February 14, 2008 Memorial

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• Making sense of it all in the days after 2/14
  Lee Scott, NIU student, speaks with his mother, Debra Scott, registered nurse of Kishwaukee Community Hospital, about mourning in the days after and empathizing with the families and friends of the victims. He discusses his own healing.
• Recovery aided by email
  Deborah Haliczer, Director of Employee Relations for NIU, tells husband Stephen Haliczer of the important role teaching faculty played in student recovery by sending email and Blackboard messages. She also discusses the importance of email from colleagues around the country who personally supported her.
• After 7p.m. at the hospital
  Kishwaukee Community Hospital RNs Rebecca Maier and Cindy Graves speak of the aftermath at the hospital once all patients had been attended to and the flurry of activity had slowed in the evening.
• Care Package from the College of DuPage
  Items included in care package are as follows: Item #1: School newspaper - Courier - from February 22, 2008. The headline on the paper reads: NIU grief counseling provided to students. Inside the paper on page 3 is an announcement of the upcoming NIU Day of Remembrance on February 25th, 2008. Item #2: School newspaper - Courier - from February 29, 2008. The headline on the paper reads: Monday's standing room only memorial allows students, employees time to grieve NIU's loss. Inside paper on page 3 is an article about the DuPage Ribbon & Button Project for NIU Remembrance. Item #3: Black marble paperweight with gray etching with DuPage logo reading: College of DuPage Foundation. Item #4: Shiny, dark gray ball-point pen with DuPage logo reading on cap: College of DuPage. Item #5: White button with crying huskie dog logo reading in black and red: Today we are all Huskies: College of DuPage. Attached to pin is a small black ribbon. Size: 2.25" diameter. Item #6: Leather journal with feather pen on cover and gold-trim pages. Inside are messages and signatures from the community of the College of DuPage. About half of the pages are filled with hundreds of messages. First page has a poem by William Wordsworth entitled "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." Size: 7" wide by 9.25" tall. Item #7: Photographs from the College of DuPage's Day of Remembrance for NIU. Two print-outs of photographs, the rest of which are included in their original size on a CD-R. Item #8: Program / Transcription of the proceedings of the NIU Day of Remembrance held at the College of DuPage on February 25, 2008. Program is bound together with black ribbon and has a crying huskie dog logo at the top of the front page. Size: 8.5" wide by 11" tall.
• Sign from Campus Memorials
  Sign of red-orange construction paper taped together reading: Tomorrow, we will ask why, but tonight, we simply allow ourselves to grieve. Size: 21.75" tall by 27.5" long.
• Banners from Kishwaukee College
  Banner (1) Large multi-colored laminated banner reading: Hope: Love: Unity: Support.: To [NIU Huskies logo] from [KC logo] Kishwaukee College. Also has black and white 2" by 3" photographs of each victim. Various messages, prayers, drawings and signatures from students. Size: 75" by 24". Banner (2) Large white laminated banner reading in red and black: NIU: United with you in Peace: Your brothers and sisters from Kishwaukee College: To [NIU logo with ribbon] from [KC logo] Kishwaukee College. Various messages and signatures from students and a poem referencing the shooter by Nicole Theissing. Various drawings as well. Specific messages to Daniel Parmenter, Catalina Garcia and Ryanne Mace. Other languages: Hebrew, Latin and perhaps more. Reference to geology: "Mente et Malleo" (which is Latin for "with mind and hammer") next to a stick-figure with a rock-hammer. Size: 71" by 24".
• Poster from South River High
  Beige poster reading in red and black marker: NIU: South River High: Edgewater, MD. Various signatues, drawings and messages of support in black and red. Size: 35" long by 23.125" tall.
• Ryanne's Golfing Disc from Campus Memorials
  Red golfing disc with cross drawn on in black. Inscription in black reads: To Ryanne Mace & Family: I join in your sorrow: Yet have hope for tomorrow: God's blessings as you mourn: Dan "Disc Golfing Man". Size: 8.25" diameter.
• Julianna's Golfing Disc from Campus Memorials
  Blue golfing disc with cross drawn on in black. Inscription in black reads: To Julianna Gehant & Family: I join in your sorrow: Yet have hope for tomorrow: May God's comfort and love fall on you all: Dan "Disc Golfing Man". Size: 8.5" diameter.