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The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University has created two scholarship programs in memory of the six alumni killed during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Any of the five children of Krieger School graduate victims accepted to the Krieger School will each receive full tuition scholarships for their four undergraduate years, says Richard McCarty, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School.

A separate fund, the September Eleven Alumni Memorial Scholarship, will endow a scholarship open to any undergraduate student in the Krieger School.

Because the alumni held in common their time on the Homewood campus, McCarty says, creating a way for future generations to attend Johns Hopkins is a fitting reminder of Thomas Cahill '87, Paul J. Friedman '78, Matt O'Mahony '84, David W. Nelson '73, Glenn Wall '84 and John Sammartino, who in 1990 earned his master's degree from the Krieger School's sister institution, the Whiting School of Engineering.

"What these six alumni had in common -- both with one another and with us as Krieger School faculty and staff members -- was their Hopkins experience," McCarty says. "It seems appropriate therefore that a tribute to them would be to make that shared Hopkins experience accessible to other young people."

McCarty has already allocated $20,000 to open an account for the September Eleven Alumni Memorial Scholarship. He then made an unusual request for contributions from his faculty and staff.

"Normally, we go to the alumni to ask for help," McCarty says. "Now we are going to the faculty and staff to memorialize the alumni. So this is an absolutely novel idea. ... I've only been hearing good things about it."

McCarty credits assistant dean Deborah Cebula and Steven David, associate dean for academic affairs, for the idea to create the scholarships. Plaques honoring the alumni will also be added to the existing war memorials in the main lobby of Gilman Hall.

"It's a fitting gesture, I think," McCarty says.