Posted on 01/14/2010 11:44:56 AM PST by Steelfish
Haiti Earthquake: Missing Lynn University Student and Two Professors [Pics in URL]
Florida College Hired Private Search Team to Find Its Missing Students
By EMILY FRIEDMAN Jan. 14, 2010
One student and two professors from a Florida university mission group are missing in the chaos and rubble of Haiti's earthquake, despite the efforts of a private search team hired by the school to find its missing staff and students.
L-R: Christine Gianacaci, Richard Bruno, Patrick Hartwick (trentonian.com/Lynn University)
The private contractor was commissioned by Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. So far, the contractor has located 11 members of the aid group Food for Poor that had landed in Haiti just a day before the earthquake hit.
The search is still on for 22-year-old Christine Gianacaci and faculty advisors Dr. Patrick Hartwick and Dr. Richard Bruno.
"The game plan today is to try and find these people," university spokesman Jason Hughes said. "The mood here is somber, but hopeful."
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Prayers for all. Ours were answered when my wife’s cousin who’d been missing in Haiti was able to get in contact not long after the report of their hotel collapsing made the local news.
Very lucky...
It must be utter chaos down there. So tragic.
Natural disasters have no regard for a person’s nationality and everyone in Haiti, regardless of their nationality, will be included in my prayers.
I noticed on CNN’s “missing persons” board that there were many aid workers that were among the missing..most American, some were college kids who were down there over winter break to volunteer.
A friend of mines mother is down there. She is a missionary. She got out of the building she was in right before the quake. It collapsed. She is ok, but she has been unable to find any of her people.
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