Teaching and Program Development

After graduation he went into teaching.  His friend and colleague, Dr. Robert Ogden, found a small school in the Humboldt Park area that was in dire need of a mathematics teacher.  The school was named Rafael Cancel Miranda High School .  Bob was volunteering his time at the school besides teaching at DePaul.

Realizing there was a need for education at every level in the community, mainly located in and around the Humboldt Park area, Wayne helped organize a curriculum for adult education classes.  This later evolved into college credit classes with Central YMCA Community College .  The adult education program became known as Borinqueña Campus.  Both these programs were run by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.  The math program became one of the strongest in the area with Dr. Ogden and Wayne.

After a year or so we needed to find additional space.  Arrangements were made to purchase an old Walgreens photo processing facility that was located on Claremont Avenue, here in Chicago .  This became the new educational facility and resource center for the community.  A great deal of work went into that center to make it presentable and it was all done on a volunteer basis by the community.

Toward the second half of the 1970's Central YMCA was going through financial problems and eventually had to close its doors.  Before closing though, Wayne had designed, implemented and directed what came to be known as a " Learner Center " at  Borinqueña Campus.  The Learner Center serviced both the High School and College.  It was the very first in the area and probably all of Chicago .  The materials took years to write and eventually culminated in a book about mathematics.

After this book was release, Wayne started work on another book for the adult learner.  It to was a book on mathematics that incorporated algorithmic thinking to solving problems.

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