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Ross Alameddine
  • Ross Alameddine, 20, from Saugus, Massachusetts,
    was a sophomore English major. He was shot during
    a French class.
  • Alameddine was a graduate of Austin Preparatory
    School in Reading, Mass.
  • Friends described him as "an intelligent, funny,
    easy-going guy" in a memorial posted on internet
    networking website Facebook.

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Christopher James Bishop
  • Jamie Bishop, 35, was an instructor in German and
    German literature and he helped organize the
    Virginia Tech exchange program with a German
    university.
  • He was formerly a Fulbright scholar at
    Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel and
    colleagues there said they were "deeply, deeply
    shocked by his death".
  • On his own website, Jamie said he had lived in
    Germany for four years and "spent most of his
    time learning the language, teaching English,
    drinking large quantities of wheat beer, and
    wooing a certain Fraulein".
  • That "Fraulein" was his wife Stephanie Hofer, who
    also teaches at Virginia Tech.

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Brian Bluhm
  • Brian Bluhm, 25, formerly of Detroit, was ardent
    fan of the Detroit Tigers.
  • A masters student in water resources, he
    received his undergraduate degree in civil
    engineering at Virginia Tech and was getting
    ready to defend his thesis.
  • He already had accepted a job in Baltimore.
  • Bluhm also loved Virginia Techs Hokies football
    team, and a close group of friends often traveled
    to away games. But Marshall said it was his faith
    and work with the Baptist Collegiate Ministries
    that his friend loved most.
  • Brian was a Christian, and first and foremost
    thats what he would want to be remembered as,
    he said.

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Ryan Clark
  • Student counselor Ryan Clark, 22, from Martinez,
    Georgia, was in his final year studying for a
    triple major in biology, English and psychology.
  • Known as "Stack" by his friends, Ryan was a
    member of the Marching Virginians campus band.
  • He was the second victim in West Ambler Johnston
    Hall.
  • His friend, Gregory Walton, said "He was just
    one of the greatest people you could possibly
    know."

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Austin Cloyd
  • Austin Cloyd, from Blacksburg, Virginia, was a
    freshman studying international studies and
    French, and wanted to be a US ambassador.
  • Her former pastor, Rev Terry Harter, said Austin
    was a "very delightful, intelligent, warm young
    lady" and an athlete who played basketball and
    volleyball in high school.
  • Cloyd was so inspired by an Appalachian service
    project that helped rehabilitate homes that she
    and her mother started a similar program in their
    previous Illinois hometown.
  • Her family had moved from Illinois to Blacksburg,
    when her father took a job in the accounting
    department at Virginia Tech.

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Jocelyne Couture-Nowak
  • Canadian Jocelyne Couture-Nowak was a French
    instructor. Her husband, Jerzy Nowak, is the head
    of the horticulture department at Virginia Tech.
  • She was the mother of two girls.
  • Jocelyne, who had previously lectured in child
    development, was described by one Virginia Tech
    student as "an excellent teacher" who was
    "extremely nice and understanding".
  • In the 1990s, she lived in Truro, Nova Scotia,
    and was instrumental in creating the town's first
    French-speaking school.

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Daniel Perez Cueva
  • Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, was from Peru.
  • He was studying international relations and was
    killed in a French class.

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Kevin Granata
  • Professor Kevin Granata, from the Engineering
    Science and Mechanics department, carried out
    orthopedic research in hospitals before joining
    the university.
  • He is survived by his wife and three children.
  • He was regarded as one of the top five
    biomechanics researchers in the US for his work
    on cerebral palsy.
  • Fellow professor Demetri P Telionis said "With
    so many research projects and graduate students,
    he still found time to spend with his family, and
    he coached his children in many sports and
    extracurricular activities."

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Matthew Gregory Gwaltney
  • Matthew Gwaltney, 24, from Chesterfield,
    Virginia, was on the brink of finishing his
    graduate degree in Environmental Engineering and
    was planning to return to his hometown for a new
    job and to be near his parents.
  • He received his undergraduate degree from
    Virginia Tech as well.
  • He went to every womens and mens basketball
    game, and went to every football game,

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Caitlin Hammaren
  • Caitlin Hammaren, 19, from Westtown, New York,
    was a sophomore majoring in international studies
    and French.
  • John P Latini, principal of Minisink Valley High
    School, where she graduated in 2005, said "She
    was just one of the most outstanding young
    individuals that I've had the privilege of
    working with in my 31 years as an educator."
    Caitlin was a leader among our students.

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Jeremy Herbstritt
  • Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, grew up on a small farm
    just outside the central Pennsylvania borough of
    Bellefonte, where his father, Michael, raised
    steers and sheep.
  • He was a graduate student in civil engineering.
  • He had two undergraduate degrees from Penn State,
    one in biochemistry and molecular biology (2003),
    and another in civil engineering (2006).
  • He liked to work on machinery, take a lot of
    stuff apart and fixed it.

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Rachael Hill
  • Rachael Hill, 18, of Richmond, Va., was a
    freshman and had graduated from Grove Avenue
    Christian School.
  • Hill, an only child, was popular and funny, had a
    penchant for shoes and was competitive on the
    volleyball court.
  • Rachael was a very bright, articulate,
    intelligent, beautiful, confident, poised young
    woman. She had a tremendous future in front of
    her, said Clay Fogler, administrator for the
    Grove Avenue school. Obviously, the Lord had
    other plans for her.

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Emily Hilscher
  • Emily Hilscher, 19, from Woodville, Virginia, was
    studying animal and poultry sciences, and was
    known in her hometown as an animal lover.
  • Family friend John W McCarthy said "She worked
    at a veterinarian's office and cared about them
    her whole life."
  • She lived on the same floor of West Ambler
    Johnston Hall as fellow victim Ryan Clark, where
    she was killed.
  • One friend said of her on Facebook "She was so
    filled with life and always had something
    wonderful to say or was always making me smile."

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Matthew La Porte
  • Matthew La Porte, 20, from Dumont, New Jersey,
    was a sophomore majoring in university studies.
  • He graduated third in his class from Carson Long
    Military Institute in New Bloomfield,
    Pennsylvania, in 2005.
  • Matthew was in the Corps of Cadets under an Air
    Force ROTC scholarship.

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Jarrett Lee Lane
  • Jarrett Lane, from Narrows, Virginia, was a
    senior in civil engineering.
  • He was a valedictorian of Narrows High School,
    where he played the trombone, competed in
    athletics and played football and basketball.
  • The school has erected a memorial in his honor
    bearing photographs, musical instruments and his
    athletic jerseys.
  • Jarrett's brother-in-law, Daniel Farrell, said he
    was "full of spirit" and added "He had a caring
    heart and was a friend to everyone he met."

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Henry Lee
  • Henry Lee, also known as Henh Ly, was the ninth
    of 10 siblings whose family fled to the United
    States from Vietnam, arriving in Roanoke,
    Virginia, in 1994.
  • He was a freshman, studying computer engineering.
  • Friends described Lee as a serious student who
    wasnt necessarily a serious person.
  • Lee was the salutatorian of William Fleming High
    School in 2006, and brought many in the audience
    to tears with his story about his familys
    journey to America.

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Liviu Librescu
  • Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, was a Romanian-born
    Israeli academic in the Engineering Science
    Mechanics Department. He joined the faculty when
    he moved to Virginia in 1985.
  • He was internationally renowned for his research
    work in composite materials and aerospace
    structures.
  • Professor Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, has
    been hailed a hero for blocking a doorway to
    protect his students.
  • His son Joe said he had received e-mails from
    several students who said he had saved their
    lives.

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GV Loganathan
  • Professor GV Loganathan, 51, lectured in civil
    and environmental engineering and had won several
    awards for his teaching.
  • He had served on the faculty senate and was an
    adviser to about 75 undergraduate students.
  • Professor Loganathan moved to the US from the
    southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in 1977 to
    teach. He had worked at Virginia Tech since 1982.
  • He leaves behind a wife and two daughters.

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Partahi Lumbantoruan
  • Partahi Lumbantoruan, 34, from Indonesia, was a
    civil engineering doctoral student and had been
    studying at Virginia Tech for three years, said
    his father, Tohom Lumbantoruan, a retired army
    officer.
  • "We tried everything to completely finance his
    studies in the United States," he said.
  • "We only wanted him to succeed in his studies,
    but... he met a tragic fate."

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Lauren Mccain
  • Lauren McCain, 20, of Hampton, Va., an
    undergraduate majoring in international studies.
  • On her MySpace page, McCain listed the love of
    my life as Jesus Christ.Her family said McCain
    became a Christian some time ago.
  • An avid reader, she was learning German and had
    almost mastered Latin. She was home-schooled, and
    had worked at a department store for about a year
    to save money for college.
  • "Lauren had such a sweet innocent heart,". "I can
    bet you at the last moment of her life she was
    most likely praying for the gunman and forgiving
    him."

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Daniel O'Neil
  • Daniel O'Neil, 22, of Lincoln, Rhode Island, was
    a graduate student in engineering who also played
    guitar and wrote his own songs, which he posted
    on a website, www.residenthippy.com.
  • Daniel received his undergraduate degree from
    Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and
    worked as a teaching assistant at Virginia Tech.
  • Friend Steve Craveiro said "He would come home
    from school over the summer and talk about
    projects, about building bridges and stuff like
    that.
  • "He was pretty much destined to be extremely
    successful."

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Juan Ortiz
  • Juan Ortiz, 26, a graduate student in civil
    engineering from Puerto Rico, was killed while
    teaching a class, his father said.
  • Ortiz graduated magna cum laude from the
    Polytechnic University of San Juan, Puerto Rico,
    and arrived at Virginia Tech last August. He was
    married to a fellow student pursuing a teaching
    career, and they had planned to have a child
    soon.
  • Ortiz was also in a band with his father and
    other relatives. "He loved salsa dancing," his
    father said.

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Minal Panchal
  • Minal Panchal, 26, who was from Mumbai (Bombay)
    in India, was in her first year of a masters
    degree in architecture.
  • She had a degree in architecture from Rizvi
    College in Mumbai, and was passionate to be an
    architect like her father, who died four years
    ago.
  • She was a brilliant student and very
    hardworking. She was focused on getting her
    degree and doing well.

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Erin Peterson
  • Erin Peterson, 18, graduated in 2006 with victim
    Reema Samatha from Westfield High School in
    Chantilly, Va. - the same school attended by
    gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, 3 years earlier.
  • Peterson was 6-foot-1 and played center for the
    schools girls basketball team, helping lead it
    to a district championship.
  • Pat Deegan, Petersons high school coach, said he
    couldnt remember a better leader.
  • Her and her dad, man, you couldnt separate
    them. He lost a child from cancer a daughter, 8
    years old. A week later, (Erin) was born.

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Michael Pohle
  • Michael Pohle, 23, of Flemington, N.J., was
    expected to graduate in a few weeks with a degree
    in biological sciences.
  • He had a bunch of job interviews and was all set
    to start his post-college life.
  • In high school, Pohle played on the football and
    lacrosse teams.
  • One of his old lacrosse coaches, Bob Shroeder,
    described him as a good kid who did everything
    that good kids do.
  • He tried to please, Shroeder told the
    newspaper. He was just a great kid.

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Julia Pryde
  • Julia Pryde from Middletown, N.J. was an
    exceptional student academically and
    personally, said Saied Mostaghimi, chairman of
    the biological systems and engineering department
    where Pryde was seeking her masters degree.
  • Last summer, Pryde had traveled to Ecuador to
    research water quality issues and planned to
    return this summer for follow-up work.
  • A 2001 graduate of Middletown North High School,
    Pryde was on the schools swim team and played
    softball in two town leagues.
  • Her hometown lost 37 current and former residents
    in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Mary Karen Read
  • Mary Karen Read, 19, from Annandale, Virginia,
    was born in South Korea into an Air Force family
    and had lived in Texas and California.
  • Her uncle, Ted Kuppinger, said "She was a
    beautiful girl, very caring and loving."
  • Her aunt, Karen, said she had struggled to adjust
    to Virginia Tech's sprawling 2,600-acre campus,
    but said she had recently begun making friends
    and was looking into joining a sorority.
  • She was killed in French class. She had yet to
    declare her main subject of study.

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Reema Samaha
  • Reema Samaha, 18, from Centreville, Virginia, was
    a freshman and a talented dancer.
  • Her brother, Omar, a Virginia Tech alumnus,
    watched her perform at a street fair the day
    before she died, but said "I never got to say
    goodbye."
  • Her heart was in dance and theater and she
    belonged to a contemporary dance ensemble here
    and she loved that very much."
  • Reema and fellow victim, Erin Peterson, graduated
    from Westfield High School, 3 years after the
    gunman, Cho, graduated.

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Waleed Mohamed Shaalan
  • Waleed Mohammed Shaalan, 32, originally of
    Zagazig, Egypt, was a doctoral student in civil
    engineering, the university said.
  • Shaalan was married and the father of a
    1-year-old son.
  • He was the simplest and nicest guy I ever knew.
    We would be studying for our exams and he would
    go buy a cake and make tea for us, Fahad Pasha,
    Waleeds roommate, said.

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Leslie Sherman
  • Leslie Sherman, age 20, from Springfield, Va.,
    was a sophomore majoring in history and
    international studies.
  • An avid traveler, she was headed to Russia this
    summer to study.
  • She had a lot of friends, and was a very
    outgoing person, recalled friend Ann Marks, who
    worked with Sherman in the cafeteria.
  • Sherman, named after her grandfather, Leslie,
    loved reading and socializing with her gaggle
    of more than 15 cousins spread out at colleges
    across the country, Adams said.

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Maxine Turner
  • Maxine Turner, from Vienna, Virginia, was a
    senior studying chemical engineering.
  • Turner had finished her required credits and was
    preparing for her May graduation but took German
    as an elective. She was shot in the German class.
  • Turner recently helped found a chapter of Alpha
    Omega Epsilon, a sorority for women in
    engineering, and had accepted a chemical
    engineering job with W.L. Gore Associates in
    Elkton, Md.
  • She was described in a web tribute as "an
    absolutely amazing, intelligent woman".

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Nicole White
  • Nicole White, 20, of Carrollton, Va., was a
    junior majoring in international studies and
    German. White graduated from Smithfield High
    School in 2004.
  • White worked at a YMCA as a lifeguard and was an
    honor student in high school.
  • Laurie Guiffre, who grew up with White, remembers
    her friend as a person of great character with a
    genuine love for animals.
  • "I never imagined she would be gone in the blink
    of an eye."

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Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished
Professor, poet, activist
  • We are Virginia Tech.
  • The Hokie Nation embraces our own and reaches out
    with open heart and hands to those who offer
    their hearts and minds. We are strong, and brave,
    and innocent, and unafraid. We are better than we
    think and not quite what we want to be. We are
    alive to the imaginations and the possibilities.
    We will continue to invent the future through our
    blood and tears and through all our sadness.
  • We are the Hokies.
  • We will prevail.
  • We will prevail.
  • We will prevail.
  • We are Virginia Tech.

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Ron Rordam, Mayor of Blacksburg
  • The Town of Blacksburg would like to express its
    deepest sympathies to the families and friends of
    those touched by the tragedy which occurred today
    on the campus of Virginia Tech, and in our Town.
    This was a senseless act of violence which
    impacted the entire Blacksburg community. We need
    to come together now as a community and support
    each other as we grieve.
  • We will grieve individually and as a community,
    but most importantly we need to be there for each
    other. Again, our thoughts and prayers are with
    all of those who have been touched by this
    tragedy.

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Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine
  • It is difficult to comprehend senseless violence
    on this scale. Our prayers are with the families
    and friends of these victims, and members of the
    extended Virginia Tech community.
  • The state is working closely with Tech officials,
    local law enforcement, and the community health
    system to provide whatever additional resources
    and support may be needed.
  • I urge Virginians to keep these victims and their
    families in their thoughts and prayers."

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Senator John W. Warner
  • All Americans join the citizens of Virginia in
    grieving over the tragic loss of life at Virginia
    Tech. We mourn the young students and faculty
    whose lives of promise have been cut short, and
    those who have been injured, by this
    incomprehensible act of violence.
  • Virginians are proud of this historic university,
    and how it has served our state and nation for
    nearly a century-and-a-half as an exemplary
    institution of higher learning. That tradition
    will carry on.

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Senator Jim Webb
  • "I am truly saddened to hear of the tragic
    shooting at Virginia Tech. My heart goes out to
    the parents and families of the victims of this
    senseless act. My office has been in
    communication with the Governor's office and
    officials at Virginia Tech to offer any
    assistance."

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President George W. Bush
  • Our nation is shocked and saddened by the news of
    the shootings at Virginia Tech today.
  • Today, our nation grieves with those who have
    lost loved ones at Virginia Tech.
  • Today, our nation grieves with those who have
    lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We hold the
    victims in our hearts, we lift them up in our
    prayers, and we ask a loving God to comfort those
    who are suffering today.

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Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund
  • April 16, 2007, will be remembered as one of the
    darkest days in the history of the Virginia Tech
    community and the world beyond.
  • To remember and honor the victims of those tragic
    events, the university has established the Hokie
    Spirit Memorial Fund to aid in the healing
    process and generate financial support.
  • The fund will be used to cover expenses including
    but not limited to
  • Grief counseling
  • Memorials
  • Communication expenses
  • Comfort expenses
  • Incidental needs
  • In the wake of this tragedy, we are confident
    that Hokie Spirit will only grow stronger and
    more resilient. We thank you for your continued
    support.

                                                  
          
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