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MassBay Remembers Alumni Krystle Campbell
The Framingham campus of MassBay Community College honored alumni Krystle Campbell, a victim of the Boston Marathon bombings, in a ceremony Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday, family and friends attended the funeral of Boston Marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell.
On Tuesday, faculty, staff and students of Mass Bay Community College in Framingham gathered to remember Campbell, a 2005 graduate of the college.
College President John O'Donnell spoke not only of Campbell, but of the other individuals killed, injured and maimed in last week's Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt to arrest the two brothers, police and FBI say are responsible for the bombings.
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O'Donnell said it was fitting that the ceremony Tuesday afternoon was on the Framingham campus, where many of the first responders received their education in criminal justice or allied health.
During the ceremony, Milca Matos Benson sang the National Anthem and America the Beautiful, student trustee Sandy Antonellis spoke and humanities professor Robert Tarutis, who was one of Campbell's professors, read the poem The History Teacher by Billy Collins.
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During the short 30-minute ceremony, O'Donnell asked the scores of staff, students and faculty assembled to observe a minute of silence in remembrance for the lost and injured.
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