Virginia Tech

Erin Peterson was 6-foot-1 and played center for the school’s girls basketball team, helping lead it to a district championship.

Partahi Lumbantoruan’s family in Indonesia...sold off property and cars to pay his tuition and that his goal was to become a teacher in the United States.

After surviving the Nazi killings, Liviu Librescu escaped from communist Romania and made his way to the United States before he was killed in Monday’s massacre, which coincided with Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Friends continued to post hundreds of messages and remembrances on Henry Lee’s Facebook page since he was shot to death, knowing he would never get to view them.

“Remember how you used to freak out when I hugged you all the time?” one read. “I’m not so sorry for that anymore.”

Department chief Ishwar Puri said Kevin Granata was one of the top five biomechanics researchers in the country, working on movement dynamics in cerebral palsy.

Austin Cloyd, from Blacksburg, was so inspired by an Appalachian service project that helped rehabilitate homes that she and her mother started a similar program in their Illinois town, her former pastor said.


"Ryan Clark directed the music/dance program at camp and brought cheer to all the campers around him. He was constantly smiling and dancing, signing and cheering. The campers would gather around Ryan and hug him. We have a picture of a year that Ryan was at camp on his birthday. All of the campers were surrounding him, hugging him, and all you could see of him was his head sticking out above the crowd. They all loved 'Mr. Ryan'.

Christopher Bishop spent four years living in Germany, where he “spent most of his time learning the language, teaching English, drinking large quantities of wheat beer, and wooing a certain fraulein.”


Waleed Mohammed Shaalan: “He was the simplest and nicest guy I ever knew. We would be studying for our exams and he would go buy a cake and make tea for us,” Fahad Pasha, Waleed’s roommate, said.