1. Celebrating Our Colleague, Our Friend, and a Retirement Well Earned
Marc J. Lipman
Celebrating Our Colleague, Our Friend,
and a
Retirement Well Earned

2. Dr. Lipman joined the faculty in 1976 and resigned in 1989 to work for the Office of Naval Research; he later taught at Oakland University in Michigan, and in 2002 returned to IPFW as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Lipman received degrees from Lake Forest College (B.A., 1971) and Dartmouth College (A.M., 1973; Ph.D., 1976). He was the recipient of the Amoco Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award in 1986.

5. A first few sentences from long ago … and far away.

6. Who knew Marc was young once upon a time (not to mention some other familiar faces)?

7. More recently here at IPFW …

8. Marc debated being a Moses look-alike … but the Einstein tie ruined the look.

9. Remembering well-dressed Marc… (are there suspenders under there, Marc

10. Wise producers hire a Marc look alike
MATH: the Movie
Wise producers hire a Marc look alike

11. Saturday Night Fever: the Movie
Very wise producers choose the right actor and copy Marc’s trend-setting fashion!

12. Marc at Hogwort’s Graduation Ceremonies. Oops
Marc at Hogwort’s Graduation Ceremonies. Oops! That’s IPFW’s Graduation Ceremonies.

13. Where’s Marc???????

14. Marc, standing out in a crowd…

15. Marc attends COAS Honors Banquets

16. Marc at a Distinguished Lecture Series … amazingly he yields the podium!

17. Marc becoming an old fart-- Former Administrator Returned to Teaching

18. Unbeknownst to both of them, Marc conversing with a future math faculty member.
Who is handing what to whom? Is this a precursor of things to come?

19. Marc at MathCounts

20. Having given up his Moses look, an incredibly optimistic Marc talks about Doomsday—at least twice!

21. Or Marc might be celebrating the mind by considering voting paradoxes.
Why are we electing a Royal Dogcatcher and what do we do about voter fraud?
Is this an office the Donald would want?
What’s a voting paradox?
Should we investigate?

22. Just a couple of places you’ll find Marc.

23. Marc, what on earth are you talking about
Marc, what on earth are you talking about? Is that Hamiltonicity thing the choreography for your new musical?

24. Time to update that vita.
Ph.D. Dartmouth, 1976
IPFW, , Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
Office of Naval Research, Arlington VA, , Director Discrete Mathematics Program
Chairman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University,
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, IPFW,
Professor of Mathematics, IPFW, 2009 – now
Professor Emeritus of Retirement, Columbia City, IN, – now!

25. Two things that are true about Marc …
You’ll find him where the food is and …

26. we will miss him!