April 18, 2007

• Although we didn’t know you we will miss you. 

  Ryan Clark, 22, was known as “Stack” to his friends in the Marching Virginians college band.

   

  

  Ross Alameddine, 20, was a student from Saugus, Massachusetts.

   

  
  

  Kevin Granata, was one of the top five biomechanics researchers in the country and was working on movement dynamics in cerebral palsy, the head of the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech.

  
  

   Matthew La Porte, 20, of Dumont, New Jersey, was studying political science and French at Virginia Tech.

   

  
  Liviu Librescu, 76, was a Holocaust survivor who, his son said, will be remembered as a hero. He “blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee,” Joe Librescu told the AP.

  

  
  G. V. Loganathan, 51, was a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.

  
  Christopher James Bishop, 35, taught German at Virginia Tech
  Caitlin Hammaren, 19, of Westtown, New York, was a sophomore majoring in international studies and French
  Emily Jane Hilscher, 19, a freshman majoring in animal and poultry sciences, was known around her hometown as an animal lover.
  Jarrett Lane, 22, was a senior civil engineering student who was valedictorian of his high school class in tiny Narrows, Virginia, just 30 miles from Virginia Tech.
  Mary Karen Read, 19, was born in South Korea into an Air Force family and lived in Texas and California before settling in the northern Virginia suburb of Annandale.
  Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, of Peru, was killed while in a French class, his mother, Betty Cueva, told the AP. Perez Cueva was a student of international relations.
  Reema Samaha, 18, was a first-year student of Lebanese descent at Virginia Tech and went to the same high school in Centersville, Virginia, as the shooter.
  Juan Ortiz was a student.
  Jeremy Herbstritt was a graduate student who received a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University.
  Erin Peterson was a student from Centreville, Virginia.
  Maxine Turner was a student from Vienna, Virginia, studying chemical engineering.

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