Miss Annie Biddle chosen President of Associated Students.

Berkeley, 16 April 1907.
By the narrow margin of six votes, Miss Annie Biddle was yesterday elected over Miss Elsie Cole to the presidency of the Associated Women Students of the university. The count showed the vote to be 182 to 176. ... Miss Biddle, the president elect, made Phi Beta Kappa this last year and is a member of the Prytanean Society. She is one of the managing editors of the 1908 Blue and Gold and is a member of the committee for the Women's Dormitory Fund.

The emphasis was on teaching, with some attention to research but not very much ... The first PhD degree granted by the department was in 1901. There was a gap until 1909, after which there were about two a year on average until the 1930s.

As a student of pure mathematics she took courses in Synthetic Projective Geometry, the area of her research, with D N Lehmer; Theory of Functions (of a real variable, of a complex variable, and elliptic); Theory of Equations; Logic of Mathematics; Theory of Substitutions and Groups of Polyhedra; Theory of Invariants; Differential Geometry; and the Theory of Numbers.

In the following discussion the unicursal quartic is regarded from two points of view. Chapter I treats of the curve in its correspondence to a conic section through a quadratic reciprocal transformation. This leads to an interesting classification of unicursal quartics and affords a convenient and ready method for determining the form of the curve. Incidentally, it brings to light a geometrical application of the well known "Group of Four." In Chapter II the curve is defined as the locus of intersection of corresponding rays of two projective pencils of the second order. This develops properties of the curve not readily obtained in the other treatment. The discussion shows that the two definitions are not independent, but that each is supplementary to the other.

The most elaborate wedding to be celebrated in Hanford since the late spring, was the marriage on Monday evening, 7 October, of Miss Annie Dale Biddle of this city and William Samuel Andrews, a promising young attorney of San Francisco, the event being consummated in the Church of the Saviour, the Rev G R E MacDonald of Fresno officiating, with the Rev Ray O Miller as his assistant. ... The happy couple left on the Angel for the south, after a gay shower of rice, and from there will go by boat to San Francisco, being at home to their friends in Berkeley about 1 November. ... Mrs Andrews is a most gifted and popular young woman, and her hosts of friends in this city are tendering congratulations to the lucky groom upon his good fortune in winning her for a wife. The groom is a San Francisco attorney, connected with the firm of Charles H Wheeler, and is the only son of Mrs Mary Andrews of Berkeley.

Haskell was scheduled to retire in 1933. But a year earlier, in 1932, some chairs of other science departments, notably chemistry, physics, and astronomy, together with President Spoul, his provost, and the campus Budget Committee, were all persuaded that the mathematics department needed to be seriously reconstituted and reorganised. It had fallen far behind these other departments in its research standing and intellectual distinction. A campus committee to review the department proposed the dismissal of a number of junior faculty not oriented towards research and that a distinguished leader from outside be brought in to remake the department. This proposal was unusual, coming in the depths of the Great Depression during a virtual hiring freeze. The decision was imposed from above by campus leadership and without consultation with the department, an action that produced some unhappiness.

One set of rulings of a quadric surface $\kappa$ and the tangent planes to a quadric cone K are put into projective one to one correspondence by means of a pencil of planes $\Sigma _{A}$ of the first order. The locus Q of points of intersection of corresponding elements is a space quartic of the second kind. To each point A of Q corresponds a $\Sigma _{A}$, the locus of whose axes is a quadric cone $\Sigma$. The various relations between K, Q, and $\Sigma$ are developed.

While she was on the faculty, Andrews was involved with the Women's Faculty Club, Torch and Shield, and Town and Gown. Her husband noted soon after her death that "during the last few years of her life in addition to running her home and doing mathematical research she took an active interest in public affairs and charitable work."

In Oakland, April 14, 1940. Anne Biddle, beloved wife of William S Andrews, loving mother of Wilhelmine Dale and William S Andrews Jr., sister of Mrs Dallas H Gray, Mrs L C Taylor, S E, T Vance and W J Biddle; a native of California. Friends are invited to attend the services Tuesday afternoon, April 16, at 3 o'clock, at the Mausoleum Chapel of Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland.