1997 Remembrance Week Schedule of Events

Sunday, October 19, 1997
Remembrance Scholars tie 35 blue and white ribbons, each bearing the name of one of the 35 deceased SU students, around trees on the quad, and chalk names of and other information about the victims on the quad walkways.

Monday, October 20, 1997
Remembrance Scholars begin wearing buttons bearing the name and likeness of an SU victim of Flight 103.

Monday and Tuesday, October 20 and 21, 1997
11:00AM - 3:00PM — Schine Student Center Atrium
Remembrance Scholars hand out blue and white ribbons. During this time a video of media coverage of the Pan Am 103 tragedy will be playing in the atrium.

Monday, October 20, 1997
8:00PM, College of Law’s Grant Auditorium
A video retrospective, “Remembering Pan Am 103” will be shown.

Wednesday, October 22, 1997
6:30PM - 9:30PM — Room 204 of Maxwell Hall
Doctoral student Marie Pace, a member of the Conflict Resolution Consulting Group, will lead a multicultural, problem solving simulation workshop.

Thursday, October 23, 1997
9:00AM
The Remembrance Scholars will gather to clean and prepare the Place of Remembrance for a noontime ceremony in which they will lay roses on the memorial and read the victims names. The Crouse College chimes will toll as the names are read.

7:00PM — Room A-2 of Newhouse I
Daan Braveman, dean of the College of Law, will lead a panel discussion on terrorism. Panelists will include a parent of a Flight 103 victim, two members of the Hancock International Airport security team and an FBI terrorism specialist.

Friday, October 24
4:30PM — Hendricks Chapel
Convocation for Remembrance Scholars

Remembrance Week 1997 consisted of a weeklong series of events honoring the lives of 35 Syracuse University students who lost their lives in the Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist attack over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. Each year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships, each in the amount of $5,000, are awarded to undergraduate students because of distinguished academic achievement, citizenship, and service to community. The 1997-1998 Remembrance Scholars hosted all events.