When she was a freshman, Emma Edwards would walk past a board outside the policy studies office displaying names of the Remembrance Scholars in that major.

“I remember thinking ‘I wonder how much work it takes to get up there,’” Edwards said.

Edwards said she developed an interest in the Pan Am bombing and how it has become a part of the Syracuse University campus. She later decided to apply to be a Remembrance Scholar for next fall.

Now Edwards, along with 34 other SU students, has been selected as a 2014–15 Remembrance Scholar, according to an announcement released Monday. Every year, 35 scholars are selected to represent each of the students who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103, which went down over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students who apply must be graduating the following December or May, and are tasked with educating the campus about events surrounding the bombing.

Though Tonya Bauer didn’t have any previous knowledge of Pan Am Flight 103 before attending SU, she quickly learned about it during her time at SU. The first person she met was a Remembrance Scholar, she said in an email. She was also a resident adviser to a Lockerbie Scholar.

Bauer, who is currently studying abroad in London, said she heard at 6 p.m. London time on Friday that the Remembrance Scholars had been selected.

“I frantically started looking through my email because I hadn’t gotten a notification on my phone,” she said.

A few minutes later, Bauer received a message that notified her she had been selected.

“I read it three times, then read it out loud to my roommate just to make sure it was real,” she said.

For Lauren Strand, a junior sport management and marketing management major, the news that she had been chosen as a Remembrance Scholar brought tears of joy. After the excitement subsided, she called her mother.

Strand, Edwards and Bauer all said they hope to educate the community and campus about the events of Pan Am and encourage more participation in Remembrance Week events.

Though she has been chosen as one of the 35 scholars for next year, Edwards said she still thinks about the board outside the policy studies office.

Said Edwards: “I just keep thinking about how proud my adviser would be.”

Other students who were named 2014-15 Remembrance Scholars:

• Angel Winston
• Kristin Weeks
• John Tummino
• Hailey-Margaret Temple
• Bo Stewart
• Chelsea Stephens
• Anastasia Selby
• Elliot Russell
• Nikolay Rodionov
• John “Sam” Rodgers
• Jeffrey Rich
• Gabriela Riccardi
• Natalie Rebeyev
• Rebecca Moore
• Sara Mileski
• Victoria Miles
• Karolina Lubecka
• Jonathan Lee
• Tenzin Lama
• John Kaczmarczyk
• Miho Hatanaka
• Isabel Firpo
• Alexandra Figueroa Miranda
• Matthew Feibert
• Casey Fabris
• Katelyn Edel
• Rachael Burke
• Katherine Bunch
• Brittany Beyer
• Fergus Barrie
• Jacqueline Barr
• Maryann Akinboyewa

Published on April 22, 2014 at 12:51 am

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