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The vigil for missing Northwestern student Trevor Boehm will offer a chance for the Northwestern community to “reflect and respond,” an organizer of the event said Monday.
“We wanted to give students and faculty and anyone who might know Trevor, or even people who don’t know Trevor, a chance to come together to reflect and respond together so that we can comfort each other and be there for each other and sort of send the message that we are paying attention to this,” said SESP sophomore Amy Pooley, who is helping organize the event.
The vigil will be a chance to “send our love to him, and to his family as well,” she added.
The vigil will take place at 8 p.m. tonight at Alice Millar Chapel. Members of Boehm’s family and friends will read prepared statements, and “then there’ll be time for anyone who wants to to stand up and share stories of Trevor or things they want to say,” Pooley said. The candlelight ceremony will follow.
Pooley said that the vigil will take place regardless of the results of an identification of a body that the university has said could be that of Boehm. “The event is definitely happening,” she said.
The exact order of events has not been officially determined, Pooley said. “It’ll be pretty on the spot, in the moment kind of thing.” University Chaplain Tim Stevens is likely to speak, Pooley said.
Pooley said she is one of a number of family members, friends and staff members that have been planning the event. Vice President for University Relations Al Cubbage said he was unaware of the plans for the vigil, aside from time and place.
The family has requested that anyone who has pictures bring them or somehow get them to the family, Pooley said. “They would really appreciate that.”
Cameras will not be allowed at the vigil.