[DrScump]

John "Jack" Minnick, higher math professor at De Anza College and author of multiple higher math texts.

I had to take the calculus sequence for my later B.S. in C.S. requirements. I entered Calculus I with some trepidation, but he structured his course so that you couldn't fall behind and stay in at all: lectures were daily, M-F, and most days began with a quiz based on the prior night's homework.

His lectures were thorough and just flowed.

He must have been in his 50s (based on when he joined the faculty) but looked 30s. He tragically died a few years later. I actually went to his memorial in SF; he had a broad base of friends spanning both arts and sciences. I recall one segment where a speaker read from "The Tempest". After the passage concluded, a member of the audience stood and proceeded to recite the next several passages from memory with the sturdy voice of a skilled Shakespearean actor.