Photo caption :
(From left) Teacher James D. Debeuneure and Rodney Dickens, Ketcham Elementary School ; Bernard Brown and teacher Hilda E. Taylor, Leckie Elementary School; Asia Cottom and teacher Sarah M. Clark, Backus Middle School; Joe Ferguson; Ann Judge.

Tragedy Strikes Close to Home

They died doing the jobs
they loved, jobs they did
enthusiastically and well.

Ann Judge (right), director of
our travel office, and Joe Fergu-
son (bottom), with our geography
education outreach program,
were killed September 11 when
their hijacked plane crashed into
the Pentagon. They were escort-
ing three Washington, D.C., stu-
dents and three teachers (above,
shortly before their flight) on a
Society-sponsored educational
trip to California. "Ann and Joe
were going to make geography
and the environment come alive
for these committed, talented
teachers and their star students
by putting them into the field,"
said John Fahey, the Society's
President. Ann had been with
us for 22 years; Joe for 14. Our
hearts grieve for them and for
those promising young students
and their dedicated teachers.

GWEN FAULKNER (TOP); ADAM BUCHANAN (ANN JUDGE IN ITALY): ROBERT GARRETT (JOE FERGUSON IN ALASKA)

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - DECEMBER 2001

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