Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is my sad duty to inform you of the passing of Oscar R. "Jack" Hendrix. Jack served as Director of Student Personnel and Guidance at the University of Wyoming from 1948 1964. In effect, he was the first director of student financial aid at our institution. Because of his keen interest in providing assistance to university students, he was instrumental in helping to establish the profession. He was a founding father of the Rocky Mountain and Wyoming Associations of Student Financial Aid Administrators. He was also a member of the committee which helped develop the original Uniform Methodology by working the the College Scholarship Service and other entities to identify a means of determining appropriate family contributions to a student's educational costs.

He was a fine southern gentleman who found his way to Wyoming for a while before returning to his home state. He was an inspiration to many early financial aid administrators and thus RMASFAA named it's Rookie of the Year award after Jack Hendrix.