Evelyn Boyd Ganville

On May 1,1924 in Washington D.C Evelyn Boyd granville was born. William and Julia Boyd where her parents and her only sibling who was the oldest is Doris Boyd . Her father had a variety of jobs while julia stayed at home to take care of the kids . Once her parents separated Evelyn’s mom got a job at the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing as a Stamp examiner . Evelyn attended Dunbar High school which was a segregated school at the time . All the teachers that taught at that school had degrees from top Colleges all around . Her teachers inspired the students to pursue their goals that 's what made her wanted to further her education. She graduated as Valedictorian in high school and had a scholarship from Phi Delta Kappa from Smith college . In 1941 Evelyn went to Smith

All of this teaching made ms.granville want to publish not one but two math books over a 3 year time frame . Many colleges bought her first book and her second book “New Math” was about changes in the teaching of elementary school mathematics . She said that “ writing these books were very demanding and time consuming” . After all this writing she was called into to work by the board of education of the Van Independent school district. From there she worked as a computer literacy teacher for 8th graders . But then they started to overload her with work being a high school algebra teacher,and 8th grade math teacher . Evelyn couldn 't no longer handle all 3 jobs and came to a conclusion to quit .

The last thing she did before before retirement with her husband was major in computer science . It was something she never learned before and wanted to give a open mind to new things . Once graduating from her old college texas college she taught computer science for 2 years and then gave in . She is now 92 years old and still living. This woman was very intelligent and inspired a lot of kids throughout her years of teaching .Her fascination with learning and teaching was incredible as