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Students, Faculty Attend
Memorial Service for Donors
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Six Sherman College students and two faculty members recently helped honor the individuals and families of those who donated their bodies to science during the previous year as they attended a service of commemoration on April 6 hosted by the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, which supplies Sherman College’s lab with donor bodies.
Anatomy Lab Manager Edgardo Rivera, M.D., and faculty member Terry Lancaster, M.S., as well as students Angelica Davila, Chris Demczar, Rebekah Drum, Steven Hedges, Cutter Newton and Jason Shull, represented Sherman College at the event, which nearly 400 of the donors’ relatives, friends and supporters attended.
Student Jason Shull was selected to speak at the event, and his speech was published in the event program. He shared a memorable quote and explained how it related to Sherman students’ interactions with their very first patients in Anatomy Lab. “As our first patients, your loved ones taught us more than anatomy,” Shull explained. “[They gave] us a new respect for ‘everyday life.’ Each patient is a new experience, a new chance to learn, a new chance to increase our knowledge, and a new chance to give back…. Who knew that one loving donation could affect so many lives? We didn’t, but we do now.”
The purpose of the brief non-denominational memorial service was to enable students and faculty to pay their final respects and show their appreciation for the great service that individual donors and their family members have provided. “It was a privilege to interact with the donors’ relatives and friends and express our sincere appreciation for the great service their loved ones’ donations have provided,” Rivera said of the event.
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