Eastern Illinois University

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

More Sad News


Ferrel Atkins long time coordinator of the Computational Mathematics program at EIU died this last week. Ferrel received his Bachelor of Science degree from EIU in 1945 and his doctorate from the University of Kentucky in 1950. He was an active and ardent member of the Democratic Party. Ferrel was also devoted to nature and worked each summer as Ranger Naturalist at Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado, where he became the Park Historian. Ferrel was 87 years young. See

Ferrel Atkins

No comments:

Post a Comment