Rogers, Phyllis Noreen (01/23/1940–11/17/2007). Phyllis Rogers of Fulton, Missouri, after a year at Williams Woods College, transferred to Grinnell in 1958. She received Grinnell’s B.A. degree in Mathematics in 1961. She had an excellent academic record: Linn Smith Prize for Excellence in Mathematics and Phi Beta Kappa (1961). She also received the Ladies Education Society Citizenship Award. She was a member of the Math Club, the Choir and Women’s Glee Club. Phyllis lived in Cleveland and James Halls.
Upon graduation, Phyllis was awarded a Grinnell Travel Service Scholarship for a year’s work (1961-62) at the College of Commerce in Tanganyika (n/k/a Tanzania). She then studied economics for the next four years (1962-66) in graduate school at the University of Minnesota, where she also was a teaching assistant. Phyllis then embarked on a career as an actuary for several insurance companies and later the Presbyterian Ministers Fund. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and membership in the Academy of Actuaries.
