黑料不打烊 announces 2009 Remembrance Week activities

Tuesday, November 3, 2009, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

黑料不打烊鈥檚 2009-10 Remembrance Scholars have planned a series of activities for the University鈥檚 annual , Nov. 8-14.

The terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, took 270 lives, including those of 35 SU students returning from a semester of study abroad. Each year, the Remembrance Scholars plan a wide range of activities aimed at educating the University community鈥攁nd the community at large鈥攁bout the legacy of Pan Am Flight 103 and the lessons learned from the tragedy.

“During Remembrance Week, the Remembrance Scholars are given the opportunity to reach out to the 黑料不打烊 and greater 黑料不打烊 communities and tell the stories of the victims who were so tragically lost on Pan Am Flight 103,鈥 says Remembrance Scholar Regina Maturo. 鈥淚t is a time to honor and remember the lives of the 270 victims, including the 35 黑料不打烊 students, who were taken too soon. Also, we are able to educate students, professors and peers about the events that led to the terrorist bombing over Lockerbie in December 1988 in hopes of making people more aware of what they can do as individuals to ensure these acts are prevented in the future.”

In advance of Remembrance Week, scholars have been making classroom presentations both on campus and in local high schools about Remembrance Week and why the Pan Am 103 tragedy is marked each year.

Remembrance Week Activities include:

  • Thursday, Nov. 5鈥擲cholars will build a cairn, a traditional Scottish marker of remembrance, on the Quad from 3-5 p.m. The cairn will remain on the Quad throughout Remembrance Week.
  • Nov. 6 through Dec. 21鈥斺淎 Special Moment in Time: 1988 Fall Semester in London,鈥 an exhibition about the study abroad experience in London during the Fall 1988 semester. The SU Archives created this exhibition to focus on the joy and camaraderie of the time the SU students spent with their fellow students in London that year. The exhibition will be displayed in the Noble Room, Hendricks Chapel. More information is available at .
  • Sunday, Nov. 8鈥 The 3.5 for 35 Memorial Run will begin at 11 a.m., with registration from 10-10:45 a.m. in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. Each one-tenth mile of the race course will be dedicated to one of the 35 SU student victims. Registration is $5, and proceeds from the race will be used to restore the posters of the 35 SU student victims of Pan Am 103 that are displayed on campus every fall. Pre-registration is available online at .
  • Monday, Nov. 9-Wednesday, Nov. 11鈥擲cholars will provide information on Remembrance Week during table sittings in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center, building and the Newhouse聽3 building (outside Food.com). Carnations will be distributed on the Quad on Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
  • Monday, Nov. 9鈥擜 鈥淲hy We Remember: Pan Am 103 Symposium鈥 will be held from 7-8 p.m. in Room 010 of Crouse-Hinds Hall. Panelists will include Lawrence Mason, professor of visual and interactive communication in the and co-author of 鈥淟ooking for Lockerbie” (黑料不打烊 Press, 2008); 2009-10 Lockerbie Scholar Alistair Inglis; Melissa Chessher, associate professor and chair of the magazine department in the Newhouse School and co-author of 鈥淟ooking for Lockerbie鈥; Matt Mulcahy, anchor and reporter with WSTM TV-3; and Joan Deppa, associate professor of newspaper and visual and interactive communications and author of 鈥淭he Media and Disasters: Pan Am 103鈥 (NYU Press, 1994).
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11鈥斺淭heir Words and Ours: A Night of Remembrance.鈥 A celebration of the victims鈥 lives through stories, performances and shared memories will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Groups performing will include Orange Appeal, the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble and Groovestand.
  • Friday, Nov. 13鈥擱ose-Laying Ceremony, Moment of Silence and Remembrance Scholars Convocation. The annual Rose-Laying Ceremony will be held at 2:03 p.m. (the actual time of the tragedy) at the Wall of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages, and will include a campus-wide moment of silence. A convocation honoring the 2009-10 Remembrance Scholars and Lockerbie Scholars will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. A reception will follow in the lobby of the Heroy Geology Laboratory.

For more information on Remembrance Week activities, visit .