![]() I am so worried about you, even if I don't know you that well. So when I ask, "How are y'all doin' up there?" I mean.I am so sorry for your pain, for our pain. It is such a helpless feeling here, and there are worries, because Atlanta is the biggest city in the South. And from what I gather, as surreal as it all seems here, there is a similar feeling up there. "How are y'all doin' up there?" (And he speaks Southern, so he understands me.) And he lets me in as much as he can as to what the feeling is, what the mood is like, how the trains are empty, the smells, all the things that we can't feel on TV. in our New York office a lot because I am new and he is the pivotal software guru. "How are y'all doin' up there?" So far, that is the closest that I have gotten to the tragedy. While peace on earth may not be attainable this Christmas, goodwill toward men should otherwise be our wish. It is truly the unity of spirit learned in Pi Beta Phi that keeps me going through some of the most difficult days of my life. The days are long, and the challenges are many. Air Force reservist was called to 365 days of active military duty several weeks ago. In my own home, I am preparing to celebrate Christmas alone with my five children ages 13, 12, 10, 6 and 4. There are fewer holiday lights and fewer shoppers in the malls. ![]() At this time of year, when we otherwise would all be caught up in the materialism of the holidays, it seems that most of the civilized world is taking a step back. I read with interest your article in The Arrow regarding the horrible tragedies which beset our nation on September 11. Perseverance Elizabeth Bielawski Laskowski, lndiana Gamma Beginning October 11, 44 art students in teams of 8-12 met before and after school to work on the mural on a front hallway floor.ĭuring the course of four weeks, colors lightened and grew dark, Iines appeared and disappeared, images morphed, merged and transformed into a unique language of art. Shades of black, white and gray house paint, brushes and canvas were donated from a nearby business. lt was this poster that brought one of our art students to ask, ''Can we do something like this in honor of September 11?" So, inspired by "Guernica," the students spoke with their thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams and spent two months working on their response to our nation's tragedy.Īfter more than 200 individual paintings were finished, David Butler, another art instructor, and I, chose more than 20 images to be ''collaged" into a "Picasso-like" composition. ![]() Hanging in both art classrooms at school is a poster of Picasso's "Guernica." The 1937 bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in Spain moved Picasso to paint one of the world's great art treasures and one of the most shocking documents of the horrors of war. l would like share with you what my students painted in response to September 11. I am a teacher at Spring Branch Middle School in Houston, Texas and a member of Pi Phi. Sensitivity Suzanne Goodrich Greene, Texas Beta To honor Patriot Day 2022, we’re revisiting the words from our sisters in 2002 and sharing them again here today-more than 20 years later. As a sisterhood, we’re committed to supporting and listening to one another-we felt our members deserved a voice then just as much as we do now. In 2002, Pi Beta Phi commemorated the lives lost on September 11, 2001, by having our members share their stories of remembrance and grief in the Spring 2002 issue of The Arrow titled “We Heal.” Now known as Patriot Day, September 11 is a day to pause, reflect and remember all victims of the attacks.
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