Jack Farris

Born in Forest, Tex., Mr. Farris grew up in Arkansas and spent six years in the Navy, including service during World War II in the South Pacific. He graduated from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark., in 1949 and earned a master's degree at the University of Michigan a year later.

He taught at several colleges before joining the faculty at Southwestern, now Rhodes College, in Memphis in 1961 as a professor of English. He retired in 1984.