Obituary: Dr. Joseph Andrushkiw, mathematician (12/30/84)

Obituary

Dr. Joseph Andrushkiw, mathematician

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. - Dr. Joseph Wasyl Andrushkiw, a professor of math at Seton Hall University and a former president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, died here on December 17. He was 78.

He was born in Horodock, Ukraine, on March 21, 1906. He graduated from Lviv University and afterwards taught math in schools and high schools, and later at the university. He also taught at the teachers' college in Yavoriv, Ukraine, and later at the DP camps in Mittenwald, Germany, and the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, where he earned a Ph.D.

He arrived in the United States in 1949 and shortly thereafter became a math instructor at Seton Hall University. He eventually became a full professor and served as chairman of the math department in 1962-71.

He was a member of the New York Academy of Science, and an honorary member of the Ukrainian Engineers Society.

Surviving are his wife, Sophia, and sons, Bohdan and Roman, with their families. The funeral was held December 21, with a liturgy at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church and burial at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery.