THE LYALL ERA ENDS UW SYSTEM CHIEF: 12 YEARS IN TOUGH JOB IS ENOUGH.(FRONT)

From: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: February 5, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Karen Rivedal Higher education reporter

When Katharine Lyall was in middle school, it wasn't cool for girls to know math.

Even among educators at the time, it was not widely held that the "weaker sex" needed to know such things.

But Eleanor Lyall, who worked as a high school math teacher, felt differently.

"My mother thought that was nonsense and insisted her sons and daughters do math," Katharine Lyall said. "The result was that...

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