9/11 Remembrance Ceremony Scheduled at University of Richmond
September 8, 2005
University of Richmond—which lost four alumni and numerous parents and friends in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington—will hold a remembrance ceremony Sept. 11 at 2:30 p.m.
The observance will begin at Gumenick Quadrangle, where four stone benches memorialize the alumni killed at the World Trade Center. The Freedom Flag created in remembrance of all killed in the attacks will fly at half staff while The Rev. Dr. Daphne Burt, university chaplain, offers a blessing. A bell in Boatwright Tower carillon will repeatedly toll four times, in memory of both the four alumni and the thousands of other victims.
Burt will then lead a silent procession to Cannon Memorial Chapel for closing remarks and invite participants to stay for the regularly scheduled Sunday campus worship service at 3:16 p.m.
The observance is sponsored by the University of Richmond student chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy. The widows of the four alumni have been invited to attend. For more information, contact the university’s Office of the Chaplaincy at (804) 289-8500.