UT Remembers

Excerpts of Remarks by Larry R. Faulkner
May 1, 1998
UT Alumni Center, Waller Creek Terrace
The University of Texas at Austin

One of the important roles of a community is to recognize the life events of its members. Births, anniversaries, good news, bad news, joy, achievement, disappointment, illness, death.

We all do this in scores of ways every day on this campus. This event provides an opportunity for our community to come together to commemorate publicly those who have died during this past year.

Waller Creek, as it meanders through the campus, offers many places for quiet reflection. It's appropriate that we gather here for this occasion. As we work and study and learn together, we are touched and our lives are enriched by the people around us. While this community is quite large, it is made up of a network of smaller communities that functions on a human scale.

Today, as we pause to hear the names of those who are no longer here, let us call to mind an enduring memory--a transcendent moment--in which a part of their spirit can be with us. While time flows irrevocably like the water in Waller Creek, the power of memory extends life.

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