About the Author
Sister Mary Leontius Schulte began her graduate work at the University of Michigan in the summer session of 1928 and became an instructor at the College of Saint Teresa that fall. She took graduate courses in mathematics and physics during the four summers of 1928–31 and received her master’s degree in September 1931. Sister M. Leontius continued teaching except for the two academic years 1932–34, when she was in residence full time at the University of Michigan to finish the course work for her PhD. During these two years she lived at Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. She was enrolled during the summer of 1934, when her dissertation was accepted, and the degree was conferred in March 1935. Sister M. Thomas à Kempis Kloyda, her slightly older colleague at the college, had a similar educational and professional history, which included working with the same dissertation advisor, Louis C. Karpinski.