Bernard, Hugh Y., Jr. 1919-2007 (Hugh Yancey Bernard, Jr.)
Bernard, Hugh Y., Jr. 1919-2007 (Hugh Yancey Bernard, Jr.)
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See index for CA sketch: Born July 17, 1919, in Athens, GA; died of heart and pulmonary disease, February 28, 2007, in Washington, DC. Librarian, educator, and author. Bernard was a law librarian and former professor at George Washington University. Graduating from the University of Georgia in 1941, he was a high school science teacher before World War II. During the war, he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Afterwards, he earned his library science degree at Columbia University and found a job as a cataloger at the Library of Congress. He rose to the position of senior cataloger and became a cataloger for the Descriptive Catalogue Division in 1959. Bernard joined the George Washington University Law School the next year as a law librarian and became a teacher there two years later. From 1970 until his 1981 retirement he was a professor of law. A former president of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC, Bernard was also the author of The Law of Death and Disposal of the Dead (1966; 2nd edition, 1979) and Public Officials: Elected and Appointed (1968).
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