ObituaryKen Ferstl
Submitted on Friday, March 29, 2019
Ken Ferstl (’63), 78, who taught in library science for 20 years, died Sept. 20 in
Denton. He first worked at UNT from 1963 to 1964 as a cataloger in Willis Library.
After earning a master’s in library science from the University of Wisconsin- Madison
in 1967, he began teaching at UNT in 1969. He briefly worked at Emily Fowler Library
in Denton and then earned a Ph.D. in library science from Indiana University Bloomington
in 1977 before returning to UNT. A member of the 1890 Society, he created the Kenneth
L. Ferstl Scholarship in 2005. He received the UNT School of Library and Information
Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award in 1989