Tag: Remembrance Week 2014
Pan Am Flight 103 and its impact on Syracuse University, explained
Thirty-five Syracuse University students died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing on Dec. 21, 1988. Here is a look at how the tragedy has impacted SU and how the university is moving forward. Read More »
Remembrance Scholars, SU community honor victims of Pan Am Flight 103 at Rose Laying Ceremony
Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholars are chosen to represent the 35 SU students who died on Pan Am Flight 103. The scholars and the students they represent are the centerpiece of the Rose Laying Ceremony, one of the closing events for Remembrance Week. Read More »
From the shadows
This year, the Remembrance Scholars created silhouettes of the 35 SU students who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing and placed them throughout campus in locations where the victims would have most likely hung out. Read More »
Coming full circle
When John Tummino arrived at the first meeting for this year’s Remembrance Scholars in August, he brought a Notre Dame hat that he got from his third-cousin, Wendy Giebler-Sefcik. But, it was not just any hat. Read More »
Where she belongs
King-Eckersley’s journey to letting go of the pain of giving away her only child for adoption when she was 19 years old was not a simple or short one. Read More »
Shaping grief
Suse Lowenstein started Dark Elegy a month after the bombing killed her son, Alex Lowenstein, a 21-year-old SU student. Dark Elegy was a way for Lowenstein to work through her grief. Read More »