Memorial for Harris is March 23

Harris

memorial service for Alfred Harris, professor emeritus of anthropology, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 23, at Interfaith Chapel. Harris, who served on the faculty for nearly 30 years, died February 14.

Harris, along with his wife, Grace Gredys Harris, who also is a professor emeritus of anthropology, are credited with helping launch the Ph.D. program in anthropology in 1963, shortly after Rochester reorganized its small department of sociology and anthropology in 1959. Harris served as chair of the subsequent anthropology department from 1964 to 1971.

He also served as editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, inaugurated by Meyer Fortes at the University in 1963. Until his retirement in 1990, Harris organized the lectures and edited 16 resulting books, many of them now considered classics.

Harris earned a doctorate from Cambridge University in 1958.

Contributions in his memory may be sent to Planned Parenthood, 114 University Ave., Rochester, N.Y. 14605, or Amnesty International USA, 322 Eighth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10001.

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