In a beautifully-written article, Daily Orange staff writer Ellen Meyers chronicles the transition to new leadership in the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars program while acknowledging longtime organizer Judy O’Rourke’s continuing involvement with the scholars and organizers. The article is the first of a series that will appear throughout the duration of Remembrance Week. I’ll post…
The following is a preliminary list of events for Remembrance Week, which is scheduled for October 23-29, 2016. Sunday 10/23 Candlelight Vigil | 7 PM, Schine 304ABC, Wall of Remembrance Monday 10/24 Promenade Pop-up Museum | 10 AM Promenade Panel: “Doing Memory, Doing Justice” | 7 PM, Slocum Auditorium Tuesday 10/25 Celebration of Life |…
Ken Dornstein’s 2015 documentary, My Brother’s Bomber, wrote a new chapter in the nearly 30 year-old story of the bombing of Pan Am 103 and played a key role in identifying 2 additional suspects. Last night, Dornstein’s work earned the journalist 2 Emmy awards: My Brother’s Bomber, a brother’s gripping search for the terrorists who…
Syracuse University lost 30 alumni on September 11, 2001. To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the attacks, the Daily Orange published a feature article profiling 6 of the victims.
This week marks the beginning of the fall term st Syracuse University, and the 37 Lockerbie and Remembrance Scholars will soon gather to begin planning events for Remembrance Week, which is scheduled for October 23-29. They follow in the footsteps of hundreds of their predecessors dating back to the inception of Remembrance Week in the…
There are a number of memorials dedicated to Pan Am Flight in and around Lockerbie. Perhaps the most well-known are the Memorial Room at Tundergarth Church and the Garden of Remembrance and Lockerbie Air Disaster Memorial, which is located in Dryfesdale Cemetery near the Dryfesdale Lodge Visitors’ Centre located roughly a mile west of Lockerbie.…
Remembrance Week 2016 is scheduled for October 23-29 at Syracuse University. The week culminates with the Rose Laying and Convocation ceremonies on October 28 and the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103’s meeting on October 29.
The video is a recording of 2015 Remembrance Scholar Cameron MacPherson (grandson of legendary Syracuse coach Dick MacPherson) reading a poem dedicated to Thomas Schultz during “A Celebration of Life,” a series of student performances during last year’s Remembrance Week. As an attendee that evening, I can personally attest to the power of this poem.
Athletic and ebullient, Gretchen Dater was an extraordinarily talented artist who could work with virtually any medium. Gretchen, a junior at the prestigious Maryland Institute College of Art, enrolled in Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad in the fall of 1988, joining several hundred fellow students at S.U.’s center in Notting Hill. While in…
