
by Margaret L. Lial, Thomas W. Hungerford, Charles David Miller

22 March 1927 – 16 March 2012
Margaret L. (Marge) Lial, born in Sacramento, California, was a dedicated teacher and accomplished college math textbook author. Marge was a Sac High Grad (Class of '45) and remained an active member of the Sac High reunion committee. She attended Sacramento City College, then UC Berkeley before leaving school to marry McClatchy grad Ed Lial. Marge loved to travel, especially to archaeological digs, and visited four continents and countless countries over the course of her life. Marge enjoyed and supported the arts, the Sacramento Kings, a Campus Commons wine group, and developed many wonderful friendships in everything she did. Marge's passion for math started by the first grade. She ear…

21 March 1936 – 28 November 2014
Thomas William Hungerford was an American mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Hungerford did his undergraduate work at the College of the Holy Cross and defended his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Chicago in 1963 (advised by Saunders Mac Lane). He is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen widely used and widely cited textbooks covering high school to graduate level mathematics. From 1963 until 1980, he taught at the University of Washington, and then at Cleveland State University until 2003. From 2003–2014, he was at Saint Louis University. Hungerford had a special interest in promoting the use of technology to teach mathematics. Source: [Wikipedia](h…
1942 – 1986
Charles David Miller was a teacher in the Math Department at American River College, Sacramento, California.
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