George Hendricks Papers, 1894-1978: MARC Record

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100 3  _aHendricks, George David

       _d1914-1993

245 00 _aGeorge Hendricks Papers

       _f1894-1978

300    _a34.00

       _fBoxes

351    _aArranged by material type.

506    _aThis collection is not restricted.

524    _aGeorge Hendricks Papers, University of North Texas Special Collections

541    _aGeorge Hendricks

       _cGift

       _d1977

545 0  _aHendricks served as an Army colonel during World War II and received a Bronze Star while under the command of General George S. Patton.

	            He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a teacher in the Fort Worth and Austin school districts, a teaching fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and a teaching assistant at the University of California at Berkeley. He became a member of the UNT English Department in 1951. He retired in 1978. He was then named  a Professor Emeritus.

	            Hendricks published the books[i] Bad Man of the West; Mirrors, Mice and Moustaches; and Rhymes and Railroad Tracks[/i]. He was president of the Texas Folklore Society, councilor of the American Folklore Society, and a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Sigma.

	            [North Texan, March 1993]

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