Department of Mathematics

Roosevelt University

Max Plager	Emeritus Professor of Mathematics	email: mplager@roosevelt.edu
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In the post-Sputnik late 1960s we had an active group of mathematics majors but a smaller department. Our student Yuji Suzuki (from Brazil) was a roomer (along with some other international students) with Mrs. White, the widow of the former Chair of the Geography Department at U. of Chicago. The large house included many mementoes of the White's travels and a twenty-five foot anaconda skin was among them. The grounds of the house included an enormous oak tree (five foot diameter trunk, five hundred years old?) which had been the meeting tree for Native American tribes in the area before the European settlers.

Mrs. White graciously invited us to picnic at her home. Yuji marinated, baked, and barbequed an enormous number of chicken parts for the event. This was the introduction to Teriyaki chicken for most of us. We must have been reasonable guests since we were invited back the following year.