Remembers 9/11 with

The service remembers the larger event of 9/11 and gives the campus community an opportunity to remember in particular the three alumni who lost their lives in the attack on that day.

Planned by Rev. J. Marco Hunsberger, Campus Minister, and Sister Catherine Ann Gilvary IHS, Catholic Minister, the program includes the 120-member Lycoming College Choir, the Concert Band, and a number of student leaders.

Lycoming College lost three of its alumni who died in the World Trade Center. Angela Vaira Kyte '73, who was a Trustee of the College and a former president of the Alumni Association Executive Board; Jon Vandevander '79, a former member of the Alumni Association Executive Board; and Justin Molisani '81, who had been a member of the Lycoming College football team.

Two student leaders participating in the service have personal connections to the September 11 tragedy. Jason Brandemarti '03 lost a brother in the World Trade Center while Amanda Kramer '03 had a father survive the Pentagon attack.

The 10:15 a.m. class has been cancelled and offices will be closed for the duration of the service on that day.

Following the service, a procession will be led to a tree between the Heim Building and Forrest Hall where there will be a brief dedication ceremony to the memory of the three alumni who died in the attack.

Ground Zero Exhibition

An exhibition of 25 photos taken by Lycoming College art professor, Lynn Estomin, will hang in the outer gallery of the John G. Snowden Library from September 5 through September 19.

The Tolerance billboard will be placed once again on Market Street at Little League Boulevard with the wording: "Imagine World Peace." It will be on display through September and October.

The Tolerance billboard was created in the spring of 2001 by visiting artist Patrick Nagatani, art professor Lynn Estomin, and art students at Lycoming College.

The billboard was the culmination of a residency at Lycoming College by the nationally known photographer, who spent a week on the Lycoming College campus in March 2001. It was later displayed in the fall of 2001.

The Lycoming College art students came up with the idea of featuring real local people in a photo montage that would celebrate local diversity as well as promote tolerance.

The Terry Wild Studio donated time, digital camera equipment and space for the initial photo shoot. The students designed the board and created the montage from twenty smaller photos.

The Service of Remembrance is the lead-off event for the College's fall symposium "After 9/11: Responses and Reflections."

A panel of students, led by senior Jason Brandemarti, will discuss September 11 on October 8.

On October 14, Dr. Mike Roskin, professor of political science at Lycoming College, will moderate a panel discussion by community people who represent several Middle Eastern countries.

On October 21, Dr. Jayne Seminare Docherty, associate professor of Conflict Studies at Eastern Mennonite University, will speak on "Long-term Security in the Post 9/11 World."

Dr. Docherty is particularly intrigued by the challenges of addressing those conflicts in which the parties struggle over competing values. She is the author of Learning Lessons from Waco: When the Parties Bring Their Gods to the Negotiation Table. She has also published papers on terrorism, violence, and conflicts between law enforcement authorities and new religious movements in Nova Religion and Terrorism and Political Violence.

All of the symposium events are free and open to the public. The film series and the lectures take place in the Barclay Lecture Hall of the Heim Building beginning at 7 p.m. and are free.