The annual Pan Am 103 memorial service will honor the 270 people, including Syracuse University study abroad students, who were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Dec. 21, 1988.

The service will honor the 270 people, including Syracuse University study abroad students, who were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, on that date and at that time 36 years ago. Chaplains will offer prayers and reflections.��The event will also be offered virtually;�� is required to receive the YouTube link.

Personal reflections and memories, which can be submitted upon registration, may be included in the ceremony. Closed captioning will be provided.

Requests for additional accommodations can be made by contacting Hendricks Chapel at��chapelevents@syr.edu.

This service is offered in partnership with the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, Hendricks Chapel and the Office of Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving.

A memorial service at the Pan Am 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, organized by the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 families group, will also be held that afternoon.

The application deadline for the 2025-26 Remembrance Scholarship cohort is Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

The Remembrance Scholarship is one of the highest honors a Syracuse University student can receive. Those selected are chosen on the basis of leadership, creativity, thoughtful academic inquiry and community impact, including through service to the military, ROTC, first responder, student government, campus clubs or other community organizations.

The 35 rising seniors chosen are each awarded a $5,000 Remembrance Scholarship, and are charged with helping to educate the campus community about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

Scholars are expected to undertake meaningful service and to promote initiatives to combat hatred and extremism.��Through education, all 270 lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, especially our 35 students, are remembered and honored. The motto of the Remembrance Scholars is “Look Back and Act Forward.”

Who Can Apply?

Any Syracuse University undergraduate student who is in good academic standing and will graduate in either December 2025, May 2026 or summer 2026 is eligible to apply. Students self-nominate for this scholarship. This award is not tied to financial need.

Information Sessions

Information sessions will be held on the following dates and times:

• Thursday, Dec. 5, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 104, Whitman School of Management
• Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 4 to 5 p.m. on (registration required)

At each session, current Remembrance Scholars will provide an overview of their experience, from the application stage to their participation in Remembrance Week.

To request accommodations for the information sessions, contact Melissa Welshans at mlwelsha@syr.edu.

Application Deadline

The application deadline is Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

Questions may be directed to remember@syr.edu.

This year marks the 36th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. The 2024-25 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars have planned events and activities to look back and remember the 270 people who lost their lives in the tragedy, and to educate on the ways they are acting forward.

Remembrance Week, the annual weeklong series of events, will be held Sunday, Oct. 20, through Saturday, Oct. 26. Remembrance Week events are meant to memorialize the victims and further educate the campus community about terrorism. All activities are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit .

Those who require accommodations to fully participate in these events should contact Radell Roberts at��315.443.0221 or��rrober02@syr.edu. The schedule is as follows:

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• Empty Seats Display, Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle:��The Empty Seats Display is a visual representation of the Syracuse University students lost aboard Pan Am Flight 103. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present. This year’s Remembrance Scholars will sit in solidarity in the chairs for 35 minutes on Wednesday, Oct. 23, beginning at 2 p.m.
• Pen-and-ink drawings of the Syracuse University study abroad student victims will be on display in Hendricks Chapel.
• Blue and white flags, one for each of the 270 Pan Am 103 victims, will be on display in the area between the Newhouse School and Schine Student Center. Also, the Hall of Languages, Hendricks Chapel and the JMA Wireless Dome will be lit in blue in honor of Remembrance Week.

Sunday, Oct. 20

• “Each Moment Radiant,” Hendricks Chapel 4 p.m.: The Malmgren Concert Series will feature the world premiere of “Each Moment Radiant,” a newly commissioned chamber work by composer Kurt Erickson and poet Brian Turner commemorating the Pan Am Flight 103 air disaster. Setnor School of Music faculty and guest musicians will perform Erickson and Turner’s song cycle “Here, Bullet” and Johannes Brahms’ piano trio in C minor.
• “Healing Trauma Through Poetry and Music,” National Veterans Resource Center at the Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Building, 5:30 p.m.: Composer Kurt Erickson and poet Brian Turner will lead a reception and discussion on the genesis and creative process behind “Here, Bullet” and “Each Moment Radiant.”

These events are co-sponsored by the Syracuse Symposium, the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families, the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, the Society for New Music, the Setnor School of Music and the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars. The commission for “Each Moment Radiant” was made possible through the CNY Arts Grants for Regional Arts and Cultural Engagement regrant program thanks to a New York State Senate Initiative supported by the NYS Legislature, the Office of the Governor and administered by the New York State Council on the Arts.

• , Place of Remembrance, 7 p.m.: The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will begin Remembrance Week activities with a candlelight vigil to remember the 270 victims of Pan Am 103.

Wednesday, Oct. 23

• “Sitting in Solidarity,” Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle, 2 p.m.: The Remembrance and Lockerbie scholars will sit in the empty chairs on the Quad for 35 minutes.

Thursday, Oct. 24

• Act Forward Symposium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall atrium (outside Gifford Auditorium), 7 p.m.: The Remembrance Scholars will present posters that share their plans to “act forward” through outreach, research, education and creative projects designed to benefit the community.
• , Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall, 8 p.m.: An evening of music, poetry, art, dancing and more to honor the victims of Pan Am 103 and to celebrate life alongside the victims’ families and the current scholars. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART) will be available for this event.

Friday, Oct. 25

• “In The Aftermath: Documenting and Researching Victim Support Groups,” Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library, and Zoom (), 10 a.m.: A panel discussion focusing on the collection, preservation and use of important records of the aftermath of tragedies and disasters. Organized by the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at the Special Collections Research Center and moderated by Vanessa St.Oegger-Menn, Pan Am 103 archivist and assistant University archivist. Panelists are Jelena Watkins, co-director of the Centre for Collective Trauma in the United Kingdom and member of the Archiving Disaster Support Group Records project team, and Ezra Rudolph, research associate for Contemporary and Cultural History at the University of Göttingen in Germany. Both will talk about their work and experiences and share insights into the lasting significance and unique challenges of victim support group records in documenting the aftermath of tragic events. A question-and-answer session will follow the moderated discussion. CART will be provided. If you require accessibility accommodations, email Max Wagh at mlwagh@syr.edu by Friday, Oct. 18.
• , Place of Remembrance, 2:03 p.m.: This annual ceremony remembers the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002. American Sign Language interpretation will be available for this event.
• Remembrance Scholar Convocation, Hendricks Chapel, 3 p.m.: ​This annual convocation will honor the 2024-25 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars. ASL interpretation and CART will be available for this event. A reception in the Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall, will immediately follow.

Jeff Wilkinson

Across the U.S. Department of Defense, there are approximately 650 commissioned flag officers, known as generals or admirals. Achieving this rank is a testament to a service member’s dedication, knowledge, leadership and ability to effect change.

For retired U.S. Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General Jeff Wilkinson ’89 the path to becoming a flag officer, and the first ever combat rescue officer to be promoted to the rank of general across the USAF, began at Syracuse University as an Air Force ROTC cadet.

Wilkinson, who served primarily in Air Force Special Tactics, didn’t initially see himself rising through the ranks. However, a call to service has guided him throughout his career.

“Growing up, I was interested in the outdoors, adventures as a Boy Scout, military air shows, museums and that sort of thing. I got serious in high school while figuring out how to pay for school and what I wanted to do,” says Wilkinson, a Buffalo, New York, native who was drawn to Syracuse University through his passion for music and playing the saxophone.

“I started pursuing scholarships. I applied for and received an Air Force scholarship and decided I wanted to be an officer and lead. It was a pathway that allowed me to attend Syracuse and be part of its excellent programs,” Wilkinson says.

Music played a significant role in attracting Wilkinson to Syracuse, but his undergraduate studies in mathematics and military science delivered opportunities that laid the foundation for his career. Following the loss of his Zeta Psi fraternity brother, Alex Lowenstein, along with 34 fellow students during the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, Wilkinson decided he wanted to make a difference fighting international terrorism.

One of his ROTC instructors suggested he consider the Air Force’s special operations career field. Unlike many military occupations available to him upon graduation, Special Tactics required an application and passing qualifications.

Wilkinson represents his alma mater at a sporting event.

“There are a limited number of officers in the field, so you have to apply for it, and it’s really hard to make it through the training pipeline,” Wilkinson says. “The washout rate is high. My class started with about 68 people, and six of us graduated. It’s a hard path, but it’s where I was meant to be.”

The Air Force’s Special Tactics community is primarily composed of two roles: Combat Control Team (CCT) and Pararescue (PJ). Combat controllers provide global reach opening remote austere air hubs in hostile territory along with strike capabilities delivering airpower on enemy positions, while pararescuemen offer critical medical care while embedded with other units or by entering contested areas to rescue downed aircrew or wounded service members.

Over 32 years in the Air Force, Wilkinson served on active duty, in the reserve and in the Kentucky Air National Guard as a Special Tactics officer. His service took him across the nation and around the world, supporting operations like Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq.

As he rose from second lieutenant to brigadier general, Wilkinson credits his success to the fundamentals he learned as an ROTC cadet. In the spring of 2024, he returned to Syracuse University to share his career insights with ROTC cadets of Detachment 535 before their graduation. As the guest speaker, he shared three key takeaways:

1. Trust in your training.

Wilkinson shared the story of U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Bart Decker, his combat control instructor who later deployed to Afghanistan as part of the initial response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Special Forces detachments initially deployed required immense flexibility, even adjusting to traveling on horseback through rugged terrain—a skill long forgotten in military tactics since the early 1940s.

“The foundations and processes started here in ROTC prepare you to lead in unimaginable scenarios. With a positive attitude, disciplined study and agility of thought, you will succeed. Agile thinking is encouraged in the Air Force and needed for tomorrow’s wars,” Wilkinson says.

2. Seek advice from your subordinates and be thoughtful in your decisions.

Wilkinson urged the graduating cadets to listen to the noncommissioned officers (NCOs), who often train new officers in their field’s technical expertise. He recalled advice from a senior officer that Wilkinson still considers among the best he’s received.��“He told me that my new rank and certifications gave me the authority to make decisions that, if wrong, could result in the injury or death of my Airmen or, at a minimum, violations that could land me in jail. So, I better be thoughtful in my decisions and listen to my NCOs. Seek their experience and perspective when making decisions,” Wilkinson says.

3. Don’t wait to make a difference.

Wilkinson, now a senior aerospace science instructor for a high school Junior ROTC detachment in Summerville, South Carolina, has extensive experience mentoring future leaders. He urged young leaders to address issues and find solutions when the moment arises.

He recounted his time leading pararescuemen on a humanitarian response deployment to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. His team of highly trained specialists took four to five hours to search a site, while a nearby FEMA team with rescue dogs cleared an area in 45 minutes.

“With persistence, our team established the first rescue dog combat capability in the entire Department of Defense, assigned to the Kentucky Air National Guard. The capability came into existence thanks to the earnest efforts of a dedicated staff sergeant and his flight commander, and now it’s available to the broader Air Force,” Wilkinson says.

Syracuse University’s list of military-connected alumni who reach the prestigious flag officer ranks continues to grow, showcasing the dedication to service that the university instills in its ROTC cadets. As Wilkinson says, however, it’s not the rank that matters in the end, it’s the willingness to step forward and serve.

“You stand at the forefront of our citizens, willing to be part of something greater than yourself,” says Wilkinson. “The American way of life, and American freedoms, are valuable. There’s always greater opportunities for people who produce results.”

For more information on the University’s commitment to preparing tomorrow’s military leaders, visit the to learn about the opportunities available through ROTC.

The album contains George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and “Rhapsody in Blue,” along with two pieces commissioned in remembrance of those who perished in the bombing, including 35 Syracuse University students.

The Wind Ensemble is the University’s premiere concert wind organization. Possessing an extensive history that includes a series of internationally distributed recordings, the ensemble, conducted by Professor and Associate Professor in the ’ Setnor School of Music, has commissioned dozens of works.

The Wind Ensemble performed the recently commissioned pieces, “Energy and Light” by , assistant professor in the Setnor School of Music, and “Angels Rising” by , during its 2023 United Kingdom Remembrance tour, held in observance of the 35th anniversary of the bombing.

“The scale of that disaster is incredibly humbling and haunting for our community,” says composer Draper. “In addition to mourning those who were lost, it is important to remember that each of the students had a vibrant life that should also be celebrated. With that in mind, I decided to write a piece that was about energy and light—two direct components of what it means to be alive.”

Following Draper’s piece, the listener journeys through the four sections of “Angels Rising”—lament, chorale, ascent and prayer. The work ends with the everlasting question of existence, composer Ticheli notes.

The final album piece, “Rhapsody in Blue,” featuring pianist associate professor and director of the Setnor School of Music, takes the listener back in time.

“This recording, celebrating the centennial of its composition, depicts what was likely heard by the audience packing New York City’s Aeolian Hall on Feb. 12, 1924, when ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ had its premiere with Paul Whiteman’s Palais Royal Orchestra and Gershwin himself at the piano,” says Laufer.

The Navona Records release will be available in both stereo and Dolby Atmos immersive audio formats. It will be accessible for streaming on Apple Music, Tidal and Amazon Music.

Story by Mikayla Heiss

Thirty-five students have been chosen as the 2024-25 Syracuse University Remembrance Scholars.

The scholarships, now in their 35th year, were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the students studying in London and Florence through Syracuse University who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Those students were among the 270 people who perished in the bombing. The scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents and corporations.

Significant support for the Remembrance Scholarships has been provided by Jean Thompson ’66 and Syracuse University Life Trustee Richard L. Thompson G’67 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents; by Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Steven Barnes ’82 and Deborah Barnes; by The Syracuse Association of Zeta Psi in memory of Alexander Lowenstein; and by the Fred L. Emerson Foundation.

Selection Process

Remembrance Scholars are chosen in their junior year through a competitive selection process. Applicants submitted an essay and a reflective response in multimedia, artistic, musical or written format as part of a comprehensive application. The application evaluation committee is composed of University faculty and staff and current Remembrance Scholars. The $5,000 scholarships are awarded on the basis of scholarship, leadership and service to the community.

Additionally, two students from Lockerbie come to Syracuse each year for one year of study through the Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholarships, also in their 35th year. The scholarships are jointly funded by Syracuse University and the Lockerbie Trust. Cameron Colville and Anna Newbould were recently selected as the 2024-25 Lockerbie Scholars.

“Remembrance Scholars represent Syracuse University at its best through their academic achievements, their leadership skills and their contributions to the University,” says Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer Gretchen Ritter. “They reflect the talent and promise of those students whose memories they honor. We are very proud to call them members of our University community.”

The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars plan the Remembrance activities held at the University each year. The scholars will be recognized during a convocation in the fall.

The 2024-25 Remembrance Scholars, their hometowns, majors and schools and colleges are the following:

• Alba Aljiboury of Syracuse, New York, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Linda Baguma of Iowa City, Iowa, a double major in international relations and political science in the Maxwell School and A&S and member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Adam Baltaxe of Arlington, Virginia, an international relations major in the Maxwell School and A&S, a Spanish major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Tanner Boshart of Jackson, New Jersey, an economics major and history major in the Maxwell School and A&S, a finance major in the Whitman School of Management and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Danis Cammett of Washington, D.C., an international relations major in the Maxwell School and A&S, applied data analytics major in the School of Information Studies, a member of the Crown Honors Program and a member of the University’s Army Reserve Officer Training Program;
• Natalie Dolenga of Lincolnshire, Illinois, an international relations major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Charlotte Ebel of Urbana, Illinois, a public relations major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, a women’s and gender studies and German major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Luke Elliott of Leesburg, Virginia, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, a public relations major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Mason Garbus of Hannibal, New York, a music education major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and the School of Education;
• Joshua Garvin of Houston, Texas, a music industry major in VPA;
• Tabitha Hulme of Saratoga, California, a public health major in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and health humanities major in A&S;
• Abigail Jones of Mashpee, Massachusetts, a public relations major in the Newhouse School, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Rajan Joshi of Dallas, Texas, an economics major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Sierra Kaplan of New York, New York, a health humanities major in A&S; a political science major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Kelsey Leary of Mahopac, New York, an art photography major in VPA;
• Nadia Lyngdoh-Sommer of Singapore, a sociology major in the Maxwell School and A&S, a law, society and policy major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Sophia Moore of Burbank, California, a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School, a sociology major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Zachary Murray of Kingston, Jamaica, a political science and policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S, a modern foreign languages major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Ryan Myers of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, a public relations major in the Newhouse School, a psychology major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Mark Nzasi of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a neuroscience and psychology major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Cheryl Olanga of Nairobi, Kenya, a computer science major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS);
• Adya Parida of Odisha, India, a computer science major in ECS and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Jenna Poma of Queens, New York, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Tia Poquette of Brooklyn, New York, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S:
• Alekhya Rajasekaran of Visalia, California, a biotechnology major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Olivia Reid of Richmond, California, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Mason Romero of Olathe, Kansas, a music education major in VPA and the School of Education, a music history and cultures major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Alie Savane of Bronx, New York, a biology major in A&S;
• Abigael Scott of Plattsburgh, New York, a neuroscience and biology major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Yifan “Ivan” Shen of Shanghai, China, a student in the School of Architecture, a music history and cultures major in A&S, and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Justine Smith of Somerville, New Jersey, a political science and policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Joshua Spodek of Wayne, New Jersey, a history major in the Maxwell School and A&S, a social studies education major in the Maxwell School and the School of Education and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Alyssa Sutherland of St. Louis, Missouri, a public health major in the Falk College; a women’s and gender studies major in A&S and a member of the Crown Honors Program;
• Evelina Torres of Houston, Texas, a political science major in the Maxwell School and A&S, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Crown Honors Program; and
• Leondra Tyler of Cicero, New York, a neuroscience and psychology major in A&S.

Remembrance Scholar Jovanni Mosca lays a rose on the Wall of Remembrance during the Rose-Laying Ceremony on Oct. 20. (Photo by Jeremy Brinn)

The service will honor the 270 people, including Syracuse University study abroad students, who were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, on that date and at that time 35 years ago. Chaplains will offer prayers and reflections. The event will also be offered virtually;�� to receive the Zoom webinar link.

Personal reflections and memories, which can be submitted upon registration, may be included in the ceremony. Closed captioning will be provided.

Requests for additional accommodations can be made by contacting Hendricks Chapel at��chapelevents@syr.edu.

This service is offered in partnership with the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, Hendricks Chapel, and the Office of Alumni Engagement.

A memorial service at the Pan Am 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, organized by the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 families group, will also be held that afternoon.

Members of the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and Hendricks Chapel Choir perform at St. Paul’s Church in London. (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

These performances had a special meaning for the musicians and their directors—they were a way to pay tribute to the 270 people lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988. Among those lost were 35 students returning home after a semester abroad through Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad (now Syracuse Abroad).

The tour, planned by the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) in the lead up to the tragedy’s 35th anniversary, was meant to honor those who were lost in the bombing, strengthen the bonds that have grown between Syracuse and Scotland in the ensuing years, and give the student musicians the experience of an international tour.

Milton Laufer, associate professor and director of the Sentor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, offers welcoming remarks prior to the Wind Ensemble concert at St. Paul’s Church in London. (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

Planning and curating the remembrance tour began in the summer of 2021 with a conversation between Milton Laufer, associate professor and director of VPA’s Setnor School of Music, and Bradley Ethington, professor of applied music and performance (conducting) and Timothy Diem, assistant professor of applied music and performance (conducting), about meaningful performance experiences for the wind ensemble.

“They suggested curating a performance centered around the 35th anniversary of the Flight 103 bombing during 2023—that the numeric significance of the year and the number of students we lost that fateful day should be memorialized somehow,” Laufer says.

Anne Laver, associate professor of applied music and performance (organ) in the Setnor School and University organist, and Joseph-Ossei Little, Hendricks Chapel Organ Scholar, rehearse at the organ at St. Paul’s Church in London. (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

After conversations with college and University leadership and with Hendricks Chapel Choir Director Jose “Peppie” Calvar and Dean Brian Konkol, and extensive planning by Setnor School administrators Michelle Taylor and Megan Carlsen, the tour was born. The trip was made possible with the support of Chancellor Kent Syverud; Vice Chancellor Provost and Chief Academic Officer Gretchen Ritter and Trustee Judith Greenberg Seinfeld ’56.

Student musicians and Michael Tick, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, pose for a photo outside of Buckingham Palace in London. (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

“Two concurrent tours of two distinct ensembles; six concerts in three cities at five venues culminating in Lockerbie over the course of eight days. After nearly two years of planning, the day finally came for us to depart,” Laufer says. “I was overcome with emotions throughout the trip—from hearing these incredible students perform beautifully in venues of historical consequence to experiencing the Remembrance Garden alongside them. It was one of the most deeply personal and beautiful, gratifying experiences of my life. I could not have been prouder.”

The Hendricks Chapel Choir, 35 members strong, was led by Calvar, associate professor of applied music and performance (conducting) and assistant director of choral activities in the Setnor School. The Wind Ensemble, 65 members strong, was directed by Ethington and Diem. Anne Laver, associate professor of applied music and performance (organ) and University organist, and Joseph Ossei-Little, a graduate student and Hendricks Chapel Organ Scholar, provided organ accompaniment to the choir.

Brian Konkol, dean of Hendricks Chapel, was the guest preacher at Tundergarth Church prior to the Hendricks Chapel Choir performance.

Laufer; Michael Tick, dean of VPA; Dean Konkol; Elisa Dekaney, professor of music education and VPA associate dean for research, graduate studies and internationalization; and Taylor, assistant director for operations in the Setnor School and “tour mom,” also accompanied the group. Travel arrangements were facilitated by Kipling Tours.

The musical selections performed on the tour were carefully chosen. “Energy and Light,” a celebration of and a reflection on life, was specifically composed for the Wind Ensemble by Natalie Draper, assistant professor of music composition, history and theory in the Setnor School. The St. Paul’s performance was the piece’s European premiere.

“Such Splendor,” performed by the choir, was created by U.K.-based composer Cecilia McDowall, based on a poem written by Pan Am 103 victim and Syracuse student Nicholas Vrenios.

Peppie Calvar, associate professsor of applied music and performance (conducting) in the Setnor School and Hendricks Chapel Choir director, leads the choir performance at Tundergarth Church. (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

“The text happens to evoke significant meaning when contextualized with Pan Am 103,” says Calvar. “We are grateful to Elizabeth Vrenios, Nicholas’ mother, for her graciousness in allowing us to use this text. We hope the piece and our performance serve as a lasting monument to the Remembrance Scholars Program mission to ‘Look Back and Act Forward.’”

“Angels Rising,” a piece commissioned by the Setnor School and performed by the Wind Ensemble, was composed by prominent American composer Frank Ticheli.

“This work is composed as a deeply moving tribute to the memories of those whose lives were lost on that tragic day in 1988,” says Ethington. “It is a work of sorrow and of hope, a transcendent musical portrayal of the human condition and the beauty and fragility of life itself. This remarkable work will be forever associated with Syracuse University as it is performed around the world in the years to come.”

Bradley Ethington, professor of applied music and performance (conducting) in the Setnor School of Music, offers remarks prior to the Wind Ensemble performance at the Lockerbie Town Hall. (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

“Such Splendor” and “Angels Rising” were performed by the Hendricks Chapel Choir and Wind Ensemble, respectively, at the annual Remembrance Scholar Convocation, held in Hendricks Chapel on Oct. 20.

For Ronald Ditchek ’23, a member of the choir, the trip was especially poignant. Ditchek was one of three Remembrance Scholar alumni, including Micayla MacDougall ’22, G’23 and Tyler Youngman ’20, G’21, a Ph.D. student in the School of Information Studies, who performed as part of the Hendricks Chapel Choir (MacDougall also played the bassoon with the Wind Ensemble). During his year as a Remembrance Scholar, Ditchek represented Nicholas Vrenios and continues to do so.

A piper plays outside the Remembrance Room at Tundergarth Church in Lockerbie, Scotland. (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

One of Ditchek’s best memories of the trip is signing the book that was kept in a dedicated Remembrance room at Tundergarth Church. “Signing it meant so��much to me because it represented how a piece of me was left in Lockerbie. It signified a vow as to my commitment to looking back and acting forward for the 270 lives lost on Pan Am Flight 103,” he says.

Ditchek says visiting the Pan Am Flight 103 memorial in Dryfesdale Cemetery in Lockerbie was another major moment. “I saw a new way of remembering. I was able to lay stones for people who were just like us and learn new stories about the SU students and other passengers who were on the flight,” he says. “When I paid tribute to the victims at the garden, I did everything: said prayers for the lives lost, told stories to other SU students about those who were on the flight and thought about how my experiences in Lockerbie should be told to others, so the legacies of those on the flight are not lost.”

Student musicians outside Edinburgh Castle (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

Ben O’Connell, a graduate student in choral conducting in the Setnor School, says the trip left him speechless. “I can’t put to words the kindness and embrace we experienced from the people in Lockerbie. It is truly inspiring how welcoming and gracious the people are after all these years,” he says. “Seeing the memorials in person in the environment where the tragedy occurred put a true humanistic aspect that was missing from my experience with Remembrance Week, one that I wish all people could experience.”

O’Connell even found a personal connection to one of the victims, Colleen Brunner, who grew up in the same town as his mom.

Alie Fitt, an oboist in the Wind Ensemble, says she gained a deep appreciation for Remembrance Week and for the Syracuse students who represent the lives that were lost.

“When Dr. Ethington and Dr. Diem were preparing us to go abroad, we had many conversations about the importance of why we were going and the impact that this had on the Syracuse community. The true weight of the attack, though, didn’t really hit me until I was standing in front of the memorial in Lockerbie,” she says. “In that moment, I realized that these victims were the same age as me, enjoying college life and friends, and had goals and dreams just as I do. … Taking part in this Remembrance Tour was such a moving experience and one I will never forget.”

Peppie Calvar leads the choir at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. (Photo by Jennifer Klock)

Joseph Ossei-Little, graduate student, Hendricks Chapel Organ Scholar and member of the Hendricks Chapel Choir, says the trip connected him on a personal level with the incident that happened nearly 35 years ago.

“Singing in Tundergarth Church, which overlooks the field where the nose cone of the plane fell that day, signified a true connection for me. I was able to share in their grief and comfort everyone present with my voice and music,” he says. Performing “Such Splendor,” he says, brought him to tears.

“It gave me that resolve, in my heart, that never again should such acts of violence be allowed to happen and how I, can in my small way, share kindness and love to make the world a better place,” Ossei-Little says.

Ben Vermilyea, a graduate student, trombonist and graduate associate conductor with the Wind Ensemble, says the whole week was an extremely powerful and moving experience. “I was fortunate enough to conduct one of the pieces at the concert in the Lockerbie Town Hall. It was amazing to feel the connection between the students and the audience in the room,” he says. “Even though we had never met before, we were bonded by the music being made in remembrance to the events of 35 years earlier. I have never had as powerful of a music making experience than I had performing in the Lockerbie Town Hall, particularly when we performed ‘Angels Rising.’”

Timothy Diem, assistant professor of applied music and performance (conducting) in the Setnor School and Michelle Taylor, assistant director of operations in the Setnor School and “tour mom,” are pictured with members of the Wind Ensemble in St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.

The trip was the first experience of traveling outside of North America for percussionist�� and graduate student Alex Talerico G’24.

“The thing that stood out to me the most was just how accepting and friendly the people of Lockerbie were when we visited. The positive relationship between the town and the University was palpable and I was approached and accepted with open arms despite being a stranger to every person I met,” he says. “Performing musical works in Lockerbie Town Hall��specifically dedicated to the tragedy was incredibly poignant and evoked feelings I’m not sure I’ll ever experience again.”

Allison Pasco, a graduate student in orchestral conducting and music education and a flutist, has long felt a connection to Remembrance. She grew up in Oswego, New York, with Remembrance Scholar alumnus Tyler Youngman. “The trip was one of the most special and memorable opportunities throughout my years at Syracuse,” she says.

Pasco had two prominent solos in “Angels Rising.” “It made me think of all of the Remembrance Scholars I have known throughout the years and of Lynne Hartunian and Colleen Brunner, the two SUNY Oswego students who were victims in the tragedy,” Pasco says.

“The Syracuse University Wind Ensemble’s concert tour of the United Kingdom with the Hendricks Chapel Choir was a remarkable and memorable experience for our students,” says Ethington. “The concerts in London, Lockerbie and Edinburgh were once-in-a-lifetime performances before enthusiastic audiences.”

“Our hosts in Lockerbie were gracious and welcoming, and our shared history in remembering the tragic events of December 1988 resonates from generation to generation,” he says.

Video by Nick Dekaney ’26, a broadcast journalism major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Hendricks Chapel Choir

Roses and stones on the Wall of Remembrance (Photo by Angela Ryan)

Remembrance Week, the annual weeklong series of events planned by the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, will be held Sunday, Oct. 15, through Saturday, Oct. 21. Remembrance Week events are meant to memorialize the victims and further educate the campus community about terrorism. All activities are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit��. Those who require accommodations to fully participate in these events should contact Heather Ryerson at��315.443.5725 or by email at��hmryerso@syr.edu. The schedule is as follows:

All Week��

• , sixth floor of Bird Library, on display through Jan. 6, 2024: Curated by Pan Am 103 Archivist Vanessa St. Oegger-Menn, the exhibition documents the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The exhibition features materials donated to the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at the Special Collections Research Center by the victims’ loved ones and members of the investigative teams. The exhibition provides an overview of the disaster, investigation and first trial at Kamp van Zeist in the Netherlands. For more information or to request a tour, email pa103archives@syr.edu or call 315.443.0632.
• Empty Seats Display, Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle: The Empty Seats are the visual representation of the Syracuse University students lost aboard Pan Am Flight 103. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present. This year’s Remembrance Scholars will sit in solidarity in the chairs on Wednesday, Oct. 18, beginning at 9:15 a.m.
• Pen-and-ink drawings of the Syracuse University study abroad student victims will be on display in Hendricks Chapel.
• Blue and white flags, one for each of the Pan Am 103 victims, will be on display in the area between the Newhouse School and Schine Student Center. Also, the Hall of Languages, Hendricks Chapel and the JMA Wireless Dome will be lit in blue in honor of Remembrance Week.

Sunday, Oct. 15

• , Place of Remembrance, 6 p.m.: The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will begin Remembrance Week activities with a Candlelight Vigil to remember the 270 victims of Pan Am 103. In the event of rain, the vigil will be held inside Hendricks Chapel.

Monday, Oct. 16

• , Shaw Quad, 9 a.m.: Members of the University community are invited to paint stones that will be placed on top of the Wall of Remembrance during the Rose-Laying Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 20.

Wednesday, Oct. 18

• “Sitting in Solidarity,” Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle, 9:15 a.m.: The Remembrance and Lockerbie scholars will sit in the empty chairs on the Quad for 35 minutes.
• 7 p.m., Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall: The documentary tells the story of “Dark Elegy,” the memorial created by Suse Lowenstein, whose son, Alexander, was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing. A question-and-answer session with filmmaker Jill Campbell will follow.

Thursday, Oct. 19

• , Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall, 8 p.m.: An evening of music, poetry, art, dancing and more to honor the victims of Pan Am 103 and to celebrate life alongside the victims’ families and the current scholars. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and Communication Access Real-Time Translation will be available for this event.

Friday, Oct. 20

• ​, Place of Remembrance,��2:03 p.m.: This annual ceremony remembers the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002. American Sign Language interpretation will be available for this event.

• Remembrance Scholar Convocation, Hendricks Chapel, 3 p.m.​: This annual convocation will honor the 2023-24 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars. ASL interpretation and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be available for this event. A reception at the Syracuse University Art Museum Galleria in the Shaffer Art Building will immediately follow.

Saturday, Oct. 21

• Remembrance and Lockerbie scholars will perform community service in downtown Syracuse with We Rise Above the Streets.

The semester kicks off with several key events next week. All are free and open to the public.

Thursday, Sept. 14

4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building

• Onondaga Nation artist ceramic works exhibition, “,” is part of the museum’s 2023-24 Syracuse Symposium, “Landscape.” His work illustrates Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite attacks on the confederacy’s lands, sovereignty and cultural identity.

5 to 7 p.m.
Light Work, Watson Hall, 316 Waverly Ave.

• Photographs by taken in his childhood hometown of Phoenix, Arizona explore personal histories of family, community and environment.

5 to 7 p.m.
Light Work, Watson Hall, 316 Waverly Ave.

• Photographs from 2023 Grant in Photography award recipients Amy Kozlowski, Linda Moses and Tahila Mintz are featured.

Friday, Sept. 15

12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building

• Onondaga Nation artist Peter B. Jones will discuss how his art comments on the Haudenosaunee cultural continuance and the challenges the Haudenosaunee people have faced through time.

6 to 8 p.m.
La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otiso St., Syracuse

• Highlighting the works of Chicano artists Cayetano Valenzuela (Syracuse) and Zeke Peña (El Paso, Texas) “” focuses on Latino futurism and includes art by La Casita’s summer program youth. This community event kicks off La Casita’s fall season and observes Latine Heritage Month, which runs Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

• Local musicians perform music by African American jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane.

In addition, another exhibition opens the following week.

September 21

:
“In Pursuit of Justice: Pan Am Flight 103”
4:30 to 6 p.m.
Bird Library, 6^th floor gallery, 222 Waverly Ave.

• The exhibition documents the Dec. 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that claimed the lives of 270 individuals, including 35 students returning from studying abroad through Syracuse University. Featuring materials donated to Libraries’ Research Center by victims’ loved ones and investigative team members, the exhibition provides an overview of the disaster, investigation and first trial.

For details about current and upcoming exhibitions and other events hosted by the Coalition for Museums and Art Centers, refer to the throughout the year.

(Featured photo: “Bomba, 2022 by Eduardo L. Rivera)

The service will honor the 270 people, including Syracuse University study abroad students, who were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, on that date and time 34 years ago. Chaplains will offer prayers and reflections.

The event will also be offered virtually; . Personal reflections and memories, which can be submitted upon registration, may be included in the ceremony. Closed captioning will be provided. Requests for additional accommodations can be made by contacting Hendricks Chapel at chapelevents@syr.edu.

This service is offered in partnership with the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, Hendricks Chapel, and the Office of Alumni Engagement.

A memorial service at the Pan Am 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, organized by the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 families group, will take place simultaneously.

The convocation will be preceded by the annual Rose-Laying Ceremony at 2:03 p.m. at the Place of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages. This ceremony memorializes the 270 people, including several students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002.

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided at the Rose-Laying Ceremony, and ASL and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided at the convocation. The Rose-Laying Ceremony and convocation will be .

The Remembrance Scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents and corporations. Significant support for the Remembrance Scholarships has been provided by C. Jean Thompson ’66 and Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Richard L. Thompson G’67, H’15 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents; the Fred L. Emerson Foundation; Deborah Barnes and Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Steven W. Barnes ’82, H’19; and the Syracuse Association of Zeta Psi in remembrance of our brother, Alexander Lowenstein.

Applicants for the $5,000 scholarship are asked to highlight their academic achievements, creative pursuits, leadership activities and community service. They also wrote essays and participated in interviews with members of the selection committee.

Additionally, each year, two students from Lockerbie are selected as Lockerbie Scholars. They spend one year studying at Syracuse University on a scholarship before returning to the United Kingdom to complete their university degrees. Both Syracuse University and the Lockerbie Trust support this award. This year’s scholars, Zach Blackstock and Natasha Gilfillan, will be recognized at the convocation.

Chris E. Johnson, associate provost for academic affairs and professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, will preside over the convocation. A message will be delivered by Chancellor Kent Syverud and a Remembrance Scholar will speak on behalf of the group.

The 2022-23 Remembrance Scholars and their hometowns and majors are:

• David Barbier Jr. of Miami, Florida, a television, radio and film major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and an international relations major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences (A&S);
• Diane Benites of New Providence, New Jersey, a biology major in A&S;
• Mira Berenbaum of Los Angeles, California, an accounting major in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, a public relations major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Olivia Budelmann of Fayetteville, New York, a mathematics major in A&S; a Spanish language, literature and culture major in A&S; an environment, sustainability and policy major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Emma Dahmen of East Wenatchee, Washington, an economics major in the Maxwell School and A&S; a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School; a Spanish language, literature and culture major in A&S and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Cori Dill of San Diego, California, a political science major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a public relations major in the Newhouse School;
• Ronald Ditchek of Brooklyn, New York, a music education major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and School of Education;
• Dara Drake of Highland Park, Illinois, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Fabryce Fetus of Brooklyn, New York, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a public health major in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics;
• Karina Freeland of Burke, Virginia, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S;
• Kinley Gaudette of Salisbury, New Hampshire, a public health major in the Falk College; a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Riya Gupta of San Ramon, California, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S;
• Jaime Heath of Bridgeton, New Jersey, a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S; a political science major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School;
• Sifan Hunde of Washington, D.C., an international relations major in the Maxwell School and A&S, a psychology major in A&S and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Amanda Lalonde of Baldwinsville, New York, a psychology and forensic science major in A&S, a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program and a U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve veteran;
• Adam Landry of Nashua, New Hampshire, a civil engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) and member of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps;
• Ivy Lin of New York, New York, a creative writing major in A&S, a history major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Julianna Mercado of Holbrook, New York, a biochemistry and forensic science major in A&S;
• Jenna Merry of Overland, Kansas, an architecture major in the School of Architecture and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Josh Meyers of Livingston, New Jersey, a broadcast and digital journalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Ofentse Mokoka of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, an economics major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a writing and rhetoric major in A&S;
• Riley Moore of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, a communication and rhetorical studies major in VPA; a policy studies major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a creative writing major in A&S;
• Nadia Nelson of Suffern, New York, a policy studies and political science major in the Maxwell School and A&S;
• Janice Poe of Atlanta, Georgia, a chemistry major in A&S, a member of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps and a member of the U.S. National Guard;
• Mackenzie Quinn of Fredonia, New York, a sociology and political science major in the Maxwell School and A&S and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Maggie Sardino of Syracuse, New York, a writing and rhetoric major in A&S; a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Brielle Seidel of Hillsborough, New Jersey, a public health major in the Falk College;
• Car Shapiro of Lake Worth, Florida, an entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major in the Whitman School;
• Aidaruus Shirwa of Syracuse, New York, a policy studies and economics major in the Maxwell School and A&S;
• Louis Smith of Seneca Falls, New York, a biology major in A&S; a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Emily Steinberger of Burlingame, California, a photojournalism major in the Newhouse School; a management major in the Whitman School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Taylor Stover of Amherst, New York, an international relations and history major in the Maxwell School and A&S;
• Alesandra “Sasha” Temerte of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, an economics major in the Maxwell School and A&S; a writing and rhetoric major in A&S and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Amreeta Verma of Green Brook, New Jersey, an architecture major in the School of Architecture; and
• Jared Welch of Endicott, New York, an electrical engineering major in ECS and computer science and physics major in A&S.

This year marks the 34th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. The 2022-23 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars have planned events and activities to remember the 270 people who lost their lives in the tragedy.

Remembrance Week, the annual weeklong series of events planned by the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, will be held Sunday, Oct. 16, through Saturday, Oct. 22. Remembrance Week events are meant to memorialize the victims and further educate the campus community about terrorism. All activities are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit��. Those who require accommodations to fully participate in these events should contact Heather Ryerson at��315.443.5725 or by email at hmryerso@syr.edu. The schedule is as follows:

��All Week��

• 35 Empty Seats Display, Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle
  The 35 Empty Seats are the visual representation of the 35 Syracuse University students lost aboard Pan Am Flight 103. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present. This year’s Remembrance Scholars will sit in solidarity in the chairs on Monday, Oct. 17, beginning at 1:28 p.m.
• Pen-and-ink drawings of the 35 Syracuse University study abroad student victims will be on display in Hendricks Chapel.
• Blue and white flags, one for each of the Pan Am 103 victims, will be on display in the area between the Newhouse School and Schine Student Center. Also, the Hall of Languages, Hendricks Chapel and the JMA Wireless Dome will be lit in blue in honor of Remembrance Week.

Sunday, Oct. 16

• Music and Message, Hendricks Chapel, 4 p.m. and��Candlelight Vigil, Hendricks Chapel to the Place of Remembrance, 5:30 p.m.
  The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will begin Remembrance Week activities with a Music and Message collaboration with Hendricks Chapel that addresses themes of hope, resilience and action in the face of tragedy. The evening will conclude with a Remembrance Candlelight Vigil beginning at Hendricks Chapel and concluding at the Place of Remembrance.

Monday, Oct. 17

• “Sitting in Solidarity,” Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle, 1:28 p.m.
  The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will sit in the 35 empty chairs on the Quad for 35 minutes.

Tuesday, Oct. 18

• “Look Back, Act Forward Mural,” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Schine Student Center

Wednesday, Oct. 19

• “Look Back, Act Forward Mural,” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Schine Student Center
• Screening of “Seat 20D,” 7 p.m., Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
  The documentary tells the story of “Dark Elegy,” the memorial created by Suse Lowenstein, whose son, Alexander, was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing.

Thursday, Oct. 20

• Celebration of Life​, K.G. Tan Auditorum, National Veterans Resource Center at the Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Building, 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
  An evening of music, poetry, art, dancing and more to honor the victims of Pan Am 103 and to celebrate life alongside the victims’ families and the current scholars. American Sign Language interpretation will be available for this event.

��Friday, Oct. 21

• Lecture on “Trauma, Identity, Community and the 1988 Lockerbie Bombing,” Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library, 10 a.m.
  Researchers/criminologists Andy Clark of Newcastle University and Colin Atkinson of the University of the West of Scotland will discuss their recent criminological oral history research with first responders to the Lockerbie disaster site. This presentation is sponsored by the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at the Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center. Communication Access Real-Time (CART) will be provided.

• Rose-Laying Ceremony​, Place of Remembrance,��2:03 p.m.
  This annual ceremony remembers the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002. ASL interpretation will be available for this event.
• Remembrance Scholar Convocation, Hendricks Chapel, 3 p.m.​
  This annual convocation will honor the 2022-23 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars. ASL interpretation and CART translation will be available for this event. A reception at the SU Art Museum Galleria in the Shaffer Art Building will immediately follow.

Additionally, please look for upcoming dialogue-based events to be announced soon.

The lecture will feature Dr. Andy Clark of Newcastle University and Dr. Colin Atkinson of the University of the West of Scotland. They will discuss their recent criminological oral history research with first responders to the Lockerbie disaster site. Drawing upon an attentiveness to sensory experiences and the role of the senses in memory, they discuss three themes that emerged through their research interviews: the ways in which the event, and the memories of disaster scene, are narrated by responders through the lens of trauma and emotional response; the role of identity—particularly professional identity—in the narratives of responders; and the role of community in capturing the collective belonging of first-responders who were brought together as a result of the Lockerbie bombing. Themes discussed will resonate with other communities who have suffered through disasters.

This year marks the 34th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. Each year, the University’s Remembrance Week honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through the University, who lost their lives in the tragedy. The Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives in the Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center collects, preserves, and provides access to materials that document the bombing and its aftermath, and provides a place to personalize and honor the 270 victims, their families, and communities.

About the Presenters

Andy Clark

Dr. Andy Clark is a researcher with the Oral History Unit at Newcastle University, England. He has led several oral history projects on work, the labor movement, women’s history, factory closures, organized crime and, since 2019, the Lockerbie disaster. In 2021, Clark was awarded a prestigious New Investigator Award from the Economic and Social Research Council. His first book, “Fighting Deindustrialisation,” will be published by Liverpool University Press in November. Clark was born and raised in Greenock, Scotland, the town where convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi served his prison sentence prior to release in 2009, and the international media attention on the town sparked his initial interest in learning more about the tragedy.

Colin Atkinson

Dr. Colin Atkinson is a senior lecturer in criminology and criminal justice at the University of the West of Scotland. Before joining the University of the West of Scotland, he held the position of research fellow at the University of Glasgow. Colin’s research interests focus mainly upon the intersection of crime, policing, intelligence and security, particularly as these issues relate to terrorism and organized crime. Colin has a professional background in intelligence analysis and counterterrorism in Scotland and worked alongside several police officers with first-hand experience of the response to the Lockerbie disaster.

About Syracuse University Libraries

Syracuse University Libraries provides expertise, information, and tools for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and the community. With over 4.8 million volumes of resources accessed by 1.2 million physical visits and 1.3 million online visits annually, the Libraries provides information services, responsive collections, knowledgeable staff, and safe and accessible physical and digital spaces that encourage intellectual exploration. In so doing, the Libraries enable the creation of new knowledge, catalyze scholarly collaboration and cultural exchange, and advance Syracuse University’s teaching, learning and research mission.

The dean and chaplains of Hendricks Chapel will conduct a virtual remembrance service on Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 2:03 p.m. ET to honor the 270 people who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on the same date 33 years ago.

Thirty-five students studying through Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad (Syracuse Abroad) were lost in the tragedy.

The service will include prayers, reflections and a reading of the names of the 35 Syracuse University students who were lost aboard the flight.

The service will be broadcast live on Zoom. to receive the Zoom link.

The Chaplains’ Council of Hendricks Chapel holds the memorial service each Dec. 21 at 2:03 p.m., the exact time and date of the bombing of Flight 103 in 1988.

A service at the Pan Am 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, organized by the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, will take place simultaneously. Members of the 2021-22 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar cohorts will be in attendance.

For more information, contact Hendricks Chapel at 315.443.2901 or chapel@syr.edu.

This year marks the 33rd anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. The 2021-22 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars have planned events and activities—from exhibitions to screenings to a candlelight vigil—to honor the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the tragedy.

Remembrance Week, the annual weeklong series of events planned by the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, will be held Sunday, Oct. 17, through Saturday, Oct. 23. Remembrance Week events are meant to honor the victims and further educate the campus community about terrorism. All activities are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit . Those who require accommodations to fully participate in these events should contact Kelly Rodoski at��315.443.5381 or kahoman@syr.edu. The schedule is as follows:

All Week��

• 35 Empty Seats Display, Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle
  The 35 Empty Seats are the visual representation of the 35 Syracuse University students lost aboard Pan Am Flight 103. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present. This year’s Remembrance Scholars will sit in solidarity in the chairs on Monday, Oct. 18, beginning at noon.
• Remembering Through Multimedia, Schine Student Center Atrium
  A video wall display with a variety of content including videos from alumni, statements from current scholars, news coverage from Remembrance events and photo slideshows.
• A Drive to Remember, drop-off in Schine Student Center, Room 232
  The scholars, in partnership with InterFaith Works, are hosting a drive to collect seasonally appropriate new and recycled clothing to benefit Afghan refugees in Syracuse. Items may be dropped off now until Oct. 22 at 232 Schine or in dean’s offices. For more information, contact Abigail Tick at ajtick@syr.edu.
• Pen-and-ink drawings of the 35 Syracuse University study abroad student victims will be on display in Hendricks Chapel.
• Blue and white flags, one for each of the Pan Am 103 victims, will be on display in the area between the Newhouse School and Schine Student Center. Also, the Hall of Languages and Hendricks Chapel will be lit in blue in honor of Remembrance Week.

Sunday, Oct. 17

• Music and Message, Hendricks Chapel, 4 p.m. and Candlelight Vigil, Place of Remembrance, 6:15 p.m.
  The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will begin Remembrance Week activities with a��Music and Message collaboration with Hendricks Chapel that addresses themes of hope, resilience and action in the face of tragedy.��The evening will conclude with a Remembrance Candlelight Vigil at the Place of Remembrance at 6:15 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 18

• “Sitting in Solidarity,” Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle, noon
  The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will sit in 35 empty chairs on the Quad that will be arranged in the formation of the seats on the plane that the 35 students they represent were sitting in.
• Screening of “IMPACT,” Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library, 7 p.m.
  An original work by playwright Amy Engelhardt ’87, “IMPACT” tells the story of a chain of remarkable “follow-signs” that led Engelhardt to Lockerbie, Scotland, shortly after the 30th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. What starts out as a bucket-list trip quickly evolves into a personal and global exploration of grace, kindness and simplicity. An open discussion session with Engelhardt and Remembrance Scholar Caleb Sheedy will follow the screening. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be available for this event.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

• Screening of “Seat 20D,” Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall, 7:30 p.m.
  The documentary tells the story of Suse Lowenstein, mother of Syracuse University student and Pan Am 103 victim Alexander Lowenstein, and “Dark Elegy,” the sculpture collection she created as a memorial to the victims.

Thursday, Oct. 21

• Celebration of Life​, Schine 304 A, B and C, 7:30-9 p.m. (doors open at 7:15 p.m.)
  An evening of music, poetry, art, dancing and more to honor the victims of Pan��Am 103 and to celebrate life alongside the victims’ families and the current scholars. ASL interpretation will be available for this event.

Friday, Oct. 22

• Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives Pop-Up Exhibition, Hillyer Room, Sixth floor of Bird Library, 10 a.m. to noon
  This pop-up exhibition will include selections highlighting the Archives’ holdings related to the Dec. 21, 1988, terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, its aftermath, and the lives and legacies of the victims. Selections include contemporary media coverage of the disaster; records of the investigation, trial and victims’ services; materials related to Syracuse University memorials; and examples of the types of personal belongings that have been donated by the victims’ families. The pop-up exhibition is open to the public. For more information, email pa103archives@syr.edu.

• Rose-Laying Ceremony​, Place of Remembrance, 2:03 p.m.
  This annual ceremony honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying��abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am��Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar��Andrew McClune, who died in 2002. ASL interpretation will be available for this event.
• Remembrance Scholar Convocation, Hendricks Chapel, 3 p.m. ��​
  This annual convocation will honor the 2021-22 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars. ASL interpretation and Communication Access Real-Time (CART Translation) will be available for this event. The convocation will also be livestreamed; .

Post-Remembrance Week Activities

Following Remembrance Week, two Remembrance events will be held during Orange Central:

• Friday, Oct. 29: Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar Alumni Gathering, Noble Room Hendricks Chapel, 4:30-6 p.m. .
• Sunday, Oct. 31: Race to Remember, 9 a.m. registration, 10 a.m. race (check-in table at Schine Student Center on the Einhorn Family Walk)
  A 3.5-mile fun run, roll or stroll. Proceeds from this event will support the Remembrance Scholarship Fund. .

For more information on Remembrance Week 2021, visit .

The convocation honors the achievements of the 2020-21 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, and pays tribute to the Syracuse University students, Lockerbie residents and all those lost in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The Remembrance Scholarship, awarded to 35 Syracuse seniors chosen for distinguished scholarship, citizenship and service to the community, is one of the highest honors a Syracuse University student can receive. The Lockerbie-Syracuse Scholarships are awarded annually to two students from Lockerbie Academy to study at Syracuse University for one year.

The service will be offered on a Zoom webinar, and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided. .

Requests for additional accommodations can be made by contacting Hendricks Chapel at chapelevents@syr.edu by Monday, April 26.

The 2020-21 Remembrance Scholars are:

• Vasundhra Aggarwal of Delhi, India, a student in the School of Architecture and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Andrew Benbenek of Cicero, New York, studying broadcast and digital journalism through InclusiveU in the School of Education;
• Isaiah Brooks of Springfield, Virginia, an acting major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts;
• Cara Christian of Manhattan Beach, California, a theater management major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts;
• Linzy Dineen of Walkill, New York, a triple major in forensic science, biology and psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Amelia Dome of North Potomac, Maryland, a double major in public health in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and in policy studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs;
• Alimat Durodola of Brooklyn, New York, a double major in economics and policy studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Anna Feldman of New York, New York, an environmental engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Alexander Giudice of Nesconset, New York, a biology and neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Tighe Gugerty of Homer, New York, a double major in physics and philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Annelise Hackett of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, a public relations major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Justine Hastings of Brooklyn, New York, a dual major in English and textual studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and secondary English education in A&S and the School of Education and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Jewél Jackson of Louisville, Kentucky, a newspaper and online journalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Elizabeth Kunnel of Glenview, Illinois, a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Sarah Li of Chongqing, China, a triple major in policy studies and economics in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and in philosophy in A&S;
• Patrick Linehan of Derry, New Hampshire, a dual major in newspaper and online journalism in the Newhouse School and policy studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Lauren Miller of Arlington Heights, Illinois, a photojournalism major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Simran Mirchandani of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, a triple major in biochemistry and Spanish in the College of Arts and Sciences and in economics in A&S and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Victoria Munley of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a music education major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Education;
• Miranda Nemeth of Grand Island, New York, a triple major in international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, psychology in A&S and citizenship and civic engagement in the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Kylie Nikolaus of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, an electrical engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Josie O’Gorman of Knoxville, Tennessee, an advertising major in the Newhouse School;
• Osatohanmwen Onaghinor of Miami, Florida, a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• SehYeon Park of Sacramento, California, a policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Gabrielle Phillips of Rockville, Maryland, an inclusive elementary and special education major in the School of Education;
• Haley Robertson of Plymouth, Massachusetts, a magazine journalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Alec Rovensky of Oceanside, New York, a student in the School of Architecture and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Sameeha Saied of Orlando, Florida, a psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Pritika Seshadri of Simsbury, Connecticut, a double major in women’s and gender studies and English and textual studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Andrew Seymour of Northbrook, Illinois, a dual major in public relations in the Newhouse School and sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Canab Sheekh Nuur of Syracuse, New York, a political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Gursimar Singh of Warwick, New York, a public health major in the Falk College;
• Daijha Thompson of East Cleveland, Ohio, a dual major in public relations in the Newhouse School and political philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• D’Angelo Valdez of Miami-Dade County, Florida, a sociology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School; and
• Louisa Williams of Delran, New Jersey, a dual major in supply chain management in the Whitman School of Management and information management and technology in the School of Information Studies.

The 2020-21 Lockerbie Scholars are Aidan Kevans of Lockerbie, Scotland, and MaryAnn McVey of Templand, Lockerbie, Scotland.

Thirty-five students studying through Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad (Syracuse Abroad) were lost in the tragedy.

The service will include prayers, reflections and a reading of the names of the 35 Syracuse University students who were lost aboard the flight. Following the service, those in attendance will proceed to the Wall of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages, where a brief memorial statement will be offered and the Crouse Chimes will sound 35 times.

The Chaplains’ Council of Hendricks Chapel holds the memorial service each Dec. 21 at 2:03 p.m., the exact time and date of the bombing of Flight 103 in 1988.

A service at the Pan Am 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, organized by the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 families group, will take place simultaneously. Representatives from Syracuse University and members of the 2019-20 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar cohorts will be in attendance.

For more information, contact Hendricks Chapel at 315.443.2901.

The convocation will be preceded by the annual Rose-Laying Ceremony at 2:03 p.m. at the Place of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages. This ceremony honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002.

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided at the Rose-Laying Ceremony, and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided at the convocation.

The Remembrance Scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents and corporations. Significant support for the Remembrance Scholarships has been provided by C. Jean Thompson ’66 and SU Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Richard L. Thompson G’67, H’15 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents; the Fred L. Emerson Foundation; and Deborah Barnes and SU Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Steven W. Barnes ’82, H’19.

Applicants for the $5,000 scholarship are asked to highlight their academic achievements, leadership activities and community service. They also wrote essays and participated in interviews with members of the selection committee.

Additionally, each year, two students from Lockerbie are selected as Lockerbie Scholars. They spend one year studying at Syracuse University on a scholarship before returning to the United Kingdom to complete their university degrees. Both Syracuse University and the Lockerbie Trust support this award. This year’s scholars, Brodi Chambers and Rowan Chisholm, will be recognized at the convocation.

Linda Rougeau Euto, associate director for research and evaluation at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families and a member of the Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee, will preside over the convocation. Messages will be delivered by Chancellor Kent Syverud and Corri Zoli, associate teaching professor in the College of Law, director of research in the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism and a member of the Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee. A Remembrance Scholar will speak on behalf of the group.

The 2019-20 Remembrance Scholars and their hometowns and majors are:

• Hassina Adams of Johannesburg, South Africa, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Pamela Elaine Herbert;
• Adam Bayer of Chappaqua, New York, an information management and philosophy major in the School of Information Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Steven Russell Berrell;
• Mamoudou Camara of Queens, New York, a policy studies and political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School, representing Thomas Britton Schultz;
• Gabrielle Caracciolo of Franklin Square, New York, a broadcast and digital journalism and political science major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Mark Lawrence Tobin;
• Sarah Crawford of York, Pennsylvania, a writing and rhetoric and public relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Newhouse School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Richard Paul Monetti;
• Lauren Crimmins of Woodside, New York, a public relations and psychology major in the Newhouse School and the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Miriam Luby Wolfe;
• Michael DiNardo of Thornwood, New York, a supply chain management and psychology major in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Frederick “Sandy” Phillips;
• Charlene Fowajuh of Newark, Delaware, a psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Turhan Michael Ergin;
• Erin Gavle of Wiesbaden, Germany, a newspaper and online journalism major in the Newhouse School, representing Alexia Kathryn Tsairis;
• Julia Gregoire of Wethersfield, Connecticut, a communications sciences and disorders major in the College of Arts and Sciences, representing Anne Lindsey Otenasek;
• Cleo Hamilton of Syracuse, New York, a sport management major in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and member of InclusiveU in the School of Education, representing Eric M. Coker;
• Ahlam Islam of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a sociology and citizenship and civic engagement major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School, representing Suzanne Marie Miazga;
• Taylor Krzeminski of West Haven, Connecticut, an international relations and citizenship and civic engagement major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Shannon Davis;
• Rachel Lange of Carrollton, Virginia, a biochemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences, representing John P. Flynn;
• Joann Li of Shanghai, China, a broadcast and digital journalism and information management and technology major in the Newhouse School and the School of Information Studies, representing Gary L. Colasanti;
• Marshall Lipsey of West Orange, New Jersey, a political science and psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, representing Timothy M. Cardwell;
• Sabrina Maggiore of Pelham, New York, a broadcast and digital journalism and political science major in the Newhouse School, College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School, representing Karen Lee Hunt;
• Alizée McLorg of San Diego, California, a public health and neuroscience major in the Falk College and the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Wendy A. Lincoln;
• Bethany Murphy of Seekonk, Massachusetts, an environmental engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, representing Alexander Lowenstein;
• Molly Murphy of Leicester, Massachusetts, a social work major in the Falk College, representing Stephen John Boland;
• Hanna Nichols of Latham, New York, a policy studies and citizenship and civic engagement major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Cynthia J. Smith;
• Francesca Ortega of Miami, Florida, a television, radio and film major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, representing Louise “Luann” Rogers;
• Anna Poe of Stevensville, Maryland, an international relations and citizenship and civic engagement major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Nicole Elise Boulanger;
• Daniel Preciado of Panama City, Panama, a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School, representing Theodora Cohen;
• Alex Rouhandeh of Crystal Lake, Illinois, a magazine, policy studies and citizenship and civic engagement major in the Newhouse School, College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Christopher Andrew Jones;
• Sally Rubin of Evanston, Illinois, a television, radio and film and English and textual studies major in the Newhouse School and the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Sarah S.B. Philipps;
• Ghufran Salih of Chicago, Illinois, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies, representing Kenneth J. Bissett;
• Gaelyn Smith of Washington, D.C., an acting major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, representing Kesha Weedon;
• Izmailia Sougoufara of Cleveland, Ohio, a biology and neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences, representing Gretchen Joyce Dater;
• Morgan Trau of Moreland Hills, Ohio, a broadcast and digital journalism major in the Newhouse School, representing Amy Elizabeth Shapiro;
• Hanz Valbuena of Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Manila, Philippines, a television, radio and film major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, representing Peter R. Peirce;
• Mary Kate Washburn of Syracuse, New York, a health and exercise science major in the School of Education, representing Julianne F. Kelly;
• Allison Westbrook of Binghamton, New York, a sound recording technology major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, representing Nicholas Andreas Vrenios;
• Azarius Williams of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a finance and sociology major in the Whitman School, College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School, representing Scott Marsh Cory; and
• Tyler Youngman of Oswego, New York, an information management and technology and music history and cultures major in the School of Information Studies and College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Jason M. Coker.

Katie Berrell during Remembrance Week Scholars Convocation

Even though he passed away nearly a decade before she was born, Steven Russell Berrell has always been a strong presence in the life of his niece, Katie, a Syracuse University senior.

His smile radiates from the family pictures in her home, and from the pin that her grandmother, Sally Berrell, wears on her shoulder every day. He is always present in family stories.

Steve was killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. He was among the 270 victims of the disaster and one of 35 students returning from a semester of study abroad through the Division of International Programs Abroad (now Syracuse Abroad).

This year, Katie has had the opportunity to create a new special bond with her Uncle Steve. A native of Orono, Minnesota, Katie is an inclusive elementary and special education major in the School of Education, a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program and a 2018-19 Remembrance Scholar. She is representing Steve during her scholar year, and she is the first direct relative to represent one of the 35 Syracuse University student victims in the Remembrance Scholar Program’s 29-year history.

Steve, from Fargo, North Dakota, was a dual major in communications in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and marketing in the Whitman School of Management and a brother in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He was just 20 years old and returning home from spending the fall 1988 semester in London when he died.

Katie’s father, Rob Berrell, describes his younger brother as a natural leader—an outgoing person with a big and diverse group of friends. He had a natural affinity for tennis and the trumpet.

In “On Eagles Wings,” a memorial book published after the bombing, Steve is described as a loyal friend—a sensitive, considerate and caring person who reached out in a special way to many people.

“He loved to explore new places and ideas with imagination and an open mind,” his memorial statement says. “Steve had a deep respect and love for his family. He set high goals for himself and worked hard to attain them. His sense of humor and warm smile were always present.”

Katie grew up in a family in which her Uncle Steve was always there. “I don’t remember a specific moment in time when we became aware he was not physically with us,” Katie says. “I never felt like he was someone that I didn’t know.”

Steve had followed his older brother, Rob, to Syracuse. Katie’s parents, Rob and Karen, met at the University and both graduated in 1987. Her brother, Andy, is a prospective Syracuse student.

Katie grew up in a home infused with Syracuse spirit. She remembers her Syracuse cheerleader Barbie doll and how her parents would find a way to tune into Syracuse basketball games during their spring break family vacations.

Katie Berrell

Her parents encouraged her to explore her options when it came to selecting a college, but emphasized the importance of attending a school you can be proud of. Syracuse was her choice. She was impressed with the School of Education and its offerings and the campus—a big school with a smaller campus feel, she says. “I loved everything about Syracuse when I came here,” Katie says.

In high school, Katie volunteered with after school activities for students with disabilities and on her school’s Special Olympics team. “Those were some of my fondest memories from high school—working with and learning from students who were differently abled and who came from different backgrounds of my own,” she says.

In the School of Education, she has had an incredible experience learning about the inclusive model of teaching.��“I had not been formally introduced to inclusive classrooms until college and I have been��fascinated��by how impactful and��meaningful��a student’s experience can be in the classroom when their teacher is equipped with the resources and the knowledge of how to teach to their specific needs,” she says.

As a first-year student, Katie had intimate knowledge of the Pan Am 103 tragedy and the ways that Syracuse remembers those who were lost. Leo Wong ’14 was the Remembrance Scholar who represented Steve during the 2013-14 academic year. He developed a close connection with the Berrell family and had a strong influence on Katie.

“I met Leo Wong even before I was on campus,” Katie says. “He comes back to campus every year to remember, and put together this incredible scrapbook for my family this year with photos and reflections from scholars who represented my Uncle Steve in years past.”

“Leo has become a real part of our family, and I think that is a real hallmark of the Remembrance Scholars Program—the connection between the Scholars and the families,” she says.

Spending the Rose-Laying Ceremony with Katie each year that she has been a student at Syracuse, leading up to this year’s milestone moment to when she laid a rose on behalf of her Uncle Steve,��has been a true privilege,” Wong says.

Katie says this year’s Remembrance Week, held Oct. 28-Nov. 3, was overwhelming—in a good way. “I don’t even know how to describe my experience. I have seen it the past three years as it’s something I have been connected to and have helped out in different ways. This year I got a totally different, full circle understanding of the experience,” she says.

“I have such a deeper respect for the students that represent the victims; “I have never met more incredible people in my life,” Katie says of her fellow Remembrance Scholars. “Being a family member, I have always grown up knowing how important this was. Then, to see 34 other people with not as much of a personal connection but still wanting to be a part of carrying this legacy forward is very heartwarming. The Scholars really bond with the people they are representing.”

One of the highlights for Katie during Remembrance Week was the opportunity to meet several Syracuse alumni who were in London in the fall of 1988 with Steve. “That was a great moment for me,” she says. “I got to meet people who were his friends and could describe him and his experiences in other ways than what I have heard from my family.”

Rob Berrell represented the victims’ families at the Remembrance Scholar convocation in Hendricks Chapel on Nov. 2 and presented pins to each of the 35 Remembrance Scholars. It was a mix of emotions for him. In that role, he was remembering his brother, carrying the duty of representing the Pan Am 103 families, and watching as a proud parent as Katie was honored for her achievements as a student and a Remembrance Scholar. “We are very proud of her and were excited for her to have this experience,” she says.

Recently, Katie’s parents were cleaning out their basement and came across a box of postcards that Steve had sent from his travels abroad, including to Amsterdam. “I had all of those same experiences when I studied abroad in Madrid,” Katie says, yet another connection to Steve.

Katie plans to act forward, in the spirit of the Remembrance Scholars, in her role as a future inclusive elementary and special education teacher. Her desire to be a teacher was inspired by her grandmother, who was teacher in New Jersey for more than 35 years and won the state’s first Teacher of the Year award. “After three years of learning and practicing in the Syracuse City School District, that means so much more to me now,” she says. “I have seen firsthand the immense struggles that both my students and fellow teachers have had to go through just to provide meaningful learning opportunities for their students. Inclusivity is something that I will constantly strive to achieve in all��aspects��of my life after college.”

She one day hopes to create a summer program that follows the inclusive model of teaching so that students from all walks of life can come to learn and make connections to their community.��“Most importantly I want to be a teacher who helps students understand each other and respect the uniqueness in their peers,” she says. “Sometimes students learn the most from each other rather than only from their teacher.”

One thing that will stay with her forever is her experience as a Remembrance Scholar—an experience that is hard to put into words, she says.

“I have felt an even closer connection to my family since I have had the opportunity to sit down and talk about my uncle and the many incredible things that his legacy still leaves behind today,” she says.�� “This scholarship has blessed��me with��a��community of people who care so deeply about this tragedy and the families who were affected.

Katie says she was challenged and supported all at once with the responsibilities of being a scholar.��“I was challenged to better our University’s remembrance of the 35 Syracuse victims of Pan Am 103, as well as to sustain a legacy for all of the 270 people that were lost that day.”

“This scholarship has given me so much love and joy amidst all of the sorrow and sadness that comes with each passing year,” she says. “I have always looked up to the Remembrance Scholars each year, in awe of their individual accomplishments and their collective integrity.��I feel so honored to be a part of that legacy as both a scholar and as Steven’s niece.”

The service will include prayers, reflections and a reading of the names of the 35 SU students who were lost aboard the flight. Following the service, those in attendance will proceed to the Wall of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages, where a brief memorial statement will be offered and the Crouse Chimes will sound 35 times.

The Chaplains’ Council of Hendricks Chapel holds the SU memorial service each Dec. 21 at 2:03 p.m., the exact time and date of the bombing of Flight 103 in 1988.

A service at the Pan Am 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, organized by the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 families group, will take place simultaneously. Representatives from Syracuse University and members of the 2018-19 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar cohorts will be in attendance.

For more information, contact Hendricks Chapel at 315.443.2901.

The 2017 Rose-Laying Ceremony at the Place of Remembrance.

The 2018-19 Convocation for Remembrance Scholars, honoring 35 outstanding students from this year’s senior class, will be held Friday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.

The convocation will be preceded by the annual Rose-Laying Ceremony at 2:03 p.m. at the Place of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages. This ceremony honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002.

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided at the Rose-Laying Ceremony, and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided at the convocation.

The Remembrance Scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents and corporations. Significant support for the Remembrance Scholarships has been provided by C. Jean Thompson ’66 and SU Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Richard L. Thompson G’67, H’15 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents; the Fred L. Emerson Foundation; and Deborah Barnes and SU Board of Trustees Chairman Steven W. Barnes ’82.

Applicants for the $5,000 scholarship are asked to highlight their academic achievements and University activities, including community service. They also wrote essays and participated in interviews with members of the selection committee.

Additionally, each year, two students from Lockerbie are selected as Lockerbie Scholars. They spend one year studying at SU on a scholarship before returning to the United Kingdom to complete their university degrees. Both SU and the Lockerbie Trust support this award. This year’s scholars, Harriet Graham and Joseph Holland, will be recognized at the convocation.

Pamela Brandes, associate professor of management in the Whitman School and chair of the Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee, will preside over the convocation. Messages will be delivered by Chancellor Kent Syverud; Lawrence Mason Jr., professor of communications in the Newhouse School and the University’s Remembrance and Lockerbie ambassador; and Brian Asher, head teacher at Lockerbie Academy. A Remembrance Scholar will speak on behalf of the group.

The 2018-19 Remembrance Scholars and their hometowns and majors are:

• Kathrine Berrell of Orono, Minnesota, an inclusive elementary and special education major in the School of Education and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Steven R. Berrell;

• Kenneth Jerome Buckner Jr. of Atlanta, a finance and information management and technology major in the Whitman School and the School of Information Studies, representing John P. Flynn;

• Abigail Covington of Bowie, Maryland, a writing studies, rhetoric and composition major in the College of Arts and Sciences, representing Kesha Weedon;

• Dina Eldawy of Pensacola, Florida, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Miriam Luby Wolfe;

• Simone Girma of Miami, a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School and a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, representing Gretchen Joyce Dater;

• Grace Gugerty of Homer, New York, an anthropology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, representing Anne Lindsey Otenasek;

• Arva Hassonjee of Cranbury, New Jersey, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Peter R. Peirce;

• Claudia Heritage of Saratoga Springs, New York, a biochemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Sarah S.B. Philipps;

• Lorena Kanzki of Miami, a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School, a women’s and gender studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Karen Lee Hunt;

• Marcus Lane Jr. of Hartford, Connecticut, a policy studies and sociology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Suzanne Marie Miazga;

• Yongna (Yona) Lei of Alexandria, Virginia, a biochemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Cynthia J. Smith;

• Julia Leyden of Byram Township, New Jersey, an English and textual studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, a magazine major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Amy Elizabeth Shapiro;

• Audra Linsner of Clifton Springs, New York, an advertising major in the Newhouse School and a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, representing Christopher Andrew Jones;

• Hairol Ma of Fremont, California, an advertising major in the Newhouse School, an information management major in the School of Information Studies and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Pamela Elaine Herbert;

• William Cole Massie of Jackson, Ohio, a public relations major in the Newhouse School and a policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, representing Frederick “Sandy” Phillips;

• Kyra Meister of Ashburn, Virginia, a communications and rhetorical studies major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, a policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Jason M. Coker;

• Madeline Merwin of Clarksburg, California, a political philosophy major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Richard Paul Monetti;

• Idris Mohamed of Syracuse, a health and exercise science major in the School of Education, representing Scott Marsh Cory;

• Martina Morris of Bethpage, New York, a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Mark Lawrence Tobin;

• Kathryn Munster of Northridge, California, an applied mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Alexander Lowenstein;

• Abigail Neuviller of Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, an international relations and political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and communication and rhetorical studies major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, representing Thomas Britton Schultz;

• Abigail O’Reilly of Hopedale, Massachusetts, a computer art and animation major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, representing Wendy A. Lincoln;

• Dominika Peko of Jordanville, New York, an international relations and policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, representing Stephen J. Boland;

• David Robusto of Short Hills, New Jersey, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies and a policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, representing Theodora Cohen;

• Jezrel Sabaduquia of New York City, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies, representing Kenneth J. Bissett;

• Danielle Schaf of Shelby, Nebraska, an anthropology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, a forensic science and writing and rhetoric major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Alexia Kathryn Tsairis;

• Nathan Shearn of Amherst, New York, an anthropology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Gary L. Colasanti;

• Jake Smith of Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania, a magazine major in the Newhouse School and an English and textual studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, representing Louise “Luann” Rogers;

• Brianna Stahrr of North Syracuse, New York, an English and textual studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and English education major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education, representing Turhan Michael Ergin;

• Melanie Tacher of San Juan, Puerto Rico, a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, representing Julianne F. Kelly;

• Julia Trainor of Holden, Massachusetts, a political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, a public relations major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Nicole Elise Boulanger;

• Jacob Urban of West Chicago, Illinois, a finance major in the Whitman School, an energy and its impacts major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, representing Timothy M. Cardwell;

• Ankita Varman of Johns Creek, Georgia, a public relations major in the Newhouse School and a management major in the Whitman School, representing Eric M. Coker; and

• Brooke Waldon of Romulus, Michigan, a biomedical engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, representing Nicholas Andreas Vrenios.

The team will arrive on the Einhorn Family Walk in front of the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center at 3 p.m. Bagpipers will lead the cyclists up the walk to the front of the Schine Student Center, where a brief program will be held.

Members of the University community are invited and encouraged to attend and welcome the cyclists.

The Cycle to Syracuse team is composed of five cyclists. Four are first responders: Colin Dorrance, representing Police Scotland; David Walpole, representing the Scottish Ambulance service; David Whalley, representing the Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue; and Paul Rae, representing the Scottish Fire and Rescue. The fifth cyclist, Brian Asher, is the head teacher of Lockerbie Academy. The school shares a strong bond with Syracuse University, and is the school from which come the Lockerbie-Syracuse Scholars, who study at the University each year.

In addition to honoring the victims, the ride is intended to raise awareness of emergency services and mental health issues.

The ride has been completed in three stages. Students at Lockerbie Academy and surrounding primary schools rode exercise bikes or their own bikes at their local school throughout September and October, culminating in a final event at Lockerbie Academy on Oct. 10.

For the next stage, a 70-mile cycle ride from the memorial cairn at Lockerbie Academy to Edinburgh Castle took place on Oct. 13.

In the final stage, team members are cycling more than 600 miles from Washington, D.C., to Syracuse, arriving in time to participate in Syracuse University’s Annual Rose-Laying Ceremony to honor the 270 victims of Pan Am 103, including 35 SU students, lost on Dec. 21, 1988.

After a day of rest, the team was sent off from Lubin House, SU’s home in New York City, early in the morning of Oct. 30 by Dan French, University senior vice president and general counsel, and Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell. Laura Beachy, a 2011-12 Remembrance Scholar, led the cyclists out of the greater New York area.

More information on the memorial ride can be found at .

Remembrance Week, the annual weeklong series of events planned by the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, will be held Sunday, Oct. 28, through Saturday, Nov. 3. Remembrance Week events are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism. All activities are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit .

Those who require accommodations to fully participate in these events should contact Kelly Rodoski at��315.443.5381 or kahoman@syr.edu.

Activities include:

��Ongoing

��“We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103”—A commemorative exhibition of archival materials from the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives curated by Pan Am 103 Archivist and Assistant University Archivist Vanessa St.Oegger-Menn. This exhibition consists of materials donated to the Archives by the victims’ families, friends, advocates and affected communities, as well as photographs by Remembrance and Lockerbie Ambassador and Professor Lawrence Mason Jr., selected from his work for the book “Looking for Lockerbie.” The exhibition documents the terrorist act itself, as well as the many ways in which all 270 victims have been remembered. Through June 2019, sixth-floor galleries at E.S. Bird Library. Reproductions will be on display at Lubin House.

Distributed Photography Exhibition—An installation of photographs by Remembrance and Lockerbie Ambassador and Professor Lawrence Mason Jr. pertaining to Lockerbie, Scotland, and Pan Am Flight 103. On display at locations on main campus, Lubin House in New York City, Greenberg House in Washington, D.C., and Faraday House in London through mid-December.

Throughout Remembrance Week

Empty Chairs Exhibition—Thirty-five empty chairs on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad, an installation created by the 2012 Remembrance Scholars, juxtaposes the visual representation of the 35 students lost with good deeds inscribed upon the chairs. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present.

Miniature Cairn Exhibition—A miniature cairn, a traditional Scottish marker of remembrance, will be placed on the Shaw Quad.

Remembrance Week Pop-Up Museum and Art Displays—The museum, with information about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and Remembrance Week activities, will be located on the Einhorn Family Walk, outside of the Schine Student Center. Pen-and-ink drawings of the 35 student victims will be on display in the Panasci Lounge, located on the third floor of the Schine Student Center. Candid posters of the victims will be displayed in buildings throughout campus.

Education and Community Service—Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars are visiting classes around the Syracuse University campus to educate fellow students about the tragedy. They will also do informational tabling in the Schine Student Center and volunteer with the Food Recovery Network.

The following events will take place during Orange Central and in the lead up to Remembrance Week:

Saturday, Oct. 20—“Look Back, Act Forward,” a panel program and breakfast

with Remembrance Scholar alumna Alyssa Limberakis Milili ’06, Pan Am 103 family member Kara Monetti Weipz and Pan Am 103 Archivist Vanessa St.Oegger-Menn during Orange Central Weekend. Schine Student Center Room 304, 9-10:30 a.m.

��Sunday, Oct. 21—Race to Remember, a 3.5-mile fun run, roll or stroll during Orange Central Weekend. Proceeds will benefit the Remembrance Scholarship Fund. Einhorn Family Walk, 9 a.m. registration, 10 a.m. race. Registration and more information is available at .

Thursday, Oct. 25—“Demystifying Islam,” a panel discussion in partnership with the Muslim Student Association; 6:30 p.m., Room 204 of Maxwell Hall.

Friday, Oct. 26—Commemorative Tree Planting. Thirty-five saplings will be planted on the University’s South Campus to commemorate the 35 Syracuse study abroad students lost on Pan Am Flight 103. The activity is a collaboration of University College, Campus Planning, Design and Construction and Physical Plant. Planting will take place between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and volunteers are needed. Register to volunteer.

Saturday, Oct. 27—Family Weekend tours of the “We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103” exhibition will be given from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in E.S. Bird Library’s sixth floor galleries.

The Remembrance Week schedule includes:

Sunday, Oct. 28—A candlelight vigil will begin at Hendricks Chapel at 7 p.m., as part of the chapel’s weekly Dean’s Convocation, and proceed to the Wall of Remembrance, where the names of the 35 SU student victims will be read. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided.

Monday, Oct. 29
A panel discussion on “Overcoming the Traumas of Terrorism,” moderated by Karen Hall, assistant director of civic engagement and academic advising for the Renée Crown University Honors Program, will be held at 6 p.m. in 214 Slocum Hall. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided.

Tuesday, Oct. 30—The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars host 30 minutes of meditation at the Hendricks Chapel Noble Room at 10 a.m.

“A Conversation with James Kreindler,” sponsored by the Syracuse University Libraries and the College of Law. Melanie Gray Ceremonial Courtroom, Dineen Hall, College of Law, 4 p.m. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided. Kreindler was the architect of the $2.7 billion settlement against the Libyan government on behalf of the families of the victims.

Wednesday, Oct. 31—Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will tie commemorative ��ribbons on trees in the Orange Grove, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 1—Cycle to Syracuse Welcome Reception, Einhorn Family Walk, 3 p.m. Five cyclists from Lockerbie will conclude the Lockerbie Memorial Tour 2018, an event to honor the victims of Pan Am 103 and highlight emergency services. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided.

“A Celebration of Life Open Mic Night,” honoring the Pan Am 103 victims through the artistic talents of current scholars and students, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Panasci Lounge in the Schine Student Center. Doors open at 7 p.m.; event begins at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 2
The Annual Rose-Laying Ceremony, to remember the Syracuse students killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing, will be held at 2:03 p.m. at the Place of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided.

The Remembrance Convocation, honoring the 2018-19 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, will be held at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided. A reception will follow in the lobby of the Heroy Geology Laboratory.

Rose-laying ceremonies will happen at the University’s study abroad centers around the world during Remembrance Week. Additionally, members of the University community will wear commemorative buttons honoring all 270 victims of the tragedy during the Syracuse rose-laying and Remembrance convocation activities.

An Autumn Blaze Maple.

University College has organized a tree planting project with departments across campus to commemorate the 30^th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Working with Larry Mason, professor of visual communications in the Newhouse School and Syracuse University Remembrance and Lockerbie ambassador, University College responded to Chancellor Kent Syverud’s request that schools and colleges across campus consider initiating a positive project to help commemorate this significant anniversary.

In all, 270 men, women and children died in the terrorist bombing on Dec. 21, 1988. Thirty-five students studying abroad with Syracuse University were among the victims. Thirty-five trees, representing these students, will be planted on South Campus on Friday, Oct. 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The trees are a mix of Autumn Blaze Maples and Sienna Glen Maples. , a City of Syracuse initiative, will supply the trees at cost.

A Sienna Glen Maple.

Members of the planning committee include representatives from Campus Planning, Design and Construction (CPDC), Physical Plant’s (PP) buildings and grounds department, and Energy Systems and Sustainable Management (ESSM).

“This represents a great collaboration between the University and the City of Syracuse,” says Joseph Alfieri, director of CPDC, “and at the same time has significant environmental benefits.”

“The timing of the tree planting project coincides with Campus Sustainability Month [October],” adds Nathan Prior, ESSM director. “Not only will the trees be a living memory for the 35 students lost, the planting will help with the campus’ sustainability goals to mitigate carbon emissions. The trees will convert the carbon dioxide, about 48 pounds per year,��into food and growth.”

“When professor Mason came to University College asking us to consider becoming involved in a 30^th-annivesary endeavor, we were more than willing to participate,” says Eileen Jevis, communications manager and project coordinator. “So many of us remember that fateful day and the powerful impact it had on our community. What better way to commemorate this anniversary than planting a lasting reminder of those students who died.”

Jevis recounts that when she took the idea to colleagues across campus, it was met with enthusiasm and support. “From the very start, those in CPDC, ESSM and PP buildings and grounds were committed to making this happen,” she says. “Their support and involvment is testiment to our shared belief that this symbolic jesture of longevity, tranquility and life is an appropriate way to memorialize the students.”

Seventy volunteers are needed to help plant the trees. Holes will be pre-dug; however, it is suggested that those willing to help bring along a shovel and pair of gloves. Volunteer registration is . Volunteers should park in lot 161, Farm Acre Road on South Campus. University College will provide lunch at for volunteers and project partners.

For more information, contact Eileen Jevis at 315.443.3527 or ejevis@uc.syr.edu.

Follow Sustainability Management on , and to participate in the weekly “Greening the Orange” challenges that encourage students, faculty and staff to take one step each week to greening their lifestyles. Every Monday this month, @SustainableSU will post one sustainability challenge on all three social media platforms. Take a picture of yourself completing the task and tag @SustainableSU with #greeningtheorange, and you will be entered in a prize drawing. Multiple entries are allowed and encouraged, and increase the chance of winning. For complete challenge details, check out the website.

During the first week, individuals can test their recycling knowledge by participating in an . Compete against friends, coworkers or yourself to test your campus recycling expertise. Participants should use their syr.edu email address as a nickname to be entered into the drawing. Once the results are in, the top five scores from students, faculty and staff will be awarded a prize, made from recycled materials, after the conclusion of the week.

For those who live on South Campus and are interested in composting their food scraps, Sustainability Management is holding informational sessions throughout the month as part of the department’s goals to reduce overall waste on campus. Each year, composting, recycling and trash tonnage is recorded as part of the University’s . These figures also determine the ranking of the University in RecycleMania, the annual recycling and waste reduction competition involving colleges and universities across North America. Information sessions are Oct. 10, 11, 18, 22 and 23 at various times. Those who would like to take part in a session but did not provide an email address at the Goldstein Student Center during opening week should email sustain@syr.edu.

The documentary will be shown Tuesday, Oct. 16 in Watson Theater. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the film screening at 7 p.m. “River Blue” follows international river conservationist Mark Angelo across the globe as he addresses pollution associated with the fashion industry.

Students, faculty and staff are invited to stop by the Schine Student Center on Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to take part in the New York State Apple Crunch and support the state’s agriculture industry and locally grown foods.

To commemorate the 30^th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 bombing–in which 270 people died, including 35 students studying through SU’s Division of International Programs Abroad (now SU Abroad)–35 October Sky Maples will be planted near Sustainability Management’s new location in the Carriage House on South Campus. The tree planting is a collaboration of University College, Energy Systems and Sustainability Management, Physical Plant and Campus Planning, Design and Construction. Details will be announced soon.

Capping Campus Sustainability Month, Sustainability Management invites University community members to stop by E.S. Bird Library on Wednesday, Oct. 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to play “Fact or Fiction: Scary Sustainability Facts” and learn ways to help save the planet.

Sustainability Management is located at 161 Farm Acre Road. For more information on sustainability and recycling efforts, visit .

Among those killed in the bombing were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad in London, England, and Florence, Italy, through Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad (now Syracuse University Abroad).

Curated by Pan Am 103 Archivist and Assistant University Archivist Vanessa St.Oegger-Menn, the exhibition consists of archival materials donated by the victims’ families, friends, advocates and affected communities that document the lives of those lost and the ways in which they are remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths will not be forgotten.

The exhibition begins with an overview of the investigation of the bombing itself through photographs and original documents from the joint US/UK investigative team, as well as victims’ personal items returned from the crash site, and continues through the criminal case of two Libyan nationals at Kamp van Zeist, Netherlands.

The role of the victims’ families and allies in working toward justice and improved aviation security is an essential element of the story of Pan Am Flight 103. “We Remember Them” features legislation, correspondence, newsletters, memorabilia and photographs documenting their important work.

Just as this tragedy created unexpected bonds among individuals, it also brought together two communities—Lockerbie, Scotland, and Syracuse University. The exhibition explores the experiences and responses of both communities through clippings, publications, and other materials.

The majority of the exhibition focuses on the many and diverse ways the victims have been remembered and memorialized—through artwork and publications, scholarships, archives and physical spaces.

Items on display include a maquette for “Dark Elegy,” fragments of the Place of Remembrance, architectural plans and models for the Lockerbie Cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, the photography of Newhouse professor Lawrence Mason Jr., and an array of other archival sources.

The exhibition concludes with a visual recreation of the memorial book “On Eagles’ Wings,” consisting of photographs of the 270 victims alongside their name, birth date, seat number and home country.

The exhibition will be on display in Bird Library’s sixth floor gallery through June 2019.

Angie Pati, a 2017-18 Remembrance Scholar, lays a rose in memory of Frederick “Sandy” Phillips during the Rose-Laying Ceremony in 2017.

The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students, who were returning from a semester of study in London and Florence, were among the 270 people who perished in the bombing.
The scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents and corporations.

Significant support for the Remembrance Scholarships has been provided by C. Jean Thompson ’66 and Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Richard L. Thompson G’67 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents; Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman Steven Barnes ’82 and Deborah Barnes; and by the Fred L. Emerson Foundation.

Selection Process
Remembrance Scholars are chosen in their junior year through a rigorous, competitive process. Applicants write three essays as part of a comprehensive application, and finalists are interviewed by members of the selection committee, composed of University faculty, staff and current Remembrance Scholars. The $5,000 scholarships are awarded on the basis of distinguished academic achievement, citizenship and service to the community. More than half of the new scholars are members of the distinguished Renée Crown University Honors Program.

“The Remembrance Scholars are a wonderful, eclectic mix of all that’s great on the Syracuse University campus,” says Pamela Brandes, associate professor in the and chair of the Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee. “We look forward to seeing how they blend their creativity and talents in memory of those lost, not only during Remembrance Week, but also throughout the year.”

The scholars will be recognized during a convocation in Hendricks Chapel on Friday, Nov. 2.

Additionally, the 2018-19 Lockerbie Scholars, Harriet Graham and Joseph Holland, were recently selected. Each year, two students from Lockerbie come to Syracuse for a year of study through the Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholarships, jointly funded by Syracuse University and the Lockerbie Trust.

The 2018-19 Remembrance Scholars, their hometowns, colleges and majors are:

• Katie Berrell of Long Lake, Minnesota, an inclusive elementary and special education major in the and member of the ;
• Kenneth Buckner of Newnan, Georgia, a finance major in the Whitman School of Management and an information management and technology major in the ;
• Abigail Covington of Bowie, Maryland, a writing and rhetoric major in the ;
• Dina Eldawy of Pensacola, Florida, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the , a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Simone Girma of Miami, Florida, a television, radio and film major in the ,��and a citizenship and civic engagement major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Grace Gugerty of Cortland, New York, an anthropology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Arva Hassonjee of Cranbury, New Jersey, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Claudia Heritage of Saratoga Springs, New York, a biochemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Lorena Kanzki of Miami, Florida, a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School, a women’s and gender studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Marcus Lane Jr. of Hartford, Conn., a policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Yongna Lei of Alexandria, Virginia, a bioengineering major in the and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Julia Leyden of Newton, New Jersey, and English and textual studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, a magazine major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Audra Linsner of Clifton Springs, New York, an advertising major in the Newhouse School, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Hairol Ma of Fremont, California, an advertising major in the Newhouse School, and information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• William Massie of Jackson, Ohio, a policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and a public relations major in the Newhouse School;
• Kyra Meister of Ashburn, Virginia, a communication and rhetorical studies major in the , a policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Madeline Merwin of Clarksburg, California, a political philosophy major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Mary Mik of Syracuse, New York, a nutrition major in the and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Idris Mohamed of Coon Rapids, Minnesota, a health and exercise science major in the ;
• Martina Morris of Bethpage, New York, a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Kathryn Munster of Northridge, California, an applied mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Abigail Neuviller of Lackwaxen, Pennsylvania, a communication and rhetorical studies major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and an international relations and political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Abigail O’Reilly of Hopedale, Massachusetts, a computer art and animation major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
• Dominika Peko of Jordanville, New York, an international relations and policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• David Robusto of Short Hills, New Jersey, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies and policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School;
• Jezrel Sabaduquia of Jamaica, New York, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies;
• Danielle Schaf of Shelby, Nebraska, an anthropology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School; a forensic science and writing and rhetoric major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Nathan Shearn of Amherst, New York, an anthropology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Jake Smith of Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania, a magazine major in the Newhouse School and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Brianna Stahrr of Syracuse. New York, an English and textual studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and an English education major in Arts and Sciences and the School of Education.
• Melanie Tacher of San Juan, Puerto Rico, a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Julia Trainor of Holden, Massachusetts, an political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School; a public relations major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Jacob Urban of West Chicago, Illinois, an energy and its impacts and finance major in the Whitman School and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Ankita Varman of Johns Creek, Georgia, a management major in the Whitman School and a public relations major in the Newhouse School; and
• Brooke Waldon of Romulus, Mich., a bioengineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Professor Lawrence Mason Jr. (right) pauses while photographing at the Lawn Bowling Club in Lockerbie, Scotland, to pose next to Jimmy Pagan, perhaps Lockerbie’s best-known resident. Photo by Jeff Costello.

Chancellor Kent Syverud has appointed Lawrence Mason Jr., professor of multimedia, photography and design in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, as the first Syracuse University Remembrance and Lockerbie ambassador. In this new capacity, Mason will play leadership roles with the Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee, Lockerbie Scholar selection, defining and enhancing the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar experience, and continuing to deepen and strengthen sustainable bonds between Syracuse University, the families of Pan Am Flight 103 victims and the Lockerbie region of southern Scotland.

“Our collective remembrance is critical to Syracuse University and to me,” says Chancellor Syverud. “It is important that the legacy of Pan Am 103 continues to live and thrive well on the Syracuse University campus in the years and decades to come. With his 44 years at SU��as a graduate student, professor and scholar, and��with the last 29 years focused��on��the legacy of Pan Am 103, Professor Mason��is the right person to help us put a strategy in place to ensure that happens.”

In the nearly 30 years since Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a terrorist bomb in the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland, Mason has been a staunch guardian of the Pan Am 103 legacy on the Syracuse University campus and around the globe. For Mason, the tragedy—and the importance of the victims’ legacy—is personal. He was a faculty member at SU on Dec. 21, 1988, when the bombing took the lives of 259 passengers and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie. Eight of Mason’s students were among the victims.

Mason has worked tirelessly to teach others that Lockerbie should not solely be defined by the 1988 tragedy. Mason is a well-known and loved visitor in Lockerbie. He has traveled there 15 times and developed strong relationships with local community members. Using the deep connections he has built, Mason has taken over 100 students to Lockerbie, including some who studied with him at the Syracuse University London Centre. He and fellow Newhouse professor Melissa Chessher co-authored the book, “Looking for Lockerbie.” The book, through Mason’s writing and photographs, Chessher’s writing and editing, and extensive student reporting and photography, tells stories of the town that extend beyond the global disaster spotlight.

In the ensuing years, Mason has helped to choose the students who earn the University’s prestigious Remembrance scholarship; has been part of the planning of University commemorations; and has built a strong relationship between the town of Lockerbie and Syracuse University.

The Remembrance and Lockerbie scholarships were established in 1990 to honor the victims of the tragedy. Each spring, 35 rising seniors are awarded Remembrance Scholarships through a competitive interview process based on academics, service, leadership and their knowledge of the tragedy.

Two Lockerbie Academy seniors are awarded Lockerbie Scholarships each year to study at Syracuse University for one year. They are enrolled for a full slate of courses and participate fully in the life of the University. Together, the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars plan the University’s annual Remembrance Week activities. Since the inception of the two programs, 980 Remembrance Scholars and 56 Lockerbie Scholars have been selected and have worked to further the Pan Am 103 legacy.

“I am deeply honored that Chancellor Syverud has asked me to shepherd the University’s efforts to ‘look back and act forward’ on behalf of Remembrance,” says Mason. “It’s important that our lost 35 student colleagues continue to live on, not only in the hearts of their families, but also at the University they loved. They are a vital part of our unique history. The loss of our students has unexpectedly fostered deep bonds between Syracuse and Lockerbie, proving that love ultimately triumphs over hate. Over time, I hope to increase traffic back and forth between Syracuse and the lovely town of Lockerbie to continue to develop these bonds.”

This fall, Syracuse University will honor the 30th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy. More information about the events surrounding the anniversary will be available later this semester.

About Syracuse University

Founded��in 1870, Syracuse University is a private international research university��dedicated to advancing knowledge and fostering student success through teaching��excellence,��rigorous scholarship and interdisciplinary research. Comprising 11��academic schools and colleges, the University has a long legacy of excellence��in the liberal arts, sciences and��professional disciplines that prepares��students for the complex challenges and emerging opportunities of a rapidly��changing world. Students enjoy the resources of a 270-acre main��campus and��extended campus venues in major national metropolitan hubs and across three��continents. Syracuse’s student body is among the most diverse for an��institution of its��kind across multiple dimensions, and students typically represent��all 50 states and more than 100 countries. Syracuse also has a long legacy of��supporting veterans and is home to��the nationally recognized Institute for��Veterans and Military Families, the first university-based institute in the��U.S. focused on addressing the unique needs of veterans and their��families.

Attendees process from Hendricks Chapel to the Place of Remembrance after last year’s Pan Am 103 Remembrance Service.

The service will include prayers, reflections and a reading of the names of the 35 SU students who were lost aboard the flight. Following the service, those in attendance will proceed to the Wall of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages, where a brief memorial statement will be offered and the Crouse Chimes will sound 35 times.

The Chaplains’ Council of Hendricks Chapel holds the SU memorial service each Dec. 21 at 2:03 p.m., the exact time and date of the bombing of Flight 103 in 1988.

A service at the Pan Am 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, organized by the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 families group, will take place simultaneously. Representatives from Syracuse University and members of the 2017-18 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar cohorts will be in attendance.

For more information, contact Hendricks Chapel at 315.443.2901.

The service will include prayers, reflections and a reading of the names of the 35 SU students who were lost aboard the flight. Following the service, those in attendance will proceed to the Wall of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages, where a brief memorial statement will be offered and the Crouse Chimes will sound 35 times.

The Chaplains’ Council of Hendricks Chapel holds the SU memorial service each Dec. 21 at 2:03 p.m., the exact time and date of the crash of Flight 103 in 1988.

A service at the Pan Am 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, organized by the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 families group, will take place simultaneously. Representatives from Syracuse University and members of the 2016-17 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar cohorts will be in attendance.

For more information, contact Hendricks Chapel at 443-2901.

Judith O’Rourke

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for students, and proceeds benefit the center’s program.

O’Rourke is retired director of the Center for Fellowship and Scholarship Advising at Syracuse University. She was responsible for developing programs to support academic excellence, as well as recruiting and advising students eligible for prestigious scholarships.

One of the University’s initial responders to the Pan Am 103 tragedy, O’Rourke is a longtime mentor to the University’s Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars and a board member of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 organization.

For more information, contact the Westcott Community Center at 315.478.8634.

White roses rest on the Wall of Remembrance during the Rose Laying Ceremony Friday.�� (Photos by Steve Sartori)

The annual Rose Laying ceremony to remember the Syracuse students killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing and the Remembrance Convocation to recognize the 2016-17 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars were held Friday.

The events were part of Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2016. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

View some photos from Friday’s events.

Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars walk toward the Place of Remembrance Friday.

Remembrance Scholar Nigel Miller places a rose on the Wall of Remembrance during the Rose Laying Ceremony Friday.

Bagpiper Avery Head performs during the Rose Laying Ceremony Friday.

Lockerbie Scholars Sian McLaughlin and Shona Beattie speak during the Rose Laying Ceremony at the Place of Remembrance.

Remembrance Scholar Katherine Barymow places a rose on the Wall of Remembrance.

An exhibition of 35 empty chairs on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad, an installation created by the 2012 Remembrance Scholars, juxtaposes the visual representation of the 35 students lost with good deeds inscribed upon the chairs. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present.

Remembrance Scholar Malik Evans speaks during the Convocation Friday at Hendricks Chapel.

Remembrance Scholars listen to the speakers during Convocation in Hendricks Chapel Friday.

Remembrance Scholar T.J. Wells shakes hands with Chancellor Kent Syverud during the Convocation ceremony Friday in Hendricks Chapel.

Professor Larry Mason speaks during the Remembrance Convocation Friday in Hendricks Chapel.

The Remembrance Convocation was held Friday in Hendricks Chapel.

The 2016-17 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2016 will be held on campus Sunday, Oct. 23, through Saturday, Oct. 29.

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2016 will be held on campus Sunday, Oct. 23, through Saturday, Oct. 29. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships—one for each of the 35 student victims—are awarded in the amount of $5,000 to undergraduate seniors representing a broad range of majors. The Remembrance Week events planned and hosted by the students are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism. Remembrance Week activities are all free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

All week
Pen-and-ink drawings of the 35 student victims will be on display in the Panasci Lounge, located on the third floor of the Schine Student Center. Candid posters of the victims will be displayed in buildings throughout campus.

An exhibition of 35 empty chairs on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad, an installation created by the 2012 Remembrance Scholars, juxtaposes the visual representation of the 35 students lost with good deeds inscribed upon the chairs. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present.

Remembrance Scholars will visit classes around the Syracuse University campus to educate fellow students about the tragedy. Remembrance Scholars will also work with local youth on a poetry project at ELMS Middle School, a photography project at Ed Smith School and at the Boys and Girls Club Central Village.

At the card making events listed below, the scholars will collect donations of canned goods and other non-perishable food items to benefit the Hendricks Chapel Food Pantry. Donations may also be dropped off in the Hendricks Chapel Dean’s Office.

Hendricks Chapel will be lit in blue during Remembrance Week.

The Remembrance Week schedule includes:

Sunday, Oct. 23
A candlelight vigil will begin at 7 p.m. in Rooms 304A, B and C of the Schine Student Center and conclude at the Wall of Remembrance.

Monday, Oct. 24—#REMEMBER

Members of the University community are invited to join the Remembrance Scholars in making cards for first responders from 9 a.m. to noon in Schine Student Center Room 228.

A pop-up museum, with information about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and Syracuse University’s Remembrance activities, will be set up on the Einhorn Family Walk (Promenade) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A panel discussion on “Doing Memory, Doing Justice” will be held at 7 p.m. in Slocum Auditorium. An interdisciplinary group of scholars and activists will address the politics of memory as a mediated and malleable force. Beginning from reflections on their research and activism around traumatic memory and narratives of terrorism, the panel speakers will encourage a discussion of the challenges of remembering the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Panelists will include Shannon Novak, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School; Lynne Jackson, co-founder of Project SALAM (Support and Legal Advocacy for Muslims); and Charisse L’Pree Corsbie-Massay, assistant professor of communications at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The panel will be moderated by Farrell Greenwald Brenner, a 2016-17 Remembrance Scholar, and Ahmed Malik, Syracuse University Muslim chaplain.

Tuesday, Oct. 27—#SERVICE

Members of the University community are invited to join the Remembrance Scholars in making cards for first responders from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Schine Atrium.

“A Celebration of Life” will be held at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Students will present an evening of performances and remembrances to honor and celebrate the lives of those lost on Pan Am Flight 103.

Wednesday, Oct. 26—#UNITY

Members of the University community are invited to join the Remembrance Scholars in making cards for first responders from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Schine Atrium.

The Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series event on “Islamophobia on Campus” is part of Remembrance Week and will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Noble Room of Hendricks Chapel. The series is sponsored by the Disability Cultural Center and Hendricks Chapel.

Thursday, Oct. 27—#RESILIENCE

Members of the University community are invited to join the Remembrance Scholars in making cards for first responders from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Schine Atrium.

Materials from the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives will be on display from 2-5 p.m. in the Spector Room, 608 Bird Library.

The recent PBS documentary “My Brother’s Bomber” by Ken Dornstein will be shown beginning at 6 p.m. in Newhouse 3, Room 141. Dornstein’s brother, David, was a victim of the Pan Am 103 bombing.

Friday, Oct. 28—#ACTFORWARD

Materials from the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives will be on display from 9 a.m. to noon in the Spector Room, 608 Bird Library.

The Annual Rose Laying ceremony, to remember the Syracuse students killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing, will be held at 2:03 p.m. at the Place of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages.

The Remembrance Convocation, honoring the 2016-17 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, will be held at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.

For information on Remembrance Week activities, visit or Twitter at #SURemembrance2016.

Erin McLaughlin

In 2007, Erin McLaughlin became the first Lockerbie Scholar to earn an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University. Typically, these outstanding scholars from Lockerbie, Scotland, study in Syracuse for only a year, representing the 11 Lockerbie residents who died in the Pan Am 103 disaster. McLaughlin quickly realized that one year in Syracuse would not be long enough. Now, nearly a decade after graduating from Syracuse University with a degree from the College of Arts and Sciences, McLaughlin has been granted permanent residency to the United States.

Q: When you came to Syracuse University as a Lockerbie Scholar, did you imagine calling the United States your permanent home?

A: I came into the Syracuse/Lockerbie scholarship knowing and planning for a one-year experience. I was only 17 and was looking at it as a gap year before going back to Scotland to start at the University of Glasgow. However, by October of my freshman year, I couldn’t imagine not spending the next four years of my life at Syracuse University.

I worked very hard with Judy O’Rourke [Syracuse University staff member and the Syracuse facilitator of the Lockerbie Scholarships] to find ways to be the first Lockerbie Scholar to stay on and graduate from Syracuse University. By becoming a resident advisor, earning a merit scholarship from the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs, and receiving support from my selfless parents, I was able to continue on. Being chosen as a Remembrance Scholar during my senior year was very special and really brought my time at Syracuse full circle.

Recently, my parents sent me a picture of a letter I wrote to myself when I was 8 years old after a vacation to the United States. In the letter, I wrote about wanting to live in America and visiting New York. I had no recollection of writing it, but it appears that when you put something out in the universe, you can make it happen!

Q: When you look back on it, what has your Syracuse University experience meant to you?

A: Syracuse University and the connections I made there were life-changing. I grew immeasurably in confidence and independence, and I have made lifelong connections. The connection I had with faculty and staff allowed me to try a lot of new things. Being president of a student club (Association for Student-Elderly Connection), acting in a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the drama department, and researching and writing an honors thesis are just a sample of the opportunities I had available to me and I am forever grateful.

Q: How did Syracuse University change your life or help you get to where you are today?

A: As a resident advisor, I was exposed to the career field of higher education administration. After Syracuse University, I went on to pursue a master’s degree at New York University. Mentors, such as Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, Judy O’Rourke, Professor Chris Kyle and Kathleen MacLachlan NP, showed me the ways the University is set up to support and encourage the growth of every individual student—whether socially, academically or personally. This really propelled me into the field of student affairs, where I now work in Career Services at Fordham University under the leadership of Senior Vice President of Student Affairs Jeffrey Gray G’81. With his support, I was able to get sponsored for my permanent residency for my work in student affairs. I hope that through my work and community involvement, I can support, engage and lead those that I come into contact with.

Q: What’s your favorite memory of your time at Syracuse University?

A: This is an impossible question! I have so many. From living off-campus senior year with my best friends to being the mentor resident advisor for the Skyhalls during their inaugural year housing first-year students, I definitely had plenty of laughs.

One of the most poignant memories was Remembrance Week during my senior year. I worked with my fellow scholars to plan the rose-laying ceremony and to create the “Celebration of Remembrance.” I was chosen to represent the group and to speak at the service at Hendricks Chapel. I am always honored to represent Lockerbie and Scotland and doing so as a Remembrance Scholar gave me an even deeper connection to the Syracuse University students who lost their lives.

Q: As an alumna in the New York City region, how have you enjoyed connecting with other alumni in the area?

A: The great thing about Syracuse University is that everywhere you go, you can connect with new alumni. I was recently in San Francisco and went to the SU vs. Georgetown game watching party that was organized by the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Northern California Alumni group. It was wonderful to reconnect with friends but also to meet and learn about the great things that Syracuse alumni are doing nationwide.

I have also been involved with the Syracuse University Mentor/Mentee Alliance program and the Generation Orange Leadership program through Lubin House in New York City. Syracuse University changed my life and so for me it is incredibly important to maintain and increase my Syracuse network.

In honor of Remembrance Week. Photo by Chase Guttman ’18

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2015 was held last week. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

The 35 Remembrance Scholars plan and host the events to honor the victims and further education about terrorism. Here is a look at some of the events.

Remembrance Scholars Rose Laying Ceremony. Photo by Steve Sartori

Photo by Steve Sartori

Remembrance Scholars Convocation. Photo by Steve Sartori

Wall of Dreams. Photo by Chase Guttman ’18

Photo by Chase Guttman ’18

Photo by Chase Guttman ’18

Photo by Chase Guttman ’18

Photo by Chase Guttman ’18

2014-15 Lockerbie Scholars Megan Noble and Will Beech honor the Lockerbie victims of the Pan Am 103 bombing during the 2014 Rose-Laying Ceremony at the Wall of Remembrance.

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2015 will be held on campus Sunday, Oct. 25, through Saturday, Oct. 31. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships—one for each of the 35 student victims—are awarded in the amount of $5,000 to undergraduate seniors representing a broad range of majors. The Remembrance Week events planned and hosted by the students are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism. Remembrance Week activities are all free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

All week
Pen-and-ink drawings of the 35 student victims, and photos of the “Dark Elegy” sculptures created by Suse Lowenstein, will be on display in the Panasci Lounge, located on the third floor of the Schine Student Center.

An exhibition of 35 empty chairs on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad, an installation created by the 2012 Remembrance Scholars, juxtaposes the visual representation of 35 students lost with good deeds inscribed upon the chairs. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present.

A “Wall of Hopes and Dreams” will be located in the Huntington Beard Crouse Hall plaza. All members of the University community are invited to add their dreams to the wall.

A Remembrance dove sculpture will be located in the atrium of the Whitman School of Management building. All are invited to add a memorial ribbon to the sculpture.

Remembrance Scholars will visit classes and various sporting events around the Syracuse University campus to educate fellow students about the tragedy.

The Hall of Languages will be lit in blue during Remembrance Week.

At each of the following events listed below, the Scholars will collect donations of canned goods and other non-perishable food items to benefit to benefit those in need in the community. The week’s schedule includes:

Sunday, Oct. 25
A candlelight vigil will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Hendricks Chapel and conclude at the Wall of Remembrance.

Monday, Oct. 26
The recent PBS documentary “My Brother’s Bomber” by Ken Dornstein will be shown beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Slocum Auditorium. Dornstein’s brother, David, was a victim of the Pan Am 103 bombing.

Tuesday, Oct. 27
A panel discussion on “Terrorism in the Internet Age” will be held at 7 p.m. in Room 500 of the Hall of Languages. Panelists include:
• William Banks—interim dean, College of Law; professor of public administration and international affairs; director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT)
• Sean O’Keefe G’78—University Professor and expert on national security. His former roles include chairman of Airbus Group, president of Louisiana State University and director of NASA
• Bryan Semaan—assistant professor in the School of Information Studies and co-director of the Behavior-Information-Technology-Society Lab (BITS)

Wednesday, Oct. 28
The Remembrance Scholars will make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the Samaritan Center in Syracuse to help those in need. Members of the campus community are invited to join in this effort starting at noon in Rooms 304A, B and C of the Schine Student Center.

Later that day, scholars will volunteer at a Halloween party at Northeast Community Center. Former Remembrance and Lockerbie scholars across the country and world will participate in service events in honor of Remembrance Week.

Also on this day, Insomnia Cookies on Marshall Street will donate 10 percent of each sale to the Ronald McDonald House in Syracuse in recognition of Remembrance Week.

Thursday, Oct. 29
Materials from the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives will be on display from 2-5 p.m. in the Spector Room, 608 Bird Library.

“A Celebration of Life” will be held at 7 p.m. in the Panasci Lounge in the Schine Student Center. Students will present an evening of performances and remembrances to honor and celebrate the lives of those lost on Pan Am Flight 103.

Friday, Oct. 30
Materials from the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives will be on display from 9 a.m. to noon in the Spector Room, 608 Bird Library.

The Annual Rose Laying ceremony, to remember the Syracuse students killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing, will be held at 2:03 p.m. at the Place of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages.

The Remembrance Convocation, honoring the 2015-16 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.

For information on Remembrance Week activities, visit or Twitter at #SURemembrance15.

Remembrance Scholar William Fletcher speaks about Syracuse University student Stephen Boland during the Rose-Laying Ceremony in 2013.

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2014 will be held on campus Sunday, Oct. 19, through Saturday, Oct. 25.

The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships—one for each of the 35 student victims—are awarded in the amount of $5,000 to undergraduate seniors representing a broad range of majors. The Remembrance Week events planned and hosted by the students are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism. Remembrance Week activities are all free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

All week
Pen and ink drawings of the 35 student victims will be on display in the Panasci Lounge, located on the third floor of the Schine Student Center. Portraits of the victims will be on display at various locations around campus.

An exhibition of 35 empty chairs on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad, an installation created by the 2012 Remembrance Scholars, juxtaposes the visual representation of 35 students lost with good deeds inscribed upon the chairs. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a lost past can inspire positive actions in the present. Members of the community can record their good deeds and demonstrate how they “act forward” by visiting the Remembrance information table in the atrium of the Schine Student Center on Friday, Oct. 17, and Monday, Oct. 20.

Remembrance Scholars will visit classes around the Syracuse University campus to educate fellow students about the tragedy.

Monday, Oct. 20
Dove Balloon Release, Walk for Peace and Candlelight Vigil—The event will begin at 6:15 p.m. on the Quad in front of Hendricks Chapel. A choir of a cappella groups will sing “In Remembrance” from Requiem as 35 bio-safe, dove-shaped balloons are released. Those assembled will then walk to the Wall of Remembrance, where a candlelight vigil will be held at 7 p.m. in honor of all lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

Tuesday, Oct. 21
Acting Forward–The scholars will make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the Oxford Inn and Bishop Foery Foundation to help those in need. Members of the campus community are invited to join in this effort starting at 3:30 p.m. in the Whitman Atrium.

Wednesday, Oct. 22
Open Mic Night—A night of poetry, music, dance and more to remember the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 and act forward for peace. The event will be held from 7-9 p.m. in the Slocum Hall Auditorium.

Thursday, Oct. 23
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives Open—Items from the archives will be on display from 2-5 p.m. in the Spector Room, Room 608 of Bird Library.

Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion—“We Were Quiet Once,” a documentary produced by SU alumna and former Remembrance Scholar Laura Beachy ’12, will be screened. The film tells the story of 9/11, specifically the crash of United Flight 93 into the Pennsylvania countryside and how the tragedy affected the small town of Shanksville. Before the screening, a panel will discuss the effects of terrorism on small towns such as Lockerbie, Scotland, and Shanksville. The event will be held in the Slocum Hall Auditorium; panel starts at 7 p.m. and film screening begins at 8 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 24
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives Open—Items from the archives will be on display from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Spector Room, Room 608 of Bird Library.

Rose-Laying Ceremony and Remembrance Convocation—The annual Rose-Laying Ceremony will begin at 2:03 p.m. at the Wall of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages. The Remembrance Scholar Convocation, honoring this year’s scholars, will begin at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.

For more information on Remembrance Week activities, visit http://remembrance.syr.edu or Twitter at #RW2014 or #actforward.

Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholars Callum Johnstone and Fergus Barrie are pictured with Judy O’Rourke, SU’s director of undergraduate studies, during the 2013 Convocation for Remembrance Scholars in Hendricks Chapel. Johnstone is a 2013-14 Scholar; Barrie was a 2011-12 Scholar who is now a junior in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.

The government of the United Kingdom will give £100,000 in funding to the Lockerbie Trust, a Scottish charity that supports the Lockerbie Scholars chosen annually to study at Syracuse University. George Osborne, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the announcement during his 2014 budget speech, given March 19 in London.

The government of Scotland pledged £60,000 to the charity in December 2013, at the time of the 25th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy. The total of the British and Scottish funding is approximately $264,000.

“This announcement is wonderful news, and is affirmation of the importance of the Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholars program,” says Kelly Rodoski, chair of Syracuse University’s Pan Am 103 25th Anniversary Committee. “This funding from the British government, together with the pledge from the Scottish government, will help ensure that this program remains strong and vibrant in the years to come, and that we will��continue to draw lessons from this tragedy through this Syracuse-Lockerbie connection.”

Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, killing 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through SU.��In the aftermath of the terrorist bombing, SU, as an institution, promised not to forget the students lost, particularly through teaching and learning so that tragedies like Pan Am 103 would not be repeated.

SU is also the home of the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, the most comprehensive center of research and scholarship available on the tragedy.

Each year, two students from Lockerbie, Scotland, study at Syracuse for one year as Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholars. The scholarships are jointly funded by SU and the Lockerbie Trust.

Since the first scholars arrived on the Syracuse University campus in the fall of 1990, 48 scholars have served as Scottish ambassadors at SU, and have returned home with ties binding them to Syracuse University and Central New York. The 2014-15 Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholars, Will Beech and Megan Noble, were recently announced. Two Lockerbie Scholars currently on campus are Fergus Barrie and Callum Johnstone.

The Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholarships provide proof of the close bonds that have formed between Syracuse and Lockerbie, as well as the strong desire to remember and to learn.

“I’ve studied Mandarin in Beijing, hiked into a Naxi village and worked for the US-DPRK Scientific Engagement Consortium, but nothing opened the world to me like meeting Allison Donaldson, a 2010-11 Lockerbie Scholar,” says Molly Linhorst, a 2013-14 Remembrance Scholar at SU. “We became close friends, joining the transatlantic community woven from the torn threads of a heartless act of violence. We both grew up hearing about the unique union of our hometowns. It wasn’t until I met Alli, however, that I understood the power of this union, bringing together two teens eager to understand the world.”

The Lockerbie Trust was established in early 1989, shortly after the Pan Am 103 tragedy. In addition to supporting the Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholars, the Lockerbie Trust funds various activities in and around Lockerbie.

In Slocum Hall, School of Architecture students installed an intricate, delicate remembrance for the victims of Pan Am Flight 103. Photo by Jamie Young.

students and faculty have conceived and constructed a delicate web of dozens of lines of string blended into a structured, yet fragile, design honoring those lost 25 years ago in the bombing of Pan Am 103.

Composed of more than 70,000 linear feet of white string suspended as folds across the central space of the atrium, the installation depicts the transition into the afterlife, remembrance and the ability of architecture to act as an agent of change through collaboration and physical expression.

A closing reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 18, at 5 p.m. in the Slocum Hall atrium.

Along with Assistant Professor Julie Larsen and Assistant Professor Amber Bartosh, more than 50 students worked on the project, including student leaders Richard Camastra Jr. ’16, Hannah Kim ’16 and Benjamin Anderson-Nelson ’16.

Students at work on the installation in Slocum Hall. School of Architecture students and faculty conceived and constructed this delicate web of dozens of lines of string blended into a structured, yet fragile, design.

“We wanted the design to portray the ascent to heaven—a physical metaphor of a spiral to the other realm, whichever one the interpreter may believe in—using four twisting planes made of string,” Camastra says. “We wanted to inhabit and alter the space but allow someone to walk through and observe from multiple vantage points.”

From some views, the strings seem as if they overlap and weave, creating a dense form, while other views provide a more open tunneling perspective, the students say. Thirty-five strings are interwoven discontinuously to represent the Syracuse University students on board Pan Am Flight 103.

Honoring those lost

The textured, complex weave was created as part of Remembrance Week, which is held every year on campus to remember the tragedy. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people—including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University—who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Composed of more than 70,000 linear feet of white string suspended across the central space of the atrium, the Pan Am Flight 103 installation depicts transition into the afterlife, remembrance and the ability of architecture to act as an agent of change through collaboration and physical expression. Photo by Jamie Young.

“As architecture students and faculty, we really appreciated the enduring theme of Remembrance Week, ‘Look Back, Act Forward,’ because this is what we are best at—acting and generating new things to bring awareness to the public,” Larsen says. “The��students��were very aware of the impact it would not only have on Remembrance Week but also on the school because of its��presence��in the most public area of the building.”

While designing the project, team members had to figure out how they would go from conceptual digital model to the actual physical life-size fabrication.

“Not only did we have to design the object itself, but we also worked diligently to design its process as well,” Kim says. “It was difficult to predict the problems that would occur while working with a little more than 1,000 strands of string that would expand and stretch over 65 feet each.”

Design challenge

One of the design challenges was to figure out how to make a system that would hold the strings as unobtrusively as possible. They decided on a wire cable system.

“The gauge of the wire was thin enough so that the wires can take a minimal presence in the installation while still supporting the weight and pull of the string,” Anderson-Nelson says. “The goal was also to hide the less aesthetic parts, like the wire attachments and tightening system (or turnbuckle); we did this by placing these systems behind the columns and in corners so that they were out of sight.”

Students also had to figure out how to move about the towering atrium that in some places was difficult to reach by ladder. They solved the problem by fastening the strings to the top wire before putting it up and working from the top down.

Another challenge was preventing tangling, which caused several delays as only one student at a time could work on patiently unraveling the strings.

The project took about a week to complete, so many students became involved over the course of the week as they saw the space transformed and wanted to participate. “This was an opportunity for them to act in the future but continuously be reminded of what the installation represented,” Larsen says.

The installation in Slocum Hall on the SU campus took about a week to complete. Photo by Jamie Young.

The 35 blue strands are an integral part of the design and what each represents, the students say. Some flow with each plane of the apparatus while others delineate and tie off to a common end point to signify that not all these students attended SU—some were taking part in a study abroad program through SU. “Not all of them were grounded here, but they are still with us in the end sharing the same bonds we have for our fellow students who went here,” Kim says.

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“One by one, remembrance scholars stepped forward to pledge to act forward in memory of the people killed aboard Pan Am 103 twenty-five years ago this December.”

Molly Linhorst, Remembrance Scholar “Timothy Cardwell was a sky diver, a chorus member, captain of the soccer team, and an Army ROTC cadet.”

Sieglinder Mghenyi, Remembrance Scholar “Christopher Andrew Jones was a devoted son and brother. He aspired to a career in sports writing and loved the Boston Red Sox.”

Clifford Jacobs, Remembrance Scholar “Suzanne Miazga was patient, kind, and enthusiastic. She was a graduate student in the School of Social Work and she said that she wanted to live life and not just exist.”

“…Each represents one of the 35 who died in the bombing from Syracuse University in the crash a jumbo jet in Lockerbie, Scotland.”

Graham Herbert, Lockerbie Academy “I can assure you that’s the people have Lockerbie will never ever forget. We will never forget what happened over the skies twenty-five years ago.”

“…Lockerbie and Syracuse have developed close ties through the years as exhibited by the Lockerbie Scholarship bridging an ocean to bring two Lockerbie students here every year.

Callum Johnstone, Lockerbie Scholar “I feel honored to represent my school, family, and Scotland in looking back and acting forward. I hope that this scholarship continues to prosper so that we can continue to spread awareness and remember the lives of the wonderfully different people who tragically died on that fateful day.”

“…And afterward in Hendricks chapel director of the Pan Am and University Archives, Ed Galvin, may have summed it up best.”

Ed Galvin, SU and Pan Am 103 Archivist “Those of us who gathered here today have all been touched in some way by this event. Some of us have lost loved ones or friends, some have dedicated ourselves to ensuring that the world will always remember Pan Am Flight 103.”

“…Indeed twenty-five years later but the memory and pain still fresh along with the resolve(?) to act forward in the memory of the victims.”
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Keith Kobland, SU News.

This stained glass mural in the Lockerbie Town Hall represents the 32 nationalities of victims aboard Pan Am Flight 103.

When people first hear of Lockerbie, Scotland, they learn about the tragedy that is Pan Am Flight 103. When people first envision Lockerbie, Scotland, they picture the devastation of a plane crash. When people first visit Lockerbie, Scotland, however—they experience a quiet, humble and welcoming town—a town that was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

After being named a 2013-14 Remembrance Scholar in late April, I was overwhelmed by SU faculty and friends who reached out to congratulate me on the achievement. I was even more touched, though, by the effort that SU faculty made to coordinate a visit for me to Lockerbie toward the end of my semester abroad in Germany.

Claire Dorrance, a 2012-13 Lockerbie Scholar, connected with me and offered to host my parents, who were visiting at the time, and myself for a day in Lockerbie. The perspective I thought I had on the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing completely changed as my parents and I drove into the quaint but bustling town.

Claire, her father Colin Dorrance, who was the first off-duty police officer on the scene of the disaster, and Graham Herbert, the rector of Lockerbie Academy, greeted us upon our arrival. By merely stepping out of the car, we were only steps away from the town hall. The small size of Lockerbie is a lot of its charm. As we climbed up the staircase of the town hall, Mr. Herbert and the Dorrances were greeted with ‘hellos’ and ‘how ya doing’s.’ Everyone is everyone’s neighbor in Lockerbie, Scotland.

Inside the town hall is a beautiful stained glass window, composed solely of flags representing the 32 different nationalities of the victims aboard Pan Am 103. Victims hailed from Israel, Canada, Jamaica and everywhere in between. The Lockerbie Town Hall was used the night of the disaster and for many weeks following as an information center for residents. The building, now back to its original use, still symbolizes that sense of community to Lockerbie residents.

Afterward, we drove to the Lockerbie Garden of Remembrance, just a few minutes from the heart of the town. The garden, dedicated to the victims of Pan Am Flight 103, is lush green with growing trees and blooming flowers. But its beauty can’t hide the sorrow planted in its roots. Once we entered and began reading memorials and signs throughout the garden, the mood changed. Everything silenced. I began searching the plaques for Syracuse names. Karen Lee Hunt and Alexia Kathryn Tsairis have plaques that read “innocent victim of terrorism” and “They never die, who have the future in them.” Walking through the garden’s visitor center and seeing framed SU press releases and mini Ottos was saddening and comforting all at the same time, much like my entire visit to Lockerbie.

Before arriving in Scotland, I had heard nothing but good things about Scottish hospitality. The Dorrance family proved this stereotype to be true when they opened their home to my parents and me for lunch. I truly watched the world grow smaller as Claire with her parents, and I with mine, connected over cultural differences, English accents and Syracuse basketball.

Meeting for the first time, 2012-13 Lockerbie Scholar Claire Dorrance, right, and 2013-14 Remembrance Scholar Emily Pompelia spent the day together in Lockerbie, Scotland this past June. The two pause for a picture together in front of the Remembrance Room on the grounds of Tundergarth Church, directly across from the sheep pasture where the nose cone of Pan Am Flight 103 landed on December 21, 1988.

After lunch, Colin and Claire escorted my parents and me to Tundergarth Church, to see where the nose cone of the plane had landed that December evening and to visit the remembrance room tucked in the church cemetery. As I stood on top of a hill overlooking the town of Lockerbie, a few bends and curves down the road from Tundergarth, I felt smaller than I ever have. Behind me was the iconic spot where the nose cone of Pan Am 103 landed in an open pasture, and in front of me was a town with so much to offer but its reputation already sealed. Perhaps that is what made my day in Lockerbie so meaningful. I was given a glimpse into the life and personality of this humble town and its residents, and saw the beauty of Lockerbie for what it really is beyond the tragedy 25 years ago.

I left with three things that day: a British flag from Claire, much like the one painted into the glass of the town hall; a copy of “Looking for Lockerbie,” a book written by Newhouse professors Lawrence Mason, Jr., and Melissa Chessher, and new-found respect, admiration and humility. This visit defined my experience as a Remembrance Scholar, and taught me what it truly means to act forward.

Emily Pompelia is a 2013-14 Remembrance Scholar and a work-study student in the Office of News Services.

Remembrance Scholars honor the lost students they represent during the 2012 Remembrance ceremony.

The Remembrance Scholarships, among the most prestigious scholarships awarded by the University, were founded as a tribute to the 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. This year marks the 25^th anniversary of the tragedy.

The scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents and corporations. Significant support for the Remembrance Scholarships has been provided by C. Jean Thompson ’66 and SU Board of Trustees Chairman Richard L. Thompson G’67 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents, and the Fred L. Emerson Foundation.

Applicants for the $5,000 scholarship were asked to highlight their academic achievements and University activities, including community service. They also wrote essays and participated in interviews with members of the selection committee.

“What a privilege and honor it has been to serve as chair of the committee that has selected these 35 outstanding scholars. They are indeed SU’s and the world’s best and brightest,” says Mark Glauser, professor and associate dean in the and chair of the Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee. “Their theme for Remembrance Week, “This is How We Act Forward,’’ is especially gratifying since it embodies taking action … Scholarship in Action.”

Additionally, each year, two students from Lockerbie are selected as Lockerbie Scholars. They spend one year studying at SU on a scholarship before returning to the United Kingdom to complete their university degrees. Both SU and the Lockerbie Trust support this award. This year’s scholars, Callum Johnstone and Caroline Caddell, will be recognized at the convocation.

Glauser will preside over the convocation, and messages will be delivered by Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Edward L. Galvin, director of archives and records management and Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster archivist, representing the selection committee. A Remembrance Scholar will speak on behalf of the group, and Glauser will present the scholars.

The 2013-14 Remembrance Scholars, and their hometowns and majors, are: Janessa Bonti of Bronx, a nutrition major in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics; Victoria Charlotte Brewster of New York City, an architecture major in the School of Architecture; Colin Gregory Brown of Annandale, N.J., a broadcast and digital journalism major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a political science major in The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S); Jona Cano of Bronx, a communication sciences and disorders major and neuroscience integrated learning major in A&S; and Erin Genevieve Carhart of Minoa, N.Y., a policy studies major and women’s and gender studies major in A&S.

Also, Billy Ceskavich of Wrentham, Mass., a political science major in A&S and an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies (iSchool); Darcy Shauna Cherlin of Sydney, Australia, an anthropology major in A&S; Henry Chu of Middletown, N.Y., a finance major in the Whitman School of Management and a psychology major in A&S; Kyle Brandon Coleman of Hilton, N.Y., an information technology major in the iSchool, an accounting and finance major in the Whitman School and an economics major in A&S; and Alexandra Deanne Curtis of East Greenwich, R.I., a political science major in A&S and a public relations major in the Newhouse School;

Also, Ariella M. Davis of Narragansett, R.I., a child and family studies major in the Falk College and a policy studies major in A&S; Marwa Eltagouri of Grand Island, N.Y., a magazine journalism major in the Newhouse School and a political science major in A&S; Micki Joan Fahner of Berwyn, Pa., a broadcast and digital journalism major in the Newhouse School and an English and textual studies major in A&S; William Granberg Fletcher of Latham, N.Y., a policy studies major in A&S; and Clifford Daniel Jacobs of Lewiston, N.Y., a child and family studies major in the Falk College.

Also, Alison Margaret Joy of Stratham, N.H., a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School and an Italian language, literature and culture major in A&S; Amanda Kullman of West Seneca, N.Y., a civil engineering major in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science; Jessica Kimberly Lam of New York City, an inclusive elementary and special education major in the School of Education; Megan Elizabeth LeBlanc of Reading, Mass., a neuroscience and psychology major in A&S; and Garrett A. Lee of Kirkland, Wash., an environmental engineering major in LCS and a mathematics major in A&S.

Also, Molly Katherine Carroll Linhorst of Manlius, N.Y., an international relations and political science major in A&S; Sonia Lopez of Houston, a psychology and forensic science major in A&S; Sieglinder Mkandoe Mghenyi of Syracuse, a public health major in the Falk College; Leann Jade Miles of Tucson, Ariz., a biochemistry major in A&S; and Ellen B. Moore of Elmira, N.Y., an international relations and policy studies major in A&S.

Also, Emily M. Pompelia of Ligonier, Pa., a newspaper and online journalism major in the Newhouse School and German and policy studies major in A&S; Allison Roberts of Hebron, Conn., a biochemistry major in A&S; Francesca Rose Santoro of St. Charles, Ill., a musical theater major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA); Bradley Dean Slavin of Rockville Centre, N.Y., a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School and an information and systems management major in the iSchool; and Danielle Steinberg of East Falmouth, Mass., an inclusive elementary with special education major in the School of Education.

Also, Carlie Alyssa Thompson of Norwich, N.Y., a psychology and biology major in A&S; Korey William Tillman of Schenectady, N.Y., a computer science major in LCS; Leo Wong of San Gabriel, Calif., an advertising major in the Newhouse School; Zhi Q. Yang of New York City, an information technology major in the iSchool and management/finance major in the Whitman School; and Jamie Yavorsky of Whitehouse Station, N.J., a music education major in VPA and the School of Education.

Empty chairs on the Quad in the configuration of the seats on Pan Am 103 symbolizes SU’s 35 lost students.

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2013 is being held on the SU campus Oct. 6-12. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people—including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University—who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.

Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships—one for each of the 35 SU student victims—are awarded in the amount of $5,000 to undergraduate seniors representing a broad range of majors. The Remembrance Week events planned and hosted by the students are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism.

This year’s Remembrance Week was preceded by a panel discussion on Oct. 4 (during Orange Central) on “The Legacy of Pan Am 103 at SU” and a moment of silence at the Oct. 5 football game vs. Clemson to honor the 270 victims. Remembrance Scholars also handed out bracelets to students before the football game.

An exhibition, “Lockerbie and Disasters,” photographs by Larry Mason, a professor in the , is currently on display in the lobby of Newhouse 1 through Oct. 24.

Remembrance Week activities are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Planned Remembrance Week and 25th Anniversary activities include:

All week

Portraits of the SU student victims will be on display in the Panasci Lounge of the Schine Student Center.

An exhibition of 35 empty chairs on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad, an installation created by the 2012 Remembrance Scholars, juxtaposes the visual representation of 35 students lost with the good deeds inscribed upon the chairs. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a lost past can inspire positive actions in the present. Individuals are invited to share their good deeds in blue boxes in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall and Bowne Hall.

The has designed and constructed an installation in the atrium of Slocum Hall that remembers and honors those who were lost. The collaborative effort of the students and faculty demonstrates the ability of architecture to act as an agent of change through both cooperative participation and physical expression. A closing reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 18, at 5 p.m. in the atrium of Slocum Hall.

The Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives has created a virtual TIMELINE that includes almost 150 events relating to the tragedy and its aftermath. From the search and rescue efforts to the current inquest in Libya, all pertinent dates related to the bombing are presented along with a relevant document, image or video found in the archives collection. An exhibition, titled “Twenty-Five Years of the Pan Am 103 Saga,” has also been installed on the sixth floor of Bird Library and highlights the most crucial events found in the larger online��TIMELINE. The related materials may be viewed alongside a brief footnote explaining the importance of that event in the history of Pan Am 103. The exhibition in Bird Library will run through the end of the year. To see the full TIMELINE, visit .html.

Beginning on Monday, Oct. 7, and continuing through Saturday, Oct. 12, individuals are invited to share their perspectives on Pan Am 103 through “Telling the Stories: The Pan Am 103 Story Archives Project,” a collaboration of the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, the 25th Anniversary Commemoration Committee and Syracuse Symposium 2013: Listening. Interviews will be done in 611 Bird Library by appointment. Call 315-443-0632 or email pa103archives@syr.edu to schedule an appointment.

Monday, Oct. 7

A candlelight vigil will be held on the steps of Hendricks Chapel at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 8

Remembrance Scholars will engage in a community service project to make sandwiches for the Rescue Mission at 6 p.m. at the Marshall Square Mall (upstairs). Members of the University community are invited to join in.

Wednesday, Oct. 9

“Since,” a documentary film on the Pan Am 103 tragedy by journalist Phil Furey, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. in Room 207 of the Hall of Languages. A question-and-answer session will follow.

Thursday, Oct. 10

The Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, located on the sixth floor of Bird Library, will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Lesley Thomson, solicitor general of Scotland, will speak at noon in the Heritage Lounge in the College of Law.

A panel discussion on “25 Years Later: Reflecting on Pan Am 103 and the Media” will be held in Watson Theater at 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 11

The Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, located on the sixth floor of Bird Library, will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Remembrance Scholars will hold the annual Rose-Laying Ceremony at the Place of Remembrance, in front of the Hall of Languages, at 2:03 p.m.

The Remembrance Scholars will be honored at the Remembrance Scholar Convocation at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. A reception will follow in the lobby of the Heroy Geology Laboratory.

A tribute to the Pan Am 103 victims through live performances and art will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Panasci Lounge in the Schine Student Center.

Saturday, Oct. 12

The 25th Anniversary Commemoration Committee and University College will sponsor a reception for current and former Remembrance Scholars.

For more information on Remembrance Week activities, visit .

Other scheduled 25th anniversary activities include a University Lecture by former Sen. George J. Mitchell, in conversation with James B. Steinberg, dean of the on “Pan Am 103 and Our World 25 Years Later” (Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 5:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel); a panel discussion and photo exhibition by the Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace (Thursday, Nov. 14); and a photo exhibitions by Larry Mason—“The Healing of Lockerbie,” Oct. 25-Nov. 15 and “Forward Lockerbie” (Nov. 16-Dec. 21).

For more information on 25th anniversary activities, visit .

Cara Howe, right, assistant archivist for the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at Syracuse University, speaks to retired Chief Constable John Boyd at Cornwall Mount, Police Scotland headquarters in Dumfries. Boyd contributed an oral history earlier this month to the “Telling the Stories” Pan Am 103 Story Archive Project.

“Telling the Stories: The Pan Am 103 Story Archive Project” is an attempt to gather oral histories from those who have firsthand knowledge of Pan Am Flight 103, those who have experienced the impact of the tragedy over the years and those who draw lessons from it. Faculty, staff and students, alumni, former Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars and family and friends of the victims are encouraged to participate.

The Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives and the Pan Am 103��25th Anniversary Commemoration Committee, with Syracuse Symposium 2013: Listening, are sponsoring the project.

The oral histories collected will become a part of the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, a center located in Bird Library that is dedicated to research and scholarship on the tragedy and to remembering the 270 victims.

The collection of oral histories will be done during Remembrance Week, Monday, Oct. 7, through Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. An appointment is required. For more information or to make an appointment, call 315-443-0632 or e-mail pa103archives@syr.edu.

More information can also be found at .

Everyday items have become extraordinary reminders of the lives lost on Dec. 21, 1988, in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103.

These items and scores of other mementos, clippings, photos, artifacts, books and government documents continue to be categorized and preserved with care by Syracuse University Archives.

The enormity of the project to create a lasting legacy of the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad with Syracuse University, who died is magnified by the intensity of meaning for the many personal items in the collection. Cara Howe G’10, assistant archivist for the , is currently processing the victims and families collections.

“These are the most difficult emotionally,” Howe says. “It is often very trying to look through these materials to realize what was lost with each of these individuals and to know what families have gone through and what they continue to go through.”

As part of Remembrance Week, the public can get a glimpse of these special materials during an exhibition of the Pan Am 103 Archives Friday, Oct. 26, from 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Spector Room, Room 608, E.S. Bird Library.

The first collection of items about the Pan Am 103 disaster in the University Archives began a day after the plane crash—Reference Archivist Mary O’Brien started a file of newspaper clippings. Two years later, the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives was established to create a central place for materials associated with the disaster, make them available for research and to personalize the lives of those who died.

In 2003, Edward L. Galvin, director of archives and records management, met several families of victims who were not from SU at the 15th anniversary remembrance at Arlington Cemetery, where a memorial cairn was established in 1995. “They also wanted a place where they could donate materials for their lost loved ones,” Galvin says.

By 2005, the University Archives put together a proposal to expand the collection to include all 270 victims. “We figured we had a deep emotional attachment to the families that you could not find in many other places,” Galvin says. “By 2006, we started getting materials that weren’t directly related to SU students.”

Families have contributed journals, clippings, videotapes, death certificates and scrapbooks. There are also materials from others involved with Pan Am 103, including investigators, lawyers, lobbyists, authors and reporters.

Archives especially is interested in information and materials memorializing the victims; books, newspapers and magazine articles; Department of State records; information on The Hague trial of Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the bombing; materials of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103; and information on memorials in Lockerbie, Syracuse and Arlington National Cemetery.

The collection continues to grow.

When Galvin joined University Archives in 1995, there were 25 boxes. By 2009, the collection had grown to 185 boxes, many of which were unprocessed. Galvin then realized the collection would be best served with its own archivist and funding to sustain it.

A fundraising campaign for a $2 million endowment was started. To date, almost $900,000 has been collected or pledged. Howe was hired in 2011 for a temporary five-year post to process the materials and create an online database of materials, with the hope that more donations might be collected to continue the position.

The archives collection has also become an important resource for SU’s Remembrance Scholars. Each of the 35 scholars—representing the 35 SU study abroad students—researches the person they represent and honors them in some way.

For Galvin, it’s the personal items that are difficult to see in the collection. “We have a sweater that Alexander Lowenstein wore on the plane, took off and put in the overhead compartment—and it survived beautifully. There’s also a baseball cap of Chris Jones’ that has been referenced in a theatrical play,” Galvin says.

In the materials related to Eva Ingeborg Morson, there is a pair of baby booties donated by Morson’s daughter. “She thought when her son was born that her mother was not there to see her first grandchild—and that was the most meaningful thing to her,” Galvin says.

Howe has recently cataloged materials related to Shannon Davis, a junior in Syracuse University’s College for Human Development, and remembers Davis’ postcards to family back home. “The things she was writing about to home were so full of life and about all these experiences she just had—and then to realize she never came home,” Howe says.

Those interested in donating either funds or materials to the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Disaster Archives at Syracuse University can visit archives.syr.edu/panam/giving.html.

Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships—one for each of the SU student victims—are awarded in the amount of $5,000 to undergraduate seniors representing a broad range of majors. The events planned and hosted by the students are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism. The theme of Remembrance Week 2012 is “Look Back. Act Forward.”

During Remembrance Week, pencil-and-ink sketches of the 35 student victims will be displayed in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center Atrium. Posters of the 35 students will also be displayed at various locations throughout campus through Dec. 21.

The Pan Am Flight 103 Archives will present “Dark Elegy.” This exhibit was originally sponsored by the Remembrance Scholars in 2003 “in an attempt to make the … work accessible to the students, faculty and those connected to Syracuse University …” ��The exhibit consists of seven framed photographs of the sculpture garden “Dark Elegy” by Suse Lowenstein. “Dark Elegy” consists of 75 larger-than-life pieces, each of which portrays a woman at the moment she learned her loved one had died in the bombing of Pan Am 103; Lowenstein lost her 21-year-old son Alexander. Lowenstein says of “Dark Elegy”: “This sculpture needs no language; it is understood by all. It is not political in any partisan sense. It knows no borders. Today, people all over the world are affected by terrorism.” “Dark Elegy” has been dedicated by Lowenstein to all victims of terrorism.

The exhibit will be installed in the Noble Room of Hendricks Chapel from Oct. 19-Dec. 21. For more information on “Dark Elegy,” visit the archives’ website at and .

The Remembrance Week schedule of events includes:

All week—An SU Abroad photo contest exhibit will be on display in the Panasci Lounge in the Schine Student Center. Over the past several weeks, students (both SU and non-SU) were invited to take a creative picture—including the symbolic dove of peace—somewhere abroad. The top 35 photos will be a part of the exhibition.

An installation of 35 empty chairs on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad and in campus buildings will juxtapose the visual representation of the 35 students lost with recently enacted good deeds inscribed on them. The installation is meant to serve as a reminder of how a lost past can inspire positive actions in the present. Members of the University community are invited to submit good deeds they’ve done in an effort to act forward via e-mail, Facebook or the hashtag #RW2012 on Twitter.

Sunday, Oct. 21—Remembrance Scholars and SU Physical Plant staff will build a memorial cairn, a traditional Scottish marker of remembrance, on the Quad beginning at 8 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 22—Marsha MacDowell, professor of art and art history at Michigan State University, will speak on “Piercing Peace: Quilts as Visual Discourse of Conflict, Reconciliation and Memory” as part of the Syracuse Symposium. Co-sponsors are the Hendricks Chapel Quilters and the Department of Anthropology. The Remembrance Quilt, a memorial of the Pan Am 103 tragedy, was created by the 1998-99 Remembrance Scholars with the assistance of experienced quilters and other members of the University community. The quilt features a square for each of the 35 SU student victims.

A candlelight vigil will be held at 8:30 p.m. on the steps of Hendricks Chapel.

Tuesday, Oct. 23—Ed Galvin and Cara Howe, archivist and assistant archivist of the Pan Am 103 Archives, will host a Staff to Staff session on the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives and the collections housed there. Visit to register.

Wednesday, Oct. 24—A screening of the “As It Happened” documentary on Pan Am 103 will be held at 7 p.m. in Kittredge Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall.

Thursday, Oct. 25—A Celebration of Life concert and poetry reading will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Jabberwocky Café in the Schine Student Center.

Friday, Oct. 26— The Pan Am 103 Archives will be open to the public from 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Spector Room, located on the sixth floor of Bird Library.

The Remembrance Scholars and Lockerbie Scholars will lay roses at the Wall of Remembrance at 2:03 p.m. during the annual Rose-Laying Ceremony in honor of, and to pay tribute to, the 35 SU students and the 11 victims from Lockerbie. This annual ceremony is held at the exact time the disaster occurred on Dec. 21, 1988.

The annual Convocation for Remembrance Scholars will be held at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. A reception will follow in the lobby of the Heroy Geology Building.

For more information on Remembrance Week activities, visit remembrance.syr.edu on the Web, /SURemembrance on Facebook and @SURemembrance on Twitter.

Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships—one for each of the SU student victims—are awarded in the amount of $5,000 to undergraduate seniors representing a broad range of majors. The events planned and hosted by the students are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism.

During Remembrance Week, pencil and ink sketches of the 35 student victims will be displayed in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center Atrium. Posters of the 35 students will also be displayed at various locations throughout campus through Dec. 9.

The Remembrance Week schedule of events includes:

Friday, Nov. 4
The Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at Syracuse University will present the exhibit “Set in Stone: Constructing the Arlington Memorial Cairn” in the Hendricks Chapel Noble Room through Dec. 21. The exhibit presents the history of the cairn, from the lobbying efforts that made it possible to the designs that made it visible. Visit archives.syr.edu/panam for more information.

Remembrance Scholars and SU Physical Plant staff will build a memorial cairn, a traditional Scottish marker of remembrance, on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 6
Scholars will paint windows at the Schine Student Center and Ernie Davis Hall with Remembrance Week information. Sashes with the names of each of the 35 student victims will be placed in trees behind the Wall of Remembrance. Ribbons, one representing each of the 270 victims, will be tied to trees on the Quad surrounding the cairn.

Monday, Nov. 7
The Remembrance Scholars invite the campus and greater Syracuse communities to a candlelight vigil on the steps of Hendricks Chapel beginning at 6:25 p.m. to honor and remember the 35 Syracuse University students who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103.

Tuesday, Nov. 8
Remembrance Scholars will distribute information and answer questions about Remembrance Week at tables in the Schine Student Center Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Poets from Verbal Blend and the Remembrance Scholars will host an Open Mic/Poetry Reading for Hope and Remembrance event at the Jabberwocky in the Schine Student Center, from 6-7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 9
Remembrance Scholars will distribute information and answer questions about Remembrance Week at tables in the Schine Student Center Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A panel discussion on “How Has Justice Changed Since Pan Am 103?” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.

Thursday, Nov. 10
A screening of the History Channel documentary “As It Happened” will be held at 7 p.m. in Kittredge Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse (HBC) Hall.

Friday, Nov. 11
The Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives will be open for viewing in the Spector Room, 608 Bird Library, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will lay roses at the Wall of Remembrance at 2:03 p.m. during the annual Rose Laying Ceremony in honor of and to pay tribute to the 35 SU students and the 11 victims from Lockerbie, Scotland. This annual ceremony is held at the exact time the disaster occurred on Dec. 21, 1988.

The annual Convocation for Remembrance Scholars will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. A reception will follow in the Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall.

A moment of silence for the Pan Am 103 victims will be offered at the beginning of the SU vs. the University of Southern Florida football game that evening. The SU Marching Band will wear black arm bands in tribute of the victims.

Saturday, Nov. 12
The Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives will be open for viewing in the Spector Room, 608 Bird Library, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Remembrance Scholars will host an alumni brunch for Remembrance Scholars, Remembrance Scholar alumni, London 1988 alumni and families and friends at 11 a.m. in the Noble Room of Hendricks Chapel.

The Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 (VPAF 103) group will hold its annual meeting from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Katzer Collaboratory, 347 Hinds Hall.

April 2012
The “I Remember” 5K Walk and Race will be held on SU’s main campus.

In this role, she is responsible for day-to-day efforts involving the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives. The position is funded for five years, totally through donations by victims’ families and others touched by the tragedy.

Howe will work to reprocess the existing Pan Am 103 collections and process all future deposits, coordinate the digitization of the archives and monitor the website to provide increased web access by victims’ families and by scholars studying terrorism.

She will interact with and assist family members, the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 group, donors, Remembrance Scholars and applicants, and researchers; prepare and present talks to classes, alumni groups and professional associations; assist with development/fundraising efforts, including research and applications for grants; and attend Pan Am Flight 103-related meetings and functions.

The Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives is dedicated to the 270 men, women and children whose lives were lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. Thirty-five students studying abroad with SU were killed in this terrorist attack.

The Syracuse University Archives established this special archives in 1990 to bring together in one place materials generated regarding the disaster,��make those materials available for research, and provide a place to personalize the SU students whose lives were lost—a place where their families can donate materials by or about them to let the world know in some way what has been lost by their deaths.

Included in the archives are more than 200 boxes of newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, information on trials, government documents, books, audio and videotapes, posters, exhibit materials, and items specific to individual victims. The scope of the archives was expanded in 2006 to include all 270 victims.

A native of Central New York, Howe is a graduate of Cazenovia Junior/Senior High School and received a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in legal studies from SUNY Geneseo. She earned a master’s degree in library and information sciences with a certificate of advanced study in cultural heritage preservation from SU.

She worked as an intern, graduate assistant and then a temporary employee of Syracuse University Archives before assuming her new role. Howe has served as a consulting archivist for the Judaic Heritage Center of CNY in DeWitt. There, she crafted and implemented archives policies and procedures, and handled accessions, processing of collections and database records. She also worked on the New York State Documentary Heritage Program grant application on behalf of the Erie Canal Museum.

Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships—one for each of the SU student victims—are awarded in the amount of $5,000 to undergraduate seniors representing a broad range of majors. The events planned and hosted by the students are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism.

The Remembrance Week schedule of events includes:

Saturday, Oct. 16-Sunday, Oct. 24—“Remember the Youth,” an exhibit showcasing the treasures of some of the victims of the Pan Am 103 bombing, will be displayed on the first floor of Bird Library.

Saturday, Oct. 16—Remembrance Scholars will take part in the pre-game ceremonies of the SU vs. Pittsburgh football game in the Carrier Dome, which begins at noon.

Sunday, Oct. 17-Friday, Oct. 22· Throughout the week, the Orange Television Network, channel 2, will air a 20th anniversary documentary produced by SU students in 2008. CitrusTV News will cover Remembrance Week events all week during the live 6 p.m. student-produced newscast.

SU Abroad Centers will distribute ribbons to honor and remember the victims of Pan Am 103.

Remembrance Scholars and members of the Remembrance Schools Education Committee will present information about Pan Am 103 and Remembrance Week in classes at local middle and high schools, as well as in classes on the SU campus.

Sunday, Oct. 17—Remembrance Scholars and SU Physical Plant staff will build a memorial cairn, a traditional Scottish marker of remembrance, on the Quad beginning at 3 p.m. Scholars will tie Remembrance ribbons on trees around the Wall of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages.

Monday, Oct. 18—Remembrance Scholars will distribute information and answer questions about Remembrance Week from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Schine Center Atrium.

A panel discussion, “Terrorism in the Next Decade: Threats and Solutions,” will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Hergenhan Auditorium of Newhouse 3.

Tuesday, Oct. 19—Remembrance Scholars will distribute information and answer questions about Remembrance Week from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Schine Center Atrium.

A candlelight vigil will be held on the Quad at 8 p.m. to honor and remember the 35 Syracuse University students who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103. Remembrance Scholars will spend the night camping on the Quad, while informing students of the Pan Am 103 disaster and Remembrance Week events.

Thursday, Oct. 21—Remembrance Scholars will distribute information and answer questions about Remembrance Week from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Schine Center Atrium.

Tom Kennedy will be inducted as the first Alexia Professor for Documentary Photography at 4 p.m. in the lobby of Newhouse 1. Kennedy will teach, research and promote documentary photography and photojournalism. He will also serve as a permanent sitting board member of the Alexia Foundation and will chair the Alexia International Photo Competition, held at Newhouse each year. Alexia Tsairis was one of the Syracuse University students on Pan Am 103.

A concert by Oy’ Capella and Redemption and poetry readings from the Pan Am archives by Troy Dangerfield will be held at 6:30 p.m. on the Hendricks Chapel steps.

WERW radio will host a Remembrance Radio broadcast from 7-9 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 22—The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will lay roses at the Wall of Remembrance at 2:03 p.m. during the annual Rose Laying Ceremony in honor of and to pay tribute to the 35 SU students and the 11 victims from Lockerbie, Scotland. This annual ceremony is held at the exact time the disaster occurred on Dec. 21, 1988.

The annual Convocation for Remembrance Scholars will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. A reception will follow in the lobby of the Heroy Geology Building.

Saturday, Oct. 23—The Victims of Pan Am 103 (VPAF 103) executive board meeting will take place from 9-11:30 a.m. in the Peter Graham Room in Bird Library.

The Pan Am 103 Archives exhibit will be available for viewing on the sixth floor of Bird Library from 9 a.m.-noon.

Orange TV will videotape individuals who wish to create “Memory Moments” for the Pan Am Archives from 9 a.m. to noon, by appointment only. Contact Kelly Rodoski at kahoman@syr.edu to make an appointment.

The Remembrance Scholars will host a brunch for Pan Am 103 families and alumni from 10-11:30 a.m. in the Noble Room of Hendricks Chapel.

The VPAF 103 general members meeting will take place from 1:30-4 p.m. in the Peter Graham Room in Bird Library. The meeting is open to all.

Other events to will be held throughout the academic year including:

November
A Remembrance poetry contest and reading will be held; date and time to be determined.

Thursday, Nov. 11
Richard A. Marquise, author and lead Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent assigned to the Pan Am 103 investigation, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Life Sciences Complex Room 001 as part of the Forensic Science Lecture Series and the Syracuse Symposium.

March 2011
Deborah Brevoort, author of “The Women of Lockerbie,” will present a playwriting workshop and staged reading of her work at a date and time to be determined.

April 2011
The second annual Remembrance 5K Walk and Run will be held on SU’s main campus at a date and time to be determined.

The scholars will also hang portraits of the 35 student victims in buildings around campus, where they will be displayed until Dec. 21.

The 30-minute special can be seen each night at 8 p.m. on campus cable Channel 2.

The documentary was produced in memory of the 35 SU students who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 when it exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. The students were returning to the United States for the holidays after a semester of studying abroad. The program is dedicated to these students and all 270 men, women and children who died in the terrorist attack.

OTN offers an emotional outlook on the tragedy, speaking with students, faculty and staff who knew the SU passengers on Flight 103 and who candidly tell of the times spent with those who died and the lives they led.

“Remembering Pan Am 103” was produced by Torie Wells, with videographers Mike Eassa and Vin Nucatola.

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—and the community at large—about 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 Syracuse University and greater Syracuse communities and tell the stories of the victims who were so tragically lost on Pan Am Flight 103,” says Remembrance Scholar Regina Maturo. “It is a time to honor and remember the lives of the 270 victims, including the 35 Syracuse University 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—Scholars 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—“A Special Moment in Time: 1988 Fall Semester in London,” 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— 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—Scholars will provide information on Remembrance Week during table sittings in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center, building and the Newhouse��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—A “Why We Remember: Pan Am 103 Symposium” 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 “Looking for Lockerbie” (Syracuse University 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 “Looking for Lockerbie”; Matt Mulcahy, anchor and reporter with WSTM TV-3; and Joan Deppa, associate professor of newspaper and visual and interactive communications and author of “The Media and Disasters: Pan Am 103” (NYU Press, 1994).
• Wednesday, Nov. 11—“Their Words and Ours: A Night of Remembrance.” A celebration of the victims’ 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—Rose-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 .

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2008, a weeklong series of events honoring the 35 Syracuse University students who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988 — 20 years ago — will be held on the SU campus Oct. 19-26.

Each year, 35 , one for each of the SU student victims, are awarded in the amount of $5,000 to undergraduate seniors representing a broad range of majors. The events planned and hosted by the students are meant to honor the victims and further education about terrorism.

The Remembrance Week schedule of events includes:

• Sunday, Oct. 19-The scholars will build a cairn, a traditional Scottish monument of remembrance, on the Quad in front of Hendricks Chapel. The cairn will be built of 35 stones, each one in memory of one of the student victims lost aboard Pan Am Flight 103.
• Monday, Oct. 20, to Wednesday, Oct. 22-The scholars will distribute lapel ribbons and carnations on the Quad from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The rain location for this event is the atrium of the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. The scholars will also tie blue and white ribbons-each bearing the name of one of the SU students killed in the bombing-to trees on the SU campus.
• Thursday, Oct. 23-“Celebration of Life-Remembering the Lives They Led,” a performance showcase celebrating the lives of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103, will be held at 8 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event will begin with a luminaria display on the steps of Hendricks Chapel. The showcase will be performed by individuals and groups, and will include monologues crafted from journal entries, letters and poetry from some of the victims (now found in the SU Archives), along with music and dance. SU London faculty members will also be sharing their memories of the victims.
• Friday, Oct. 24-The traditional Rose-Laying Ceremony will be held at 2:03 p.m. (the actual time of the tragedy) at the Wall of Remembrance in front of Hendricks Chapel. Each of the scholars will lay a rose on the wall in honor of the student victim they are representing. The Remembrance Scholars Convocation will follow at 3:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.

In addition to the activities listed above, the scholars will interact with members of the campus community throughout the week to inform and enlarge understanding of the Pan Am 103 tragedy and of terrorism. They will lead discussions in local high schools, make presentations in SU residence halls and in their classes, and lead activities in local community centers for young students. The scholars will also hang portraits of the 35 student victims in buildings around campus, where they will be displayed until Dec. 21.