Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:14:27 -0400
To: faculty@math.ohio-state.edu, staff@math.ohio-state.edu,
   grads@math.ohio-state.edu
From: howard@math.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Professor Saltzer

I regret to inform you that Professor Charles Saltzer died this
weekend after a short illness.  I don't have all the details at this
time.  His funeral will be on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. in Cleveland at
the Zion Memorial Cemetery.
Marilyn H.

This notice appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Charles Saltzer
Beloved husband of Florence; loving father of Aster Rubinstein;
devoted grandfather of three; dear brother of Sam, Leonard Saltzer
and the late Mary Glazer; devoted uncle of Dr. Dennis Glazer, Judge
Gary Glazer, Michael, Larry, Stacy Saltzer and Jody Goldstein.
Graveside services will be held Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 1 p.m. at the
Zion Memorial Park. Family requests NO VISITATION. Friends who wish
may contribute to the Charles Saltzer Endowment Fund, c/o the Ohio
State University Dept. of Mathematics. ARRANGEMENTS UNDER THE
DIRECTION OF BERKOWITZ-KUMIN-BOOKATZ MEMORIAL CHAPEL.

Resolution in memoriam:

The Board of Trustees of The Ohio State University expresses its sorrow upon the death on September 9, 2001, of Charles Saltzer, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and former professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science.

Professor Saltzer was born in Cleveland in 1918 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Reserve University in 1942. He held master's degrees from the University of Nebraska and Brown University, and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Brown University. Before joining The Ohio State University Mathematics Department in 1962, he taught at Case Institute of Technology and at the University of Cincinnati.

Charles Saltzer was a specialist in analysis and applied mathematics. He actively promoted cooperation between the Departments of Mathematics and Computer and Information Science. In 1968, he was appointed a professor of Computer and Information Science in addition to his professorship in the Department of Mathematics.

In addition to his contributions to research in applied mathematics, Professor Saltzer was an extremely kind and versatile teacher on both the undergraduate and the graduate level. He regularly taught courses both in mathematics and in computer and information science. Although he demanded strong performance, he was devoted to his students and worked to ensure that they learned both theory and applications.

After his retirement in 1988, Dr. Saltzer continued to teach one course each year in the Mathematics Department. During the summer of 2001 he was teaching a basic course in ordinary differential equations, and he wrote the final examination for that course just a few days before his death. Professor Saltzer remained an active mathematician and an inspired teacher to the very end.

On behalf of the University community, the Board of Trustees expresses to the family of Professor Charles Saltzer its deepest sympathy and sense of understanding of their loss. It was directed that this resolution be inscribed upon the minutes of the Board of Trustees and that a copy be tendered to the family as an expression of the Board's heartfelt sympathy.

Department of Mathematics