The winter issue of The North Texan reported the death of former history professor W.T. Hagan. I had the privilege to be one of Dr. Hagan's students, to be his assistant as we collected information for and he wrote his first book on American Indians (I think the department paid 65 cents an hour), and to know him and his family as friends in later years.

He was a tough-minded man who was a meticulous scholar and a magnetic classroom lecturer. He expected honest effort from his students and he tolerated no cheating. For years after undergraduate work, I would hear comments from other graduates, some of whom were not even in Dr. Hagan's classes, that he influenced their lives more than any other professor.

Al Murdock ('58)
Denton