section of the Monthly, 1930 and 1938, Whelan also wrote a two-act play, “Grabitall,” that was presented by the mathematics club at Hunter College in the spring of 1937. The play dealt with the mathematics of the Townsend Plan, a proposal to end the Great Depression by instituting a pension plan for all retirees over the age of sixty.
Anna Marie Whelan never had children and never married. She lived with her sister in New York City until her death. She died on June 14, 1966, in the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after a short illness. She was seventy. After her death, a high requiem mass was celebrated at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and she was buried in New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland on June 17, 1966.
After receiving her Ph.D. in 1923, Anna Marie Whelan, who sometimes used the name A. Marie Whelan professionally, taught for two years each at Olivet College in Michigan and Dominican College of San Rafael in California. She joined the faculty at Hunter College as an instructor in 1927 and was an assistant professor from 1932 until her retirement in 1965. During her first decade there she often was associated with the evening and extension sessions.
In addition to the two plays she published in the Mathematics Clubs section of the Monthly, 1930 and 1938, Whelan also wrote a two-act play, “Grabitall,” that was presented by the mathematics club at Hunter College in the spring of 1937. The play dealt with the mathematics of the Townsend Plan, a proposal to end the Great Depression by instituting a pension plan for all retirees over the age of sixty.
Anna Marie Whelan never had children and never married. She lived with her sister in New York City until her death. She died on June 14, 1966, in the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after a short illness. She was seventy. After her death, a high requiem mass was celebrated at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and she was buried in New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland on June 17, 1966.
Anna Marie Whelan was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 6, 1894. Her parents had each emigrated from Ireland in about 1875 and had married eight or nine years later. After Anna Marie Whelan graduated from Western High School in Baltimore in 1914, she entered Goucher College and graduated four years later. She began her graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the fall of 1918. Except for the year 1920–21 when she taught in Pullman, West Virginia, she attended Johns Hopkins continuously until she received her doctorate in 1923. She attended the summer school in 1919 and held a university fellowship in mathematics 1919–20. A Johns Hopkins directory indicates that she also taught in the summer sessions of 1919 and 1920. While her dissertation was written under the direction of Frank Morley, in her dissertation vita she also acknowledged the “valuable suggestions” received from A. B. Coble, an earlier Ph.D. student of Morley and former Johns Hopkins faculty member, who was then on the faculty at the University of Illinois. Her subordinate subjects at Johns Hopkins were Applied Mathematics and Geophysics.
After receiving her Ph.D. in 1923, Anna Marie Whelan, who sometimes used the name A. Marie Whelan professionally, taught for two years each at Olivet College in Michigan and Dominican College of San Rafael in California. She joined the faculty at Hunter College as an instructor in 1927 and was an assistant professor from 1932 until her retirement in 1965. During her first decade there she often was associated with the evening and extension sessions.
In addition to the two plays she published in the Mathematics Clubs section of the Monthly, 1930 and 1938, Whelan also wrote a two-act play, “Grabitall,” that was presented by the mathematics club at Hunter College in the spring of 1937. The play dealt with the mathematics of the Townsend Plan, a proposal to end the Great Depression by instituting a pension plan for all retirees over the age of sixty.
Anna Marie Whelan never had children and never married. She lived with her sister in New York City until her death. She died on June 14, 1966, in the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after a short illness. She was seventy. After her death, a high requiem mass was celebrated at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and she was buried in New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland on June 17, 1966.
After receiving her Ph.D. in 1923, Anna Marie Whelan, who sometimes used the name A. Marie Whelan professionally, taught for two years each at Olivet College in Michigan and Dominican College of San Rafael in California. She joined the faculty at Hunter College as an instructor in 1927 and was an assistant professor from 1932 until her retirement in 1965. During her first decade there she often was associated with the evening and extension sessions.
In addition to the two plays she published in the Mathematics Clubs section of the Monthly, 1930 and 1938, Whelan also wrote a two-act play, “Grabitall,” that was presented by the mathematics club at Hunter College in the spring of 1937. The play dealt with the mathematics of the Townsend Plan, a proposal to end the Great Depression by instituting a pension plan for all retirees over the age of sixty.
Anna Marie Whelan never had children and never married. She lived with her sister in New York City until her death. She died on June 14, 1966, in the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after a short illness. She was seventy. After her death, a high requiem mass was celebrated at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and she was buried in New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland on June 17, 1966.
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