Walter Edwin Hogan

The Hogan Mathematics Award is presented in honor of the late Dr. Walter Edwin Hogan, to the senior mathematics major with high achievement in upper-level mathematics courses and with active participation in department activities.

Dr. Hogan was born in Izard County, Arkansas in 1872 and received a somewhat haphazard education in whatever schools were available in the general area. He was determined to receive a college education and entered Hendrix College in 1893, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1897.

For three years, he taught and recruited students for Sloan Hendrix Academy in Imboden, Arkansas, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. In 1900 he returned to Hendrix as Professor of Mathematics and German.

In 1910 he was called to Nashville, Tennessee, to becaome Assistant Secretary of the Board of Education of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In the church merger of 1938-40, he became Treasurer of the Board of Education of the Methodist Church, retiring in 1944.

He received a Masters of Arts Degree from George Peabody College in 1917 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Hendrix in 1932. His wife, Mary Young Hogan, attended both Galloway and Hendrix. They were married by Dr. A.C. Millar, former President of Hendrix.

Throughout his life, which ended in 1949, Dr. Hogan never lost his love for, nor interest in, Hendrix College. The Hogan Mathematics Award was established in 1913 and is awarded yearly.

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T.H. Ware Mathematics Award

The T.H. Ware Mathematics Award predates the Hogan Award and was named for Rev. T.H. Ware. Rev. Ware was a financial agent (today's term might be development officer) for the college in 1892-93. He served on the Board of Trustees for 23 years.