Morris Parslow was born on March 24, 1922, in Williamston, Michigan. He attended Muskegon Junior College for one year and Albion College for one year. He transferred to St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. He was a freshman at St. John's when the U.S. entered World War II. He enlisted in the army in the summer of 1942 and was assigned to the Air Corps. Following his discharge in October, 1945, he resumed his studies at St. John's and received his B.A. in 1948. He went to France and studied French Literature for one year at Grenoble Universit' and for one semester at Strasbourg Universit'. Upon his admittance to Graduate School at Princeton University he returned to the U.S., earning his Ph.D. in 1954.
Dr. Parslow taught at the University of Chicago and at the Oyster Bay branch of New York State University before accepting a position at Grinnell College in 1962. There he rose to the rank of Full Professor and served as Chairman of the French Department, Chairman of the Humanities Division and, for two years, as Chair of the Faculty. He was a member of the Modern Languages Association and of the American Association of University Professors. He retired from Grinnell College in 1992.
