It was tough passing the last of 5 four hour exams because we had adopted a wonderful 6 week old little boy. To make extra money, I taught insurance courses at night at University of Richmond for 17 years. My wife, Val, passed away at the age of 64way too soon. My son graduated from VMI and now has a wonderful wife and two great kids that are nearly grown. Last updated October 2007.LeRoy B. Martin, JR., PhD. (1949, BS Mathematics). Born in Elkin, NC, I attended public schools in Raleigh where at Broughton High School I enjoyed a succession of excellent teachers of mathematics. I was an active participant in choral programs, a member of the National Honor Society, and was named to the Greensboro Daily News All State Football Team in 1943. In the spring of 1944, Herman Hickman, line coach at the U. S. Military Academy, encouraged me to apply to West Point. I enlisted in the Army in 1944 and after a year of infantry training, was assigned as a plebe at the United States Military Academy and played on the national championship Army Team of 1945. Resigning from the Academy after a year, I spent the remainder of my undergraduate years at Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, N.C., majoring in mathematics. Activities included serving as a tutor for Dr Jones in the Math Department, surveying for Dr. Carroll, and serving as President of the KA fraternity.In deciding what to do with a 1949 BS in mathematics from a small liberal arts college in those pre-sputnik times, we considered four options: pursue actuarial science studies in Michigan, enroll at Duke for a career in tax law, begin studies in the new UNC Institute of Statistics, or begin graduate work in the Mathematics Department at NC State College.I was hired as a Teaching Fellow in the N. C. State Department of Mathematics, teaching half-time and pursuing graduate studies. My thesis was on development of elementary transcendental functions, starting with their representation as infinite series and culminated in a masters degree in 1952.My experiences at two great schools and the professional relationships with outstanding teachers convinced me that I wanted a career of teaching mathematics in a college setting, and that earning a doctorate was important for that goal. That Fall I was admitted to Harvard University and began studies in applied mathematics in the School of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics in the Division of Arts and Sciences. I was awarded an MS degree after one year. Harvards requirement for the doctorate entailed demonstrated proficiency in four fields. I met those requirements with course work in hydro- and aero-dynamics (Drs. Carrier and von Mises), course work in elasticity and plasticity (Dr. Emmons), an oral examination inapplied mathematics, and a dissertation on computing machinery under my advisor, Dr. Howard Aiken, Director of the Computation Center and foremost pioneer in the development of computers. The dissertation was approved in 1955 and I ultimately received the PhD. in January 1958.In 1955, The International Business Machines Corporation was beginning to expand from magnetic relay, punched card, tabulating machinery to electronic computers (IBM along with Dr. Aiken had built the Mark I located at Harvard). On a recruiting visit to Harvard, they hired me to begin training in the Boston IBM office as one of their new Applied Science Representatives. While there I met Charlotte Meyer and after working in New York City for two years, we were married in 1961.During those years, whenever I would fly home to visit, I would also visit with my former colleagues in the math department who were always warmly welcoming. Thus, in 1961 I moved with my new bride to Raleigh to embark on a full-time career as an Assistant Professor in the Math Department at a nine month salary of 7,500 which was one half of my IBM earnings. In 1965 I was promoted to Associate Professor with permanent tenure at a salary of 11,100.In 1967 Provost Harry Kelly hired me over the summer to prepare a Report of Computing Facilities and Their Applications at NCSU Through August 1967. The next summer I again worked for the Provost preparing A Study of the Committees and Operating Policies of University Government at NCSU. In August, 1968, I was appointed Director of the Computing Center which also included responsibility for the computer operations of the National Register Records Center and the Dairy Records Processing Center, about 90 full time employees. Simultaneously, I was promoted to Professor of Computer Science to help in establishment of that new Department. The computing center was just completing its communications network with the large computing facility in the Research Triangle Park to be shared with UNCCH and Duke known as TUCC. It was also the duty of the Director of the Computing Center to coordinate NCSU use of that resource.The administrative divisions called upon establishment of a new activity for data processing and asked me to organize that effort. Then my title was changed to Assistant Provost for University Computing. Throughout my administrative career, I taught one mathematics course each spring until in 1983 I rose to Professor of Mathematics and resumed full time teaching on a nine months basis. After retirement in 1996, I became Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and taught one class each semester until 2003. Other activities include golf, tennis, travel, Kiwanis, singing in the Raleigh Oratorio Society, and summering in Northfield, Massachusetts.Charlotte and I have three sons, all Eagle Scouts. Eric and Christopher attended Wake Forest University. LeRoy III attended Davidson College. Roy and Eric received doctorates from NCSU and Christopher an MBA from Georgia State. Eric subsequently earned an MD in neuro-radiology from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine.