Kepple named Remembrance Scholar at Syracuse University

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On Dec. 21, 1988, Gary Colasanti of Melrose (left) died on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

On April 27, 2012, another Melrose student, Daniel Kepple, was named one of the 2012-2013 Remembrance Scholars at Syracuse University. This prestigious scholarship is granted on behalf of those lost on Flight 103 by Syracuse University, where 35 of those who died attended college.

Gary Colasanti lived only a short distance from Daniel Kepple's Melrose residence, and Gary and Daniel were both graduates of Melrose High School.

Gary, then 20, was coming home for Christmas after a four-month stay in London, where he was in a student-exchange program as a sophomore at Syracuse. Libyan terrorists put a bomb inside a piece of luggage on Pan Am Flight 103, killing 275 people aboard.

Daniel Kepple (right) is a student of biological and medical physics at Syracuse University.

As a Remembrance Scholar, it will be Daniel Kepple's responsibility to foster the memory of Gary and the other 34 victims of this tragic and senseless terrorist attack.

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