Friends,
Memorial Service
held in Smith
Chapel; friends
share memories
CONNOR SATTELY
Those who attended Friday's memo
rial service for Behrend student Casey
Moore witnessed firsthand her impact
on the community.
A group of friends, family, class
mates. and community members gath
ered to pay respects to a fallen friend.
Moore, 30, passed away last week as
a result of major injuries sustained dur
ing an automobile accident in North
East.
Father Dan
While we Arnold, of
Catholic Cam
can't bring pus Ministry,
led the serv-
her back to ice
life physically, your loss, size
doesn't seem
we know
she's not
gone.
ing a good
Father Dan Arnold friend like
Casey."
Catholic Campus Ministry Though the
mood was
throughout
the service, many openly wept - and
laughed - during a period in which stu
dents and friends shared memories of
Moore.
Amongst the experiences shared was
one which demonstrated Moore's love
of boating - a text message reading
"Das Boat" - to an experience when
Moore staved up until 4:00 a.m com
forting a friend in need.
The service included several hymns,
a candlelight ceremony, and a sharing
of some of the items that Moore left be
hind - including her bible, an American
flag used at her funeral Monday, and
her teddy bear.
"While we can't bring her back to life
physically," said Arnold, "somehow, we
know she's not gone.-
NPR journalist opens
Sarah Baker / The Behrend Beacon
Michele Norris spoke on the
"hidden conversation" of race.
No students attend Chapel's Haiti vigil
SHAWN ANNARELLI
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Who knew there was a Hait
ian Vigil at Penn State
Behrend's Smith Chapel?
Coordinator of Services and
Student Activities, Cynara
Stubbs; the Director of Protes
tant Campus Ministry, Claire
Chadwick; Father Dan Arnold
and the chapel's piano player
knew.
"We were the only ones
there, so we had a small prayer
service," Stubbs said.
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family remember Casey Moore
When it's
to matter," he
"Whether it's
an earthquake
in Haiti or los
sombe
In Moore, a portrait of Penn State
Her friends, her family, never knew they could
paint such a masterpiece.
Casey Moore's family paints a portrait of the
tough kid. The one who could take on both broth
ers at the same time; the one who spent more time
working on the truck with Dad than playing with
dolls.
Her friends paint the portrait of a companion
who was always there. The texts sent to Moore re
questing time to hang out after a tough day were
met with a quick response of "When and Where."
Those who knew intimately of her military duty
Award-winning journalist
Michele Norris came to
Behrend on Tuesday to open
what is for some an uncomfort
able topic: race relations.
The race discussion in Amer
ica, she said, is often conducted
around kitchen tables, not in
the public arena.
• "We as Americans often don't
talk about race; we talk around
it." She said. "We are often
afraid to speak about it in pub
lic spaces. I noticed that when
we did have conversations
about it, there was so often
something left unsaid."
Norris describe how she and
Steve Inskeep, a colleague from
The vigil was held at 4:30p.m. could do."
on Tuesday, Jan. 19. Chadwick
An email was sent to whether the distance of the dis-
Behrend students on Thursday, aster had anything to do with
Jan. 14 in notification of the up- the lack of attendance.
coming Haitian vigil. Not one of "What if this earthquake had
the nearly 4,800 students at- happened in the U. 5.," she said.
tended to pay respects to lives "Would students or faculty or
lost in Haiti. staff have attended then?
How is this possible? Maybe when disasters occur so
"I might.use the excuse, 'stu- far from home, we forget that
dent schedules are crazy,' but those people are still our broth
not this early in the semester," ers and sisters in Christ; we for-
Chadwick said. "I might say we get to care about our fellow
did not advertise it enough, but human beings except when it
I do not know what else we flashes on our television
friday
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Few eyes were dry during Casey Moore's Thursday memorial. Left to right: friend Erin Manges, sister Kelsey, and friend Jill Confer, for whom Casey babysat.
conversation on race
MIKE WEHRER
National Public Radio, had a se
ries of conversations with vot
ers during the 2008 presidential
elections in York, PA.
"It was amazing radio," Nor
ris said "What we did was so
simple. We just put people to
gether in a room, and we said,
`let's have a conversation.'
"We decided that we would
have not just one conversation,
but we'd return over time. We
thought that it was going to be
difficult to actually encourage
people to have this kind of con
versation. We thought we were
going to have to peel back all
these layers and work through
all kinds of trepidation."
ntm s edam
Norris used these frank and
honest conversations about
race as the inspiration for her
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paint a portrait of a soldier with a unassuming
power. Surrounded by men, Moore found her
home fixing the largest military vehicles the base
could offer.
Her classmates paint a portrait of a tutor, of a
caring individual, of a quiet but intelligent pres
ence in the class.
Moore, a Nursing student at Behrend who
passed away after an auto accident last week, with
out doubt left a strong impact on the Behrend corn
munity.
For many at Behrend, the story of Casey Moore
starts on the ski slope. Moore, was a Ski Patrol
member at Peak 'n Peek. Her father, Walter, says
that Moore was always the first on the scene of
book, "Say What?" To write it,
Norris took time off hosting
NPR's well-known news pro
gram 'All Things Considered."
Norris currently co-hosts
ATC with Robert Siegel and
Melissa Block.
According to the New York
Times, ATC draws the third
largest radio crowd, behind
only Rush Limbaugh and NPR's
"Morning Edition."
Prior to coming to NPR, Nor
ris worked for ABC from 1993
to 2002. She has also reported
for the Chicago Tribune, The
LA Times, and the Washington
Post.
She received an Emmy and a
Peabody Award for her cover
age during 9/11, and is a four
time Pulitzer Prize entrant.
screen
The purpose of the vigil, she
said, was beyond simply that of
monetary donations.
"The vigil was to remember
lives lost in the earthquake,"
she said, "to show solidarity
with those in Haiti."
"The few who did attend, re
mained in silence for a time, re
membering lives lost, lifting up
our own prayers to God," Chad
wick said.
"It was simple, it was small,
and it was powerful."
major skiing accidents. One major accident, in
which a skier was airlifted off the slope, triggered
a desire in Casey to become an EMS.
That desire to help others is what brought .lo
Anne Carrick, the Nursing Program Coordinator,
into her life. Carrick referred Moore to join the
then-fledgling Behrend Nursing Program, which
she did.
"She was a great student, got good grades, was
consistent," said Carrick. 'She got along with
everyone. In the military. your peers are your sur
vival; she really brought that teamwork element to
her classmates.'
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