Northwestern officials confirmed on Tuesday that four alumni died in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Those presumed dead are:
• Melissa Doi, Weinberg ’91, who worked in the World Trade Center, according to Al Cubbage, vice president for university relations.
• Steven Glick, Weinberg ’82, who was at the World Trade Center on business for his job at First Boston. Glick, 42, lived in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife, Mari; son, Colin, 6; and daughter, Courtney, 4.
A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at the Greenwich Reform Synagogue, 257 Stanwich Road, Greenwich, Conn.
• Edward “Ted” Hennessy, Kellogg ’93, who was flying on American Airlines Flight 11 when it crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Hennessy, 35, worked as a management consultant for Emergence LLC and lived in Belmont, Mass., with his wife, Melanie Salisbury, and two children: Rachel, 6, and Matthew, 3. He was flying from Boston to Los Angeles for business.
After graduating from Kellogg, Hennessy worked at a string of consulting jobs and was hired at Emergence three years ago.
Salisbury said she and her husband spent a lot of time together in their Belmont home doing projects around the house.
“We hardly ever went out to movies, because when we had time to be alone together we wanted to talk,” she said. “He was very ordinary, very domestic.”
• Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Jude Murphy, another Kellogg graduate, who is still missing after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. Murphy, 38, completed Kellogg’s “The Managers’ Program” in 1997, said Asst. Dean Richard Honack.
He had served in the U.S. Naval Reserves for five years and was at the Pentagon for two weeks of active duty, said his sister Kathleen Schweikart.
Murphy was raised in Chicago’s south suburbs and recently moved to New Jersey from Park Ridge with his wife and their two sons. He attended Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights and received an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Mississippi.
In addition to his sister, Murphy is survived by his wife, Mako; sons, Mitch and Casey; mother, Joan Miller; brother, John Murphy; and another sister, Susan Johns.
Trustees mourn losses
University officials said they have confirmed that all of NU’s trustees, some of whom worked in and around the World Trade Center, are safe.
Chairman of the Board Patrick Ryan’s company, Aon Corporation, lost 200 employees, said spokesman Stephen Ban.
On the morning of the attacks, Ryan was flying in a private airplane from France to the United States. It was diverted to Newfoundland, Canada, Ban said.
All week Ryan has been talking with family members of missing Aon employees and today he attended memorial services in New York, Ban said.
Ban estimated that about 1,350 employees and visitors were in Aon’s office when the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center. Aon’s offices were on the 92nd and 98th through 105th floors.
Trustee Sherman Lewis, whose office in the World Financial Center is across the street from the World Trade Center, was driving to work when he saw the plane crash into the building. He turned around and went home, said Ronald Vanden Dorpel, vice president for university development.
The son of one trustee was working on the 84th floor, Vanden Dorpel said, but he was able to escape the building before it collapsed.
So far NU has received no reports of current students or faculty members being killed or injured in the attacks.
