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IN MEMORIAM
WILLIAM G. HILL
Professor William G. Hill died
on October 19, 1999. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December
22, 1924, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a Master
of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and a Doctor of Social Work at the University of Southern
California. He served as a psychiatric social worker with the
3rd Armored Division in Germany from 1959-1962, as chief of Psychiatric
Social Services at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco
from 1962-1966, and as social work consultant, Department of
the Army, Washington, D.C., from 1966-1968. In 1968 Dr. Hill
became director of the Office of Specialized Agency Services,
Family Service Association of America. In 1971 he joined the
faculty of the School of Social Work as professor and taught
at the School of Social Work until 1982, when he was appointed
professor emeritus.
Professor Hill provided leadership
to the school's programs in the area of social group work practice
and family therapy. He was well versed in a number of therapeutic
approaches. Graduate students fondly remember evenings with Bill
and his wife, Ruffin, in their Hill Country home, and long discussions
about competing treatment modalities. He also emphasized the
role of non-governmental agencies in social work practice.
Professor
Hill served the Austin community and the State of Texas in many
ways. His efforts included
serving as chair of the board of the Austin—Travis County
MH&MR Center, president of the State Association of Psychosocial
Therapists, and chair of the Association's Licensure Development
Committee.
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Larry R. Faulkner,
President
The University of Texas at Austin
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John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty
This memorial resolution was prepared by a special committee consisting
of Professors David M. Austin (chair), Michael L. Lauderdale, and Ronald
C. Bounous.
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