John H. Henkel ’54 PhD

John H. Henkel ’54 PhD, of Athens, Ga.; June 7. He attended Southeastern Louisiana College for two years before entering a naval commission during World War II. Upon completion of his military service, he entered Tulane University and received both his undergraduate and master’s degrees in physics. He worked for three years at Magnolia Petroleum Company in Texas then matriculated at Brown. He returned to Magnolia for a short time before accepting a position as assistant professor of physics at the University of Georgia. He was an active member of the Georgia Academy of Science, serving as president in 1968, and as the director of the Georgia Science Fair in 1967. He was a member of the American Physics Society, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the scientific research society Sigma Xi. He was listed in Who’s Who in South and Southwest from 1978-1985 and in Who’s Who in America from 1980-1985. He was the graduate coordinator in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Georgia from 1964-1973. From 1973 to 1974, he was a national research council senior resident research associate at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. From 1977 to 1978, he served as a program manager for the director of physics for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. At the University of Georgia, he was elected to serve on the university council, served on many university committees, and was a president’s administrative council faculty representative. He retired from the University of Georgia in 1990. He is survived by a daughter and son-in-law and three grandchildren.