Students and staff can commemorate death
or loss at Service of Remembrance

The University Chaplain's Office will offer a communal service of remembrance on Wednesday, Dec. 9, noon-1 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets.

"The College Community Remembers: A Service of Music, Silence and Light" will be an opportunity for Yale undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff to mark recent death and loss, says the Reverend Cynthia Terry, associate University chaplain.

"Many in our Yale community are living with the loss of siblings, parents, spouses, children, neighbors and friends," she says. "Some of these deaths have been more public, and there have been communal opportunities for us to gather together, to remember and grieve. Other deaths have been private, distant, known to only a few select friends and colleagues."

The service is also part of the two-day display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 8 and 9. (See related story.)

"Come to remember and mark the death of someone whose funeral you could not attend; come to remember and mark the death of someone whose loss is still raw and painful; come to remember and mark the death of someone whose loss has long been a part of your life," Terry invites Yale community members.

For further information on the service, contact Cynthia Terry at 432-1131.