Papers, 1941-2001.

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Papers, 1941-2001.

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The collection includes art, awards, biographical material, correspondence, photographs, and subject files. They trace portions of Hanks' life from college graduation in 1941 to late retirement in 2001, including personal correspondence with his wife and friends from the Cheltenham School and his work on senior citizen issues.

.4 cubic ft. (1 box)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Hanks, John W.

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John Warren Hanks (1918- ) was born in Stratton, Nebraska. He graduated from Antioch College in 1941 with a degree in Social Sciences. He served as a conscientious objector during World War II in various posts including a youth counselor at the Cheltenham School for Boys (a segregated, African-American reform school) near Washington, D.C. At the end of the war Hanks went to the University of Chicago and graduated with an M.A. in Psychiatric Social Work. He worked as a psychiatric social worker u...