Celebrating the Life of Kimberly Perez
A Memorial Celebration of the Life of Kimberly Rosario Perez
February 5, 1976 - August 14, 2006
Friday, October 6, 2006, 4:00pm
St. John's Catholic Student Center
Piano Prelude - Ben Diaz Violin and Piano Prelude - "You Are Mine" - Ben Diaz and Jonars Spielberg
Invocation - Fr. Mark Inglot, St. John's Catholic Student Center
Why we gather today - David Wiley
Welcome from the Perez Family - Kenneth Perez
Celebrating Kim's childhood in Texas and Clifornia Remembrances - Kenneth Perez
Music - Ben Diaz
Celebrating Kim's college and graduate student years
Music - by Ben Diaz and Jonars Spielberg, "Take Up Your Cross"
Comments from friends and colleagues on Kim and her impact on their lives
Music: Vocal and Piano - Ben Diaz
Benediction - Father Mark Inglot
Vocal and Piano Postlude - Connie Currier and Ben Diaz, "I Hope You Dance" (by Leann Wolmack)
Violin and Piano Postlude - Jonars Spielberg and Ben Diaz - "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace"
Piano Postlude - Ben Diaz
A reception follows in McDevitt Hall at the basement level in this Student Center.
Acknowledgements
- We offer special thanks to Kenneth and Kevin Perez with their parents, Alberto and Estrella for making available photos of Kim.
- Special thanks also to the St. John's Catholic Student Parish, Father Mark Inglot, Mary Ann Dunn, Steve Kasperick-Postellon, and others for their loving and gracious hospitality.
- Much appreciation is offered to the Philippine American Club of Greater Lansing (PACGL) who have given of themselves generously.
- Wonderful gifts of their musical talent have been offered so unselfishly by Ben Diaz (pianist), Connie Currier (vocalist), and Jonars Spielberg (violinist).
- A number of MSU faculty, students, and administrators have been generous in providing funding for this Celebration.
- "The Kimberly R. Perez Fund" has been created at MSU to further the values and priorities that Kim embodied in her life by supporting research by a graduate student in the social sciences in fields related to Kim's interests of gender, religion, ethnicity, and governance. Depending on the amount of funding received, a small amount of funds will be available to provide support each year for several years for students in particular need both (a) at Bayero University in Nigeria where she studied and (b) at the Department of Sociology at Michigan State. Special attention will be given to women candidates.