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  BT Research - Sandra Scheuer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sandra Lee Scheuer (pronounced SHAW-yer) (August 11, 1949 - May 4, 1970) was a 20-year-old student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, when she was killed by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings, on May 4, 1970.
Scheuer, born in Youngstown, Ohio, was an honors student in speech therapy.
Scheuer had been a member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority, and current members of this sorority speak in her memory each year on the Kent State University campus at the May 4 Task Force's commemoration of the 1970 tragedy.
www.breathittteens.com /research.php?title=Sandra_Scheuer   (421 words)

  
  US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Sandra Scheuer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sandra Lee Scheuer (pronounced SHAW-yer) (August 11, 1949 - May 4, 1970) was a 20-year-old student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio when she was killed by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
Scheuer, an honors student in speech therapy, did not take part in the Vietnam War protests that preceded the shootings.
Scheuer had been a member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority, and current members of this sorority speak in her memory each year on the Kent State University campus at the May 4 Task Force's commemoration of the 1970 tragedy.
encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Sandra_Scheuer   (469 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sandra Scheuer
Scheuer, an honors student in speech therapy, did not take part in the Vietnam War protests that preceded the shootings.
She was shot through the throat with an M-1 rifle from a distance of 130 yards (119 meters) while walking from one class to the next.
According to the account of Bruce Burkland, a close family friend, Scheuer "was walking with one of her speech and hearing therapy students across the green.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sandra_Scheuer   (438 words)

  
 May 4 Archive - Sandy Scheuer
Scheuer and her husband are skeptical that the truth about how their daughter died will ever be brought to light.
Scheuer indicated that they could not bear to watch that portion of the television drama which depicts how their daughter, Sandy, an honors student in speech therapy, met her death on that warm day in 1970.
Sandy Scheuer, one of the four students shot at Kent State, and I had been going together for five years and I loved her dearly.
www.may4archive.org /sandy_scheuer.shtml   (1358 words)

  
 Wendy Semon for Sandy Scheuer, May 4, 1997
I recently visited the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house where Sandy Scheuer was a member of.
I read once that your father said, "Our beloved Sandy is gone but we cannot believe she has no kindred souls in the halls of justice." I promise Mr.
Scheuer, I will be Sandy's advocate and I hope others will join me in this fight.
www.may41970.com /images/Heroes/semonscheuer.htm   (539 words)

  
 How Kent State Could Happen Again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It was 36 years ago today that Miller, Allison Krause, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, were massacred [1] by Army National Guardsmen at a Vietnam war protest on the Kent State campus.
It was a watershed event that touched off a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close and signaled the zenith of American opposition to that war.
Nine other students were wounded in the shooting, in which the soldiers fired 67 shots at the unarmed youths in a strong-arm effort to disperse the crowd before yet another day of protests could begin on the unsettled campus.
democrats.com /node/8815/print   (1084 words)

  
 Hey Sandy - Nickelodeon - a Wikia wiki
The titular "Sandy" is Sandra Scheuer, one of four students fatally shot by National Guard troops in the Kent State shootings in 1970.
Another postulated possibility is that the original lyric contained a reference to drugs, and so could not be revealed at the time the show aired or was still airing as a children's program on television.
The fact that the song is thought to refer to Vietnam protest student Sandra Scheuer makes this theory even more likely.
nickelodeon.wikia.com /wiki/Hey_Sandy   (563 words)

  
 Jack Johnson Music Community Forums - This Day in Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This demonstration, meant to be one of many peaceful demonstrations against the war, was ended abruptly and violently when the National Guard fired into the crowd for 13 seconds.
The brief shootings ended the lives of students Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer.
Sandy Scheuer was shot through the chest nearly 400 feet away.
www.jackjohnsonmusic.com /forum2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15876   (821 words)

  
 Behind Closed Doors
The closest contact Stoessner had with the wounded students was with the parents of Sandra Scheuer, who was dead on arrival.
The phone call that was made to the Scheuers, who were living in Youngstown, followed the hospital policy forbidding staff to reveal a patient's death to loved ones living far away.
He was transported to Robinson Memorial Hospital in the same ambulance as Sandra Scheuer.
www.burr.kent.edu /archives/1995/closed/closed.html   (1198 words)

  
 Hey Sandy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Among the most plausible theories is that it is loosely based on English folk singer Harvey Andrews's song of the same name.
In particular, the line "but guiltily I thought you had it coming" may refer to the sentiment that the action was partially justified because of the provocation offered by student protesters.
The fact that the song is thought to refer to Vietnam protest student Sandra Scheuer makes this theory even more likely.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hey_Sandy   (593 words)

  
 Mohonasen History: The 60's World Around Us Kent State Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The four students shot and killed were Allison Krause, William (Bill) Shroeder, Sandra Scheuer, and Jeffrey (Jeff) Miller.
Allison Krause was hit by a shot penetrating the left side of her body (through her arm and chest) about three hundred and fifty yards away.
Sandra was also shot about four hundred feet about but through her throat.
www.mohonasen.org /staffdev/mhistory/Summersell2/mhwor60kent.htm   (1027 words)

  
 Emi's Online Antiwar Anthology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This photo was taken a few minutes after the murders.
It pinpoints where William Schroeder (1), Sandra Scheuer (2), Jeffrey Miller (3) and Allison Krause (4) were murdered.
All of them were more than 260 feet from the place where the soldiers were standing.
world.std.com /obi/Emi.Anthology/ragewherefell.html   (62 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The four students who died: Allison Krause Jeffrey Miller Sandra Scheuer William Schroeder From the University's website http://dept.kent.edu/ksumay4/welcome.htm May 4th, 1970 - General Information Kent State University was placed in an international spotlight after a tragic end to a student demonstration against the Vietnam War and the National Guard on May 4, 1970.
In observance of the 25th anniversary in 1995, a series of commemorative programs and events were held throughout the Spring Semester at Kent, highlighted by two-day scholarly symposium titled "Legacies of Protest" which examined political and civil unrest.
The University will continue to remember the four students who died -- Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder -- through scholarships in their names and in the words inscribed on the May 4 Memorial: "Inquire.
nyc.indymedia.org /media/text/4_dead_in_.txt   (619 words)

  
 Ghosts
To see the site is to know that the guardsmen were not under threat.
The closest student killed, Jeffrey Miller, was 85 to 90 yards away, Allison Krause 100 yards, William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer 130 yards.
The Guard was ill trained and ill led, mainly working-class young men resentful of the seemingly privileged students.
www.commondreams.org /views/050600-102.htm   (789 words)

  
 May 4, 1970
In the ensuing years, Kent State’s learning community has honored the memories of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder with an enduring dedication to scholarship that seeks to prevent violence and promote democratic values from public service to civil discourse.
The university’s national leadership role in promoting nonviolence and other democratic values extends to 1971, when the Center for Peaceful Change was established to generate research, teaching and community outreach focused on nonviolent conflict resolution.
Ast said, “It is my hope that this memorial will provide visitors with an opportunity to rekindle memories of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder and to reflect on the impact of these events beyond the Kent State Campus.
www.kent.edu:8084 /About/History/May4   (506 words)

  
 Forgotten Ohio: Kent State University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Two eyewitnesses on campus (coincidentally, both former Marines who saw action in Vietnam) testified that they observed a "fire" hand signal given by one of the officers, but identification was never possible because most of the men had removed their nametags.
A memorial event is held on campus every May 4 in honor of the four victims: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and Bill Schroeder.
Two of those killed weren't even participating in the protest, but were simply on their way to class.
www.forgottenoh.com /KentState/kentstate.html   (1113 words)

  
 Monroe County Community College: General Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
MONROE, Mich. - Monroe County Community College has awarded the Dr. Florence Ames Fine Art Scholarship to Darren Scheuer in the amount of $1,000 to be used for tuition, fees and books.
Scheuer, son of Michael and Sandra Scheuer, is a 2004 graduate of Whiteford High School and resides in Ottawa Lake.
Scheuer participates in Formula SAE and is a member of Phi Theta Kappa.
www.monroe.cc.mi.us /news/ames-schw07.htm   (246 words)

  
 Planet Battlefield Forums
Four students: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder were killed.
SANDRA LEE SCHEUER, 20, a junior from Youngstown, Ohio, was walking to a class in speech therapy (her major) when she was caught in the Guardsmen's fire.
(Sandra Lee was over 300 feet away walking to class when a bullet took out her jugular vein.- History Channel)
www.forumplanet.com /planetbattlefield/topic.asp?fid=5552&tid=1363774   (1389 words)

  
 The Michigan Daily Online
Kent State University dedicated memorials Wednesday to the four students killed by National Guardsmen during a 1970 campus protest against the Vietnam War.
Granite markers now occupy the parking spaces where Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder fell after members of the National Guards opened fire on protesters on May 4, 1970.
Bystanders and students on their way to class were also hit.
www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1999/sep/09-10-99/edit/edit2.html   (502 words)

  
 Northern Ohio Live : May 2006 : Personal Style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It had to do with the events of May 4, 1970, at Kent State University, when four unarmed students were killed and nine others wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen acting on orders from their superiors.
The students who were killed – Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder – as well as those wounded, were present during campus protests against the US invasion of Cambodia, but some, like Scheuer and Schroeder, weren’t even directly involved in the protest activities.
A US federal court judge, the late William K. Thomas, drafted a “letter of regret” as part of a settlement in a four-year civil case that ended in 1979, when the letter was signed by 28 defendants.
www.northernohiolive.com /archives/06-05may/story1.htm   (723 words)

  
 Writing.Com: Four Dead in Ohio
During the Vietnam Era, National Guard troops fired on college students at Kent State University, in Ohio, on May 4th, 1970.
Four students died: Alison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder were cut down in the crowd by bullets fired by the National Guard.
Financial reparations did not alter the fact that US government troops shot down American children on American soil.
www.writing.com /main/view_item/item_id/906380/printit/1   (469 words)

  
 B'nai B'rith Hillel Marker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On the first anniversary of May 4, a small group stood in prayer and dedicated a cast aluminum plaque to the memory of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder.
This marker, which had been financed by and cast under the direction of B'nai B'rith Hillel, lay unanchored at the foot of a tree in the parking lot adjacent to Prentice Hall until it disappeared on the evening of May 3, 1974.
Every year on the evening of May 3, it marks the end of the candlelight procession that weaves its way around the campus starting at the Victory Bell and ending at this marker where participants leave the remains of their lit candles in remembrance.
speccoll.library.kent.edu /4may70/exhibit/memorials/hillel.html   (157 words)

  
 May 4 Archive - 1990 Retrospective
In the end, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder were dead.
Krause and Miller were at the protest; Scheuer and Schroeder were walking to class.
For their parents, there is only silence, though for a while the families were targets of verbal attack from critics of war protesters.
may4archive.org /retrospective90.shtml   (3557 words)

  
 [No title]
Schultz delivered the keynote address during the annual May 4 commemoration at Kent State University Wednesday.
He spoke on the lessons to be learned from the shootings, which killed four students - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder - and wounded nine others.
He said the commonalties shared by all humans will overcome what divides people, even soldiers on opposite ends of a conflict.
kent.state.tripod.com /recordcourier50505.html   (800 words)

  
 Kent State shootings - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Two of the four students killed, Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, had participated in the protest, and the other two, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, were simply walking from one class to the next.
Voices From Kent State by Sandra Perlman, Kent, Franklin Mills Press, first presented in Chicago April 20, 1995 (Director: Jenifer (Gwenne) Weber)
In her 1996 multimedia work Partially Buried, visual artist Renée Green explores the history of the shootings within a wider historical and cultural context.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kent_State_shootings   (4118 words)

  
 Visit to Kent State University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
There is a granite memorial behind Taylor Hall, and in the parking lot, where the shootings took place, there are areas sectioned off where the four students were shot to death.
As I stood and looked down at the memorial plaques of these students, I was overcome with emotion; there, on top of Sandra's memorial, sits a flower and a small stuffed bear.....a sad reminder of what happened over 30 years ago.
To think that these four young students were shot to death because they had a different opinion, is just a major tragedy, and we must all make sure that it doesn't happen again.
www.jimmygs-foodsafety.net /Kent/Kent.html   (326 words)

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