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Coast Guard Academy & Connecticut College to co-host series of events to commemorate victims of 9/11 tragedies
September 03, 2002
For immediate release
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Connecticut College and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy will sponsor jointly a series of events to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 tragedies. The public is invited to all the events. A picture ID is required for entry to events at the academy.
Two events will be held September 11: Informal meditation The chaplains of Connecticut College will host an informal meditation titled "A Time to Remember" Sept. 11 from 8 to 9:30 a.m. in Harkness Chapel. Beginning at 8 a.m. and at 15-minute intervals, a chaplain will offer a prayer, a poem and a meditation, followed by a moment of silence and music. Participants also will be offered candles they can light off pillar candles and place in a container of sand near the altar. The chapel bells will be rung 11 times at 8:50 a.m.
Sunset Service
A Memorial Sunset Service jointly sponsored by the college and the academy will be held at the academy's Parade Field from 6 to 7:10 p.m. Sept. 11.(The rain location is Leamy Hall.) A picture ID is required for entry to events at the academy.
The Coast Guard's Cadet Jazz Band will begin the sunset service with a drum cadence readying the academy's drill team into position for performance, and the ceremony will end with the playing of Taps and the retiring of the colors by the Cadet Color Guard while the Jazz Band plays "The Star Spangled Banner."
The Connecticut College Chamber Choir and the Cadet Glee Club will perform jointly "Mansions of the Lord" and, later in the program, "America the Beautiful" accompanied by the Cadet Jazz Band. There will also be poetry readings. "Incantation" by Czeslaw Milosz will be presented by Connecticut College student and "America" by Walt Whitman will be read by a Coast Guard Academy Cadet. The Cadet Jazz Band will perform an arrangement of Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." Members of the Connecticut College Concert Band will also perform.
Connecticut College President Norman Fainstein and an official of the academy will offer brief remarks.
Two panel discussions in September and October (View the Sept. 11 Commemoration Panels site for further information.) The college and the academy will also sponsor two panel discussions with renowned experts in fields related to terrorism in September and October.
The September 24 panel, to be hosted by Connecticut College in the 1962 Room of the College Center at Crozier-Williams, will address "Reacting to Terrorist Threats: The International Dimensions," moderated by keynoter Martha Crenshaw, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought at Wesleyan University. It will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The October 1 panel, to be hosted by the Coast Guard Academy at Leamy Hall Auditorium, is titled "A Year at War: The Domestic Front." The panel discussion, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., will be moderated by keynoter Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations.
The series of events builds on a collaboration between the college and the academy that began nearly a year ago when the terrorist tragedies shocked the world. Last September, the two institutions assembled a panel of experts that began discussions of various perspectives on terrorism. Students, cadets and visitors asked questions, aired their thoughts and comments, and assimilated the tragedies in their own ways.
"Last year's collaboration brought our respective communities even closer together than previously. We want to continue that collaboration while paying respect to the victims of the 9/11 tragedies and providing an academic perspective on terrorism - both reflective and for the future - in which students can hear from renowned experts in the field," said Connecticut College President Norman Fainstein.
Media contacts: Trish Brink, Connecticut College (860) 439-2508
Lieut. J.G. April Eisley, U.S. Coast Guard Academy (860) 444-8685
For media inquiries contact: Deborah MacDonnell (860) 439-2504, dmacdonn@conncoll.edu; or Caroline Gransee (860) 439-2508, cgransee@conncoll.edu