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Disaster Hits Home
Earthquake Claims Grad
p a g e, all the ro a d s to the c ity hav e
b een d e c im a te d , w ith few w ay s in
try that has been so ravaged will o r o u t.
ev er rebound.
He fears that with so m any desper
“ I c a n ’t see a future at the cen ter ate people clam oring for such scarce
of the c h ao s,” he said.
resources violence will surely break
B asic se rv ic e s , lik e g ro c e rie s, out. O f particular concern is his wheel
are o n ly a v a ila b le in th e d e n se ly - chair bound m other and uncle, who
p o p u la te d P o r t- a u - P r in c e , th e survived the earthquake and are safe
n a tio n ’s c a p ita l, a c c o rd in g to B en in Port-au-Prince.
Ferere. From the reports h e ’s heard
“W e d o n ’t have days, we have
from p h o n e c a lls from frien d s and hours for som ething to h ap p en ,” he
re la tiv e s an d his u n c le ’s F aceb o o k said.
co n tin u ed
The University of Portland is mourning the death of
Molly Hightower, a 2009 graduate of the north Portland
school who did not survive the devastating earthquake in
Haiti.
The family of the 22-year-old victim from Port Orchard,
Wash, was told that searchers found her body in the
wreckage of the building where she lived. She had gone to
Haiti in June to work with disabled children for “Friends of
the Orphans.”
“Our hearts reach out to Molly’s parents and her family
and friends,” said University President Rev. E. William
Beauchamp.
A Mass to celebrate Molly’s life was held Saturday on
the University of Portland campus. She majored in psy
chology, sociology, and French Studies, and studied in Paris
in the summer of 2007. She was “a very gifted student of
French and a wonderful person in every sense,” according
to mentor and professor of French Trudie Booth.
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