A memorial service for Professor Lucian W. Pye will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, in the MIT Chapel.
Pye, the Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus at MIT and a leader in studying the politics of modernization in the Third World, passed away last September after a long illness. He was 86.
The memorial service will be followed by a reception at 3:30 p.m. in the Brown Living Room at McCormick Hall.
