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Ministry seeks memorial input

Cougar News Staff

Every year, death claims members of the UH community, and their loss is mourned. Also every year, the campus takes out time to memorialize those members of the Cougar family who are lost. 

Since 1989, the A.D. Bruce Religion Center has hosted an annual on-campus interfaith memorial service to commemorate all the UH students, faculty and staff who died in the previous year. 

With lit candles and prayers, the service helps students, faculty and staff take time to simply remember. At previous services, people close to the deceased have given speeches. The event usually draws a crowd of 30 to 50 people.

This year is no different. 

Sponsored by the Campus Ministries Association in conjunction with the Religion Center, this yearis service is planned for April 14. The vigil service, which caters to no single religion, will be held in the recently renovated Religion Center, followed by a reception in the upstairs lounge area.

Rev. Dick Maddox, the program director for the Religion Center, is soliciting input from the UH community to make sure the service doesnit leave out anyone who may have died between April 24, 2002 and April 14, 2003.

Maddox can be contacted via fax at 713-743-5995 or via e-mail at ucmgh@uh.edu. The memorial service planners are asking for information regarding when and how the deceased served UH, or when and what the deceased studied as a student and any other relevant information about the personis service to the University.
 

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