Summary |
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Creator: | Syracuse University |
Title: | Remembrance Quilt Collection |
Dates: | 1998-2003 |
Size: | 2 boxes, 1 linear foot |
Abstract: | The Remembrance Quilt Collection contains series for Correspondence, Individual Students and Subject Files. These materials all relate to the creation of the Remembrance Quilt in memory of the 35 SU students killed on Pan Am Flight 103. |
Language: | English |
Repository: |
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/pan-am-103 |
The Remembrance Quilt was created by the 1998-1999 Remembrance Scholars with the assistance of experienced quilters and other members of the University community. This year marked the 10th Anniversary of the bombing and the Remembrance Quilt was the brainchild of Remembrance Scholar Kimberly Hamilton. With the assistance of experienced quilters like Francis Parks, an SU staff member and part of the Hendricks Chapel Quiltmakers, Hamilton and the other Scholars designed a quilt that featured a square for each of the 35 SU victims. The families were contacted and asked to send materials that had been meaningful to their child and could be used to make the squares. The final design for the quilt was done by Jeanne Riley and features the Dove of Peace, which was designed by Jonathan Hoefer '91, a friend of victim Mark Lawrence Tobin, and was first used in a Christmas card design. Tobin's mother, who was also a quilter, offered the Dove for use in the center panel and Hoefer agreed. The Quilt was completed in the spring of 1999.
The Remembrance Quilt Collection contains series for Correspondence, Individual Students and Subject Files. These materials all relate to the creation of the Remembrance Quilt in memory of the 35 SU students killed on Pan Am Flight 103.
The Remembrance Quilt itself is not a part of the Archives and is actually housed at Hendricks Chapel on SU's main campus. It is available for viewing each year during Remembrance Week events.
There are no access restrictions for this collection.
Written permission must be obtained from the Pan Am Flight 103 Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
The Pan Am Flight 103 Archives contains additional materials and information related to the Remembrance Quilt Collection. Related collections include:
Pan Am Flight 103 Publications Collection
Pan Am 103 Anniversaries Collection
Remembrance Quilt Collection,
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives
Syracuse University Libraries
The materials in the Remembrance Quilt Collection were donated by the Office of Undergraduate Studies.
The Remembrance Quilt Collection is processed.
Created by: Cara A. Howe
Date: 2012
Revision history: Mar 2015 - Errors corrected; stylistic changes (VSOM)
The Remembrance Quilt Collection is arranged alphabetically within each series, except for Correspondence, which is arranged chronologically.
Correspondence | |||||||||||
Box 1 | 1998 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | 1999 2003 |
Images | |||||||||||
Box 2 | Photographs c. 1998 Remembrance Quilt |
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Box 2 | Slides 1998 |
Subject Files | |||||||||||
Box 2 | Custody of the Quilt 2000- c. 2008 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Design 1998 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | General Information 1998 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Quilters list 1998 |