Jocelyn Couture-Nowak, Virginia Tech victim

[iverglas]

http://www.thestar.com/article/413825

Virginia Tech massacre leaves behind 'legacies'
Classes in slain teacher's memory help husband cope with his grief

... Last year, the professor (Jerzy Nowak, the teacher's husband) sought a role in designing a Centre for Peace Studies and Non-violence, an interdisciplinary institute that will promote conflict resolution and study methods to reduce violence.

Nowak said one of the key objectives of the centre will be to address the issue of gun control.

"Without these changes, other things are cosmetic," he said in an interview.

Nowak's stepdaughter, Francine Dulong, 25, Couture's daughter, stressed that her mother "was very anti-violence" and feared the rise of gun-related deaths on U.S. campuses. "I can understand why she was fearful of guns, because these things happen so frequently," she said in an interview from Vancouver.

Like her stepfather, she is speaking publicly of the need for handgun owners to be licensed.

Jocelyn Couture-Nowak was the instructor in the Virginia Tech classroom and was one of the victims.

She was particularly committed to French-language education for francophone children in Nova Scotia. Some of her former students at Virginia Tech are teaching French to children at an elementary school near the campus, in her memory.



(I also posted this in the Guns forum, but thought it might be of interest here. I'm embarrassed to say that I had not realized that the instructor in the classroom where the murders occurred, who was one of the victims, was a Canadian.)

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. I just realized something.

On reading your post (and not the link), I realize that I have successfully blocked the name of the shooter from my memory, as I had intended. Now if everyone else can do the same, we can take away the posthumous fame and notoriety that he craved. Thanks, iverglas, for not posting his name so that I would have to start forgetting him all over again. He deserves not to be remembered.