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Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award to Clarence F. Stephens for Distinguished Service to Mathematics

"More than fifty years ago I came to the conclusion that every college student who desired to learn mathematics could do so. I spent my entire professional life believing that this was the case." It is for his outstanding success in converting that belief into reality that the MAA is pleased to present Clarence Francis Stephens the 2003 YuehGin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics. As Chair of the Mathematics Department at the State University of New York at Potsdam from 1969 through 1987, Stephens was the primary architect of the "Potsdam Miracle" that resulted in this small upstate SUNY campus, with a total enrollment of less than 4000 in the middle 1980s, graduating the third largest number of mathematics majors among all U.S. institutions of higher education in each of the years 1985 through 1987. (UCLA ranked first all three years, and Berkeley second one year, with Illinois second the other two.) About a quarter of all the bachelor's degrees given at Potsdam each of those three years went to mathematics majors. This was not accomplished by lowering standards in any sense; the mathematics majors were among the strongest students at the institution, dominating the President's List of high-achieving students during the 1980s and producing seven of the eight valedictorians for the period 1980-87. Nor was it done at an institution with a long mathematics tradition. No student who graduated from SUNY Potsdam between the time of its founding as St. Lawrence Academy in 1816 and the arrival of Stephens in 1969 is known to have gone on to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, although twelve students who graduated during Stephens's time have done so, half of them women. Though Stephens is perhaps most well-known now for the "Potsdam Miracle" due to the large amount of well-deserved publicity it has received, he was also respon-