Word: karens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...says the chairs were the reason she supported the design. At holidays like Thanksgiving, she keeps an empty chair at the table. "Do you ever sit in Karen's memorial chair...
Jeanine Gist walks through the 9:01 Gate and toward the chair of her daughter Karen. Karen Gist Carr was 32; she and her husband Greg had just celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary and had been trying to have a child. She worked as an advertising assistant in the Army recruiting office, writing promotional brochures. She was killed by a blow to the back of the head. A high school classmate involved in the rescue effort could report to the family that Karen's body was found intact, seated in her chair...
Jeanine, 64, was one of the 350-member task force that saw to the creation of the memorial and one of the 11-member committee that selected the architects, the Butzer Design Partnership. She and her husband, both recently retired, worked at nearby Tinker Air Force Base. Karen was the youngest of their five daughters, all born within six years. Jeanine stops at Karen's chair. "Everybody loved her. She was a cheerleader in school, an honor student. She was an aerobics instructor during lunch breaks. Bubbly, full of energy, a real sweetheart...
...moment, the sky is layered in horizontal stripes of deep blue, gray and orange. I sit where Jeanine said she most liked to sit--on a bench across the reflecting pool from the rows of chairs. Karen's is aligned with an American flag flapping against a high pole near the back wall. Jeanine can orient herself in relation to it. I take the same position. The pool is blacker this evening, the ripples tighter; they make the dark water look like the ridges of an old 78 phonograph record. A stiff breeze blows the flag against the pole...
...addition, five to seven student spaces will be filled by open application. The applications will be evaluated by Trust director Karen E. Avery '87, an assistant dean of the College, and Julia G. Fox, director of the Parents Association...