William T. Hagan, Bedford, professor of history at North Texas from 1950 to 1965, died Aug. 5. He also was a distinguished professor and acting vice president for academics at the State University of New York at Fredonia. After retirement from the SUNY System in 1989, he joined the history faculty of the University of Oklahoma and retired in 1995. Hagan’s research specialty was American Indian history. He served as president of both the American Society for Ethnohistory and the Western History Association, and received the Western History Association Prize in 1989 for scholarly contributions to the field of American Indian history. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Hall of Fame in 2003. He joined the U.S. Army in 1942, serving as an anti-aircraft officer in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. He earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin