dberry@ucla-cs.UUCP (12/05/85)
When I was in high school in the mid 60's in Cleveland Ohio, the
quarterback for the Cleveland Browns was Frank B. Ryan, number 13. He, with
the aid of Jim Brown and others led the Browns to an NFL championhsip in
1965 (I believe over Baltimore). What was unusual about Ryan was that he
had a Ph. D. in mathematics from Rice. His dissertation topic was on the
asymptotic properties of holomorphic functions on the unit disc. During the
off-season, he was a math professor at Case-Western Reserve University in
Cleveland. His wife, Joan, was an English major and wrote a column on
football for women in the local morning paper, the _Plain Dealer_.
Later, after he had retired from the Browns, I recall seeing a paper by him
in one of the Joint Computer Conference Proceedings. I believe he had
become a computer scientist working for the U. S. House of Representatives.
Recently I was playing trivial pursuit and this led to reminiscing about
the good ol' days. Does anyone out there in net-land know whatever
became of Dr. Ryan? Is he on the net somewhere? Please reply directly to me.
Daniel M. Berry UCLA Computer Science Department
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