"Martha Euphemia Haynes(September 11,1890-May 25,1980)

Martha Euphemia Lofton,Hayes (she rarely used Martha) was a fourth generation

Washingtonian,her father was Dr.William S. Lofton,a prominent Black D.C. dentist and financier of Black businesses in the area.Her  mother,Lavinia Day Lofton,was active in the Catholic church as water was Euphemia.She graduated high school from Washington's Miner Normal School in 1909.Four years later,she received a B.A.  in Mathematics (minor in Psychology).In 1917,she married Harold Appo Haynes who later became a principal and deputy superintendent in charge of Washington's "colored school"(the schools for African Americans).In 1930,she received a masters degree in education from the University of Chicago,where she also did further graduate study in Mathematics.She earned a doctorate degree in mathematics from Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1943,becoming the first black woman to receive a Ph.D.Degree in mathematics.The title of her dissertation was "The Determination of Sets of Independent Conditions Characterizing Certain Special Cases of Symmetric Correspondences;"Dr. Audrey was her dissertation advisor and Dr's.Otto Ramler and J Nelson Rice were members of her doctoral committee.Euphemia had a distinguished career in Washington.She taught in public schools of Washington DC for forty-seven years and was the first woman to chair the DC School Board.She was a teacher of first grade at Garrison and Garfield  Schools,a teacher of mathematics Department at Dunbar High School;she was a professor of mathematics at Miner Teachers College (established the mathematics department) and at the District of Columbia Teachers College for which she also served as chair of the division of Mathematics and Business Education.After her 1959 retirement from the public school system,he was head of the city's Board of education,and was central to the integration of the DC public schools.Euphemia established the mathematics department at Miners Teacher's College she was a professor of mathematics.She taught at the District of Columbia Teachers College for which she also served as chair of the Division of Mathematics and Business Education.She occasionally taught-part time at Howard University.Euphemia was active in many community activities.She served as first vice president of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women,chairman of the Advisory Board of Fides Neighborhood House on the Committee of International Social Welfare,on the Executive Committee of the National Social Welfare Assembly,as secretary and as member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews,Catholic of Washington,the Urban League,NAACP,League of Women Voters,and the American Association of University Women.Euphemia was awarded the Papal Medal-Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice from the Catholic Church in 1959.