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Two alumni of Virginia Tech will read the names of the 32 students and faculty who died last week, during a memorial Monday at California State University, Fresno.
The ceremony will include a National Moment of Silence called by Virginia Tech for 9:45 a.m. as students resume classes there.
Dr. Maria Sanchez and Dr. Ira Sorenson, members of the Virginia Tech Class of 2002 who are now mechanical engineering professors in the College of Engineering at Fresno State, will join President John D. Welty and students at the memorial from 9:30 to 10 a.m. in the Free Speech Area.
A forum from 9 to 9:30 a.m. will precede the tribute. University officials will provide information about the tragedy’s impact on Fresno State, about counseling services available on campus and what the university does to maintain security and safety. Students will have an opportunity to air concerns and ask questions.
Sanchez and Sorensen also will participate in the dedication of the Virginia Tech Memorial Garden in front of the Henry Madden Library immediately following the tribute.
The faculty members – she from Bogotá, Colombia and he from Selma, 20 miles south of Fresno – met at Virginia Tech while participating in a thermal radiation project, a courtship ensued and they were married in Blacksburg in 2001. For Monday’s tribute, she will be wearing her Hokies jacket and he his Hokies sweatshirt.
The pair both earned master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. They joined the Fresno State faculty in 2003. Sanchez’s father also earned a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech.
“Virginia Tech – Remember, Discuss, Prepare” is presented by University Student Union Productions and the Division of Student Affairs for students, faculty, staff and the community, as part of the National Moment of Silence declared by Virginia Tech on Friday.
A banner will be available for people to sign, along with materials to make cards expressing personal thoughts. They will be sent to Virginia Tech. Carnations in the Hokies school colors, maroon and orange, will adorn the stage with posters bearing the victims’ names.
The tribute will include a vocal rendition of “Amazing Grace” by Fresno State student Erica Dement, university employee Lisa Kao singing the National Anthem and the Fresno State ROTC presenting colors. Senior music major Scott Dean will perform “Taps.” The University Carillon will ring out a tribute.
Immediately following, the Virginia Tech Memorial Garden will be dedicated at the southeast corner of the Henry Madden Library including a plaque to memorialize the fallen.
Planted in the garden are three forest pansy redbuds, 15 salvia caradonna, 10 phormium maori queen and 15 flats of orange marigolds, donated by Kenny’s Pansies in Fresno. Additionally, three flowering dogwoods, the Virginia state flower, will be placed on the south side of the Engineering East building by the end of the week.
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