In memory

IU and the Bloomington community will commemorate the second anniversary of Sept. 11 Thursday through vigils, prayers and community service.\nThe IU Student Foundation will award scholarships to three people in memory of three IU students' fathers who lost their lives two years ago. The ceremony will be held at the Indiana Memorial Union in the University Club at 3 p.m. Any IU undergraduate is eligible for the three $1,500 scholarships.\nIUSF President Jonathan Purvis said the scholarship reception focuses on the recipients' achievements and their families. Purvis said remarks will be made by either IU-Bloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm or Dean of Students Richard McKaig, along with IU Foundation President Curt Simic.\nThere will also be an interfaith candlelight service featuring prayers, silence and music sponsored by the Center for University Ministry at 8 p.m. in Dunn Meadow. The Unitarian Universalist Church and St. Paul's Catholic Church will hold their own services earlier in the evening at 7 p.m., and plan to proceed to Dunn Meadow for the campus-wide service. There will also be processions from the Sample Gates and some residence halls. \n"I believe that it is a very meaningful service Campus Minister Rebecca Jimenez said. "It is where people come from different places to pray for peace in one voice." Those represented in the service will be members from The Unitarian Universalist Church, the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center, the Muslim Student Union, St. Paul's Catholic Church, the Islamic Center and the Center for University Ministry. The ceremony should last about a half hour to 45 minutes.\nAt 7:30 p.m., the Delta Delta Delta sorority will hold its own candlelight vigil for the second year in a row at their house, 818 E. 3rd St.\n"We are going to make our service an annual event on 9/11 because it is very important to remember what happened," Tri Delt President Katie Heinrich said.\nLadies First will perform at the vigil and the president and philanthropy chair of the chapter will speak. They will hang a banner at the vigil for people to sign before they send it to the Twin Towers Orphan Fund in New York City.\nHeinrich said the ceremony should last no longer than 45 minutes. \nJunior Phil Guerre, who attended the Tri Delt's vigil last year said, "It was good somber experience, and once again it made everybody think about what happened."\n"Last year I went to Delta Delta Delta's candlelight service, and I feel it was a great representation of campus interaction and involvement," junior Leslie Silver said. "It was nice to see how everyone cared and didn't forget what had happened."\nAt 9 p.m. the campus group "Grand Old Cause" will be sponsoring another candlelight vigil in Dunn Meadow where a moment of silence will be observed for 11 minutes. The vigil will commence with the chimes from the Student Building clock tower and end at 9:11 p.m. with the crowd singing, "America the Beautiful." \nKarl Born, senior and founder of the Grand Old Cause said, "The purpose of the event is to remember the victims, but we also think it is important to remember what happened that day so we don't forget what an important responsibility it is to keep this from happening again."\nAll these events are being held in honor and in remembrance of the terrible shock and tragedy that our country faced two years ago. \nOn the terrorist attacks' first anniversary one year ago religious services, candlelight memorials and a remembrance ceremony were all held on campus. \nSince Sept. 11, the Bloomington and IU communities have banded together to recover from this national tragedy.\nPlaces of worship around town offered services and collected donations in remembrance of those whose lives were lost during the attacks as well as those who rushed in to buildings to help people.\nJoAnn Jackowiak of St. Paul's Catholic Church said, "After the initial attack, students and members of the community collected donations for the firefighters and then gathered to make pin flags and distributed them out to people in remembrance."\nMembers of the sorority Delta Delta Delta also collected donations and signed a banner that was sent to the Twin Towers Orphan Fund.\n-- Contact staff writer Katie Killebrew at kpkilleb@indiana.edu.