MEMORIAL SERVICE SCHEDULED FOR JOHN R. LOCKE

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A memorial service for Dr. John R. Locke has been scheduled for September 12 at 3:30 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main. All are invited.

Dr. Locke died Monday, August 28, after he was shot in his Kimpel Hall office on the University of Arkansas campus. He was 67.

Campus administrators, faculty, students and friends will participate in the memorial ceremony. A table will be set up near the front of Giffels Auditorium where those attending may leave small tokens of memory, should they wish to do so.

Dr. Locke joined the University of Arkansas faculty in 1967 as an instructor of English and comparative literature. Since 1980 he had served as chair of the comparative literature program in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Locke received his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia in 1960. He received a master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 1962. He earned both a master’s and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Iowa, in 1969 and 1973 respectively.

He was a French interpreter for the U.S. Army in Europe from 1953 until 1955. He was also an Arthur Murray Dance Teacher and had served as Director of the Paris Program and the Lausanne Program at the Academy of International Studies.