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Home Page for John F. (Jack) and Mildred B. Lamb |
Welcome to our web page. May we first supply you with a little biographical data? We both graduated from high school. We both have bachelors and masters degrees. We both taught mathematics in high school. Jack has a Ph. D. degree in mathematics and Mildred has a second master's degree in computer science.
After retirement, we both taught part-time at at a local university - Jack in the mathematics department and Mildred in the computer science department. Mildred also taught some mathematics courses including an off campus class in statistics. After about two years of that, she gave it up to spend more time with our grandchildren.
Jack stayed on in the mathematics department teaching part-time for a total of 5 years.
We have two daughters, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. They all live just a few miles away from us, so we get together often for a variety of activities.
 | We are members of the First United Methodist Church. We are members of the Kitchen Sunday School Class. Jack is in the Methodist Men and is on the Outreach Committee. Jack also serves as webmaster for the church's web site and as editor and tape duplicator for the cassette tape ministry that takes recordings of the services to homebound members. |
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In 2005, we took a cruise to the Panama Canal. To visit the web site about the trip, click here. |
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In July, 2006, we took a tour with our grandson through the states of Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. To visit the web site about the trip, click here. |
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In December, 2006, we took a cruise with Mildred's cancer support group to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Grand Cayman and Cozumel. To visit the web site about the trip, click here. |
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On March 18, 2010, we went to see the newly opened Waco Mammoth Site in Waco, Texas. To get there, take Interstate 35 to Waco. Take exit 335C and turn west alongside the Brazos river. Cross Lakeshore Drive and look for the mammoth site sign on the left. To see our pictures and learn more about it, click here. |
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On July 7, 2010, we went to Waco to see the traveling Lego exhibit in the Harry and Anna Jeanes Discovery Center on the Baylor campus. To get there, take Interstate 35 to Waco and exit at Baylor on the east side of the highway. To see our pictures and learn more about it, click here. |
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On July 14, 2010, we went to see the Inner Space Cavern in Georgetown, Texas. To get there, take Interstate 35 to Georgetown and take exit 259. It is on the west side of the highway. To see our pictures and learn more about it, click here. |
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From July 26 to 30, 2010, ten of us went to Corpus Christi on vacation. We saw some baby turtles released into the gulf, we toured the U.S.S. Lexington, we spent a day at the Texas State Aquarium and we spent a couple of afternoos at the beach. For more details and to see pictures of what we saw, click here. |
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Interests |
 | My field of interest in mathematics was and still is Euclidean Geometry. I have now published 29 articles in professional journals. Twenty six of them were compiled into a book entitled Twenty-five and Counting. Let me know by e-mail if you would like to have a copy of the book. |
I attended several annual joint meetings in January of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. I presented research papers at some of them. The last paper was entitled "A Chinese Zodiac Mathematical Structure" which was presented at a meeting in San Antonio. If you would like to look at a copy of the handout for that presentation, click here.
I was an active member of the Texas Section of the MAA for 40 years. I attended 40 consecutive annual meetings. I presented several papers at those meetings held at colleges and universities around the state. I was also the "official" photographer for the section meetings. To see the pictures I took at the meetings, click here
My hobbies include astronomy, photography, web site design and model rocketry. I have an eight-inch reflector telescope equipped to take photographs of stars, planets, nebulae and comets. Two excellent magazines on this subject are Astronomy and Sky & Telescope. I am a charter member of the Planetary Society and the Cousteau Society.
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I have been an avid space buff since the beginning of it all in
the late 50's. I have been to the Space Center in Houston several
times. I visited Cape Kennedy in 1973
where I saw the launch of an unmanned rocket and the roll-out of Skylab
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The following year, we went to another Space Camp Parent-Child week-end at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where we each built model rockets and launched them. Our team won first place in rocket launching. Early in the morning of the second day we were there, we got up at 6:00 a.m. to see a space shuttle landing. We were very far away, so it was just a speck in the sky, but we were able to hear the sonic booms just fine. Our visit included a tour of Cape Kennedy where we saw the gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building and several rockets on display. |
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My grandson and I went to the Cosmosphere Museum in Hutchinson, Kansas by train, plane and rental car. There is an IMAX Theater that was showing T-Rex, a film on dinosaurs. We saw everything from V2 rockets and buzz bombs to the latest space station modules. There was a room where one could bring blank video tapes and have NASA footage copied onto them. I got several clips to add to my collection. |
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I returned to the Space Camp in Huntsville along with my younger grandson, wife and daughter. My grandson and I went to camp while my wife and daughter toured and shopped Huntsville. The camp activities included many of the ones I did with my older grandson several years before. We built a rocket, launched it, recovered it and brought it home with us to fly agian and again. To see a web site of our adventures at the camp, click here. |
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I am also interested in science fiction - especially Star Trek. I have an extensive collection of models, books, books on tape and videos from the movies and the five TV series. |
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I was the faculty sponsor of a Star Trek Club. Club members and I attended several Star Trek conventions where we met the stars of the show and collected memorabilia. We also put on a couple of our own conventions and sponsored several Space Awareness Days on campus. One of our guest speakers was Jay Apt who went on to become an astronaut.
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I had an interesting experience involving the first Star Trek movie and the opening of a new theatre. Somehow the manager heard about me and the Star Trek Club and called me to discuss my dressing up as Mr. Spock and cutting the ribbon at the grand opening of the theatre. The drama department agreed to fix me up with some ears and makeup and my wife managed to put together a blue costume, so I did it, complete with a police escort to the theatre. |
I had a wonderful adventure in Las Vegas, Nevada. A Hilton Hotel there has an attraction called: Star Trek: The Experience. To take a tour of it, click here.
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Interests |
I taught mathematics and computer math in high school before becoming the director of the computer lab at the middle school.
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