Students and family gathered to honor their decease loved ones on Friday at the annual Student Memorial Tribute in the garden next to Student Services Building.
Each year, members of MSU gather to remember the students lost during the academic year.
Deceased students remembered at annual Student Memorial Tribute
This year the tribute honored the deaths of the following eight students:
Michael Scott-Odesser Bateman, No Preference from Burton, Mich.
Joseph Patrick Dunne Bauer, No Preference from Gross Pointe Woods, Mich.
Matthew David Lillis, Honors College from Lake Orion, Mich.
Dillon Craig Marshall, College of Social Science from Roseville, Mich.
Maximillian Miguel Monroy Miller, College of Education and College of Social Science, Chicano/Latino Studies from Lansing, Mich.
Ryan Joseph Murphy, College of Social Science from Washington.
Caleb Michael Page, College of Social Science from Northville, Mich.
Patrick Kegan Cochrane, College of Arts and Letters from Laramine, Wyo.
“I hope those families remember that MSU is a place that will forever be apart of their family and these students will forever be apart of the campus’ family," Associated Students of Michigan State University president President Domonique Clemons said.
The tribute featured speakers such as Vice President for Student Affairs Denise Maybank, Reverend Sarah Midzalkowski and MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon.
For the student’s lasting memory, a tree has been placed on campus in their honor.
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President Simon concluded her speech with a section from the passage “When Big Trees Fall” by Maya Angelou.
“And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
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soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
