Members of Lynn University's Journey for Hope mission are shown on Jan. 11, 2010. Shown front row, L-R: Paul Tyska, Lindsay Doran, Nikki Fantauzzi; Richard Bruno; Christine Gianacaci; Daniela Montealegre; Britney Gengel, Stephanie Crispinelli. Back row: Patrick Hartwick; Michael DeMatteo; Courtney Hayes; Julie Prudhomme; Thomas Schloemer and Melissa Elliott.
Search and rescue crews continue to comb through the rubble of the Hotel Montana where the Lynn University group was staying. The group of 12 students and two advisors arrived just a day before the 7.0-magnitude earthquake to begin a three-week term in Haiti in conjunction with Food for the Poor. Eight students have since returned to the U.S.
Christine Gianacaci, 22, of Hopewell, N.J., is among the four Lynn University students and two advisors still unaccounted for in Port-au-Prince. The student group from south Florida had arrived in Haiti the day before on a humanitarian mission. On Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, their families called on the U.S. government to do more to help locate them.
Courtney Hayes of Boca Raton, Fla., is also among the missing. On "The Early Show" Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, her boyfriend Matt Sears said Hayes' parents are in the Dominican Republic, trying desperately to get to the hotel in Haiti. "[They] have not had a whole lot of luck in the way of finding out information... we're simply not getting the information from the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Consulate that we think we deserve."
Britney Gengel, a 19-year old sophomore at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., was part of a group of a dozen students and two faculty members from the school who arrived in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on a humanitarian mission a day before the earthquake. Her parents were first told she had been located, but that was not the case.
Stephanie Crispinelli of Katonah, N.Y., is among six people from south Florida's Lynn University missing since the 7.0 earthquake leveled much of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. The group of 14 had gone to Haiti to help the poor during their school's winter break.
Richard Bruno, MD, assistant professor, College of Liberal Education at Lynn University, is one of two faculty advisors who accompanyed 12 students on what was to be a three-week humanitarian mission.
Patrick Hartwick, Ed.D., dean of the Ross College of Education, helped lead a group of 12 students to Haiti a day before the powerful earthquake struck. The search for Hartwick, advisor Richard Bruno and four students continues. Eight members of the group have been safely located and have returned to the U.S.
Search and rescue crews continue to comb through the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. According to updates on the Lynn University Web site, university agents and friends are continuing the work of combing hospital lists, embassy rolls and transportation centers in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic for news of its missing.
A partial group photo taken prior to the trip. The names of those still missing are in bold. From left, Daniela Montealegre; Mike DeMatteo; Stephanie Crispinelli; Nikki Fantauzzi; Lindsay Doran; Missy Elliott; Julie Prudhomme; Tom Schloemer; Courtney Hayes; Britney Gengel; PJ Tyska; Rich Bruno.
"Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith was at the Hotel Montana on Sunday, Jan. 17. 2010. Of families frustrations over search efforts, he said, "On one hand, there can probably never be enough help in a place where you think your children are in trouble... There were crews that are literally camped right there on the hotel grounds, and they're working as many hours as humanly possible."
Lynn University students Melissa Elliott, left, and Christine Gianacaci pose for fellow student Tom Schloemer. Schloemer and Elliott are among a group of eight students who were located and evacuated from Haiti following the earthquake. Crews continue to search for Gianacaci and five others from the group on a humanitarian mission.