Candlelight memorial service to be held May 4

• Date: Tuesday, May 4
• Time: 7 p.m.
• Location: UGA Chapel

Fifty-one University of Georgia students, faculty, and staff members who have died since April 2019 will be honored at the University’s annual candlelight memorial service on Tuesday, May 4 on the steps of the Chapel. No ceremony was held last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Jere W. Morehead will lead the service, called “Georgia Remembers… a Candlelight Memorial.” Names of each of the 21 students and 30 faculty and staff members will be read aloud, followed by a toll of the Chapel bell and the lighting of a candle.

Names will be read by David Shipley, chair of the University Council Executive Committee; Savannah Hembree, president of the UGA Staff Council; and Carter Marks, president of the Student Government Association. Members of the University’s Arch Society will light candles as each name is read.

Members of the University community are invited to attend, and face masks and social distancing will be required. However, in the event of inclement weather, the event will be moved indoors and only those participating in the ceremony will be permitted to attend due to pandemic-related guidelines on gatherings. For those unable to attend the outdoor ceremony or for those who wish to view the indoor ceremony online, the ceremony will be live-streamed on the UGA’s Student Affairs website.

Two students in the College of Education will be honored at the service:

• Anna Butler, a doctoral student from Watkinsville majoring in special education
• Madison Evans, a fourth-year student from Monroe majoring in elementary education