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The Augustana Augie says goodbye to Kellie Harrison
Sioux Falls, S.D.
Friday, Nov. 17, 2000
BY MATT DREKE
MIRROR SPORTS CO-EDITOR
On a day when the nation was
electing its future leaders, the
Augustana community took time
to remember a dear friend and
leader. Friends gathered at 10
a.m. on Nov. 7 to honor Kellie
Harrison in a memorial service
held in the Chapel of Reconcili-ation.
Harrison and her best friend
Ashley Joslyn were driving
home from Sioux Falls to Can-ton,
S.D., on June 9 when they
collided with a pickup on Lin-coln
County Road 116 south of
Sioux Falls. The accident hap-pened
at 1:19 p.m., and both
were killed instantly. The two
women were 19 and had
been best friends since the
fourth grade.
Both graduated from
Canton High School in
1999. Harrison attended
Augustana, was planning
to major in nursing and
was working at Sioux Val-ley
Hospital as well as
Abercrombie & Fitch.
Joslyn attended the Uni-versity
of South Dakota.
Harrison is best
"She was always in a good
mood, always laughing. We had
a lot of fun together."
"[Kellie] was
always full of life,"
Faulstich said.
"There was never a
dull moment with
Kellie."
During the memo-rial
Campus Pastor
Maribeth McGoven
talked about things
that are unexplain-able.
When things of
this sort happen, they
can never be
explained, McGoven
said.
For reflections,
Harrison's good
friend, sophomore
Crystal Boehmer
read a poem in the
form of a letter to Jesus. The
poem talked about all the types
of things the two friends used to
do together. It talked about all of
the long talks they used to have,
and all of the fun they had
together. The poem also ques-tioned
why God took Harrison
from all of her friends, and
Boehmer said she would do it all
over again even knowing that all
the pain would come.
In tears, Boehmer struggled
through the beautiful poem, but
Faulstich said the poem
described Harrison in every way.
Junior Shelby Groen sang
"Friends" by Michael W. Smith
for special music.
Harrison and her friends were
always together. The type of
things they did were go to
moyies, go to parties, watch
movies on weekend afternoons
in their dorm rooms and just
Contributed photo
This silo east of Canton, S.D., stands as a
tribute to Ashley Joslyn and Kellie Harri-son
who died in a car accident on June 9.
last Halloween.
hang out, talking.
According to Faulstich the
memorial was a way for her and
her ,friends to have closure on
campus.
"It's a chance for us to do
something to show Kellie how
much we cared for her,"
Faulstich said.
After the service friends who
attended were invited to take
some of the balloons and roses
from the altar to remember Har-rison.
"I just wish that I could go
back to the times when I would
see her on campus, and she
would come up and hug me and
ask me how I was," Faulstich
said.
"For those of us who knew
her, we knew she was great, and
for those who didn't missed out
on something great," Faulstich
said.
described by her friends Photo by Jill Faulstich
who knew her well. (Left to right) Rachel Connor, Dana Reed, Amanda Harms, Kellie Harri-
"She was great," sopho- son and Crystal Boehmer strike a pose
more Jill Faulstich said.
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BY ENRICO TOSI
MIRROR GUEST WRITER
Marnie Backer, the new
director of Volunteer Services,
knows the answer to one of the
mysteries of this fall: What
happened to the Buzz Book?
"It's supposed to be here,"
Backer said.
If it is not the first year that
the Buzz Book has played hard
to get, it is the first year that
Volunteer Services has been in
charge of it, instead of the Stu-dent
Activities.
"[The Buzz Book] falls at the
beginning of the year, which is
a pretty busy time for the stu-dent
activities director,- with
Viking Days and New Student
Orientation," Backer said.
Allison Fischer, last year's
student activities director, was
on maternity leave at the end of
the spring semester, and this
"I was new at the job, and so
I'd probably have started much
sooner, but I didn't, because I
just didn't know that I was sup-posed
to," Backer said.
Putting the Buzz Book
together is no less difficult than
printing a magazine. Backer
had to gather all the students'
pictures, the off-campus stu-dents'
phone numbers and the
advertising, and do in the fall
something that is usually done
the previous spring. She is
working with a company called
Campus Directories to put the
book together and do the
advertising.
Campus Directories needs
the material to put the Buzz
Book together one month in
advance. "I needed to send
everything by Sept. 25, which I
did, but there were all these
BY BEN SCHUMACHER
MIRROR CO-EDITOR
An impressive name has
been added to the already
famous list of Boe Forum
speakers who have visited
Augustana in the past several
years.
On Nov. 1, the Center for
Western Studies publicly
announced that Queen Noor of
Jordan would be speaking in
the Elmen Center on May 9.
Her Majesty, Queen Noor, is
the widow of the late King
Hussein of Jordan. But it isn't
just her husband that makes
her famous.
She was born Lisa Najeeb
Halaby in 1951. She attended
schools in Los Angeles, Wash-ington,
D.C., New York City
and Concord Academy in
Massachusetts. That was
before she entered Princeton in
its first co-educational fresh-man
class. She graduated from
Princeton in 1974 with a degree
in architecture and urban plan-ning.
Since her graduation, she has
Photo courtesy of official website
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
actively traveled, volunteered
and lectured throughout the
world on various topics,
including mother and child
health care, education, environ-mental
protection, culture, and
women's development. In
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