Highlights of the Quarterly, Winter 2001-2002
We did not choose our fate that day
By Elizabeth Morton '91
My thoughts today are different from Sept. 11. What I remember is the same, but images and more information fill my mind. I saw people act in a way that only true crisis brings. The look, the feel, the smell of one single day, one that I now know could only come from a world-changing event. Firefighters, rescue workers, police officers, security guards--all doing their jobs, just as we were in One and Two World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m. on that beautiful, perfect fall day in New York City.
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Tradition in a time of need
By Jayne M. Iafrate
On Sept. 11, the Wheaton community rushed into action. Some things never change.
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I'm alive. Please don't step on me
By Renee Mangalo '91
Most days I leave my apartment on Twelfth Street around 8:45 a.m. and take the subway to the World Trade Center stop. On Sept. 11 I was late because I voted in the local primary. When I emerged from the polling station at Sixth Avenue and 11th Street, a crowd of people had gathered to look at the vast hole in Tower 1.
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Never this much light in New York City
By Ret Talbot '93
I talked to my friend on Monday, the day Wall Street resumed business after the attack on the Twin Towers. He's a banker, and, perhaps out of obligation to his profession, he is not one who easily shows his emotions. He is not easily rattled.
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