Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Bissinger, Barnard H., Ph.D. May 15, 2011
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News on May 18, 2011 
  Barnard H. Bissinger Ph.D. 
  
  MIDDLETOWN Barnard H. Bissinger, Ph.D, 93, passed away on Sunday, May 15, 2011, 
  in The Middletown Home, Middletown. Born on January 27, 1918, in Lancaster, he 
  was preceded in death by his parents, John B. and Marian Killian Bissinger. A 
  lifelong educator, he was instrumental in developing mathematics courses for 
  Penn State Harrisburg, where he retired from teaching in 1988. He was the 
  former head of the Mathematics Department at Lebanon Valley College, where he 
  received the John Evans Lehman Chair of Mathematics in 1959. A native of 
  Lancaster, Dr. Bissinger graduated from Franklin and Marshall College and 
  received his master's degree from Syracuse University. In 1943, he was awarded 
  one of the first interdisciplinary doctorates - in mathematics and 
  aerodynamics - by Cornell University. He was a member of 23 learned societies 
  and held associate actuary status in the Society of Actuaries. He began 
  teaching mathematics at Cornell and Michigan State University and served as a 
  research assistant for the National Research Council at Columbia University 
  prior to his appointment as operations analyst for the Fourteenth Air Force at 
  the Pentagon and in the China Theatre during World War II. He and a small team 
  of analysts recruited from other universities were special advisors to Claire 
  Chennault's Flying Tigers. The group performed calculations to assist aircraft 
  through the China-Burma-India hump. After the war, he served as executive vice 
  president of a family shoe manufacturing corporation in Fitchburg, Mass., 
  before joining the faculty of Lebanon Valley in 1953 and ultimately Penn State 
  Harrisburg. Active in work for the National Science Foundation, he served as a 
  Foundation Fellow at Princeton University during the late 1950's and ran the 
  Visiting Lecturers Program for five years. In 1998, he retired as consulting 
  statistician to the Mechanicsburg Naval Supply Depot after 38 years of service. 
  He had provided similar consulting services to Hershey Foods Corporation and 
  Gannett Fleming, Inc. through that time period. Dr. Bissinger is survived by 
  his wife, Esther McGeehan Bissinger of Hershey; three daughters, Gail Garman 
  and husband, Earl of Newmanstown, Karen Steinrock and husband, Greg of 
  Grantham, and Sally Costello and husband, Mike of Rockport, Mass.; a son, 
  Steven Bissinger and wife, Trudi of Orlando, Fla.; seven grandchildren; eight 
  great-grandchildren; four stepchildren; and seven step grandchildren. Per his 
  wishes, Dr. Bissinger's remains have been donated to Humanity Gifts Registry 
  for medical research at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. A Celebration of 
  Life for Dr. Bissinger will be held on Wednesday, June 8, 2011, at 7 p.m. in 
  Wiedeman Funeral Home, 357 S. Second St., Steelton. A visitation will be held 
  from 6 to 7 p.m. in the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial 
  contributions may be made to American Institute of Mathematics, 360 Portage 
  Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306-2244, where Dr. Bissinger's mathematics library is on 
  display; or American Statistical Assn., 732 N. Washington St., Alexandria, VA 
  22314-1925; or Royal Statistical Society of London, 12 Errol St., City of 
  London EC1Y 8LX, United Kingdom. 
  
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on May 18, 2011 
  
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