Board of Fides Neighborhood House, on the Committee of International Social Welfare, on the Executive Committee of the National Social Welfare Assembly, secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the DC Health and Welfare Council, on the local and national committees of the United Service Organization, a member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Catholic Interracial Council of Washington, the National Urban League, NAACP, League of Women Voters, and the American Association of University Women. Recognition Pope John XXIII awarded her the Papal decoration of honor, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, in 1959. She was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1998. Legacy Haynes died of a heart attack on July 25, 1980 in her hometown, Washington, D.C. She had set up a trust fund to support a professorial chair and student loan fund in the School of Education, giving $700,000 to Catholic University. Her family papers are housed in the Catholic University archives. In 2004, the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, DC was named in her honor. The Catholic University of America established the Euphemia Lofton Haynes Award to recognize outstanding junior mathematics majors who have demonstrated excellence and promise in their study of mathematics. Published works Euphemia Lofton Haynes. The Historical Development of Tests in Elementary and Secondary Mathematics. University of Chicago, Department of Education (1930). Euphemia Lofton Haynes. Determination of Sets of Independent Conditions Characterizing Certain Special Cases of Symmetric Correspondences. Catholic University of America Press (1943). References External links Family papers held at the Catholic University of America Biography (with multiple photos) by Susan Kelly, Carly Sinners, Katherine Zoroufy: Euphemia Lofton Haynes: Bringing Education Closer to the "Goal of Perfection" Martha Euphemia Lofton-Haynes: Mathematician, Educator, and Mentor Robin Weatherl, Euphemia L. Haynes, Leading the Way for Women in Mathematics, The Young Women's Online Journal of Teaching and Learning Mathematics 1890 births 1980 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians American women mathematicians African-American mathematicians Smith College alumni University of Chicago alumni Catholic University of America alumni 20th-century American educators 20th-century women mathematicians 20th-century American women educators African-American Catholics 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American educators Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science