Malik Evans lays a rose on the Wall of Remembrance during the 2016 Rose-Laying Ceremony.
The 2017-18 Convocation for Remembrance Scholars, honoring 35 outstanding students from this year’s senior class, will be held Friday, Oct. 27, at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.
The Convocation will be preceded by the annual Rose-Laying Ceremony at 2:03 p.m. at the Place of Remembrance, located in front of the Hall of Languages. This ceremony honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002.
The Remembrance Scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents and corporations. Significant support for the Remembrance Scholarships has been provided by C. Jean Thompson ’66 and SU Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Richard L. Thompson G’67, H’15 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents; the Fred L. Emerson Foundation; and Deborah Barnes and Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman Steven W. Barnes ’82.
Applicants for the $5,000 scholarship were asked to highlight their academic achievements and University activities, including community service. They also wrote essays and participated in interviews with members of the selection committee.
Additionally, each year, two students from Lockerbie are selected as Lockerbie Scholars. They spend one year studying at SU on a scholarship before returning to the United Kingdom to complete their university degrees. Both SU and the Lockerbie Trust support this award. This year’s scholars, Andrew Dorrance and Heather Mutch, will be recognized at the convocation.
Pamela Brandes, associate professor in the Whitman School of Management and chair of the Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee, will preside over the convocation. Messages will be delivered by Chancellor Kent Syverud and Frederick Carranti, associate professor of practice in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, a member of the Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee and a 1991-92 Remembrance Scholar. A Remembrance Scholar will speak on behalf of the group.
To see all of this year’s Remembrance and Lockerbie scholars, click here.
The 2017-18 Remembrance Scholars, and their hometowns and majors are:
• Zainab Abdali of Houston, Texas, an English and textual studies and mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Ali Abdullah of Trenton, New Jersey, a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Alex Alvarez of Caguas, Puerto Rico, a Latino-Latin American studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, a television, radio and film major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Cierra Britton of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Spanish major in A&S;
• Madeleine Buckley of Owings, Maryland, a magazine major in the Newhouse School and policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Elissa Candiotti of Hewlett, New York, a broadcast and digital journalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Kathryn Cassidy of Framingham, Massachusetts, a history major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, social studies education major in A&S and the School of Education and Spanish language, literature and culture major in A&S;
• Tori Cedar of Hazlet, New Jersey, a communications sciences and disorders and psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Bryan Cereijo of Hialeah, Florida, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and a photojournalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Katherine Conti of Erie, Pennsylvania, an international relations and geography major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a public communication studies major in the Newhouse School;
• Ricky Diep of Quincy, Massachusetts, a systems and information science major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Jacob Gedetsis of Cleveland, Ohio, an English and textual studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and newspaper and online journalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Tulipe Hosenn of Boston, Massachusetts and Dhaka, Bangladesh, a political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Kylie Kerker of Snohomish, Washington, a biology and neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Tessa Latrenta of Colts Neck, New Jersey, an advertising major in the Newhouse School;
• Raymond Levine of Erie, Pennsylvania, a policy studies and political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Madeline Lorang of Bigfork, Montana, a geography major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Leonardo Marino of Pulaski, New York, a linguistic studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and music composition major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Joshua McMaster of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, a computer art and animation major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts;
• Kelsey Montondo of Buffalo, New York, a public health major in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics;
• Evanna Ojeda of Miami, Florida, an international relations and political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Jacqueline Page of Potomac, Maryland, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Angie Pati of Millstone Township, New Jersey, a neuroscience and psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Kennedy Patlan of Dallas, Texas, and Miami, Florida, an advertising major in the Newhouse School, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, and a women’s and gender studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Justine Paul of Ashland, Pennsylvania, a bioengineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Megan Phan of Los Angeles, California, a chemistry and neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Kiran Ramsey of Indianapolis, Indiana, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies;
• Hannah Rebar of Hilton, New York, a bioengineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Brittany Reed of Clifton Park, New York, a bioengineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Bronte Schmit of Granada Hills, California, a magazine journalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Marisa Torelli-Pedevska of New York, New York, a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School;
• Xintong (Claire) Wang of Hebei, China, an applied mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, an economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Erin Welsh of Buffalo, New York, a political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;
• Melissa Wherry of East Windsor, New Jersey, a psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and studio arts major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts; and
• Sudan Zhuang of Malden, Massachusetts, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies and marketing management major in the Whitman School of Management.
