A. Ross Eckler Jr.

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A. Ross Eckler Jr.
Born
Albert Ross Eckler Jr.

(1927-08-29)August 29, 1927
Boston, Massachusetts, US
DiedDecember 9, 2016(2016-12-09) (aged 89)
New Jersey, US
Occupations
ParentA. Ross Eckler

Albert Ross Eckler Jr. (August 29, 1927 – December 9, 2016) was an American

PhD in mathematics from Princeton University
in 1954.

Biography

While at

Stefan A. Burr.[1]

Eckler was the publisher and editor of

Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. In 1996 he published a book on logology entitled Making the Alphabet Dance. Recreational Wordplay.[2]

He was also the author of The National Puzzlers' League, The First 115 Years, a history of the National Puzzlers' League (NPL).[3] He and his wife Faith were married for more than 50 years,[4] and were former NPL editors under the collective pen name "Faro" (with variant forms "FAro" for Faith and "faRO" for Ross).[5]

Eckler's hobbies were

carillonneur at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown, New Jersey from 1964 to 1988 and was a member of The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America
.

He died on December 9, 2016, at the age of 89.[6]

Works

  • Eckler, A. Ross Jr. (1970). The Eckler-Ackler-Ackley Family (Genealogy).
  • Eckler, A. Ross Jr. (1996). Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplay. New York: St. Martin's Press.
    ISBN 9780312155803
    .
  • Eckler, A. Ross Jr. (1997). Three Pioneers of Stark (Jacob Bronner, John Fetterly, John Shaul and their Descendants).
  • Eckler, A. Ross Jr. (1998). The National Puzzler's League - The First 115 Years.

See also

References

  1. OCLC 1183447
    .
  2. ISBN 0312140320
    .
  3. OCLC 55705246
    .
  4. ^ Farrell, Jeremiah. "Meet the Ecklers". wordways.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  5. ^ Reference Books and Periodicals For Puzzle Solvers and Composers Archived 2015-02-08 at the Wayback Machine, Merlin (updated by Saxifrage), National Puzzlers' League, accessed 2015-02-07; under periodicals this lists "Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, published quarterly by Faro (Faith and Ross Eckler)".
  6. ^ "Notice of A. Ross Eckler's death". Legacy.com. 2016-12-13. Retrieved 2016-12-14.

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