Dr. Christopher Parr loved teaching and learning, but his greatest lesson was how to live a happy life. Parr, the first hire of the Chemistry Department at The University of Texas at Dallas in 1972, died April 10 at age 82. “In some ways, Chris was more like a professor you would meet in one of the humanities than you would meet in chemistry,” said Dr. A. Dean Sherry, who was hired soon after Parr and retired in 2022 after 50 years at UT Dallas. They had met at UT Dallas, where she was director of teacher education, in the late 1970s and were married in 1985.