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.
Contains a brochure and schedule for the Second Southern Institute for Hospital Administrators, held at Duke University on March 22-27 1948, as well as a reprint of Henricksen's article "Accounting for Educational Institutions" and a typed manuscript of "Business Aspects of Hospital Administration." Materials date to circa 1947 to 1948.