University Times

Pitt’s Office of Veterans Services (OVS) needs volunteers for a Remembrance Day National Roll Call event honoring the more than 6,200 military personnel who have lost their lives in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.

On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, OVS will host the event in the William Pitt Union lower lounge. Volunteers each will read 50 names of fallen service members, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Some 130-150 volunteers are needed.

Events throughout the day will include: at 9 a.m. an ROTC Color Guard opening ceremony and speaker Vice Chancellor Renny Clark; the reading of the names; a pause for the national moment of silence at 2 p.m.; continuation of the reading of names, and a closing Color Guard ceremony at approximately 4 p.m.

“We want volunteers to be able to come for a few minutes based on their schedules,” said OVS spokesperson Harry Crytzer. “We timed-out reading 50 names, and it should take only about 5 minutes of the volunteer’s time.”

To date, some 120 schools in 43 states plus the District of Columbia have agreed to participate in the national event.

Volunteers at Pitt should contact OVS staff member Arielle Juberg at 412/624-1689 or arj25@pitt.edu and provide a time when they will be available to read names.