- Henry C. Dethloff
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name = Henry Clay Dethloff
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caption = Henry C. Dethloff
birth_date = birth date and age |1934|8|10
birth_place = flagicon|Louisiana Natchitoches,Natchitoches Parish ,Louisiana , USA
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occupation =Author College professor Historian
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residence=flagicon|Texas College Station,Texas
spouse=Myrtle Ann Dethloff
children=Carl Henry Dethloff
Clay Elliott Dethloff
footnotes=(1) Much of Dethloff's writings center uponTexas A&M University in College Statiopn, where he instructedhistory for some threedecade s.(2) Dethloff has written a history of the university, a study of TAMU students going to war, and a history of the TAMU press.
Henry Clay Dethloff (born
August 10 ,1934 ) isprofessor ofHistory Emeritus atTexas A&M University in College Station who has written more than two dozen books on topics ranging from thespace program toagriculture , Americanbusiness , and Texas A&M itself, the institution with which he was primarily affiliated during his academic career.Dethloff, the son of Carl Curt Dethloff (1900-1977) and the former Camelia Jordan (1907-2000), grew up in Natchitoches, an historic city in north central
Louisiana . His brother was Carl Richard "Dick" Dethloff (1929-2007), a graduate ofKansas State University in Manhattan who became a prominentinsurance agent in Shreveport. Dethloff also has a sister, Cammie D. Girand.Dethloff graduated from Natchitoches
High School in 1952. He received hisbachelor of arts degree from theUniversity of Texas at Austin in 1956, his Master of Arts fromNorthwestern State University (then College) in Natchitoches in 1960, and hisPh.D. from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1964. He joined the TAMU faculty in 1969 and served as the department chairman from 1980 to 1985.One of his most publicized works is "A Pictorial History of Texas A & M: A Tradition in Higher Education", which was published as two titles in 1975: "A Pictorial History of Texas A & M University: 1876-1976" (TAMU Press) and "A Centennial History of Texas A & M University: 1876-1976" (the Association of Former Students in conjunction with TAMU Press).
Dethloff's other books include:
*"The United States and the Global Economy Since 1945"
*"Texas Aggies Go to War: In Service to Their Country" (with John A. Adams, Jr.)
*"Voyagers Grand Tour: To the Outer Planets and Beyond" (with Joli A. Ballew, 2003, includes access to thearchives of theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration )
*"Suddenly Tomorrow Came: A History of the Johnson Space Center"
*"A Bookmark: Texas A&M University Press"
*"Our Louisiana Legacy" (an examination at how Louisiana culture has affected the nation)
*"Special Kind of Doctor: A History of Veterinary Medicine in Texas"
*"Southwestern Agriculture: Pre-Columbian to Modern"
*"Pattillo Higgins and the Search for Texas Oil" (with Robert W. McDaniel)
*"Sterling C. Evans: Life, Learning, and Literature".Dethloff has established extensive archives of his publication materials at the Sterling C. Evans Library at TAMU.
Dethloff and his wife, Myrtle Ann Dethloff, reside in College Station. They have two married sons, Carl Henry Dethloff and Clay Elliott Dethloff.
References
*www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/03/050503-8.html (Book signing photo)
*www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/1999/dethloff.htm
*http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00062/00062-P.html
*www.smarter.com/united_states_and_the_global_economy_since_1945-
*www.militaryink.com/books/2006/february/1585444707.htm
*http://www.legacy.com/shreveporttimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=90294237
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