SATURNINO SALAS

SATURNINO SALAS, assistant professor of mathematics from 1960 to 1965 (and father of Wesleyan’s Director of Strategic Initiatives Charles G. Salas MA ’85) died June 2, 2012. He was 81. After attending Princeton University, he served in the U.S. Air Force for four years and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University in 1959. In addition to teaching at Wesleyan he taught at Yale University and at the University of Connecticut before retiring from academia to devote himself to the writing of mathematics textbooks. Predeceased by his wife, Judith Eckart Salas, he is survived by his four children, 11 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, two brothers, and a sister.