FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, 304-696-7153
 

Marshall community to observe minute of silence Friday, Sept. 11

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Members of the Marshall University community are being asked to observe a minute of silence at 8:45 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, in observance of the 8^th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. The time was chosen to coincide with the approximate time of the attacks in 2001.

In Huntington, the campus bells will toll nine times, pause, then toll another eleven times to commemorate the month and day.

Of particular significance to Marshall University is the memory of Dr. Paul W. Ambrose, a graduate of the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, who was aboard American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Dr. Ambrose was at the time of his death senior clinical advisor with the office of the U.S. Surgeon General in Washington, D.C. He was the son of Dr. Kenneth Paul Ambrose, professor emeritus of sociology/anthropology at Marshall, and Sharon Ambrose, former chief operating officer at St. Mary’s Hospital in Huntington.

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