A stars-and-stripes-themed exhibition to commemorate the victims of 9/11 opens September 7th at NYIT's Manhattan campus flagship building on Broadway at West 61st Street.
The exhibition incorporates the names and likenesses of five members of the NYIT alumni family who died in the attack, as well as the names of the nearly 2,900 other victims. Matthew Baker, a Los Angeles-born, New York-based visual artist, is coordinating the installation. He has received recognition for his work in ceramics, illustration and painting.
The 9/11 tragedies touched so many lives in New York City, around the nation, and around the world. Among those lost on that ill-fated day were five graduates of NYIT. The five alumni were men of different ages, different backgrounds and different professions, who all brought passion and joy to their work and their lives. They are remembered as sons, husbands, fathers, brothers and heroes.
"As we approach the one-year commemoration of 9/11," notes NYIT President and CEO Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., "I join with the NYIT staff and faculty -- and our entire college family -- in honoring our five fallen alumni and all who were lost on that catastrophic day."
The alumni being honored are: Robert DeAngelis (B.F.A. '74 & M.A. '78, Communication Arts) and William Fallon (M.S. '91, Computer Science), both of whom worked in the towers; Firefighter Patrick Lyons (B.S. '91, Business Administration) and FDNY Battalion Chief Richard Prunty (B.S. '78, Behavioral Sciences), both called to the scene that fateful morning; and Police Officer Glen Pettit (B.F.A. '95, Communication Arts), assigned to the NYPD Video Unit, there to capture the event for history. Each was doing his job as well as helping others when fate intervened.
"It's been a long time since we, as a people, were challenged as severely as we were on Tuesday, September 11th," said New York Gov. George Pataki, in his commencement remarks at NYIT graduation ceremonies last spring. "But no one had to bear it alone."
And speaking of downed police officer Glen Pettit, then New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerick, receiving an Honorary Degree from NYIT at the same ceremony, noted that in doing his job Pettit "was a man that had integrity, ethics, valor, courage and honor." Words that describe all those who died as a result of these senseless acts of terrorism.
Visible to passersby, the street level installation runs through September 21st, joining other outpourings of commemoration to be found all over the city, state and nation.
NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) is an independent, comprehensive college that offers, through eight schools, more than 100 courses of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. NYIT currently educates more than 10,000 students on three physical campuses--in Old Westbury and Central Islip, Long Island, and Manhattan, near Lincoln Center--and one virtual campus via the Internet. More than 59,000 alumni have received degrees from NYIT.
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