HWS News
10 September 2024 • Alums • Service HWS Remembers 9/11
The HWS community, including its AmeriCorps Volunteers and Kappa Alpha Society members, will remember those lost on September 11, 2001.
On Wednesday, the HWS community will recall the national tragedy and those who lost their lives during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 by participating in various events and activities.
As part of their AmeriCorps service in Geneva, recent HWS graduates will join the National Day of Service working in the community. Olive McCall ’24 and Maeve Reilly ’23 will stock the Geneva High School food pantry and, along with Basil Snyder '23, will table in Scandling Campus Center during the lunch and dinner hours. Members of Kappa Alpha society will place 2,977 flags in the ground on the Quad Wednesday morning; one flag to represent every life lost. HWS will also join Geneva City and area fire fighters, police officers and EMS personnel for the National Day of Remembrance ceremony at 10 a.m. at the Long Pier. The annual event honors the first-responders in New York City, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, PA.
In 2001, the HWS community lost three alumni in the attacks at the World Trade Center, all of whom worked for the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald: Andrew H. Golkin '93, who majored in economics and was a member of the football team, Kappa Sigma, Inter-fraternity Council and the International Business Club; Scott W. Rohner '01, who majored in economics and played basketball and football; and Michael J. Simon '83, P'11, P'13, who majored in economics, was a member of Theta Delta Chi and played ice hockey, lacrosse, tennis and golf. A memorial plaque dedicated to Golkin, Rohner and Simon is located at the Abbe Center for Jewish Life.
Top: Flags fly at Long Pier in Geneva.
