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Show Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday March 18, 1987 continues to modern era mystify scientists Gifted mathematician r I r o CHAD OSTLER Nuclear testing project wins at History Fair Chad Ostler, son of Kent and Amy Ostler, a student at Lakeridge, placed first in the Junior Division in the History Fair at Brigham Young University. The seventh graders nuclear project showed statistics and map? depicing fallout exposure and the general effects of the nuclear tests on southwestern Utah population. This project included news articles and a miniature bombing bom-bing tower to demonstrate the circumference cir-cumference of the fallout. About 50 students participated in the Fair held at the Convention Center. Cen-ter. Chad will now participate with other winners in State Competition. Area obituaries Joseph Coletti Joseph Coletti, 73, of Orem, died Saturday, March 14, 1987 at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo following a heart attack. He was born Feb. 27, 1914 in Cumberland. Cum-berland. Wyo., a son of Peter and Josephine Cos-tagno Cos-tagno Coletti. He married Violet Barker Sept. 5, 1933 in Bountiful, The marriage was solemnized April 27, 1934 in the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sain-ts. He was raised in Wyoming, but moved to North Ogden as a teenager. He lived in Pleasant View and attended and graduated from Weber High School. He had also attended Weber College. He was employed at Hill AFB and for the Forest Service in Ogden. He transferred tran-sferred to Biloxi, Miss., as a Naval civil servant at Kessler AFB. He transferred to Fort Belvoir, VA., in 1960 and continued con-tinued as a civil servant, transferring to GSA in Washington, D.C., and was a procurement officer until his retirement retire-ment in 1977. ... He was an active High Priest in the LDS Church, having served in many positions including Sunday School teacher, High Priest group leader and Genealogical librarian in two stakes. He was also the first bishop of the Biloxi Ward, when the New Orleans Stake was organized. He was a bishop 's counselor, stake high councilman and served six stake missions. He was an ordinance worker in the Washington and Provo LDS Temples and was a trainer at the Provo Temple. He was called as Mission president to the Italy Rome Mission 1977-1980. He moved to Orem in 1980. He is survived by his wife of Orem: five sons and two daughters: Joseph C. Coletti, Richard G. Coletti, Mrs. ! Lawrence (Debra) Dunning, all of Provo: Robert T. Coletti, Monteo, N.C.; Mrs. Kenneth (Patricia) Oliver, Gaithersburg, Md.; Daniel Coletti, Orem; Jeffrey Coletti, Brigham City, 21 grandchiidren; three great-grandchildren; two brothes and one sister: Anthony Coletti, Ames, lows, James Coletti,' Pleasant View; Mrs. Fred (Matilda) Profaizer, Ogden. A son, Joseph G. Coletti, preceded him in death. Services will be Wednesday at 11:00 in the Orem 48th Ward LDS CHapel, 80 S. 280 E. Orem. Friends may call Wednesday one hour prior to services. Burial will be in the North Ogden Ben Lomond Cemetery. r Benf Mortuary services im ,JI7:I. 1 1X4 I Thomas (Tommy) Luther Lamoreaux Funeral services were held Saturday in the Sunset 8th Ward Chapel, Provo. Pro-vo. Interment Provo City Cemetery. Ruth Leavltt Burgess Funeral services were held Monday at the Provo 11th Ward LDS Chapel, Provo. Interment Provo City Cemetery. Inez Perry Hindmarsh Funeral services were held Saturday in the Rivergrove 2nd Ward Chapel, Provo. Interment Provo City Cemetery. Rosella Harper Haws Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Wednes-day, March 18 at the Berg Mortuary of Provo. Friends may call Wednesday Wednes-day one hour prior to services. Interment Inter-ment Timpanogos Memorial Gardens, Orem. Viewing was held in Walnut Creek, Calif. March 16. By Jillyn Smith Science Writer, Utah State University Two guys are riding in this tax-icab, tax-icab, see. The taxicab is numbered 1729. One of the guys looks at the number fondly. He says, "1729 is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways." Is this guy a weirdo, or what? No, this is a true story. The guy was a gifted young Hindu named Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose mind worked around numbers in mysterious ways. His companion was the British mathematician, G. H. Hardy, who was so amazed by Ramanujan that he wrote a book about him. Ramanujan was born 100 years ago, and died just 32 years later. He became only the second Indian elected to ;, Britian's prestigious science organization, the Royal Society. Mathematicians are still puzzling over four unpublished notebooks he left. One, the "lost" notebook, languished essentially unread until 1976. His work was the subject of a symposium at recent meetings of the American Association for the Advancement Ad-vancement of Science, the "World Series of science," and a Ramanujan centenary conference is being organized for June. Ramanujan, a poor Hindu clerk, was almost totally self-taught. In India, In-dia, he had available to him a random scattering of mathematics books, not at all representative of the world's mathematics. He sort of filled in the rest and Arnold Jarman Arnold Heber Jarman, 77, of Orem, died Sunday, March 15, 1987 at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo of causes incident to age. He was born March 11, 1910 at Provo Bench (Orem), a son of Heber W. and Helena Carter Jarman. He married Beatrice Helena Roberts June 29, 1929 in Provo. She died Dec. 19, 1952. He married Gladys Leahy Wright June 13, 1959 in Salt Lake City. She died April 8, 1986. He was raised and educated in Orem. He was employed as an overhead crane operator at the Pacific Cast Iron Pipe Company for 41 years. He has been active in the Orem Senior Citizens, serving on the Board of Directors for anumber of years. He helped plan and build the Orem Senior Citizen Center and he has been in charge of the tours over the years. He is survived by one son and one , daughter: Jerald Jarman and Mrs. Thomas (Jeaniel) Rogerson, both Orem: one stepson, two stepdaughters: Dan Wright, Charleston: Mrs. Mike (Billie) Broadhead, Orem: Mrs. Ralph (Shirley) Montgomery, Salt Lake City; 13 grandchildren gran-dchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Orem 23rd Ward LDS Chapel, 575 S. 800 E. Orem. Friends may call Wednesday 7 - 9 p.m. at the Sundberg-Olpin Mortuary, 495 S. State, Orem, and Thursday one hour prior to services at the church. Burial will be in the Provo City Cemetery. Ruth Burgess Ruth Leavitt Burgess, 72, of Provo, died Thursday, March 12, 1987 at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo of heart failure. She is survived by six sons and one daughter including Dewey Burgess and Vernell N. Burgess, both of Orem. Services were held Monday in Provo Pro-vo with burial in the Provo City Cemetery. Sarah C. Johnson Sah Luella Cummings Johnson, 97, Heber City, died Wednesday, March 11, 1987 at her home. She is survived by three dauthers and two sons including Fay R. Johnson of Orem. Services were held Saturday in Heber City with burial in the Heber City Ci-ty Cemetery. Inez Hindmarsh Inez Perry Hindmarsh, 68, of Provo, Pro-vo, died Thursday, March 121987 at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo of influenza. She was the stepsister of Kenneth Huff of Orem. Services were held Saturday at Provo Pro-vo with burial in the Provo City Cemetery. Paul Kelly Paul Jones Kelly, 81, of Springville, died Wednesday, March 11, 1987 in Provo Pro-vo of heart failure. He is survived by his wife, three sons and three daughters including George S. Kelly of Orem. Services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Springville. Burial was in the Springville Evergreen Cemetery. Charles A. Rayburn Charles Allen Rayburn, 50, of Stapleton, Neb., a former resident of Springville, died Tuesday, March 10, 1987. He was a brother of Kenneth Rayburn and Gail Kendall, both of Orem. Services were held Thursday in Stapleton, Neb. Burial was in the Ken-nard, Ken-nard, Neb. cememtery. created more, making great leaps of imagination. He did calculations in his head. Complex, difficult and deep calculations. One day Hardy, a professor at Cambridge and Oxford, had received a letter from this unknown clerk. The letter was full of formulae. "What do you think?" Ramanujan asked. A humbug? Hardy was too polite to say this was his first question. "The first question was whether I could recognize anything," Hardy wrote. Hardy recognized some things he had proved himself. Other formulae for-mulae completely, defeated him, but he thought they must be true, because "if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them." His curiosity piqued, Hardy of course wanted to know what else Ramanujan had up his sleeve. Ramanujan refused to leave his mother in India, until fortunately she had a dream telling her to send him to England. One conjecture Ramanujan published in 1916 was proven in 1976. Recently, one mathematician used us-ed a computer to search for other examples ex-amples in a class of formulae that Ramanujan found in his head. It formed the basis of an award-winning PH.D. dissertation. "Those of us with less calculating ability have an equalizer nowadays," the mathematician said. LDS Church encourages charitable tax deduction Reports that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opposes the proposed "flat tax" recently was clarified in a statement by Richard P. Lindsay, managing director of Public CommunicationsSpecial Affairs. "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints takes no position on the proposed 'flat tax,' and has never done so," states Lindsay. "The Church, however, did encourage en-courage the retention of the itemized deducation provision for charitable giving. Elimination of the charitable tax deduction would have adversely adverse-ly affected not only churches but other charitable organizations such as the Utah Symphony, United Way, Salvation Army and numerous others. These charitable organizations organiza-tions provide vital services contributing con-tributing to the necessities and quality of life of a large proportion of Utah U of U to sponsor 6-day school on substance abuse Anyone who wants to know more about drug and alcohol abuse and what to do about this growing problem pro-blem can find answers at the 36th session ses-sion of the University of Utah School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies, Sunday, June 21 through Friday, June 26, 1987. There are still openings at the school which will feature nationally known authorities on various aspects of substance abuse and dependency. Three hours of undergraduate or graduate college credit is offered for completion of the course. In addition, nurses, emergency medical technicians, peace officers; psychologists, social workers, educators and pharmacists can receive professional training credit for their attendance at the school. The school has 17 different sections, sec-tions, some of which are designed for the general public. Other sections are offered for professionals who may work with those dependent on alcohol or other drugs. General sessions of the school will address cocaine use, why young peo Ex-president Ford to speak at BYU Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States, will discuss "Foreign and Domestic Dilemmas We Face: A Presidential Perspective" Perspec-tive" at Brigham Young University Thursday (March 19) at 7:30 p.m. in the Wilkinson Center Ballroom. Since finishing his term in the White House, Ford has spoken out on major issues and shared his expertise in public and private sectors. In 1979, he published his autobiography, "A Time to Heal," which includes a description of his White House years. Inheriting the presidency during one of the most critical times in U.S. history, Ford worked to restore public confidence in government after Watergate. His path to the presidency presiden-cy included working as minority " , leader in the House, serving as a Republican convention chairman, and sitting 25 years as a Nebraska congressman. Ford was confirmed vice president presi-dent in December of 1973 after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew. He replaced Richard Nixon the following August. Some of Ford's honors include honorary degrees from 25 univer. MICHAEL PETERSON Mike Peterson to serve in Thai Mission Elder Michael Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Don Peterson, has been called to serve in the California San Diego Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will be speaking Thai. His farewell will be held at 9 a.m. on Sunday, March 22, at the Orem 31st Ward Chapel, 641 South 400 East, Orem. Mike an Orem High graduate, has been attending Utah Technical College where he played on the basketball team. He will enter the Missionary Training Center on April 8. residents. These services would be very costly or impossible to sustain with tax dollars." Lindsay stated that government spending cutbacks means that certain charities will now have to provide for many whom government no longer serves. ''Elimination of the charitable deductions could make it difficult if not impossible for charities to meet these increasing demands." He also indicates that surveys show that authorizing charitable tax deductions substantially increases the amount of money people give to charities and that many other churches chur-ches and charitable organizations support the charitable deducation. "Rather than eliminating this deduction," Lindsay suggests government govern-ment policy should encourage : charitable giving, thus supporting important im-portant services that benefit all of society." ple should say no and family relationships. relation-ships. More specialized sessions will deal with treatment, counseling, education and prevention, DUI, employee assistance, and state and community programs. In addition to the regular sessions of the school, a three and one-half day Course for Practicing Physicians will be held June 22, 23, 24 and 25, 1987 at the University of Utah Medical Center. This workshop will emphasize medical management and rehabilitation rehabilita-tion of alcohol and drug abusers. Tuition for the general six day school is $180 with a credit fee of $20. Some partial tuition scholarships to the school are available. For information informa-tion write: Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 2604, Salt Lake City, UT 84110. Food and lodging are available on the University of Utah campus for a cost of $115 per person (double occupancy). The school is sponsored by the University of Utah, The Utah State Division of Alcoholism and Drugs, and the Utah Alcoholism Foundation. sities, a Distinguished Congressional Service award from the American Political Science Association, a George Washington award from the American Good Government Society and the Statesman Award from the Safety Training and Research Association. Active in scouting programs, he was also given the Boy Scouts of America "Silver Buffalo" award for distinguished service to the United States and its youth. . Ford serves on the boards of directors of several major American corporations, including Amax, Inc., G.K. Technologies, Inc., Santa Fe International, In-ternational, ShearsonLehman Bros, and American Express. Receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Yale University, Ford worked in a private law firm and served in the Navy before entering enter-ing politics. I I Yl I ;V' THAD L. MORGAN Thad L. Morgan to serve in Little Rock Thad L. Morgan, son of Iva Lou and the late John R. Morgan, has been called to the Little Rock Arkansas Arkan-sas Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His farewell will be Sunday, March 22, at 9:30 a.m. in the Orem 33rd Ward at 50 South 800 East. Friends and relatives are cordially invited. Thad will be at home from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday to visit with those who would like to come by . Thad is a graduate of Orem High School and LDS Seminary. He will enter the Missionary Training Center on April 8. brian chad tippetts Brian Tippetts to serve in Hong Kong Brian Chad Tippetts, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Tippetts, has been called to serve in the Hong Kong Mission Mis-sion of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will enter the Missionary Training Center on April 8. A farewell will be held Sunday, March 22, at 9 a.m. at the Orem 68th Ward at 400 East 400 North, Orem. Friends and relatives are invited. Alpine District names Reflections winners Student winners of the 1987 PTA sponsored Reflections contest were announced recently. According to Regional PTA President Rose Mary Lindberg, there were 3,340 students district-wide who participated in the contest this year. Students competed first at the school level, then the council coun-cil (community), and then at the regional (district). There were four categories of competition for the students: Visual Arts, Music, Literature, and Photography. "The entries this year wer excellent excell-ent quality," commented Lindberg; "they represent the wealth of artistic talent which we have here in the Alpine School District." This year's theme was "In Celebration, A Past to Remember, A Future to Mold." ' The following students from Orem won their respective divisions and age categories: VISUAL ART: Amy Burton, 14, Canyon View Jr.; Chad Anderson, 12, Suncrest EL; Catherine Jackson, 11, Cascade EL; Derek Reynolds, 9, Cascade EL; Blain Hawkes, 15. MVHS. LITERATURE; Karolee Roller, 9, Westmore; Christi Nelson, 14, Canyon Ca-nyon View Jr.; Landon Tooke, 9, Cascade; Daniel Hardman, 17, MVHS. DEBORAH JEAN PERKINS Debbie Perkins called to London Mission Debbie Perkins, daughter of Michael and Claudia Perkins, has been called to serve as a missionary in the London South Mission. Her mission president is Ed. J. Pinegar. : A farewell program will be held Sunday, March 22, at 9 a.m. in the Orem 29th Ward Chapel at 1650 South 250 East, Orem. An open house will be held that same day from 2 to 4 p.m. at 206 East 1800 South, Orem. Debbie will enter the Missionary Training Center on March 25. Bradley Forneluis Airman Bradley S. Fornelius, son of Lynn L. and Maria J. Fornelius of 387 North 1030 West, Orem, Utah, has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. During the six weeks of training the airman studied the Air Force Mission, organization and customs and received special training in human relations. In addition, airmen who complete com-plete basic training earn credits toward an associate degree through the community college of the Air Force. He is a 1984 graduate of Mountain View High School, Orem. MUSIC: Kimberly Teichert, 10, Cherry Hill Elementary; Debbie Dyer, 14, Lakeridge Jr.; Tara Ann Haynes, 8, Northridge EL; Amanda Moody, 10, Cascade; Amy Burton, 14, Canyon View Jr.; Katrina Skousen, 11, Scera Park El. Honor Society invites Orem const, major Richard E. Alexander of Orem, a freshman in construction management manage-ment at Brigham Young University, has been accepted as a member of Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honor society. socie-ty. He worked for the Hawley Oil Company in Conrad, Mont., for six years before enrolling in BYU's four-year four-year construction management program pro-gram last fall. He maintained a 3.76 grade point average his first semester, making him eligible to be invited into the honor society. Alexander is also a member of the National Association of Home Builders and a 1971 graduate of Great Falls (Montana) High School. He and his wife Julie have sever children ; the family resides in Orem the leader in: Electronic Cash Registers Sales Service Supplies All Models Now On Sale I 324 West Center Provo 374-0725 . Mi 0 0 J A k |
