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Remembrance Scholars each represent a student from Pan Am Flight 103

JACKIE BARR and NICOLE BOULANGER

Jackie Barr is an information technology and public relations dual major with a minor in marketing. She is an active member of the campus community through Enactus where she helps with photography and marketing for Team Guatemala, an organization that fundraises for Mayan women by selling goods hand made by the women themselves. She is also brother of Alpha Phi Omega community service fraternity and a member of the club field hockey team.

Jackie is representing Nicole Boulanger who was a musical theater major studying abroad as part of SU’s DIPA program. On campus, she was active in musicals, the Musical Prep Club, the Folk Liturgy group and the Pep Club. She was an intelligent and dedicated student who was featured in several Syracuse productions. She also showed talent in other arts including drawing, painting and writing prose. Her last performance was in a project for the Funge Theater Class in London, which she choreographed and directed, and for which she performed her original dance about the effects of cliques in society. Continue Reading

Remembrance Week 2014 is October 19-25

Friday, October 24 at 2 p.m. – The Rose Laying Ceremony will be held at the Place of Remembrance in front of Hall of Languages

Friday, October 24 at 3:30 p.m. – The Remembrance Convocation will take place in Hendricks Chapel

Common Prayer to be Read Around the Globe on December 21st

Lockerbie Scotland’s Rev. Sandy Stoddart and Hendricks Chapel’s Dean Tiffany Steinwert have composed a Common Prayer. The prayer is being distributed widely – especially via social media – and is intended to be read on December 21, 2013 at 2:03 p.m. (Eastern Time, 7:03 p.m. Greenwich time).  The prayer can be found on SU’s webpage for the 25th Anniversary:  www.syr.edu/pa103remembrance25. It is also reprinted below.

25th Anniversary Common Prayer

25th Anniversary Memorial Events Announced

To mark the 25th anniversary of those lost on Pan Am 103, there are 5 services planned in the US and the UK on Saturday, December 21, 2013 (please note that all times listed are local times) at

  • Syracuse University at 2:03 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel
  • Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington VA, at the Pan Am Cairn, at 1:30 p.m.
  • Westminster Abbey, London, England at 6:45 pm
  • Lockerbie, Scotland at Dryfesdale Cemetery at 2 p.m. and at Dryfesdale Church at 6:30 p.m.

All are welcome at these services.

  • New York City at SU’s Lubin House (11 East 61st St., NY, NY  10065) at 1:30-3:30 p.m.  Due to space limitations, you must RSVP to attend this event; contact Scott Austin at scott.austin.sca@gmail.com

Many of the Lockerbie Scholars have joined local officials and clergy in planning and carrying out the services in Lockerbie. The Scholars are also hosting a gathering on Friday, December 20th at 7 p.m. in the Lockerbie Academy Assembly Hall, to share stories and memories.  Claire Dorrance, Jessica and Kirsty Liddon invite you to this event and the services, should you be in Lockerbie on the 21st.  If you are planning to attend, or just want more information, please contact them at jess0593@hotmail.co.uk.

 

If you would like to learn more about any of the events listed above, please visit:

Service at Lubin House in NYC, email:  scottoaustin@yahoo.com

The Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 Website at: http://www.victimsofpanamflight103.org/,

or SU’s Pan Am Archives website at: http://archives.syr.edu/panam/

Photos from Remembrance Week 2013

Recently, the Syracuse community participated in Remembrance Week- a week dedicated to remembering the lives lost in the Pan-Am 103 tragedy, with this year marking the 25th anniversary of the attack.  The Remembrance Scholars, a group of 35 selected Syracuse University students, were instrumental in helping to plan and orchestrate the week’s events, in their mission of acting forward on the victims’ behalf.  Clearly, this week was filled with high emotions; sometimes it can be difficult to say what it is we are feeling in these moments.  So, as is often the case in these situations, pictures were taken as a means of capturing and portraying the feelings inside all of us.

The Remembrance Scholars have compiled the following photo album of Remembrance Week, as a tool for remembering the week that was, and more importantly, the students that were.  As you will see, the range of pictures is wide- encompassing the ceremonies and events, the people and the places, and the emotional highs and lows of this past Remembrance Week.  The scholars hoped that by taking a breadth of pictures they could construct an outline of the week, allowing the observers to color it as they experienced it.  It is often said that a picture is worth one thousand words, and this photo album stands as proof of such.  The Remembrance Scholars hope that this album will help to share the memories and experiences of this Remembrance Week, honor the victims of the tragedy, and inspire action on the victims’ behalf.

 

SU Remembrance Scholars Announce 2013 Commencement Speaker

The Remembrance Scholars are excited to announce that Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof will be addressing the graduating class of 2013 at this year’s Commencement Ceremony in the Carrier Dome on May 12. Check out Class Marshals and Remembrance Scholars Jesse Feitel, Stephanie Kranz, and Kishauna Soljour announcing Kristof as this year’s speaker!

The Big Announcement!