Spring Break
One Of A Kind
Late Professor Left Mark On UConn Hartford Campus
Melinda Fusco
Issue date: 1/28/08 Section: News
It isn't often you get homegrown vegetables delivered straight to your mailbox from your local grocer, never mind your colleagues. Evelyn Ahlberg, who actively delivered her own home grown vegetables, wasn't your average colleague or professor.
Ahlberg, 72, a professor of mathematics at UConn's Greater Hartford campus, died Jan. 7 at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, according to The Hartford Courant. Ahlberg taught at the Hartford branch since 1962, where she started her career teaching physics and then switched to math, according to Judith Lewis, assistant professor of mathematics at UConn Hartford. Lewis was a friend and colleague to Ahlberg for 35 years and said they met in 1970 when Lewis joined faculty at UConn as well.
"She enjoyed farming their Glastonbury property with her husband, Donald Ahlberg, [of 48 years] growing all their own fruits and vegetables and flowers, which she freely shared with her friends and neighbors," Lewis said.
"It was not unusual for me and my colleagues to find in our mailboxes bags of home grown tomatoes, potatoes, squash, and once, a supply of popping corn that lasted me for five years of popcorn making," said Sarah Glaz, associate graduate director of instruction and professor of mathematics on the Storrs campus. "When the bags were too big for the mailbox, Evelyn would hang them on the handle of our office doors."
Glaz met Ahlberg at the Hartford branch where she taught for four years. Glaz said she maintains close ties with the Hartford campus faculty because of its friendly and interesting group of people and "Evelyn was one of these people."
Ahlberg received two master of science degrees from Trinity College, one in physics and one in mathematics, according to Lewis. Before joining the faculty of the Hartford branch, Ahlberg worked in industry (CANEL Project of P&WA Division of UTC) for 29 months, according to The Hartford Courant. Ahlberg taught at UConn for 35 years before she retired in 1997. It didn't take Ahlberg long until she realized she wanted to be back at UConn with her students. Ahlberg missed teaching and interacting with students, Lewis said, and she returned to UConn Hartford as an adjunct faculty member teaching Calculus I.
Ahlberg, 72, a professor of mathematics at UConn's Greater Hartford campus, died Jan. 7 at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, according to The Hartford Courant. Ahlberg taught at the Hartford branch since 1962, where she started her career teaching physics and then switched to math, according to Judith Lewis, assistant professor of mathematics at UConn Hartford. Lewis was a friend and colleague to Ahlberg for 35 years and said they met in 1970 when Lewis joined faculty at UConn as well.
"She enjoyed farming their Glastonbury property with her husband, Donald Ahlberg, [of 48 years] growing all their own fruits and vegetables and flowers, which she freely shared with her friends and neighbors," Lewis said.
"It was not unusual for me and my colleagues to find in our mailboxes bags of home grown tomatoes, potatoes, squash, and once, a supply of popping corn that lasted me for five years of popcorn making," said Sarah Glaz, associate graduate director of instruction and professor of mathematics on the Storrs campus. "When the bags were too big for the mailbox, Evelyn would hang them on the handle of our office doors."
Glaz met Ahlberg at the Hartford branch where she taught for four years. Glaz said she maintains close ties with the Hartford campus faculty because of its friendly and interesting group of people and "Evelyn was one of these people."
Ahlberg received two master of science degrees from Trinity College, one in physics and one in mathematics, according to Lewis. Before joining the faculty of the Hartford branch, Ahlberg worked in industry (CANEL Project of P&WA Division of UTC) for 29 months, according to The Hartford Courant. Ahlberg taught at UConn for 35 years before she retired in 1997. It didn't take Ahlberg long until she realized she wanted to be back at UConn with her students. Ahlberg missed teaching and interacting with students, Lewis said, and she returned to UConn Hartford as an adjunct faculty member teaching Calculus I.
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