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ELIZABETH PERRY
Director of the Fairbank Center;
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government,
Harvard University
Friday, May 31, 2002 • 5:00 p.m.
Knight Law Center, Room 184
University of Oregon
Prelecture reception at 4:30 p.m.
This lecture was made possible with additional support from
William and Barbara Sue Seal of Portland.
Cosponsored by the University of Oregon Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
and Portland State University’s Institute for Asian Studies.
For more information, call (541) 346-1521.
University
of Oregon
THE ADMIRAL DAVID E. JEREMIAH AND
MRS. CONNIE JEREMIAH LECTURE SERIES
EO/AA/ADA institution committed to cultural diversity.
Special ceremony
officially finishes
WTC cleanup job
By Frank Davies
Knight Ridder Newspapers
NEW YORK (KRT) — At Ground
Zero, now comes the hard part.
In 37 weeks, a small army has re
moved 1.8 million tons of World
Trade Center debris, sifted through
grime and ash for human remains
and consumed 3.2 million meals
served by a volunteer force of more
than 7,000.
Thursday morning, the recovery
and cleanup of the Sept. 11 at
tacks officially ends. For the army
that became a community on the
site of unspeakable horror, this is
hard to take.
“This is very difficult for all of
us,” said Sean Callan, a stonema
son who has worked on the site
since October. “First, we faced the
enormity of this, then support
ed each other as a family and now
we’re scattering to the four winds.”
The site now looks like any 16
acre construction zone. But the fact
that workers achieved a monumen
tal, emotionally draining feat ahead
of schedule and under budget of
fers small comfort to some.
Tim Cahill, who operates cranes
and other heavy equipment, fin
ished lunch in the huge “bubble”
where workers eat, shower and de
compress, then talked about the
emotional toll and the sense of an
incomplete task.
“Emotionally, many of us just
shut down. Construction guys
aren’t used to finding pieces of peo
ple every day,” he said, nudging at
his helmet. “There’s no preparation
for it. I just became numb.”
Cahill and Callan also spoke of
the grim reality of the arithmetic:
2,823 known victims, but the re
mains of only a third have been
found. The medical examiner’s of
fice hopes that DNA tests may
eventually identify some others.
“Psychologically, that’s what’s
hard to take,” said Callan. “We real
ize most are gone without a trace.”
Molly Shotzberger, a counselor
and major in the Salvation Army,
has worked on the site since “Day
2,” Sept. 12, and will be part of the
honor guard at Thursday’s ceremo
ny. An empty, flag-draped stretcher
will be taken from “the pit” to hon
or the victims never found.
She’s afraid that many workers
are experiencing a delayed reac
tion to the enormity they have ex
perienced. Their work is visually
dramatic. The toll on them is
largely hidden.
“There’s a feeling of relief and
achievement, but there’s an over
whelming sadness that just grips
at you,” she said. “Many people
have put off thinking about it, and
they can’t talk to their families
about it.”
Shotzberger likes to use the anal
ogy of a video freeze frame to de
scribe what workers are going
through: “For months, we’ve been
caught in that freeze frame, now it’s
time to get it moving forward and
see the rest of the story.”
One place where workers can
talk to each other, get a hot meal, a
foot massage and relax is the bub
ble, also known as the “Taj Mahal,”
operated by Salvation Army staff
and volunteers.
After a shift, weary cops, fire
fighters and work crews trudge
across West Street, get their boots
scrubbed and sit down with a good
meal, surrounded by flags, banners
and thousands of letters from
school kids.
Volunteers have streamed in from
all over North America. Win Burge,
a nurse from British Columbia, took
two weeks vacation to keep the ta
bles clean. Pamela Hughes, a disas
ter specialist from Tallahassee, Fla.,
helped coordinate logistics with
, New York city government.
“Gruff New Yorkers? No way.
This is like Southern hospitality,”
said Hughes, who packed supplies
for the South Florida victims of
Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Jennifer Spano, a New Yorker
who delayed a job consulting with
the casino industry, said her work
as a volunteer coordinator has
changed her life.
“It’s like you’ve seen the worst
and then the best of humanity,”
said Spano. “This has reaffirmed
my faith in people.”
At 10:29 EDT Thursday morning,
the time the second tower col
lapsed on Sept. 11, the empty
stretcher and the last steel girder
will emerge from the burial ground.
The “bubble” crew will serve its
last supper tonight, and the fabric
dome will be taken down.
© 2002, The Miami Herald. Distributed by
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
‘Banjo Man’
continued from page 1
He keeps a tattered hat perched
atop his banjo case, and people
toss in money as they see fit. Once,
right before Christmas, Brashers
and his playing partner in San
Diego got a $50 tip. But in Eugene,
the money isn’t enough to support
a full-time banjo gig.
Brashers said he might earn more
if he could play on the campus side
of East 13th Avenue or University
Street, but last week an officer from
the Department of Public Safety
said he had to play outside the
green gates near the bookstore.
DPS Associate Director Tom
Hicks said street performers can’t
solicit money from students on
campus without first checking with
the University Scheduling Office.
Brashers said he hopes to get a
band together eventually, complete
with a bass guitarist and someone
on the washboards.
_ “Hopefully, I’ 11 be sleeping in the
daytime and play at night,” he said.
For now, Brashers plays near the
west side of campus, at Saturday
Market and also works a graveyard
shift at The Bagel Bakery.
But he also roams the intersec
tion of East 13th Avenue and Kin
caid Street, drawing smiles from
passing students and sometimes a
crowd.
“Most times when I walk by, he’s
very energetic,” journalism student
Amy Rogers said.
Hot dog vendor Tim Nally
agreed.
“Oh, he’s a good banjo player,”
said Nally, the owner of One Bad
Dawg hot dog stand on the corner
of East 13th Avenue and Kincaid
Street.
Nally added that Brasher’s music
was best in small doses.
“Banjo music gets tiresome if you
hear it all day long,” he said. “But
he doesn’t stay too long. He comes
and goes.”
E-mail reporter Brook Reinhard
atbrookreinhard@dailyemeraJcl.com.