Top row, from left: Lockerbie Scholar. N 21 DECEMBER 1988 thirty five Syracuse • A flock of sheep grazes in a field • John Fleming of Hightae. John is at Ritchie and Pat Strawhorn’s the father of Gavin Fleming who University students returning to farm in Johnstone Bridge. This studied at Syracuse University as a the United States after a semester flock was later destroyed in an Lockerbie Scholar. effort to stop the spread of an • Ted Hills, a Lockerbie piper, studying abroad in London and outbreak of Foot and Mouth plays at the Wall of Remembrance Disease. at Lockerbie’s Dryfesdale Cemetary. Europe lost their lives when a ter- • “Dan” the horse in Annan. Dan • Individual memorials to Syra- rorist bomb exploded aboard Pan Am Flight pulls a specially designed carriage cuse University students, at the O used to take disabled people for Wall of Remembrance in Dryfes- 103 in the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland. rides through the scenic country- dale Cemetery. side. • Jimmy Pagan, perhaps Locker- • Holly of Applegarth leads writer bie’s best-known resident, collects In a memorial written shortly after the tragedy, Professor Ryan van Winkle and photogra- money to fund the town gala. • Celia, Alan and Alison Younger Douglas Unger promised we would “find a way to do F O R W A R D pher Lawrence Mason, Jr. on a walk to Spedlin Tower. Holly, who of Hightae. Alison studied at proper honor to them, and somehow, to discern in the knew van Winkle, caused consid- Syracuse University as a Lockerbie tragedy of their loss some abiding meaning”. However erable concern for her mother Scholar. • “The Lollipop Lady” helps no one could have imagined, in that first raw time of L O C K E R B I E when she walked in her house and announced that she was going for students safely cross the street near grief, just what an extraordinary relationship would a walk with “two big hairy men.” Lockerbie Academy. develop between a university and a town once utterly • Henry Moore’s “King and • Katie, Alistair, Sue and Mike Queen” sculpture presides over Stevenson of Lockerbie. Fiona unknown to one another, and now forever connected Europe’s largest outdoor sculpture Stevenson, not pictured, studied at by a single, terrible moment. garden in the hills of Glenkiln Syracuse University as a Lockerbie A celebration of links between near Dumfries. Scholar. From the first, the people of Lockerbie responded and • Writer Ryan van Winkle walks • Syracuse University students Syracuse University the Moffat Hills at the Devil’s Magin McKenna, Alex “the Greek” reached out to our students’ families with love and Beeftub. The Beeftub is a natural Koromilas and Lisa Caswell photo- compassion. They recovered their bodies; washed, London Program hollow in the hills once used by graph the ruins of Sweetheart ironed and lovingly packed their clothing, sending cattle rustlers to hide their stolen Abbey, founded in 1273 by Lady livestock. Devorgilla of Galloway in memory these last, treasured items home with notes that reached & • The Pan Am Flight 103 Memo- of her husband John Balliol. out, even as they dealt with their own grief and loss. rial Window is installed in the • The Lockerbie town flag bears Lockerbie, Scotland Lockerbie Town Hall. Made of the motto, “Forward.” They welcomed us, as single visitors and as delegations stained glass, it bears representa- • Graham Herbert, Headmaster of of students, with generosity and understanding. tions of the flags of all nations Lockerbie Academy, is shown that lost citizens in the Flight 103 during the school’s lunch rush. In doing so, they laid a foundation on which we have disaster. Photo by Alicia Hansen. • A sample of spring flowers near • John Rogerson of Hightae. John built, one which sends students once more across the Lockerbie. was known far and wide as the ocean, to learn, to engage, to grow. The name of this “Sunflower Man” for the giant Main picture: sunflowers he grew each summer. memorial — which is the motto of the town itself — • Lockerbie’s town center at the • Lockerbie piper Jamie Graham embodies all that this relationship has come to make closing ceremonies of the annual wears a Syracuse University tie possible, a way forward, even as we hold those lost in town gala. The massed pipe band whenever he plays. Jamie studied (seen at left) is a beloved feature of at Syracuse University as a Locker- our hearts. The Lockerbie Scholars who come to Syra- the celebration. bie Scholar. cuse University every year from Scotland form as vital a Third row, from left: Bottom row, from left: part of our community as we hope we are of theirs. • The 2002–2003 Syracuse Uni- • The Loupin’ Stanes, a 5000 year- versity Curling Team, left to right: old stone circle near Eskdalemuir. The images of this memorial come from the collection Adam Duke, Andrew McClune • The view from the spot where of Syracuse professor Larry Mason and were taken dur- (Skipper), Jeff Lutz, Jon Mason. the nose cone of Pan Am Flight ing a series of trips he has made to Lockerbie both with The team won a Silver Medal at 1 0 3 crashed to the ground in the US Collegiate Curling Cham- Tundergarth Mains. his family and with his SU London photojournalism pionships in St. Paul, Minnesota in • Spedlin’s Tower, an uninhabited students. The images he has chosen — from the grass 2003. Curling was introduced to castle which is reputedly haunted. the S U campus by McClune, a • A sign pointing the way to a onto which the nose cone fell to the blur of a curler's Lockerbie Scholar. church in Applegarth. stone, the light shining through a stained glass window • Curling at the Lockerbie Ice • The view of the Solway Firth, the to the embrace of a loving family — represent not just a Rink. Some of the U . K . ’s best traditional southwestern border curlers train at Lockerbie’s facility. between England and Scotland. moment in history, but a promise and commitment to • Lockerbie Academy student Criffel, the highest point in Dum- the future. It is a celebration of all we have shared and a Photographed and designed by Eirinie Hammill, a fourteen-year- fries and Galloway, appears to float old professional model, encounters in the distance. confident promise of all things yet to come. It is, as Lawrence Mason, Jr. some elderly Lockardians while • Syracuse University student Tom Professor Unger promised, the way that we will bring working for fashion photographer Mason enjoys a warm, sunny day our lost students home. Professor of Visual & Jeff Licata. on Sweetheart Abbey’s manicured • Rachel, Jane, Claire and Alistair lawn in New Abbey. Interactive Communications, Speedie of Lockerbie. Claire stud- • The beautiful Moffat Hills north S.I. 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