Gerhard Chester Henricksen Papers, 1942-1955
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Summary
- Creator:
- Henricksen, Gerhard Chester
- Abstract:
- Gerhard Chester Henricksen (1907-1994), Duke University's assistant university treasurer during the 1940s, was responsible for coordinating funding and budget activities of Duke University Hospital. He was also an original member of the Accountants' 52 Club, which was organized for the national exchange of ideas, procedures, and techniques among the organization's hospital financial officers. Collection contains Henricksen's professional papers. It includes materials from the Accountants' 52 Club, the American Hospital Association, and the Southern Institute for Hospital Administrators, as well as Henricksen's own writings. Types of materials include brochures, conference proceedings, correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed materials, budgets, bulletins, and short writings. Materials range in date from 1947 to 1955.
- Extent:
- 1.25 Linear Feet (1 manuscript box, 1 oversize manuscript box)
- Language:
- English
- Collection ID:
- AR.0032
Background
- Scope and content:
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Contains the professional papers of Gerhard Chester Henricksen, assistant university treasurer of Duke University during the 1940s. Includes materials from the Accountants' 52 Club, the American Hospital Association, and the Southern Institute for Hospital Administrators, as well as Henricksen's own writings. Types of materials include brochures, conference proceedings, correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed materials, budgets, bulletins, and short writings. Major subjects include Duke University Medical Center history, Gerhard Chester Henricken, the American Hospital Association, the Accountants' 52 Club, and hospital business and management. Materials range in date from 1947 to 1955.
- Biographical / historical:
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Gerhard Chester Henrickson was born in 1907 to Jorgen Henricksen and Christine Thomsen in Denmark. The family immigrated to the United States in 1911. Henrickson was a certified public accountant and the assistant university treasurer of Duke University during the 1940s. He was responsible for coordinating funding and budget activities of Duke University Hospital.
In July 1948, the Accountants' 52 Club was organized for the national exchange of ideas, procedures, and techniques among the organization's hospital financial officers. Each of the 52 members was responsible for submitting one article per year for circulation, usually in the form of a reprinted article, manuscript draft, or internal memo. Henricksen, who joined the Accountants' 52 Club in its first membership class, saved the bulk of these mailed reports, along with general club correspondence, from 1949 and 1952 to 1955.
Henricksen married Constance Warwick Robinson (1909-1998). Henricksen died in 1994. - Acquisition information:
- Accession A2003.063 (transferred by Gerhard Chester Henricksen, July 2007)
- Processing information:
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Processed by Cat Saleeby: 2003; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: 2009
- Arrangement:
- Organized into the following series: Accounts' 52 Club Correspondence and Papers, 1949-1955; American Hospital Association Correspondence and Papers, 1947-1949; Other Materials, circa 1947-1948.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Duke University Medical Center Library's online catalog.
Subjects
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- Personal Name(s):
- Henricksen, Gerhard Chester
- Corporate Name(s):
- Duke University. Medical Center
Duke University. Hospital
American Hospital Association - Topical Term(s):
- Economics, Hospital.
Hospitals.
Hospital Administration.
Accounting.
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This collection may contain material with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals or IRB approval may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Duke University assumes no responsibility.
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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Gerhard Chester Henricksen Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.