David Tucker

Emporia High School

Class of 1963

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David Tucker - Class of 1963 - Emporia High School

First Name	David
Last Name	Tucker
Graduation Year	Class of 1963
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	TX
Country	United States
Occupation	Professor of Mathematics
Married	Widowed
Favorite School Memory	No particular memory of school -- just my classmates and teachers. Perhaps my favorite memory is the boat trip Jim Lohmeyer and I took immediately after graduation. We traveled in a flat bottom boat down the mighty Neosho riverfor several days
About Me	I went to Kansas State for a BS degree in mathematics, then on to Michigan State for a Masters degree. I then taught two years at Morehead State University in Kentucky. From there I went to Florida State and earned a Ph.D in Mathematics. I moved to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania where I taught for thirteen years. While there, I computerized the school, taught mathematics, was director of computer services and institutional research, and director of a million dollar plus Title III grant. After thirteen years, I moved to Wichita Falls, Texas where I have just completed twenty-four years of teaching at Midwestern State University. I have been active in the community with such organizations as Habitat for Humanity and the Hotter 'n' Hell Hundred bicycle ride, the largest bicycle ride and sanctioned USCF race in the country. My wife, Nancy Toole Tucker, passed away from cancer in October 2007. We had just celebrated our fortieth wedding anniversary. We had no children. Nancy and I made trips to Piedras Negras, Mexico each June where we participated in a house-building ministry called Constructores Para Cristo. We did this every year starting in 1992 until her death, and I continued until this year when drug-related viole...(read more)