{"id":312,"date":"2015-06-06T12:19:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T16:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/?p=312"},"modified":"2015-06-06T12:19:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T16:19:34","slug":"history-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/2015\/06\/06\/history-update\/","title":{"rendered":"History Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received from really wonderful information regarding the history of the Williston Math Team from Kathy Connors, class of 1990!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My mother Dr. Mary Ann Connors, who served on the Williston mathematics faculty from 1981-1990, and longtime mathematics faculty member and former department chair Jack Cody co-founded the Williston Northampton School Math Team in 1982. Mrs. Connors and Mr. Cody served as co-advisers of the Math Team in that era.<\/p>\n<p>The WNS Math team participated in meets at host schools with private and public schools in Western Massachusetts (The &#8220;Mathletes&#8221; &#8211; Western Massachusetts Mathematics League &#8220;WWML&#8221;). During the same time period the WNS Math Team also participated in the New England Mathematics League (NEML) contests.<\/p>\n<p>WNS hosted a WWML meet in April 1988.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out these wonderful artifacts that Kathy sent over:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313\" style=\"width: 2550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Willistonian-Nov.-1987-Math-Team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Willistonian-Nov.-1987-Math-Team.jpg\" alt=\"The Willistonian: November 20th, 1987\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Willistonian-Nov.-1987-Math-Team.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Willistonian-Nov.-1987-Math-Team-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Willistonian-Nov.-1987-Math-Team-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Willistonian-Nov.-1987-Math-Team-193x250.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Willistonian: November 20th, 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" style=\"width: 1328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/WNS-Math-Team-Logo-Patch-1982-1983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/WNS-Math-Team-Logo-Patch-1982-1983.jpg\" alt=\"The original Williston Math Team logo! Euler forever!\" width=\"1328\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/WNS-Math-Team-Logo-Patch-1982-1983.jpg 1328w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/WNS-Math-Team-Logo-Patch-1982-1983-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/WNS-Math-Team-Logo-Patch-1982-1983-1024x905.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/WNS-Math-Team-Logo-Patch-1982-1983-250x221.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1328px) 100vw, 1328px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Williston Math Team logo! Euler forever!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 456px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-06-at-12.18.10-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-06-at-12.18.10-PM.png\" alt=\"From Kathy: &quot;The Math Team MVP plaque that was displayed in my mother's classroom in the school house.&quot;\" width=\"456\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-06-at-12.18.10-PM.png 456w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-06-at-12.18.10-PM-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-06-at-12.18.10-PM-164x250.png 164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Kathy: &#8220;The Math Team MVP plaque that was displayed in my mother&#8217;s classroom in the school house.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Thanks Kathy!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received from really wonderful information regarding the history of the Williston Math Team from Kathy Connors, class of 1990! My mother Dr. Mary Ann Connors, who served on the Williston mathematics faculty from 1981-1990, and longtime mathematics faculty member and former department chair Jack Cody co-founded the Williston Northampton School Math Team in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/2015\/06\/06\/history-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54xem-52","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}