09/11/2026
Today at noon, the UAlbany community will gather at the Memorial Bench, located along the ETEC walking path behind Boor Sculpture Studio, to honor the alumni lives lost on 9/11.
The granite bench, designed by alum Dan Giroux ’00 of Loiselle Memorials, is symbolically shaped, with two rectangular towers and the UAlbany Minerva logo on one side as the base. The seat of the bench connects to a pentagon-shaped base on the other side.
Alums Conner Dunleavy '17, Michael Longo ’15, Lee Stanton ’14, and Edward McGlone ’11 supported the memorial from start to finish - a seven year process. The memorial is funded through the Class of 2017 senior gift, which was voted on by the student body before graduation. More than 500 students, parents and local organizations raised funds for the bench’s design and installation.
We will always remember:
Jon L. Albert ’77 – B.S. Mathematics
Shawn Bowman ’94 – B.S. Business Administration, ’96 – MBA
Mark A. Brisman ’89 – B.S. Accounting
Elizabeth Darling ’96 – B.A. Sociology
Jeffrey L. Fox ’82 – B.S. Accounting
Clyde Frazier ’88 – B.A. Africana Studies
Taimour Khan ’94 – B.A. Economics
John P. Lozowsky ’86-87 - General Studies
Michael Lynch ’90 – B.A. Political Science
Joseph Maffeo ’94 – B.A. Geographical Information and Spatial Analysis
Scott M. McGovern ’87 – B.S. Business Administration
Stephen Vincent Mulderry ’92 – B.A. Rhetoric & Communications
John A. Reo ’00 – B.A. Economics
Brooke David Rosenbaum ’91 – B.A. Psychology
Karen H. Schmidt ’80 – B.S. Interdisciplinary
See-wong Shum ’90 - MBA
James G. Smith ’79 – B.S. Business Administration
Michael T. Wholey ’88 – B.A. Political Science
Michael Wittenstein ’89 – B.S. Business Administration
