My Favorite Teacher: Enor Lundin
Submitted by: Michael Kalafatas ’61
“Favorite” doesn’t of course mean easy. Enor Lundin wasn’t. He was a brilliant mathematician and former US Navy trained navigator–with two degrees from Harvard and a passion for math.
He taught an elective math-rich navigation and meteorology course for seniors. No text; only reprints of documents he had personally prepared across the arc of years. There were only good students in that class—and I was only middling among them. But I loved it. It was the only EHS course that included a chance to build something. I built from wood a model Vernier caliper—a valuable tool for measuring more precisely than does a normal scale.
I was in one of his last classes before his passing away on a day he had publicly delivered in Boston another of his scholarly papers in mathematics. An eloquent obituary written by his students appears in the 1962 yearbook.
This heart-felt Memorial to Mr. Lundin appeared in the 1962 Yearbook
Michael Kalafatas graduated from The English High School in 1961. Today he lives in Wayland, MA. Michael is a member of the English High School 200th Anniversary Celebration Committee
