Wood County OhArchives Obituaries.....Clarence Wayne (Preferred name Wayne) Dancer  March 9 1996

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Patrick McVicker Pat.McVicker@ProMedica.org May 22, 2003, 2:31 pm

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The following is an obit on Wayne Dancer who served as a Professor of 
Mathematics
at the University of Toledo, prior to moving to Alaska, then California.
 
Clarence Wayne Dancer (Preferred name Wayne) was born in Custar, Wood County, 
Ohio, on March 10, 1898.   His parents were Edwin Dancer and Mary Emma Brim.   
He was the second child born in the family of six.   The siblings were, Lloyd, 
Harriett, 
Doris, Anne and Miriam. Like his father, Wayne desired an education and to be a 
teacher.  
He attended Waite High School in Toledo and then in 1918 he began a long 
association 
with the University of Toledo, which was located in what is now Scott Park.   
He became 
chairman of the mathematics department at the University of Toledo in 1946 
after many 
years as an instructor and professor.   He resigned his chairmanship in 1960 
and a year 
later at the age of 62, moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where he became an early 
faculty 
member at Alaska Methodist University which today is Alaska Pacific 
University.   
In 1965, Dr. Dancer moved to San Diego, California to become chairman of the 
mathematics department at California Western University.   He retired from that 
post a few 
years later when he turned seventy. 

He married Ruth Ann Black on August 12, 1924 and she died in 1975.   They were 
married 
over fifty years and had one son, Robert.   He married his second wife, Rosetta 
M. Godshall, 
on May 12, 1984.  Rosetta died a short time after.  
 
He received his masters degree from Ohio State University and his doctorate 
from the 
University of Michigan.   From 1927 to 1929 he was an instructor of mathematics 
at the 
University of Wisconsin. Dr. Dancer was cited as a master teacher by the 
National Council of 
Teachers and belonged to many honor societies, including Pi Mu Epsilon and 
Sigma Xi..   
He passed away on March 9, 1996, in Life Care Center nursing home in Escondido, 
California, 
just one day before his 98th birthday.
 

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