James Max Fendrich

Background

James Fendrich was born on the 31st of October 1938 in Salem, South Dakota, United States. He was a son of Max Henry who was a skilled worker and Florence Fendrich, homemaker.

Education

James Fendrich studied at Seattle University and became a Bachelor of Arts in 1960. Then he decided to continue his studying and graduated from University of Notre Dame with Master of Arts degree in 1962. Finally he received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1965 from Michigan State University.

Career

James Fendrich started his career from the position of assistant professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida in 1965. He has held there till 1968, then he received a post of associate professor in 1968 till 1974. Afterwards he worked there as a professor of sociology during the years 1974-1994.

Also, James worked for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Veterans Administration, U.S. Army Behavioral and Social Science, and Sociological Resources for Secondary Schools.

Works

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• book

  • Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement (SUNY Series in Afro-American Studies) (Suny Series in African American Studies) 1993
  • Leadership in American Society: A Case of Study of Negro Leadership, Student Manual 1969

Politics

"Left-Progressive".

Membership

James Fendrich was a president and director of Committee on Political Education (C.O.P.E.). Also he became a member of Big Bend Labor Council and Florida AFL-CIO.

• American Sociological Association , United States

• Southern Sociological Association , United States

• Society for the Study of Social Problems , United States

Interests

• Politics, sailing.

Connections

James Fendrich was married Judith Curtin-Ausman in 1963, they divorced in 1983. For the second time he was married on the 22nd of December 1985. He had children: Matthew, Kerrie, Christopher, Alise.

Father:

Max Henry Fendrich

Mother:

Florence Fendrich

child:

Matthew

child:

Kerrie

child:

Christopher

child:

Alise

1st wife:

Judith Curtin-Ausman

2nd wife:

Mary E. Bryant