Carnegie Mellon Civil Engineering Students Celebrate Arbor Day By Planting A Tree Memoralizing Lives Lost At Virginia Tech

April 27 , 2007
Contact: Chriss Swaney
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PITTSBURGH— Carnegie Mellon University’s Corinne D. Scown will lead a ceremony in front of Scaife Hall April 27 at 2 p.m. dedicated to memoralizing the 32 lives lost at Virginia Tech when a lone gunman went on a shooting spree earlier this month.

“We are planting a honey locust tree to commemorate those who lost their lives during those tragic moments at Virginia Tech,’’ said Scown, chapter president of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. “We are also working to get a place marker made for the tree site."

Scown and a handful of civil engineering students also will tie orange ribbons around the tree as a Carnegie Mellon bagpiper plays Amazing Grace. Sestili Nursery, Inc. of Pittsburgh donated the tree to Carnegie Mellon students. The Sestili’s daughter is a graduate of Virginia Tech.

WHEN: 2 p.m., Friday, April 27, 2007

WHERE: Scaife Hall, Frew Street side, Carnegie Mellon University