The Alumni Association still knows little about whether any University graduates who live in New York and Washington were injured or killed in Tuesday's terrorist attacks. No alumni deaths have been confirmed by any University officials.
An estimated 5,000 University alumni live in the New York metropolitan area and about 27,000 live in metropolitan Washington.
The number of alumni who worked in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon will remain unknown indefinitely, Alumni Association communications director D.J. Crotteau said.
The Alumni Association refers callers seeking information about alumni to phone numbers and Web sites for United and American airlines and World Trade Center tenants. Morgan Stanley, the center's largest tenant, employs many University graduates, though it is not yet known how many worked in its World Trade Center office.
Some friends and family of alumni have called the Alumni Association to report names of survivors. The Alumni Association will not make this information public until they have final numbers.
Commerce School Dean Carl Zeithaml said many in the school fear possible alumni deaths.
"Since we have about 1,200 Commerce School alums in the New York area, it'll be a miracle if none of our alumni are victims," Zeithaml said. "So far, so good. For now, we have no way of knowing how many actually work in the World Trade Center, and it'll be long before we know how many of our graduates are safe."
Zeithaml added, however, that a fourth-year Commerce School student's father was on board American Airlines flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on Tuesday.
Darden School officials said they do not have conclusive information about alumni who may have suffered in the attacks.
"We aren't going to give any statements until we have confirmed, hard data," Interim Darden School Dean C. Ray Smith said.
Patrick Barry, executive director of the Virginia Club in New York, also said he had not heard "any negative news about a specific individual so far." The club has about 650 members in the New York metropolitan area and is the New York area's branch of the Alumni Association.
Sam Waxman, a 1997 University graduate and 2000 Law School alumnus who works on Park Avenue, said he has a friend from the Law School who was still missing yesterday.
"I'm worried for him. But New Yorkers have a unique way of just putting their heads down and calmly doing their duty," Waxman said.
New Yorkers experienced as much normalcy as could be expected yesterday, he said.
"The streets were quieter than usual today, but people were out," he added. "Restaurants were crowded and parents were walking in the park with their children"
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