The Texas A&M community is mourning the loss of 11 students and one recent graduate Friday - a day after a 40-foot pyramid of logs collapsed early Thursday.
Those killed in the collapse were:
Miranda Adams, a sophomore in biomedical sciences, from Santa Fe, Texas.
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Christopher David Breen
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Christopher David Breen, 25, of Austin, Texas. He was a 1997 A&M graduate who returned to College Station on Wednesday night to help build the Aggie bonfire. A previous bonfire leader, he was there to help select the next generation of construction bosses for the bonfire. He was the son of Jack Breen, chairman of the department of civil engineering at the University of Texas.Michael Ebanks, a freshman, who was unaccounted for during most of the first 24 hours after the accident. A golden retriever from the Austin Police Department found the bodies of Ebanks and Miss Adams in the debris. Rescue workers pulled their bodies out of the rubble early Friday.
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Jeremy Frampton
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Jeremy Frampton, a fifth-year senior psychology major from Turlock, Calif. Friends say he was excited about working on the bonfire. Turlock High School principal Rod Hollars said last spring he asked Frampton his plans for the following year. "I'll be building that bonfire," he told Hollars.
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Jaime Hand
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Jaime Hand, a freshman environmental design major from Henderson. A high school honor graduate, she lived for tradition. She was a cheerleader for five years, and high school cheerleader sponsor Melissa Alexander said, "If there was something going on with school spirit, she'd be involved." She sang at church with her sisters and was an artist. She had long hair that hung past her shoulders and usually wore blue jeans.
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Christopher Lee Heard
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Christopher Lee Heard, a freshman pre-engineering major from Houston. Retired Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. James Hager, who supervised Heard at Marine Military Academy, a private military prep school in Harlingen, said Heard "was hard but fair, and he never lost sight of how he started out as a private and had to work his way up, so he could identify with the first-year cadets."
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Lucas Kimmel
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Lucas Kimmel, freshman biomedical science major from Corpus Christi. A line of red and blue swimming ribbons hangs along the wall nearest his bed at his family's residence. A U.S. Army sweater is pulled over a stuffed animal. A dusty and worn maroon Texas A&M cap hangs from a peg over a small icon of Jesus. His uncle, Barry Wood, said it's a family tradition to attend A&M. "His brother went, his father went - it's just something the family does."
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Bryan McClain
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Bryan McClain, freshman agriculture major from San Antonio. Frank Snyder, whose two daughters grew up with McClain, said he was "a very smart kid, just a wonderful kid. He's a poster child of what kids should be like. He was so pumped up about going to A&M and being in the corps. I never saw anyone so excited." He was a member of the swimming team for four years at San Antonio Madison High School and captain his senior year.Chad Powell, a sophomore computer engineering major from Keller. He was valedictorian last year, president of the National Honor Society, an Eagle Scout and a member of the academic decathlon team that finished third in the state last year.
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Jerry Self
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Jerry Self, a sophomore engineering technology major from Arlington. When his name was read aloud on television as among the victims, one young woman shrieked: "Oh, my God! All he wanted was to work on the bonfire. He had been waiting for it this whole year."
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Nathan Scott West
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Nathan Scott West, sophomore oceanography major from Bellaire. He finished 18th in a class of 387 at Houston Westbury High School, qualified for the honor society in math and science and was on the swim team. A Westbury science teacher described him as "academically competent beyond belief." School counselor Joyce Thierry said he was "eager to learn and eager to question. He was quiet, but became more outgoing as he got older. When he spoke, he was accurate." |
Tim Kerlee Jr.
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Tim Kerlee, 17, of Germantown, Tennessee. He was the youngest of eleven students killed.