Clarkson Will Hold Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony Monday at World Trade Center Memorial Sculpture
On Monday, September 11, the Clarkson University campus community and members of the local community will gather at Clarkson's World Trade Center Memorial Sculpture at 8:25 a.m. for Clarkson's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony.
The event is open to the public. The memorial is located next to the Townhouse Apartments on Clarkson’s Collins Hill Campus. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will take place in the Student Center forum.
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 the 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.
For directions to the memorial, please refer to Clarkson’s interactive campus map: https://clarkson.university-tour.com/map.php.
