A service of remembrance to honor members of the Columbia community who were lost in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will take place at noon on Thursday, Nov. 15, in Roone Arledge Auditorium of Alfred Lerner Hall.

The campus community is invited to the service.

Columbia President George Rupp will offer a tribute to the 39 alumni victims of the attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania and the many relatives and friends of current students, faculty, staff and alumni who died. Clergy from United Campus Ministries will offer prayers and words of assurance and student leaders of religious organizations will give readings. University Chaplain Jewelnel Davis will preside at the service.

Imam Syed Zafaruddin Sayeed of the Muslim Student Associatiion will open the service, followed by a drum invocation by Columbia Drum Jammers. The Columbia Gospel Choir and Jubilation!, a Christian acapella group, also will participate.

Words of Assurance will be offered by Rabbi Charles Sheer, Jewish Chaplain of Columbia Hillel; Monsignor Christopher Maloney of the Catholic Campus Ministry, and by Imam Sayeed of the Muslim Student Association.

Readings will be given by Sridhar Prasad of the Hindu Student Organization; Supreet Kaur Anand of the Sikh Association of Columbia; Andra Belouz of the Baha'i Club; Elana Santo of Columbia Hillel, and Kevin Eng of the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.

The Rev. Susan Field of the Baptist Campus Ministry and the Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki of the New York Buddhist Church will offer prayers and meditation.

Relatives of the victims are asked to contact Jennifer Brogan in the President's Office, 854-3811, to confirm their arrangements for their service.

For further information, please contact Suzanne Wong in the Office of the University Chaplain, 854-6345.