{"id":4935,"date":"2026-09-11T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/president\/presidential-communications\/remembering-september-11\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:53:45","slug":"remembering-september-11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/president\/presidential-communications\/remembering-september-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering September 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">To The Trinity College Community,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">Twenty-five years ago today, our nation experienced a tragedy that remains etched in our collective memory.\u00a0Those who lived through September 11, 2001, remember the shock and sorrow that\u00a0began early that morning. We remember\u00a0nearly\u00a03,000\u00a0people who left their homes that morning and never returned. We remember the courage of the first responders and ordinary people who ran toward danger to help others. We remember the families who endured unimaginable\u00a0loss,\u00a0and communities\u00a0that were\u00a0forever changed. And we recognize that for many of our students today, September 11 is not a memory but history,\u00a0making our responsibility to remember, and to help them understand the human weight of that day,\u00a0even more\u00a0important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">At Trinity, that loss is\u00a0direct. Six members of our alumni community were\u00a0lost\u00a0on September 11:\u00a0<b>John C. Hartz \u201959, Lindsay C.\u00a0Herkness\u00a0III \u201965, George E. Spencer III \u201973, Richard B. Hall \u201974, Stuart T. Meltzer \u201990, and Scott M. Johnson \u201997.<\/b>\u00a0Today,\u00a0I write to remind our community of\u00a0their names and ask that we remember them not simply as victims of an act of terror, but as Bantams,\u00a0as classmates, friends, colleagues, husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons whose lives were connected to this College and to generations of people who loved them. Twenty-five years cannot diminish the enormity of their absence, nor should the passage of time diminish our obligation to honor their lives.\u00a0At 11:30 a.m. today, the Chapel Carillon will be rung six times in honor of the members of our community whose lives were lost that day, each bell a solemn remembrance of a life that\u00a0remains\u00a0part of Trinity\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">I hope each of us will take a moment to remember the\u00a0six members of the Trinity\u00a0community\u00a0and all who were lost, while holding close those who continue to carry the grief of that day.\u00a0The events of\u00a0September 11 remind us how suddenly the world can change, but it also reminds us of the extraordinary capacity of people to care for one another in moments of profound\u00a0loss. May we honor\u00a0the day by\u00a0caring for\u00a0one another,\u00a0by contributing to our sense of belonging as a college\u00a0community\u00a0and\u00a0by\u00a0carrying forward a spirit of compassion, service, and shared humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">With care,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">Dan<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">Daniel G. Lugo<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">President, Trinity College<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Trinity College Community, Twenty-five years ago today, our nation experienced a tragedy that remains etched in our collective memory.\u00a0Those who lived through September 11, 2001, remember the shock and sorrow that\u00a0began early that morning. We remember\u00a0nearly\u00a03,000\u00a0people who left their homes that morning and never returned. 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