Gift will help students continue to learn how to teach

Leroy Callahan spent more than two decades at UB helping students learn how to teach elementary mathematics. He retired in 1994--as a professor in the Learning and Instruction Department of the University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education--after 28 years.

Although he passed away on February 17, 2006, his legacy will live on at UB. The Leroy and Margaret H. Callahan Scholarship provides funds to students who are interested in elementary mathematics instruction.

Callahan, who joined the UB faculty in 1967, said he was grateful to UB for hiring him fresh out of graduate school, and for supporting him and his wife, Margaret Hensberry Callahan, who died in 2004, as they raised seven children.

“I thought the university and the state of New York were very generous to us," he said, "so when The Campaign for UB: Generation to Generation came along, it seemed like a good idea if we could give something back.”