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POTSDAM -- On Saturday, Sept. 10, the Clarkson University faculty, staff and students, as well as members of the local community, will gather at Clarkson's World Trade Center Memorial Sculpture at 1 …
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POTSDAM -- On Saturday, Sept. 10, the Clarkson University faculty, staff and students, as well as members of the local community, will gather at Clarkson's World Trade Center Memorial Sculpture at 1 p.m. for Clarkson's annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony.
John McHugh, the North Country's congressman on Sept. 11, 2001 and former secretary of the army, will address those gathered.
The event is open to the public. Members of local rescue squads, fire and police departments, the military, and veterans are invited to attend in dress uniform.
The event will be preceded by Military Appreciation Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Center.
Two hours of silent reflection will take place the following day, Sept. 11, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. at the World Trade Center Memorial. Students will take part in service activities and light refreshments will be served.
On September 11, 2001, almost 3,000 people perished in the terrorist attacks on American soil, including four Clarkson University alumni.
The steel in Clarkson’s World Trade Center Memorial is from 55th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower.
Clarkson alumnus Michael Bielawa '85 was one of a group who led the 9/11 clean-up at the World Trade Center.
After his first-hand experience with the disaster, Bielawa requested that the New York City Office of Emergency Management donate steel from the World Trade Center to Clarkson to be used for a memorial.
Several years of planning and fund-raising led to the installation of a memorial at Clarkson in 2005.
This site was dedicated as a memorial to the four alumni’s lives lost in the World Trade Center attacks. Each of the alumni’s names, Peter A. Klein ’87, Paul R. Hughes ’85, Richard J. O’Connor ’75, and R. Mark Rasweiler ’70, is engraved above a light installed in the foundation of the structure, and at night the lights shine up on the structural beams.
The memorial is located across the road from the Rowley Laboratories building Forum.
In the event of inclement weather, the events will take place in the Student Center Forum
