A memorial service for Eleanor H. Jorden, professor emerita of linguistics who died Feb. 11, will be held Saturday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m. in Sage Chapel; a reception will follow in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.

Parking will be limited in certain restricted areas, but the parking garage will be available. Special requests for parking for the service should be directed to Sheila Haddad at jh1@cornell.edu.

Jorden, who was born in 1920, first came to Cornell to the former Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in 1969 as a visiting scholar after retiring from dean of the School of Asian Languages at the Foreign Service Institute Language School. She headed -- and redesigned -- the Japanese language program at Cornell. In 1972, she founded the FALCON Program, and in 1974, became the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of Linguistics.

The co-author of several seminal textbooks on the teaching of Japanese, Jorden left Cornell in 1987 to work at the National Foreign Language Center in Washington, D.C.

For a fuller obituary, see http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb09/JordenObit.html.