Burrowes Hunt ’38

BURROWES "BUZZ" HUNT, professor and former chairman of the mathematics department of Reed College in Portland, Ore., died Sept. 13, 1991.

Buzz began with '37 and graduated with '38 with an A.B. in English. He was a member of Key & Seal Club. He tutored at a boys school and ranch in Colorado until his induction into the security section of the Army Signal Corps. There he was assigned to supersecret work, and there he also met and married Dorothy Dudley Scovill, a mathematician doing the same work. He was awarded the Legion of Merit at war's end.

Buzz then took his Ph.D. in math at the Univ. of Colorado, followed by postdoctoral work at Penn. In 1953 he went to Reed College, specializing in numbers theory, He and Dudley built a retirement home overlooking the Oregon coast and had a few years there after he retired from Reed in 1977. Dudley died in 1984. Buzz suffered from osteoporosis and was bedridden with broken hips for a time. Later he had a series of small strokes and had to enter a nursing home.

He is survived by four daughters and his brother William M. '39 *40. They have our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1938