Liviu Librescu
G.V. Loganathan
Posted on 04/18/2007 8:46:34 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Families in India and Israel are mourning two professors among the 32 people killed in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech.
The son of 76-yar-old Liviu Librescu , an engineering science and mathematics lecturer, says his father tried to stop the gunman from entering his classroom by blocking the door before he was fatally shot. Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from Tel Aviv, Israel, that his father immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978 and then moved to Virginia in 1985 for his sabbatical, but had stayed since then. Joe Librescu himself studied at the school from 1989 to 1994. Another foreign professor was also killed.
Indian-born G.V. Loganathan, who was 51, was a lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His brother says Loganathan was shot and killed by the gunman. Loganathan had been at Virginia Tech since 1982.
G.V. Loganathan was born in the southern Indian city of Chennai and had been a civil and environmental engineering professor at Virginia Tech since 1982. Loganathan won several awards for excellence in teaching, had served on the faculty senate and was an adviser to about 75 undergraduate students. His brother, G-V Palanivel, told the N-D-T-V news channel in India that "We all feel like we have had an electric shock, we do not know what to do." He says his brother "has been a driving force for all of us, the guiding force."
Condolences to family and friends of these accomplished men.
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