By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
The university will hold a candlelight memorial service April 30 to remember 28 students, faculty and staff members who have died since last May.
The service will be at 7:30 p.m. in front of the Chapel, or inside the Chapel in case of bad weather.
UGA held the first such memorial service last spring following a year in which 28 students, faculty and staff died. The service was so effective in helping people cope with the losses that a decision was made to hold a memorial each year, says Rick Rose, assistant vice president for student affairs.
“This service brings the university community together to honor the lives of those who were dear to us,” says Rose. “It is a service for comfort and healing, but it is also a time for us to remember with gladness and gratitude the joy and happiness these friends and colleagues brought to our lives and to the university.”
Seventeen students and 11 faculty and staff members have died since last May. Each of their names will be read aloud, and the Chapel bell will toll once for each name. The names will be read by Tunde Ezekiel, president of the Student Government Association; Charles Keith, chair of the University Council Executive Committee; and Sarah Fraker, president of the Staff Council.
People attending the service will be given a candle, and members of the Arch Society, a student leadership group, will move among the audience lighting candles.
University President Michael F. Adams will make brief opening and closing remarks for the service. Southern Wind, a student woodwind group from the School of Music, will play.
Following are the deceased whose names will be called:
Tara Baker, a law student from Hampton; Tommy Branch, a staff member in physical plant from Athens; Joe Coile, a campus transit staff member from Comer; Stephanie Conway, a staff member in the athletic department from Portland, Ore.; Dewey Dean, a staff member in the athletic department from Athens;
Catherine Dodd, a sophomore from Aurora, Ill.; Steven Downing, an instructor in English from Norcross; Timothy Faircloth, a sophomore from Ashburn; Kimberlyn Faulk, a freshman from Bonaire; Hilah Gugino, a psychologist in University Health Services from Athens; Anthony Haid, a sophomore from Aurora, Ill.;
Rhonda Harrison, a graduate student from Martin; Andrew Kay, a graduate student from Stockport, England; Kenneth Landry, a senior from Athens; Yin-Ling Lau, a sophomore from Hong Kong; Lauren McKinnon, a junior from Lilburn; Matthew Peddicord, a junior from Fayetteville; Thomas Porter, a junior from Cochran;
Daniel Potucek Jr., a senior from Shelton, Conn.; Luke Poucher, a student in the College of Pharmacy from Athens; Michelle Raettig, a sophomore from Lilburn; Wade Roberson, a physical plant staff member from Statham; Jeffrey Sanford, a staff member in physical plant from Monroe;
Julie Sherali, a senior from Atlanta; Barry Sherman, professor of journalism and director of the Peabody Awards program from Athens; David Stanley, a staff member in University Health Services from Bogart; Mark Sykora, a junior from Marietta; and George Thompson IV, a sophomore from Winder. |
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