• Publication: The Red and Black (University of Georgia student newspaper)
• Author: Lori Wiechman, Campus Correspondent
• Original Publication Date: Thursday, April 30, 1992

A crowd of about 500 people gathered at the Catholic Center Wednesday afternoon to remember Jennifer Stone, the University senior from Roswell who was killed April 23.

Stone, an advertising major and avid photographer, was scheduled to graduate in June.

Sandi Turner, a close friend and Kappa Delta sorority sister of Stone’s, recalled a particular Sunday last year when she and Jennifer watched the classic film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Turner said she had left and came back towards the end of the film to see Stone crying in front of the television.

“I asked her why she was crying and she said she was just glad that they came back after the cat,” Turner said. “Jenny loved her cats like no one I’ve ever known before.”

Turner also remembered time she spent with Stone in Europe.

“In England, I could remember every street I walked down, but she could only remember the people we met,” she said.

Turner added that Stone was an individual and never worried about doing things that other people did.

“Jenny focused only on you and absorbed you,” she said.

“I was amazed at Jenny’s dedication and ambition,” said Augusta Duffy, who studied with Stone at Oxford University last summer. “I would come into her room and see her writing a paper that was not due for three more days.”

Duffy also spoke of the weekend she and Stone spent together in Paris. After missing the first ride to the London airport, they caught a late bus and then, having made their way to the airport, they realized Jenny had left her purse on the bus.

“She was so concerned about her purse because she knew her father would have a fit and she wouldn’t be able to shop,” said Duffy.

Randy Brooks recalled Stone’s hatred of violence. “Throughout her life, she hated violence. When she’d see things on TV and the news, she’d hate to see it,” he said.

“But she was never afraid of anything and would not want anyone to be afraid now,” said Brooks. “She’d want us to be smart, to think about what had happened and to be careful, but she wouldn’t want us to be scared.”

Father Steven Pavignano urged Stone’s friends not to become embittered by Stone’s violent death.

“One of our own has been unduly taken from us,” he said. “This death, at least for me, has not brought me any answers, but has brought me into the reality that civilization is not always civilized.”

But, he added, “Find ways of loving and supporting that will get you through.”