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Remembrance ceremony honors Roadrunners who have passed away

Remembrance ceremony honors Roadrunners who have passed away

A feather is placed in a nest to symbolize and honor each Roadrunner’s legacy.

(March 30, 2018) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) community will pay respects to UTSA students, faculty, staff and alumni who passed away in 2017 during the 10th Annual Roadrunner Remembrance. The ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. on Friday, April 13 in the Student Union Retama Auditorium (SU 2.02.02) on the UTSA Main Campus.

Roadrunner Remembrance will feature readings and music to honor the individuals’ contributions to UTSA. A feather is placed in a nest to symbolize and honor each Roadrunner’s legacy.  A reception will immediately follow the ceremony, and a walk to the Roadrunner Memorial Garden will culminate the event where a symbolic feather wreath will be placed with the names of the honored Roadrunners.

2018 honorees:

Stewart Adair
Jerron Adams
Mohammad Al Ali
Robert Albright
Jane Aldridge
Jerry Allen
Ruben Archield
John Arevalo
Olga P. Arrese-Arreytunandia
Jose I. Avila
Ronald L. Bagley
Bobbye Behlau
Alyssa Berry
Billie Bilhartz
Rosalie Birch
Jean A. Bolton
Monica Bratz
Michael Stephen Brock
Louis Broussard
Joseph Brown
Jeffrey Bullock
Roy Burley
Kyle Bush
Luz Calderon
Hector Camacho
Dennis Carolin
Selma Choucair
Diana Churak
Doris Clark
Albert Contreras
Joy Corcoran
Enrique Cortinas
Tobin Creswell
David Cross
Sandra Cross
Janet Damerau
Eileen Daniels
Jay Davis
Felipe De Leon
Linda De Mino
Patricia Dean-Ruiz
Linda Desot
Kirk Dockery
Almeta Douglas
Linda Duffy
Robert Dunk
Charles Eaddy
Ann Eastwood
Charles Engler
Roy H. Eno, Jr.
Brian Erickson
Jack Freeman
James B. Gallagher
Yeato Garlua
Hayde Garza-McCabe
Charles Goldstein
Janet Goodpasture
Elenita Gray
Anne Green
Anne Grieder
Victoria Griffin
Joel Guadiana
Esmeralda Guajardo
Joseph Guajardo
Albert Haas
Ross Hackworth
David Haddock
Barbara J. Harp
Cynthia Denise Hawkins
Nan Haywood
Harley Heffner
Carlos Hernandez
Raul Hernandez
Rosalie Hernandez
Stephen Hernandez
Robert Hill
Roberto Hinojosa
John W. Hollomon
Edward Hopkins
Angelina Hoyt
Jane Hurlbut
George P. Jeffery
Arturo Jimenez
Thomas Jones
Catherine Kasper
James Kent
Robert Kent
Earle W. Kenyon
Brian King
Dorothy Kyle
Basilio Kypuros
Marguerite Lara
Carol Law
Angela Lewis
Maria Del Valle Lockwood
David Lozano
Robert Lozano
Elizabeth Luderus
Joseph Mabry
Linda Mann
Sandra March
Fallyn Marie
Antonio Martinez
David Mata
Byron P. Mathis
Sherra McClelland
Christopher McColskey
Dennis McCoy
Patricia McDaniel
Carol McElligott
Joan Mellard
Roland Mena
Barbara Meyer
Edward Mitchell
Alfredo Moncada
Claude Monroe
Johnny Moreno
John M. Morris, Jr.
Evelyn Mortola
Herbert Mueller
Cordelia Munoz
Dominique Myles
Yu-Pa Ng
Mary Nordin
Mariana Ornelas
Monica Paez
George Panketh
Andrew Pasek
Paras Patel
Doris Pedersen
Michael Pennington
John Pickett
Susan Poche
P. K. Powell
Linda Proft
Linda Rasmussen
Sharon Rex
Joseph Richeson
Robert Richmond
Peter Rivers
Michelle Rodriguez
Oscar Rodriguez
Terrell Rooks
David Ross
Matthew Sames
Jesse C. Sanchez
Nordale Savage
Joseph Schement
Richard Schneider
Gary Scoggins
Marianne Sculos-Ornelas
Ellie Shackelford
Marcellus Shackelford
Frances Shackleford
Millard Shaw
Caroline Shelton
Paulette Singh
Dorothy Sweet
Mary Teegerstrom
Richard Teitz
Christopher Thomas
Patricia L. Thompson
David Tovar
Joe Treviño
David Trudell
David Tse
Rebecca B. Underwood
Joe Urrutia
Carolina R. Vargas
Bub Vickers
Fernando Villa
Sharron Vogel
David Webb
Marlin O. Weber
Rochelle Whitmore
Bradley Wild
Barbara R. Wright

Families that want to commemorate the time their loved one was at UTSA are encouraged to purchase a brick to be included on the Paseo. The Pave the Paseo project, a brick pathway along the Student Union Paseo, features bricks engraved with names and organizations.

Ann Margaret Trujillo


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