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The Pioneers Remembered ceremony is a memorial service that acknowledges 探花楼 students, faculty and staff who have passed away. Services are held once per year, now during the fall semester, as an opportunity for friends and family to gather and share in remembrance.

Help us remember those we have lost by  for the individual(s) listed below. These tributes will be posted on our website to create a digital memorial and may be used in the Pioneers Remembered service. Our next ceremony will be held on Dec. 3, 2026, at 2 p.m., in the Little Chapel-in-the-Woods at which time we will recognize community members who passed away between June 1, 2025, and May 31, 2026.

We extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of our 探花楼 community members (listed below) who passed away between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025 and were remembered during our last memorial.

2025 Memorials

Students

• Addison Michelle Branum
• Elizabeth Odunsi
• Kecia Yvette Smith
• Sara Vawda

Faculty and Staff

• Michele Bland
• Linda Brock, Ph.D.
• Mona Hersh-Cochran
• Patricia Devereaux
• Lizbeth Elkins
• Elizabeth Floyd
• Jeanette Kernicki
• Beth Lewis
• Kathy Roberts

The above list is a collaboration between the Office of Student Life and Human Resources. While we try to be thorough, we realize that we do make the occasional, inadvertent omission. If you know of a student, faculty, staff or retired faculty/staff that passed away between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025, please email Amy Evans. 

Page last updated 9:29 AM, April 13, 2026