DV World- DV Hall of Fame: 2004 Inductees

Karol Rene Welling

Karol Welling was a member of the Class of 1979 of Delaware Valley High School. A member of the National Honor Society and Class President she is the first DVHS female graduate to attend a service academy, entering the Air Force Academy as a member of the Class of 1983. There she graduated with a BS in Engineering while being a member of the Swim Team, achieving the rank of Flight Commander and being placed on the Commandant’s List for Academic Excellence and the Superintendent’s List for Academic and Military Excellence. She then served in the United State Air Force from 1983 to 1991. While in the USAF she served as an C-141 Aircraft Commander operating strategic airlift of passengers and cargo worldwide. She served as an instructor to other pilots and eventually as Supervisor of Flying at Williams AFB, Arizona. Selected for the McMurdo Supply Mission she flew the C-141 to the Ice Shelf in Antarctica in support of the National Science Foundation and the US Antarctic Research Program. Since 1991 Ms. Welling has been employed by Delta Airlines as a Second Officer on B-727 and L-1011 aircraft and since 1997 as First Officer on B-757, B-767, L-1001, MD-11 and B-767ER aircraft. Currently she serves as a Member of the Air Line Pilots Association and the International Society of Women Air Line Pilots. She is also a member of the US Masters Swimming Fitness and International Committees.

Keith Stroyan was a member of the Class of 1962 of Delaware Valley High School. In 1967 he graduated form the Drexel Institute of Technology ranked first in the college of science with a BS in Physics. In 1971 he graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Dr. Stroyan then held academic positions at the University of Wisconsin, University of Iowa, Gesamthochschule Paderborn, Germany, and the Norwegian Institute of Technology of Trondheim, Norway. He now serves as a Full Professor at the University of Iowa where he specializes in undergraduate instruction in calculus. The recipient of the 1996 Council on Teaching Award and the 1995 University Teaching Award Dr. Stroyan is a frequent contributor to mathematical conferences all over the world. In 1990 he organized a research conference on Infinitesimal Analysis wherein 14 leading researchers and their graduate students from as far away as England spent a week at the University of Iowa to discuss their latest research results. A frequent author he has published scholarly works including 12 books, software packages, 22 scholarly articles and, as of 2004, has an additional book and software package in preparation. He also raises and trains Labrador Retrievers called Shohola Labradors and has written dozens of articles on these dogs and their training for the NAHRA News, Retriever Field Trial News. The Hunting Retriever and Ducks Unlimited.