Charles A. Lindemann
After graduation from Bucknell in 1898, he taught mathematics for one year in the South Jersey Institute. Then, he taught mathematics from 1899 to 1902 at Virginia Union University, which was a Baptist Home Mission for African Americans. During the summer of 1902, he was a student at the Harvard Engineering Camp and he spent the 1902-1903 year as a graduate student in engineering at Harvard. In September 1903, he began as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics at Bucknell, “….conducting some classes in mathematics but giving the greater part of his effort to courses afterward included in the Civil Engineering Course.” In 1904, he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics; in 1908, he was promoted to Professor of Applied Mathematics. In 1920, Lindemann was named Professor of Civil Engineering. He served as head of the Civil Engineering Department for twenty-two years before he relinquished that duty. In 1924, he requested that he be transferred to the Department of Mathematics and he was given the title of Professor of Pure Mathematics. In 1927, John B. Stetson University conferred the degree of Doctor of Science on him. He “terminated his active teaching” in 1938 because of poor health and was made Professor Emeritus. Charles Arthur Lindemann died on April 28, 1940, “…after a service of 38 years on the Faculty of Bucknell University.” He was almost sixty-six years old.
Professor Lindemann was active in several campus construction projects. He was the chairman of the committee that supervised the development of the North Athletic Field. He also assisted with the preliminary work on Memorial Stadium. From 1920 to 1926, he served as the Secretary of the Bucknell Faculty. Perhaps because of his early service at Virginia Union, “…[d]uring the years when negro students were occasionally on [the Bucknell] campus, he was the one to whom they looked for friendly counsel.”
The photograph is from the 1920 L’Agenda,