Years ago, our older daughter Marti was the receptionist/secretary of the Math and Statistics Department at the University of North Florida (UNF). Mathy types celebrate their own holiday -- well, it's a working holiday -- on 14 March of each year. Pi Day, so named because 3.14 are the first three digits of Pi.
So, of course, on Pi Day, what to the mathy types eat? Pie.
Marti and I made pies for Pi Day and took them in to the department. I was a student at UNF at the time.
And to be true to the concept of Pi, I made my pies in a square pan. With the formula on top, in crust.
Like this cherry pie I made one year:
Marti and I had great fun making these pies, and everyone in the department enjoyed them. And we still enjoy remembering them.
Marti, being an employee of the university, had the perk of a free class each term. Being deaf in one ear, she chose American Sign Language (ASL). When she and her sister were young, they asked for and received a book on ASL. Little did we parents suspect that we were giving our daughters access to a language which we didn't "speak." I'm sure that led to all sorts of shenanigans, but they survived all. So ASL was not new to Marti.
After taking the classes in ASL, Marti enrolled in a "bridge program" offered by Florida State University, my first alma mater. This program was designed to bring students who had no background in sciences up to speed to then enroll in doctorate programs in audiology, in an effort to make up a shortfall of audiologists. No surprise to me, considering how loud young people have been playing their music since the 1960s. Anyway, she then was accepted at the University of Florida's doctoral program in audiology, and now she is a doctor. She's not the first doctor in the family -- that occurred back in the late 1800s. She is, however, the first female doctor in the family. She works with veterans, individuals with whom she feels right at home, since her father and I are both veterans. She loves the work.
Our daughter, the doctor!
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