Remembering 9/11 Victims From New Providence, Berkeley Heights

NEW PROVIDENCE/BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — Tuesday is the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Two Berkeley Heights residents and six New Providence residents died in the attacks on the World Trade Center:

• Lt.Cmdr. Patrick Jude Murphy, 38, of Berkeley Heights, was a reserve officer who served on nuclear submarines. He was at the Pentagon Tuesday when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed in the building.
• Scott Hazelcorn, 29, of Berkeley Heights was a trader of long-term treasury bonds at Cantor Fitzgerald.
• William Tselepis, Jr., 33, of New Providence was a foreign exchange broker at Cantor Fitzgerald.
• Gerard J. Coppola of New Providence was antenna engineer for WNET, Channel 13, on the 110th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower.
• Richard A. Dunstan, 54, of New Providence was a vice president at Aon Corporation and a father of two.
• Michael Gogliormella, 43, of New Providence was a Quality Assurance Technician for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 99th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
• Robert Wayne Hobson, III of New Providence was a broker for Cantor Fitzgerald.
• Susan D. Murray, 54, of New Providence was an employee of Marsh & McLennan.

Those eight were among the nearly 3,000 people who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at 10:10 a.m. that on Sept. 11, 2001.

The Berkeley Heights and New Providence locals are among the Union County victims remembered at the County's September 11th Memorial at Echo Lake Park near the Springfield Avenue entrance on the border of Mountainside and Springfield.

The memorial is open until 9 p.m. on Sept. 11. Members of the Union County Sheriff’s Office will provide a uniformed Honor Guard standing watch at the memorial from 6 to 9 p.m. The public is invited to bring and light candles in memory of those lost in the attacks.

The memorial incorporates elements of design that include all three sites where lives were lost. Two girders recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center are arranged within a five sided area representing the Pentagon, and an Eternal Flame represents those who died in Pennsylvania along with members of the Armed Services and emergency responders.

In addition to these elements, the names of the 60 deceased Union County residents are etched into the memorial.

For additional information on the Union County September 11th Memorial, visit ucnj.org/9-11-memorial.

(Image via Union County)

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