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...planes may have struck New York and D.C., but the impact of the destruction and tragedy on September 11 instantly jarred the entire nation. Like so many other Americans, Jason E. Whitlow 99, watched the terrible events unfold on television from afar, helpless to stop the fires or hold up the towers. And as reporters on every station endlessly reported the facts of what had happened and cycled through the chronology of the morning events in excruciating detail, the one question that pounded in peoples brains remained unanswered. Who survived? With cell phone connections down and landlines a scarce commodity...
...Lara Fox 99 over the Harvard 99 webgroup suggesting that those in New York and Washington let fellow graduates know of their condition. To avoid crowding everyones inbox, Tally Zingher 99 took on the responsibility of consolidating all those messages into periodic email updates to the whole webgroup. For Whitlow, it just made sense to take it a step further and post the list on his webpage...
...News of Whitlows list spread and traffic on his site shot up. Over the course of the week following the attacks, the number of names grew at a feverish pace. There were almost 2,000 names by weeks end. Whitlow received over 750 e-mails with names and stories of relieved friends and family. His inbox has been flooded with e-mails full of appreciation for the work he did in the hours and days after the tragedy. Luckily everyone I know is alright and I havent heard of any Harvard people who are not okay and who havent been...
Lists of people who made it to safety began appearing on the Internet and over e-mail lists. One such, list, originally compiled from postings to the Class of 1999 e-mail list, quickly expanded yesterday to include more than 800 graduates from the past decade. Jason E. Whitlow ’99, who has been updating the list on his website, expressed a feeling of restrained relief that many other alumi shared...
...have such a wide network of people you know from all different years,” said Whitlow, who lives in San Francisco. “It seems that [the list] just started to spread...