SUNY Oswego Memorial

More than 150 people—students, faculty, alumni and families—gathered beside Glimmerglass Lagoon on Sept. 11 to pay tribute to the 12 Oswego alumni lost in the terrorist attacks four years earlier.
They were there to dedicate a memorial garden, the gift of the classes of 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Visitors strolled through the garden, which was blooming with purple hydrangeas, autumn joy sedum and red winterberry holly, and ringed by weeping cedar. Some sat on the English garden style bench. One laid a lone rose atop the monument listing the names of alumni Scott Bart of the class of 1995; Michelle Bratton, 2000; Richard Caproni, 1989; Michael Cawley, 1991; Michael Collins, 1984; Wendy Morris Faulkner, 1974; Michael Hannan, 1989; Michael O’Brien, 1981; James Potorti, 1972; Leo Roberts, 1979; Melissa Renee Vincent, 1994; and James Woods, 1997. They all died in the World Trade Center collapse.
“We gather to dedicate, to consecrate and to hallow this place in their memory. Yet there is another way in which it has already been dedicated as their lives were knit to ours in sharing in this place and in its spirit,” the Rev. Jim Lang, former chaplain of the Hall Newman Center, said during the reflection.
SUNY Oswego’s Kevin Mahaney said, “This memorial garden, designed to spring into life each September, will be a living memorial to the alumni who were lost. It is a quiet place to reflect about the importance of friends, family and life, amidst a turbulent world.”

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