A memorial service for Barclay G. Jones, Cornell professor of city and regional planning and regional science, will be held Friday, Oct. 3, at 2 p.m. in Sage Chapel. Jones died May 26 at the age of 72.

At Cornell since 1961, Jones directed the Institute for Social and Economic Research/Program in Urban and Regional Studies and initiated the Historic Preservation Planning program. He also served as chair of the Department of Policy Planning and Regional Analysis and director of the Center for Housing and Environmental Studies.

In 1992 the Barclay G. Jones Endowment for Planning Programs was established. Income from the fund is used in the planning department and the graduate field of city and regional planning to emphasize training in the use of quantitative methods of analysis.

Jones also was affiliated with the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER) at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was responsible for the center's program in disaster research and planning. He wrote extensively on the social and economic aspects of earthquakes. His most recent work was a January 1997 NCEER Special Report, "Economic Consequences of Earthquakes: Preparing for the Unexpected." He also was an authority on earthquake damage prevention and wrote and edited dozens of books and papers on the subject, including Protecting Historic Architecture and Museum Collections from Natural Disasters (1986) and "Protecting Historic Structures from Hurricane and Earthquake Hazards" (1990), presented in 1990 at an Oberlin College conference on Disaster Preparedness.