Samantha Gertrude Hendrix papers

Collection

Identifier: MSD-1926-001

Staff Only

Collection Statement

The collection contains publications by Gertrude Hendrix ‘26 as well as several articles about or in reference to Hendrix and her work. Also included are clippings, photographs, lectures, correspondence and various items relating to the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics of which Hendrix was a member.

Dates

1926 - 2009

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Usage Restrictions

Biographical Sketch

Gertrude Hendrix’s pre-college schooling was all in the Putnamville School in Putnam County, Indiana except for her senior year at Muncie Central High School. She earned her A.B. degree from DePauw University in 1926 where she was a Phi Beta Kappa. She went on to earn her masters in education and masters in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Her primary area of research was Nature of Unverbalized Awareness. She taught mathematics, mostly on the secondary level at Eastern Illinois University from 1930-1956. As a senior staff member of the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics (UICSM) from 1956 to 1966, Miss Hendrix was one of the principal formulators of the “new mathematics” developed by the UICSM project. Hendrix retired as associate professor emerita from the university to her Putnam County farm in 1966, where she raised horses, cattle and timber for several years.