S.C.R. No. 149
                             SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
    1-1        WHEREAS, Jack Hoit Hensley was born on October 6, 1919, in
    1-2  Denison, Texas, and enrolled at the Texas School for the Deaf in
    1-3  1926; and
    1-4        WHEREAS, Mr. Hensley was graduated from the school in 1939
    1-5  and then attended Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., and
    1-6  graduated in 1945; and
    1-7        WHEREAS, Mr. Hensley then earned a master of educational
    1-8  psychology degree from The University of Texas in 1955; and
    1-9        WHEREAS, He taught at the Texas School for the Deaf for 39
   1-10  years and retired in 1984 having taught a variety of subjects from
   1-11  language to life skills and science at the junior and senior high
   1-12  school levels; and
   1-13        WHEREAS, Mr. Hensley served as president of the Texas
   1-14  Association for the Deaf and was the first president of the Lone
   1-15  Star Alumni Association; and
   1-16        WHEREAS, He received the Education Award from the Texas
   1-17  Association for the Deaf in 1975 and was appointed to the school's
   1-18  governing board in July, 1988, by Governor William P. Clements; and
   1-19        WHEREAS, Mr. Hensley died in 1989 while in service on the
   1-20  board; and
   1-21        WHEREAS, It is fitting to name a building on the campus of
   1-22  the school in his honor; now, therefore, be it
   1-23        RESOLVED, That the 74th Legislature of the State of Texas
    2-1  hereby direct that the Upper School Library on the campus of the
    2-2  Texas  School for the Deaf, located at 1102 South Congress, Austin,
    2-3  Texas, be named the Jack Hoit Hensley Library.