[Air-l] Walter Ong has died.

Colleagues: I'm sorry to report that Walter Ong, S.J. whose book "Orality and Literacy" influenced many scholars' thinking about technology and language, died Tuesday. An obituary from the St. Louis dispatch is online at: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/Obituaries/ 307F740FE4BCB52386256D8200547882?OpenDocument&Headline=Rev.+Walter+Ong%3 A+SLU+professor,+literacy+theoris&highlight=2%2Cong As recently as this spring, Ong was reviewing manuscripts for the Quarterly Journal of Speech, a testament to his commitment to scholarship and the pursuit of knowledge. Best, John Logie Department of Rhetoric University of Minnesota