Gone but Not Forgotten Coach Hill Brings the Professor and Student Speak out Team to About Loved Ones Lost in Tragedy by Laura Ralph
THE STUDENT VOICE OF FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER October 19, 2001 www.fclcobserver.com VOLUME XX, Issue 4 Basketball Gone But Not Forgotten Coach Hill Brings the Professor and Student Speak Out Team to About Loved Ones Lost in Tragedy By Laura Ralph FCLC The planes that struck the World Trade Center on September 11 struck at the heart of the Fordham community, too. Orlando Rodriguez, Professor of Sociology at FCRH and Nathaniel Holland, FCLC '05, lost a son and moth- er, respectively. Rodriguez's only son, Gregory, 31, who had a 10-year-old son himself, worked as a manager of Network Security for Cantor Fitzgerald and E Speed on the 103rd floor of the North Tower. Holland's mother, Cora, was on American Airlines flight 11, which was flown into the same tower. Rodriguez was in his office at Rose Hill when he heard about the crash. "Our department secretary told us that there had been a crash at the World Trade Center. Since I knew [Greg] worked there, I called him immediately as well as Professor Orlando Rodriguez his wife and my wife," Rodriguez said. Professor Orlando Rodriguez and his son Greg Rodrigurez. He didn't hear anything, however, until 9:30 when his wife Phyllis called. government's response was retaliation, "Therefore, my wife and I felt it our Ryan St.Gormaln Basketball Coach Bob Hill "I had left a message on our answering however, Rodriguez and his wife wrote duty, to our son's memory and to inno- machine, 'There's been a terrible acci- and sent a letter to The New York Times.
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