Christian Adams 37 years old Bad Kreuznach, Germany [The following is excerpted from a Wine Spectator article.] Adams, who lived in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, joined the German Wine Institute in 1989 and became its export marketing director in 1995, with responsibility for promoting German wine outside the country. He worked for a short time in the New York office. He held degrees in viticulture and enology from the University of Geisenheim, in Germany, and in marketing from the University of California, Davis. Carol Sullivan, director of the German Wine Information Bureau in New York, described Adams as "the hub of our whole wine promotion worldwide. He was extremely dedicated, considerate and could always be counted on for a well-thought out decision." Adams was in New York on Monday, Sept. 10, for the bureau's annual vintage tasting of German wines, held at the Puck Building on Lafayette Street. He and other German winemakers and representatives were scheduled to repeat the tasting in San Francisco last Thursday. On the morning of Sept. 11, Sullivan and Adams were both traveling to San Francisco for the tasting and left Newark on different flights, 15 minutes apart. Sullivan, whose flight was diverted, suffered a heart spasm upon hearing the fate of Adams and was hospitalized for a while. Many of the other German wine industry representatives were flying that day, but none were reported to be on Flight 93 or otherwise missing in the attacks. Adams is survived by his wife, Silke, and two children, Lukas and Theresa. Lukas is seven years old and Theresa is five years old. A memorial service was held at the Mainz Cathedral. In addition, the German Wine Institute has set up a fund for Adams' family. According to Carol Sullivan, donations in the United States are being coordinated by a former employee of the German Wine Information Bureau, Cindy Krebs Martin, and will be transferred to the account in Germany. In the United States, checks should be made out to: "The Christian Adams Memorial Fund," c/o 6100 Puerto Drive, Rancho Murieta, CA 95683. Bank: Raiffeissen-Volksbank eG, Mainz. Account: 20 640 9067. Bank Code number: 550 607 07. Account holder: Deutches Weininstitut. Please mention: "Spendenkonto Christian Adams" For more information see the Wine Spectator article. Lorraine G. Bay Hightstown, NJ Lorraine was one of the flight attendants. Todd M. Beamer 32 years old Cranbury, New Jersey Todd was an account manager for Oracle Corp. On weekends he taught Sunday school. At Los Gatos High School in California he had been a standout basketball and baseball player. "He was very caring and kind," said his sister Michele. Todd used an onboard phone to call a GTE operator. The operator, Lisa Jefferson, said he told her that he and others on the plane were planning to act against the terrorists. After he and the operator recited the 23rd Psalm, he asked her to promise she would call his wife of seven years, Lisa -- who is expecting a third child in January -- and their two sons David, three years old, and Andrew, one year old. At the end of the 13-minute conversation, Todd put down the phone but left the line open. The last words the operator heard were, "Let's roll." Please visit The Todd M. Beamer Foundation. Alan Beaven 48 years old Oakland, California The following is an excerpt from an article on OpenDemocracy.net by Mike Edwards, a friend of Alan's. Alan died the day after his eighth wedding anniversary, returning to California to prosecute his latest case against pollution in the South Fork of the American River. After a lifetime spent teaching and practicing public interest law in New Zealand, London, New York and San Francisco, Alan had risen to become the finest environmental lawyer on the West Coast. Alan leaves behind a large and loving extended family, including John and Chris, his two sons by his first wife Liz, and the exquisite Dahlia Sonali, his 5-year old daughter by his second wife, Kimi Kaipaka. "Where is Alan?" a friend asked Sonali last week, worried that she might not understand the reality of her father's death. "He's in court," she said, understanding perfectly well, "defending the angels." Mark Bingham 31 years old San Francisco, CA Mark was the CEO of The Bingham Group, a public relations firm with offices in San Francisco and New York. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. In 1991 and 1993 he helped the University of California earn national titles in rugby. Jack Clark, the coach of the rugby team, said "He marched to his own beat. This guy was anything but a follower. I don't know if we'll ever know what happened in that airplane, but it would not surprise me that Mark would resist." A few years ago, the six-foot-five Bingham wrestled a gun from a mugger's hand late at night on a San Francisco street. In July he was carried on the horns of a bull in Pamplona. Mr. Bingham's uncle, Linden Hogland, said, "Our family figured it out this way. His personality is so obstreperous and irrepressible. You couldn't hold him back. We're sure that after the phone call there was a real struggle, a physical confrontation." John McCain recently delivered a eulogy to honor the openly gay Bingham, who was one of his supporters in the 2000 presidential campaign. In it he said: I never knew Mark Bingham. But I wish I had. I know he was a good son and friend, a good rugby player, a good American, and an extraordinary human being. He supported me, and his support now ranks among the greatest honors of my life. I wish I had known before September 11 just how great an honor his trust in me was. I wish I could have thanked him for it more profusely than time and circumstances allowed. But I know it now. And I thank him with the only means I possess, by being as good an American as he was. Click here for more from PlanetOut.com about McCain's eulogy. Paul Holm, Bingham's former partner, represented the family at the Day of Remembrance. Holm said of Bingham and fellow local hero Tom Burnett, who also fought back, "They were the one bright spot in a horrible day. I do believe (Mark and Tom) gave people something to hold onto." Mark's friends and teammates at The San Francisco Fog Rugby Club have created a tribute page at http://www.sffog.org/marktribute.html. Also see http://www.markbingham.org/ Deora Bodley 20 years old San Diego, CA A student at Santa Clara University. [The following is excerpted from an article in the New Jersey Union Tribune.] Ms. Bodley was born in San Diego and had attended La Jolla Country Day School. She was about to begin her junior year at the Santa Clara University. "She was just a bright light," said her mother, Deborah Borza of San Diego, an employee with Copley Information Services in La Jolla. "She was a kind and generous person. She was fiercely independent and a leader. She was the future of the country." While in San Diego, Ms. Bodley volunteered with the Helen Woodward Animal Center. She also was active in TRACE -- Teens Respond to AIDS with Caring and Education -- a peer education program in which teens talked to fellow high school students about sexually transmitted diseases. At Santa Clara University, where Ms. Bodley was majoring in psychology and French, she was active in America Reads, in which she helped tutor children in reading at a Santa Clara elementary school. "She made a difference everywhere she went," her mother said. In addition to her mother, survivors include her father, Derrill Bodley of Stockton, CA; a 10-year-old sister, Murial; her grandparents, Pat and Francis Guerra of Foxfire, NC; a great-grandmother, Jean Guerra of Elyria, Ohio; her 28-year-old step-sister Eva Rupp of Washington, DC; and Nancy Mangum-Bodley, her step-mother who lives in Stockton with Deora's father. The family suggested donations to the Helen Woodward Animal Center, 6461 El Apajo Road, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067; TRACE, in care of La Jolla Country Day School community service program, 9490 Genesee Ave., La Jolla, CA 92037; or America Reads. Sandra Bradshaw 38 years old Greensboro, NC Sandy Bradshaw was part of the crew. She grew up in the rural community of Climax, North Carolina, south of Greensboro. Her husband of 11 years, Phil Bradshaw, is a pilot for U.S. Airways. At approximately 9:30am that morning, Phil received a call from Sandra. "Have you seen what's happening? Have you heard?" She asked in a calm voice. "We've been hijacked." Sandra told her husband that she and other flight attendants were boiling water to toss on the hijackers. Nearby, she said, three men were whispering the 23rd Psalm. "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want ...." Then one of the men apparently made the call to charge the hijackers. The Bradshaw family has three children: Shenan; two-year-old Alexandra; and one-year-old Nathan. "She lived every moment for them," said Phil Bradshaw. "I want them to know how much good their mother always did and how much of a hero I really think she is." Donations for the young children can be sent to: Memorial Trust for Alexandra & Nathan Bradshaw at Wachovia Bank 609 Green Valley Road Greensboro N.C. 27408 Attn. Nancy D. Bowen Marion Britton 53 years old An assistant regional director for the U.S. Census Bureau. The Department of Commerce has set up a fund to help Marion Britton's family and that of her colleague Waleska Martinez. Thomas Burnett, Jr. 38 years old San Ramon, CA Mr. Burnett was the senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a maker of medical devices based in Pleasanton, California. In 1980, he was the standout quarterback for Jefferson High in Bloomington, Minnesota, when the team went to the division championship game in 1980. That team rallied around Burnett every time it was in trouble. He was an alumni of the University of Minnesota. Mr. Burnett phoned his wife Deena four times. In the first call he told her about the situation on the plane and asked her to call authorities. The second time he phoned, he told her that he believed their captors were going to fly the plane into the ground. "The next time he called," Mrs. Burnett said, "I could tell they were formulating a plan." In the last call, he reportedly said, "I know we're going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something about it." At his memorial service Mr. Burnett's older sister, Martha Burnett O'Brien, said she's struggling with her brother's death, partly because she didn't see him the last time he visited the family in Minnesota. It was a week and a half before his death. "I didn't know it was going to be my last chance. I regret not making time, not catching him before he flew out. I figured that I had a lifetime of opportunities to do that. And in the course of this loss, our country has gained a hero," she said. His sister also added that her brother would be happiest if everyone in the audience at least did a little something to improve the country after last week's tragedy. Thomas Burnett was the father of three girls, five-year-old twins, Madison and Halley, and four-year-old Anna-Claire. Mr. Burnett's employer has set up a memorial fund. All the money collected will go directly into a fund for Deena Burnett. She plans to use the money largely for the children's education. Send donations to The Thomas E. Burnett Jr. Family Memorial Fund, c/o CIBC Oppenheimer Corp., Account #074-17387-10, 580 California Street, Suite 2300, San Francisco, CA 94104, phone: (415) 438-3000, or click here for the press release from Thoratec. If you wish to send a letter to the family, send it to Deena Burnett, c/o Thoratec Corp. att: Beth Taylor, 6035 Stone Ridge Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588. William Cashman 57 years old North Bergen, NJ Lee T. Wong, a student of Mr. Cashman, wrote in to say: Billy was my welding teacher. I will truly miss this sweet and gentle human being. He was the kind of teacher that "sorta held me by the hand" through my start to getting my licences. He never shunned anyone, he was always there for help, and to answer questions. He gave us all undivided attention. He never gave negative feedback when we had bad days. He was always calm and would say something like, "Maybe you should do it faster or try another heat setting." He is one teacher that I can learn from if I ever decide to teach. Billy, you will always be near to my heart. Thank you for giving me the honor to have known you. You taught me more than welding, you taught me humanity. Georgine Rose Corrigan 56 years old Honolulu, Hawaii Georgine Rose Corrigan was a prominent antiques and collectibles dealer who had been on an East Coast buying trip for a collectibles show in November. Fellow collectibles dealer Eileen Wong said, "She was someone who was like a mother figure to a lot of people. She always had good advice and was always optimistic." Georgine moved from Toledo, Ohio to Honolulu in 1976. She first worked as a bank teller, later worked in the textiles industry, and eventually opened her own collectibles business with the help of her brother, Kevin Marisay. Among the loved ones Georgine leaves behind are Laura Brough, her daughter; Bryan Buck, her son-in-law; and her grandsons Evan and Dylan. A memorial fund has been set up in Corrigan's name to assist the family. Donations and correspondence can be sent to Laura Brough, P.O. Box 25643, Honolulu, HI 96825. Bryan Buck forwarded us these two links: "My Mom," Art-Broker.com "Family honors fallen matriarch," Honolulu Advertiser Patricia Cushing 69 years old Bayonne, NJ Jane Folger 73 years old Bayonne, NJ The following is from a San Francisco Chronicle article by Jaxon Van Derbeken. Click here for the full story. As America seeks to honor the heroes of United Airlines Flight 93, it would be easy to overlook two elderly sisters-in-law and best friends from Bayonne, N.J. After all, since their families at first sought to grieve in private, their names are not on any official accounting of the doomed flight's passengers or on public lists of proposed honorees for the Congressional Gold Medal. But in their quiet lives and good deeds, Patricia Cushing, 69, and Jane Folger, 73, embody what is good and heroic about America. Click here for the story from the San Francisco Chronicle. Jason Dahl 43 years old Denver, CO The captain of United Flight 93. A fellow pilot told Denver's Rocky Mountain News that the week before the flight, Jason Dahl sent an e-mail seeking another pilot to take the flight on September 11 so that he could spend the day with his family. [The following is excerpted from a press release by the Evangelical Lutheran Church.] "His war has been won. He is free," said the Rev. Janice Erickson-Pearson, pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Littleton, Colo. Holy Trinity is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Erickson-Pearson preached at the service honoring Dahl. During worship Matt Dahl, son of the late Jason Dahl and a member of Holy Trinity, shared a story with the congregation about his father reading Dr. Seuss rhymes at bedtime. After reading some pages of a Dr. Seuss book, Matt said, "Good night, Dad." Joseph DeLuca Newark, NJ The following is an excerpt from the intranet site at Pfizer Corp., passed on to us by Lee Williams, a friend of Joe. A funeral mass was held for DeLuca on Friday, September 21, in Union, New Jersey. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Joe was a graduate of Vailsburg High School. He attended the Newark College of Engineering and Jersey City State College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics. At the time of his death, Joe worked for Pfizer Consumer Healthcare in Morris Plains as a Systems Business Consultant in the Information Systems group. He began his career with the company 23 years ago as a programmer for Warner-Lambert. He steadily progressed up the career ladder to his current role, which entailed developing systems and technology applications. Joe was a car racing enthusiast and served as a board member of the Sports Car Club of America, Northern New Jersey Region. He was also the creator of "The Adventures of Raymond the Cat," a syndicated cartoon that appeared in the club's monthly newsletter and other publications across the country. He is survived by his mother, father, and sister. Click here for a well-written personal profile of Joe written for the July 2001 issue of SportsCar Magazine. It's a great way to get to know an interesting man. Click here to see Joe's "Raymond the Cat" cartoons. Some of these are laugh-out-loud funny, even when you're not in laughing mood. Patrick Joseph Driscoll 70 years old Manalapan, NJ A retired research director for Bell Communications. The following personal messages are excerpted from the guestbook for Joseph Driscoll at AmericanLegacy.com: "I will always remember Joe -- He was a good friend of my parents in the Bronx. He was always smiling. We missed them when they moved to Englishtown, but always remembered them thru the years. He will be sadly missed by all. All my sympathy to his beautiful wife, children and grandchildren." --Patti McNamara (Maywood, NJ ) "I had the good fortune to meet Joe about 57 years ago. We were young boys who loved to play all the sports in whatever season was happening at the time. We became friends and our families would get together whenever we could. In our neighborhood we continued to play softball even as the guys got a little older, and every year we would have an oldtimers softball game. Without fail we get about 35 to 40 guys. Everyone knew JOE and knew he was a man's man, a good friend. loving husband and good father to his 4 children. I always thought we would grow old together and have many years to play some golf with our mutual friends, but it was not tc be. Dear JOE my life will never be the same, so much emptiness for so many people. But I am real glad you came into my life. We will never forget the good times had by all. Love Bill." --William Spade (Staten Island, NY) "I am happy to have known 'Joe' and there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that he was a major force in the passenger retaliation against the terrorists. I urge his family and friends to read the poem 'How Did You Die?' by Edmund Vance Cook." --Ralph Laurita (Breinigsville, PA) Edward Porter Felt 41 years old Matawan, NJ [Koorosh Nehchiri, a colleague of Ed Felt's at BEA Systems, emailed us with this information and added: "He is mourned and remembered by family and friends alike as he was truly an example of a noble, kind, respectable and intelligent human being. ... Let us keep his memory alive as long as it is possible."] Ed Felt was a technical director for BEA Systems, a software firm in Liberty Corner, New Jersey. He was one of their "first employees, best engineers, and most respected and loved colleagues." Born in Utica, NY, he graduated from Colgate and Cornell universities. He had lived in Matawan, New Jersey for the past 20 years. He leaves behind a wife, Sandra Valdez Felt, two daughters, Adrienne, 14, and Kathryn, 11, his mother, two brothers -- Larry Felt of Syracuse and Gordon Felt of Remsen, NY -- three brothers-in-law, five sisters-in-law, five nieces and four nephews. Click here for the obituary from the New Jersey Star-Ledger. A scholarship fund has been established for Ed's children, Adrienne and Kathryn. If you'd like to make a contribution to this scholarship fund, please send a check payable to "Adrienne and Kathryn Felt" c/o: Randy MacBlane, BEA Systems, Inc., 140 Allen Road, Liberty Corner, NJ 07938. Funds collected will be used to set up a UTMA account for the benefit of the children's education to be administered by Sandy. The family has also asked that donations be made, in lieu of flowers, in Ed's memory to either: American Red Cross (1-800-HELP-NOW) or Matawan United Methodist Church, 478 Atlantic Avenue, Matawan, NJ 07747. Colleen Fraser 51 years old Elizabeth, NJ The following is from a tribute page at the New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council Web site. Colleen, an advocate for people with disabilities for 20 years, served on the [New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council] for more than 11 years. She was appointed chair of the Council by Governor James Florio in 1990 and served in that position for five years. In July, she was elected by the Council as its vice-chair. Colleen was recently hired as executive director of the Progressive Center for Independent Living (PCIL), the independent living center for Mercer and Hunterdon counties and is president of the board of Community Access Unlimited, an Elizabeth-based non-profit agency providing housing, employment and support services for 7,000 people with disabilities. She was on her way to a seminar on grant writing, to boost her skills for her new job at PCIL when her plane went down. Over her career she served as director of the Union County Office on the Disabled and as the director of D.I.A.L., another independent living center. Colleen is well known statewide as a leading voice for people with disabilities. She advocated strongly for community living options for people with developmental disabilities, urging the state to move more quickly to end the institutionalization of more the 1,500 people still living in the state's large developmental centers who have been determined ready to move and who want to move. She also worked tirelessly to promote the importance of listening to people with disabilities about the supports they need and making sure those supports meet those needs. Colleen had also established a national reputation for her fiery advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities. She was instrumental in launching a statewide initiative to improve health care for women with disabilities following her participation in a national conference on the same topic. She joined other New Jersey advocates to lead the largest state contingent supporting the ADA at the first congressional hearing on that landmark legislation. Recently she led a group of people with disabilities to a "Speak Out" on deinstitutionalization in Washington. This event typified her passionate support of the 1998 Supreme Court decision, Olmstead vs. L.C., which ruled it was a violation of a person's rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act to keep them in an institutional setting past the time when it had been determined to be appropriate. Colleen believed this landmark decision was a key component to her ongoing efforts to get people with disabilities out of institutions and nursing homes. A colleague and friend of Colleen's, Robin (Zimenoff) Bolduc, wrote on the NJDDC memorial site: I can picture her on that plane -- flaming red hair, cane flying -- leading the charge -- 'We are Americans -- we rule our own destinies.' Click here for more. Andrew "Sonny" Garcia 62 years old Portola Valley, California Dorothy Garcia, Andrew's wife, received a call during the final minutes of the United flight that she believes was from her husband. There was so much static in the line, however, that all she could make out was a voice that appeared to say, "Dorothy." Then the line went silent. This photo shows Dorothy and Andrew. Click here for a USA Today story Jeremy Glick 31 years old West Milford, New Jersey Mr. Glick was a sales and marketing executive for an Internet company. He was described by brother-in-law Doug Hurwitt as a "take-charge guy," and was a national collegiate judo champion at the University of Rochester. When Jeremy phoned his wife, Lyzbeth, he said that the pilots and flight attendants had been forced to the back of the plane, one passenger had been stabbed to death, and that the hijackers claimed they had a bomb. Lyzbeth Glick said her husband was nervous about rushing the hijackers, but the tenseness didn't keep him from joking. He said he still had his butter knife from the in-flight breakfast. His 20-minute call not only gave him several opportunities to tell his wife he loved her, but it also enabled Mrs. Glick's mother to contact police on another line, allowing authorities to listen in on much of the call and to gather information about the passengers' plight. Jeremy told his wife to take care of Emmy (Emerson), their 12-week-old daughter, and "have a good life." He asked his wife not to hang up. He was going to leave the air phone off the hook while the group of passengers tried to implement their takeover. But she couldn't bear to listen and handed the phone to her father. Lyzbeth Glick's father heard rustling, a brief silence, then more rustling from the open line to the plane. Then screams followed by dead silence. Mr. Glick is survived by his wife Lyzbeth, his daughter Emerson, his parents and five siblings. Donations for Lyzbeth and Emerson can be sent to the Glick Family Fund, c/o Fleet Bank, 1618 Union Valley Rd., West Milford, NJ 07480, phone: (973) 728-2747. See the web page and fund for the Glick family created by Glick's employer, Vividence: In Memory of Jeremy Glick Click here for the second page of heroes. NEVER FORGET SEPTEMBER, 2001!!! CONDOLENCES