Campus & Community

Rose-Laying Ceremony and Remembrance Scholar Convocation to Be Held Oct. 25

Friday, October 18, 2019, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The 2019-20 Convocation for Remembrance Scholars, honoring 35 outstanding students from this year’s senior class, will be held Friday, Oct. 25, 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 ϲ, 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 ϲ on a scholarship before returning to the United Kingdom to complete their university degrees. Both ϲ 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 ϲ, 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 ϲ, 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.