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 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 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 ϲ, 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 ϲ, 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.
