Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at Syracuse University

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, May 25 at 11am Central for a "fireside chat" about the Future of Archives: Collecting in Times of Crisis. Pan Am 103 Archivist and Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group co-chair Vanessa St.Oegger-Menn will join colleagues Kara McClurken and Carol Summerfield to discuss the ethics, legalities, and complications of archival work in critical times. This event is presented by the Society of American Archivists in collaboration with Pass It Down. Registration is free and open to the public.

The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars Posters Committee is excited to present From the Archive // For the Archive, an exhibition of select creative pieces from the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, on the first floor of Bird Library through May 16. The exhibit showcases reproductions of poetry, artwork, sculpture and more from the Archives' collections that follow the theme of the Scholars' ongoing Poster competition. The display also includes submissions for the competition, leading up to the announcement of the winning design on May 15th, 2021. Visit http://www.remposter.com to learn more and to vote on your favorite poster.

This month’s PA103 Archives tribute honors Louise Ann Luann Rogers. A senior at the Maryland Institute of Art, Luann was returning home with her classmate Gretchen Dater after a semester in London with Syracuse University. She studied painting, sculpture, and photography and had recently changed her major from interior design to fine arts. She planned to work in fashion design after graduating. Luann’s friends and family remember her as funny, feisty, creative, and warm. Colorful and offbeat, Luann did everything with style. The Louise Ann Rogers Papers (https://bit.ly/3nRpbp0), including a photo album of Luann, has been donated to the Archives by her parents. We Remember Luann, and all the victims.

The 2021-22 Remembrance Scholars have been announced! This scholarship is one of the highest honors a Syracuse University student can receive. The 35 candidates selected to represent and memorialize those students killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 undergo a rigorous and competitive application and interview process. This year’s scholars, as well as the 2021-22 Lockerbie Scholars, will plan the Remembrance events held at Syracuse University next year. The Pan Am Flight 103 Archives congratulates each of these outstanding students. We're excited to work with them as they fulfill the promise to "Look Back, Act Forward" in memory of those lost.

The annual Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar Convocation will be held virtually tomorrow, April 30, at 4 p.m. ET! The service will be offered as a Zoom webinar,... and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided. Still need to register? Learn more about the ceremony and register at the link below. The convocation honors the achievements of the 2020-21 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, and pays tribute to the Syracuse University students, Lockerbie residents and all those lost in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.