Bertice C. Hastings
Toronto Daily Star, May 17 1927
Searches turned up:
- A digitized copy of the 1904-1905 yearbook from the State Normal School of Kansas, which listed Mr. Hastings as one of its alumni. He is listed as belonging to the class of 1885, which matches up to this photo caption.
- A Find a Grave entry for his mother, which listed Bertice Collins Hastings as having been born in 1865 and passing away in 1934.
Wikipedia has an entry on the problem of trisecting any angle or arc using only a straight edge and a compass. A French mathematician, Pierre Wantzel, proved in 1837 that this was impossible. Which, presumably, is why Mr. Hastings has left no footprint on the modern Internet.
Created September 20, 2025.