2006 Remembrance Week Schedule of Events  

October 24 – December 21:

Campus-wide poster exhibition of the 35 student victims.
The posters will hang in buildings throughout campus.
Hand-drawn victim portrait exhibition in the Schine Atrium. Thirty-five hand drawn portraits of the victims will make their presences more visible on campus.

Friday, October 27:

3 pm Memorial Cairn on the Quad.

This year’s Remembrance Scholars will build a cairn—a mound of stones erected as a memorial—on the Quad to serve as a memorial for the victims of Pam Am flight 103.

5 pm Candlelight Vigil on the Quad.

Patricia A. Burak, director of the Slutzker Center for International Services and assistant professor (part-time) of Russian literature, and Lawrence Mason Jr., a Newhouse photography professor, will speak at the vigil.

8 pm Camp-Out on the Quad.

This year’s Scholars will be spending a night of remembrance and reflection on the Quad around the cairn from Friday night until Saturday morning.

Monday, October 30:

Blue and White Day.

Remembrance Scholars will wear blue and white—the symbolic colors for Remembrance Week and Lockerbie—today. Everyone is encouraged to wear blue and white in support of the action against terrorism.

11 am – 2 pm Carnation Distribution at the Schine Student Center

Tuesday, October 31:

11 am – 2 pm Carnation Distribution at the Schine Student Center
 

Wednesday, November 1:

8 – 10 pm Celebration of Remembrance in Maxwell Auditorium.

This event will be a celebration of the victims’ lives. Their pictures will be shown, stories read and memories cherished. Orange Appeal, Main Squeeze and the Mandarins, campus capella groups, will sing during the event.
 

Thursday, November 2:

7 – 9 pm Remembering Flight 103 from Personal Perspectives and the Current Plight Against Terrorism panel in Heroy Auditorium.

Speakers will be: Julie E. Steiner, Esq., Environmental Attorney, Professor at St. John’s University School of Law, 1990-1991 Remembrance Scholar; Courtney Tucker, Former Transportation Security Administration and Federal Aviation Administration Employee; Barrie Gewanter, Director of the CNY Chapter of the NY Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); and Don Mitchell, Department of Geography, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
 

Friday, November 3:

2:03 (time of tragedy) – 3 pm Rose Laying Ceremony at the Wall of Remembrance in front of the Hall of Languages.

This traditional and moving event will honor each of the 35 students killed on Pan Am flight 103. Each of the 2006-2007 Remembrance Scholars will lay a rose on behalf of the student they are representing. The Lockerbie Scholars will read a speech and lay a rose in memory of Andrew McClune, a Lockerbie Scholar who died in Syracuse in 2002.

3:30 pm Remembrance Scholar Convocation in Hendricks Chapel honoring the 2006-2007 Remembrance Scholars

Remembrance Week 2006 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 2006-2007 Remembrance Scholars hosted all events.