2005 HOF Inductees

COACHES

Bill Boulger

Bill has served as coach of the St. Paul Academy team for 23 years. His teams have been among the top in regular season standings ten times, won the first state tournament in 1985, and repeated as tournament champions in 1994 and 1999. He has served numerous terms on the Board, taught in the Summer Math Institute, and has been an assistant coach of the ARML team for many years.

Marlys Henke

Marlys coached St. Paul's Central High School team for 21 years until her retirement after the 2004 season, during which time she brought the program at Central from a point of relative obscu- rity to the place of winning the regular season state championship three years in a row (1997-1999), and taking first place at the tournament twice. She started and continues to direct the junior high league, and served nine years as an assistant ARML coach.

Jerome Holicky

Jerome has coached the Fergus Falls team for 16 years. Characterized elsewhere in these pages as the servant leader, he has served for five years as President of the league, during which time he provided leadership not only at board meetings, but at the state tournaments, the summer conferences, and in the many decisions that come up in day to day operations.

Wayne Hysjulien

A veteran of contests in and around Minnesota for years before the league began, Wayne was an enthusiastic leader in league affairs until he retired 12 years after the league began. His teams were first in the state standings in the first two years that we kept such records, and came in first again in 1991-92 when the league had reached its full size. He was instrumental in getting the season-ending tournament going in 1985 when his team finished third. His teams were in the top three at two more state tournaments.

Tom Kilkelly

Starting his league coaching as a teacher at St. Thomas Academy and continuing as a coach when he moved to Wayzata, Tom has enjoyed coaching success at multiple levels. For a number of years after arriving at Wayzata, his teams would get into the top eight or so during the regular season, and then cop one of the top three spots at the tournament. They finally took first during the 2003-04 season, and have had a run of three tournament championships in a row as this is written. Tom has held the position of ARML coach since 1991, and in 1997 brought the national championship home to Minnesota.

John Kunz

John's St. Paul Highland team entered the league for the 1981-82 season, the league's second year, and John finished his 24th season as head coach in 2005. Over that period, there have been very few years when his teams have not been near the top during the regular season, and they have taken first place during the regular season twice, and first place in the tournament three times.

Roger Sadlowsky

Roger was the coach at Columbia Heights for 17 years until his retirement in 1998. He served as the league's first President, led the first two ARML teams, and taught all four years during the existence of the Summer Mathematics Institute.

Kay Shager

Kay coached the North St. Paul team for 15 years. She taught in the Summer Mathematics Institute during its four-year run, serving as Director in its last year. She has been an Assistant ARML coach, and served two terms as President of the league.

Bill Shimek

Bill's enthusiastic "can-do" participation on the Board of Directors was recognized as what was needed when the board asked Bill to host at his school, Brooklyn Center, our first state tournament to end the 1984-85 season. The organization of that tournament earned for Bill the job of hosting tournaments for the next decade until, because of its increasing size, it was moved in the spring of 1995 to Eagan. Bill coached at Brooklyn Center until his retirement, and still comes to work as a grader at the tournaments at Eagan.

Roy Schuman

Roy was one of the first to demonstrate the attraction that a math league would have for teams in outstate Minnesota, driving his Duluth East High School team the hundred miles from Duluth to the Twin Cities for every meet so as to compete in the North Suburban Division in the 1982-83 season. His enthusiastic support was essential in those early years. He coached the Duluth East team for 16 years until he retired.

Jack Sorteberg

Jack coached the Burnsville team from 1985 until his retirement in 1994. He taught for two years in the Summer Mathematics Institute, served as a proofreader of the exams used in competitions from 1994 through 2001, and continues to serve as a judge and grader at state tournaments.

Kathy Trier

Kathy started as a coach when the South Suburban Division entered the league in 1984, and finished her 22nd year in 2005. In addition to her work as coach and on the Board, Kathy directed the Summer Math Institute for the first three years of its operation, and has managed the state tournament held at her school in Eagan for the last ten years.

Stan Vee

Stan finished his 20th year as a coach when he retired in 2002. Stan was instrumental in starting the Polar Division in an area of the state where his school at Barnum, with a graduating class of about 60 each year, is the average size. He was able to bring his team to the state tournament most years, but they found it difficult to compete with the larger schools. Stan, possessed of a low key, self-deprecating sense of humor and a willing spirit, came to typify the many coaches who have worked faithfully to give their best students a good experience in mathematics. He was always an engaging presence at summer conferences, and served for several years as an assistant ARML coach.

FRIENDS OF THE LEAGUE

Judy Cognetta

Judy has, in her position as Director of Communications at Unisys (formerly Sperry), directed that company's recognition luncheon for winners of the MAA high school mathematics luncheon, directed generous and consistent company support to league programs, and personally came to tournaments to present checks to scores of individual top scoring students. Her commitment includes attendance at many league events, and she has served on the league's Board of Directors for many years.

Kathy Grundhoefer

Kathy moved from the job of secretary of the mathematics department at Macalester to the newly created position of Associate Director of the League in 1985. Her efficiency and willingness to put in long hours, many of them uncompensated, are the quantifiable things that can be documented. The personal relationships she built with the coaches, her thoughtfulness in the office and on the telephone, her unflagging optimism about what could be done, her ability to remember names and show genuine interest in people's lives: these are the things, impossible to quantify, that made her indispensable to the league's growth.

Stan Hill

An actuary by profession, Stan's service to mathematics in Minnesota, having begun with the American High School Mathematics Examination (AHSME), precedes that of any of the initial group inducted to the Hall of Fame, and continues yet as this is written. Once the league started, he kept track of the money, kept any unused funds invested, and gave counsel to all aspects of the business side of the operation. He set up an endowment that provides prize money, and with his wife Doris, made the initial contribution to this fund.

Brant Klepel

Brant had no idea when he began as a student assistant in the Macalester Mathematics Department just as the league was beginning that the first programs he wrote for keeping league records would keep him involved as our technical assistant for the next 20 years. Employed after graduation by IBM, Brant has for many years spent tournament days interfacing computers for rapid reporting of scores, and was available each time that changing technology meant that our office computer needed upgrading.

Wayne Roberts

As is evident to readers of this book, Wayne started the league in 1980, and has been its director ever since. He has made the problems each year except for the four-year span from 1995-1999 when he served as Provost of Macalester College. He regards his work with the league as the most rewarding activity of his 40 years in academia.

Wayne Roberts

Founder of the League and Executive Director for teh first 30 years.