Charles Edward Sandifer ’73
Charles Edward Sandifer ’73 died after a long illness on August 31, 2022, in Newtown, Connecticut. Ed came to Dartmouth from West Deptford (New Jersey) High School. At the College he was a mathematics major and a mathematics teaching assistant. Ed was an avid and competitive long-distance runner at the College and during most of his adult life. He earned a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Ed began his academic career in 1978 at Western New England University (WNEU) in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was an assistant professor teaching quantitative methods in the mathematics department and computer information systems in the school of business. While on the WNEU faculty, Ed was instrumental in starting the school’s men’s cross-country program, eventually becoming the varsity coach for four successful seasons. In 1982 he joined the mathematics faculty at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, where he taught until retiring as a full professor in 2009. Ed was a mathematician who was also an historian of mathematics, authoring a two-volume biography of 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. Between 1973 and 2009, when he experienced a partially disabling stroke, Ed completed 37 Boston marathons. Ed is survived by his wife, Theresa, and children Elizabeth and Victoria.
