Bright sunshine shone down as members of the SUNY Old Westbury community gathered for the campus’s annual memorial ceremony marking the tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001.
Organized by the University Police Department, a somber ceremony was held on the steps of the Student Union on September 11, 2024 centered around the time of 8:46 a.m., the exact time the first plane with the North Tower at the World Trade Center in New York City.
With the University’s September 11 Memorial as the backdrop, the toll of a bell was heard for each of the five alumni who perished in the attack. The alumni remembered during the ceremony were James J. Carson ’93 of Baldwin, New York; Dennis Michael Edwards '88 of Huntington, New York; Wade Brian Green ’84 of Westbury, New York; Joseph Maloney ’80 of Farmingville, New York; and Anthony Perez ’00 of Locust Valley, New York.
The commemoration also called on those in attendance to remember the first responders who perished that day and later due to illness and those in the military who served in the Middle East as part of the U.S. response in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
The SUNY Old Westbury Memorial is comprised of two ornamental bushes planted in 2002 on the one-year anniversary of 9/11 along with plaques at their base that asks that all lost that tragic day are remembered.
