Professor Charles F. Lewis joined NC State in 1946 as an Instructor.  He was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor in 1952.  Prior to that, he had been a mathematics teacher and a principal in both the Warren County high school system in Tennessee and the Johnston County high school system in North Carolina.  In 1969 his former students ranked him in the top five percent of the faculty as an instructor "who contributed most to my education at NC State."  He retired in 1975 as a full-time faculty member but has been a part-time instructor in the Department since then and he is one of our perennial teachers of MA 105.  Professor Lewis set up his award to cover both aspects of his career; namely a high school mathematics teacher and a university educator.  It is given to an outstanding student who is a double major in Mathematics and Mathematics Education.