Retired UM Professor Dies

Michael Louis Harrington, former professor of philosophy and chairman of the Department of Philosophy from 1999 to 2005, passed away this week while in Portland, Ore., where he was born 63 years ago.

A University media release said that Harrington, who retired from the university last year as professor emeritus, joined the Ole Miss faculty as assistant professor in 1970. He is survived by his wife, Mary Mathison Harrington; two daughters, Elizabeth Harrington and Emily Harrington; and two brothers, Peter Harrington of Winston-Salem, N.C., and Lee Harrington of Washington, D.C.

Funeral arrangements are still pending and will be announced by the Coleman Funeral Home in Oxford. Memorials can be made to the Heifer Foundation of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.