CONWAY, Ark. (December 12, 2014) – Former students, family and friends of the late Dr. Carole Herrick are honoring the longtime Hendrix College music professor and administrator with the creation of an endowed scholarship in her memory.
Herrick, who passed away last summer, joined the Hendrix faculty in 1980.
She directed the Hendrix Wind Ensemble for 22 years (from 1980 to 2002), and taught trumpet and horn, music education, conducting, Western Intellectual Traditions and the Alexander Technique. During her Hendrix tenure, she served as humanities area chair, music department chair, and
interim dean of students. An active chamber and orchestral musician, she performed as principal trumpet for the Conway Symphony Orchestra.
Herrick graduated magna
cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a bachelor's degree in music in 1971 and a master's degree in music in 1972. She completed her doctorate from the University of North Texas in 1981.
In 2002, Herrick was named Associate Provost for Advising and Retention, where she was actively involved with most students' lives on the campus, enhancing student satisfaction and success.
Contact Ann Turney, Director of Leadership Gifts, in the Hendrix College Office of Advancement at 501-450-4593 or
turney@hendrix.edu for more information or to make a gift to the Dr. Carole Herrick Endowed Scholarship.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. This year, Hendrix was named the country’s #1 “Up and Coming” liberal arts college and #8 in the nation for “Best Undergraduate Teaching” by U.S.
News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the 2015 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Forbesmagazine's list of America's Top Colleges, the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, and the latest edition of Colleges That Change
Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.