and what she did. She went to a bookshelf in her office in the old math building, scanned the titles, took down a calculus text, handed it to me, and said, 'Study this book during the summer. The week before classes start in the fall, I will give you a test. If you pass, I will let you take your sophomore and junior mathematics courses concurrently. By the time you reach your senior year, you will be on track.' Years later, Elvy told me that she had no idea I would actually do it. But, I had no idea that she had no idea—and so I took her up on her offer. I read the calculus book, passed the test, and started taking third-semester calculus and linear algebra in the fall of 1964." Awards Roland E. Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association McGuffey Longevity Award, 1996, Calculus, 7th Edition (Houghton Mifflin) Roland E. Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence Award, 1996, Interactive Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions, (Houghton Mifflin) Roland E. Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence Award, 1997, Interactive College Algebra, (Houghton Mifflin) Roland E. Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence Award, 1997, Larson's Leapfrog Math, (Meridian Creative Group) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association McGuffey Longevity Award, 1998, Larson's Leapfrog Math, (Meridian Creative Group) Ron Larson, Lewis and Clark College Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1998 Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association McGuffey Longevity Award, 2004, Calculus, 7th Edition, (Houghton Mifflin) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence Award, 2004, Precalculus, 6th Edition, (Houghton Mifflin) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association McGuffey Longevity Award, 2006, Calculus, 8th Edition, (Houghton Mifflin) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence Award, 2010, Big Ideas Math, 1st Edition, (Big Ideas Learning) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association McGuffey Longevity Award, 2011, Precalculus: Real Math, Real People, 6th Edition, (Cengage Learning) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association McGuffey Longevity Award, 2012, Calculus: An Applied Approach, 9th Edition, (Cengage Learning) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence Award, 2012, Big Ideas Math: A Common Core Curriculum, 1st Edition, (Big Ideas Learning) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence Award, 2013, Calculus, 10th Edition, (Cengage Learning) Ron Larson, Text and Academic Authors Association Most Promising New Textbook Award, 2013, Math & You: The Power & Use of Mathematics, 1st