The Biomedical Sciences Club, along with the Student Government Association’s Osteopathic Pride & Service Committee, hosted the event to remember and reflect on the tragedy of Flight 5966, the American Connection plane that crashed while traveling from St. Louis to Kirksville on October 19, 2004, killing all but two of the 15 on board.

Guest speaker Lancer Gates, D.O., ’96, spoke on the importance of compassion in both life and the practice of medicine. Tyler Smith, OMS II, and Edward Rodenkirch, OMS II, received the Clark B. Ator, D.O., Memorial Finance Award in the amount of $2,000 each. ATSU President Jack Magruder presented the memorial of those lost in the plane crash, many of whom were members of the ATSU-KCOM osteopathic community on their way to ATSU for a conference on developing a compassionate campus.