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JOSEPHINE ROBINSON ROE died on April 29, 1946, in Newton, Mass. Mrs. Roe, one of the very few women to earn a degree in course from Dartmouth, was born in Meredith, N. H., May 5, 1858. After graduating from Oberlin in 1894, she made teaching a career, chiefly at Berea College, where she was Dean of Women (1897-1907) and Professor of Mathematics (1897-1911). In 1911 she married Professor Edward Drake Roe Jr., for many years head of the Department of Mathematics and Director of the Observatory at Syracuse University.

In 1911 Mrs. Roe received the degree of A.M. from Dartmouth, and in 1918 the degree of Ph.D. from Syracuse, with a thesis on "Interfunctional Expressibility Problems of Symmetric Functions." She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Chi, and Pi Mu Epsilon. Until very recently she continued to reside at her home in Syracuse. Three of her brothers were Dartmouth men, one of whom, George W. Robinson '96, survives her.