Kappa Mu Epsilon Certificate of Recognition
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Object Details
- date made
- 1981
- maker
- Kappa Mu Epsilon
- Description
- In April 1981 in Springfield, Missouri, Kappa Mu Epsilon celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. At this celebration KME, a mathematics honor society with chapters at institutions that emphasize undergraduate mathematics programs, named fifty members as Distinguished Members. Sister Helen Sullivan was one of those so honored.
- In about 1936 Sister Helen Sullivan organized Euclid’s Circle, a mathematics club at Mount St. Scholastica College. In 1940 she founded the Kansas Gamma Chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon there. Sullivan often served as the faculty sponsor of her local chapter of KME, and in 1967 the alumnae of that chapter established the Sister Helen Sullivan scholarship in her honor. On the national level Sullivan served as KME’s historian in the years 1943–47, and as an assistant editor of its journal, The Pentagon, during those years and again from 1961–70.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- place made
- United States: Missouri, Springfield
- web subject
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Women's History
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Women Mathematicians
- Science & Mathematics
- Religion
- Credit Line
- Collected for the Museum from Sister Helen Sullivan
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1993.3019.03
- nonaccession number
- 1993.3019
- catalog number
- 1993.3019.03
- Object Name
- pamphlet with sheets and award
- Physical Description
- fabric (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.8 cm x 20.8 cm x .3 cm; 4 1/4 in x 8 3/16 in x 1/8 in
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_905225