Joseph A. Schatz, 83, died on August 10, 2007. He was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Houston for 25 years, until he retired in 1998. He received a PhD in 1952 from Brown University with a dissertation on C*-algebras under Charles Rickart. Dr. Schatz taught at Lehigh then Connecticut. He became an applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratory in 1957, where he solved engineering problems, ranging from inertial stability of space platforms to language parsing of scientific papers. He was known for his research on citation indices (Super-classics of mathematics) and on mathematical logic (The nature of truth). He moved to the University of Houston in 1972, where he was noted for his teaching of mid-life undergraduates, helping them overcome their fear of mathematics. A scholarship for nontraditional mathematics students has been established in his name at the University of Houston. He was a member of the MAA for 58 years.