wednesday's words and wanderings and wonderings

"Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day?" ~ Alan Jackson

The six people below went to work on September 11, 2001, and did not return home.

Their commonalities: All of them were from the New York City area, all of them worked in the South Tower, and all of them attended the University of Dayton.

William Eben Wilson (S-61) 58 y/o, New York City, Vice President for AON Corporation

Kristin Irvine-Ryan (S-51) 30 y/o, Long Island, married June 2001, Sandler O’Neill & Partners. (We were at the Memorial on May 22, which was Kristin's birthday, as  designated by the white rose placed on her marker by the Memorial commission).

Mary Lenz Wieman (S-59) 43 y/o, Rockville Center, Marketing Executive AON

Joseph J. Zuccala (S-44) 54 y/o, Croton-on-Hudson, a banking consultant who was at Fuji Bank

Alfonse Joseph Niedermeyer (S-28) 40 y/o, Manasaquan, NJ, Port Authority Police officer

David Wiswall (S-55)  54 y/o, Massapequa, Senior Vice President AON

This past May, Todd and I were in NYC, walking to the 9/11 Memorial and passing through the Washington Square Park neighborhood. (Tidbit: Looking north, the Washington Square Arch frames the Empire State Building and looking south the Arch frames 1 World Trade Center). As we walked through the neighborhood, I looked down and saw this little scrap of paper. It looks like Ohio so like a little kid who stuffs her pocket with "stuff", I picked it up.

Before this trip, I had read an article about University of Dayton alums who perished in the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings. My mission was to find these UD Flyers. We did and I used my little Ohio paper as a reminder where they had spent four wonderful years.