Rider University to Hold Flag Lowering Ceremony to Honor 9/11 Victims

Current Rider University students who also serve in any branch of the military will participate in a flag-lowering ceremony in honor of those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The ceremony takes place at 8:45 a.m. Friday morning at Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville. The flag pole is adjacent to the main entrance of campus, on the campus mall.

The students, in uniform, will march together from the Student Center to the American flag pole, where they will initiate a military flag-lowering ceremony.

They will be led by Russel Melville, Rider’s director of Military and Veteran Affairs, and active member of the U.S. Army Reserves.

Westminster Choir College student Thomas Lynch will sing the National Anthem.

Two military students will lower the American flag to half-staff, while Taps is played on a bugle.

Rider chaplains will offer an invocation and benediction.

Rider University’s new president, Dr. Gregory G. Dell’Omo, will join military students and the president of the Student Government Association to lay a memorial wreath in front of the flag.

Dean of Students Anthony Campbell will read the names of the Rider University alumni who lost their lives in the attacks. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the military students will march through campus, back to the Student Center.