Edith Vortrefflich Sloan (1916-1996) fled Vienna, Austria, in 1939 when Hitler invaded Austria and the persecution of Jews began. She had studied math and actuarial science at the University of Vienna before completing her undergraduate degree in mathematics at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), in 1962. She was a lecturer in UNCG's math department from 1966-1983. Sloan discusses her educational background, commuting to Wake Forest University for her master's degree and her teaching life at UNCG. She describes the changes to and the makeup of the math department, which added a graduate program and computer science to the curriculum. She recalls influential faculty, such as Drs. Eldon Posey and Anne Lewis, and the administrations of Chancellors Otis Singletary, James Ferguson and William Moran, especially Dr. Ferguson, who she described as kind, calm and open minded.
