ObituaryWilliam Morris Jr.

WILLIAM MORRIS JR., 90, Professor Emeritus of business administration who served as an accounting professor at UNT for 30 years, died May 24 in Denton. He worked at UNT from 1971 to 2001 and was a longtime donor to the Department of Accounting. A former Eagle Scout, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Hardin Simmons University, served in the U.S. Army for two years and then earned his master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Bill worked in Dallas for 10 years as a public accountant, then earned his doctorate at Michigan State University. He then moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and began his work at UNT. Some of his early research included the use of statistical sampling in historical studies of auditing.