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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Jefferson Davis Farris Jr.&#039;&#039;&#039; (1927-2009) was the sixth president of the <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=University_of_Central_Arkansas" title="University of Central Arkansas">University of Central Arkansas</a>. Farris was born in Springdale, Arkansas, in 1927. He graduated from [[Conw...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Jefferson Davis Farris Jr.''' (1927-2009) was the sixth president of the [[University of Central Arkansas]]. <br /> <br /> Farris was born in Springdale, Arkansas, in 1927. He graduated from [[Conway High School]] in [[Conway]], Arkansas, in 1945. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before earning B.A.'s in physical education and mathematics from the [[Arkansas State Teachers College]] in 1949. He received his M.A. in public health from the University of Michigan, and a second M.A. in physical education from George Peabody College. <br /> <br /> Farris assumed the chair of the [[UCA Department of Health and Physical Education|Department of Health and Physical Education]] in 1961, following the death of his father [[Jefferson Davis Farris Sr.]] who had previously chaired the department. Farris Jr. earned his Ed.D. in health and physical education from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1963. He became dean of the [[UCA College of Fine and Applied Arts and Sciences|College of Fine and Applied Arts and Sciences]] in 1970. Five years later, on July 1, 1975, Farris was named president of UCA.<br /> <br /> With [[Norbert O. Schedler]], Farris founded UCA's [[UCA Honors College|Honors College]] in 1982. He left the school in 1987 to take a job with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.<br /> <br /> Farris was married to [[Patricia &quot;Patsy&quot; Camp]]. The couple had three children. Farris died on January 16, 2009. [[Farris Hall]] on the UCA campus is named in his honor.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> [[Category:1927 births]]<br /> [[Category:2009 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:UCA]]</div>

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