2025 Annual HGR Celebration of Remembrance
On Monday, May 12, 2025, the Humanities Gifts Registry hosted the Celebration of Remembrance, an annual event honoring the individuals who donated their bodies to medical education and research. All Philadelphia medical schools participated in this memorial event attended by the family members and loved ones of the donors. The Celebration of Remembrance is made possible by Philadelphia’s medical students, and Drexel’s very own medical students were among the event's volunteers:
- Eulogist: Zoë Boston (PHL)
- Reading of names: Supriya Behl (PHL), Vivian Bui (PHL), Eimile Cusenza (PHL), Paulina Daugis (PHL), Mohammed Kahn (PHL), Katherine Landry (PHL), Priscilla Mejia (PHL), Laura Brigandi (WR), Corinne Packel (WR), Dylan Persaud (WR), Sachin Pranesh (WR), Maggie Vacchiano (WR)
- Musical performance: Akshara Kannan - performing “Dream a Little Dream of Me”
- DUCOM’s Doctors Note: David Shin, Katie MacNary, Gopika Pillai, Taylor Forry, Celena Fei, Rudra Amin, Akshara Kannan, and Shreya Ranadive - performing “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri
- Greeter: Natalia Kelley (PHL) and Jane Taylor (PHL)