Interfaith Memorial Service 2024

Donor Appreciation

The Saint Louis University School of Medicine Class of 2028, as well as graduate and Doisy College of Health Sciences students, wish to acknowledge with heartfelt gratitude the generosity of those individuals who have donated their bodies to promote scientific and medical education. 

Virtual Program

Prelude: 

"Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34" by Edvard Grieg

"Be Still My Soul" by Jean Sibelius: Arr. by Rosalind M. Luke Crosby

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Paul Simon

"On Eagle's Wings" by Michael Joncas

Welcome: John R. Martin, III, Ph.D., Director, Gift Body Program

Opening Prayer: Reverend David J. Suwalsky, S.J., Ph.D. 

First Reading: Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 by Megan Kearns and Joel Hwang

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15: 50-57 by Kara Gerads

Third Reading: Psalm 23 by Morgan Ford and Leah Vaikutis

Interfaith Prayers

Catholic - Dashiell Wuller 

Spiritual - Isabella Caley

Spiritual - Amogh Chariyamane

Music: "The Parting Glass", Arr. by Sarah Quartel

Student Reflections

Sam Cunniff - Medical student

Taylor Wilson - Medical student

Sam Gowan - Physician Assistant student

Sindhu Ragunathan - Medical student

Emma Foust - CASE graduate student

Nathan McLaughlin - Medical student

Offering of Flowers

Members of the Class of 2028

Music: 

"Over the Rainbow" by Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg

"In Flanders Fields" - Words by Dr. John McCrae, Music by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson

Closing Music: "Amazing Grace", Arr. by Jenifer Cook

Closing Prayer: Reverend David J. Suwalsky, S.J., Ph.D. 

Postlude: 

"O God Beyond All Praising", by Gustav Holst, Words by Michael Perry, Arr. by Rodney Abriol

"Ashokan Farewell", by Jay Ungar, Arr. by Calvin Custer