Services for Professor Emeritus
	Friends, colleagues, and former students of John Ogden celebrated his life and work at a memorial service held on campus on Saturday, July 11. The Ithaca College professor emeritus of English died May 20 at the age of 84; the service featured reminiscences, poetry readings, and music by some of the many people whose lives he touched during his lengthy teaching career. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Ogden earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from Yale. He taught at Cornell from 1944 to 1954, at which time he joined the Department of English at Ithaca College. As a poet and scholar, Ogden was a pioneer in developing Ithaca College’s English major as well as the College’s educational television series Speaking of Poets in the late 1950s. His own poetry was published in several journals and numerous collections, the last of which was Nature Plays for Keeps (Fithian Press, 1996). He retired in 1982 and was named professor emeritus in 1984.	As a poet and scholar, John Ogden was a pioneer in developing Ithaca College's English major as well as the College's educational television series Speaking of Poets in the late 1950s.