Members of the Georgetown community gathered to remember Jenny Faenza

On Tuesday, members of the Georgetown community gathered together in St. Williams Chapel for a memorial for Jenny Faenza (COL ’11), a student who passed away last November over Thanksgiving break. They shared memories of how joyful she was, how she treasured her moments at Georgetown, and even viewed her illness as a blessing.

“She felt because it was a gift from God, that it was supposed to be her gift to minister to other people, and so that way they could know about the trials and tribulations that she was going through, but that they could always overcome them,” said Tanesha S. Stewart, Assistant Director of Student Programs and Georgetown Program Board Co-Advisor.

Faenza was the Off-Campus Chair for the Georgetown Program Board in 2008, and was elected Special Events Chair in 2009, but passed before she got the chance to serve. Stewart remembers sitting around the Center for Student Programs Office, listening to Faenza talk about her illness, and how it inspired her to want to be a minister in the future.

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Sad news coming off break. According to an e-mail from Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, College sophomore Jenny Faenza (above) died Saturday from chronic pulmonary hypertension.

There will be a prayer service for her at 6 in St. Williams Chapel. Olson’s e-mail is after the jump.

Update: There’s a Facebook group about her and pulmonary hypertension with 170 members. From the group, it looks like she spent the summer of 2007 recovering but was expected to be fine that August. It has four new members.

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