Twenty-four years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Saint Francis faculty, staff and alumni can still recall where they were at and what they were doing on that day.
“I was working at Sheetz at the time” said Gerri Mock, a cashier and server at Padua Express. “We didn’t have a TV – we were listening on the radio.”
The terrorist attacks caused the deaths of 2,996 people, including four Saint Francis alumni: Frederick Kelley (’66), Larry Senko (’89), Mary Ellen Tiesi (’84) and Robert Zampieri (’94).
It marked the deadliest terrorist attack in world history.
“I was teaching Business 101 and one student ran out of the room in a panic,” said Randy Frye, Dean of the Shields School of Business. “That’s when I found out.”
The student’s mother worked in New York City. She was not injured.
Joe Arnstein was a freshman at SFU in September of 2001. He returned to campus last week to speak to students about his career in marketing.
“The school was on lockdown and we couldn’t leave,” said the 2005 graduate.
Current students, although too young to remember the attacks, understand that the world changed in many ways post-9/11.
“I remember all the changes in security,” said Nick Folcarelli.
