Dr. Paul Morgan

1928 - 2003

Dr. Paul Morgan, 75, retired college professor and composer, died Wednesday, June 18, 2003, in Fort Worth.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Friday at Robert Carr Chapel on the TCU Campus.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, Dr. Morgan has requested that donations be made in his name to the TCU Fine Arts Department.

Dr. Morgan was born Feb. 6, 1928, in Hereford, the son of Thurman Morgan, who enjoyed a long association with Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University, and Sarah Morgan, with whom he worked at the well-known Tea Cart Restaurant in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Dr. Morgan earned a bachelor's of music from Texas Christian University in 1949, a master of arts from the University of Chicago in 1951, and doctor of philisophy from University of York in 1969. He had a long teaching career in which he taught at Sam Houston State, taught children of those in the military in Weisbadden, Germany, and Yokohama, Japan; at William Woods College in Missouri, Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, retired from Tarrant County Junior College in 1986, and was also served as adjunct faculty at Texas Christian University.

Among his many achievements in the arts have been the editing of his mother's cookbooks, one of which, "Dining with the Cattle Baron," is retained in the Smithsonian Institute; having all of his compositions published by ECM, Pan Publishing, Kendor, Zimmerman and Cimarron; with his sister, Sue Scott, had written a well-reviewed humorous commentary on Watergate entitled "The D.C. Dialect," and a play that was prominently reviewed and premiered in Los Angeles, Calif. He was most proud of his work with the Reeder Children's Theater during the late 1940s and early '50s under the mentoring of Dickson and Flora Reeder. He was preceded in death by his sister, Sue Scott.

Survivors: Daughter, Margaret Vashti Dula and her husband; and four grandchildren.