Archive for November, 2011

Twenty-four days after the Nov. 4 bus accident, two of the 16 passengers – Naomi Cruz and Pat Miller – continue to be hospitalized while demonstrating improvement through various forms of rehabilitation therapy. When we receive major news about either, we will share it with you. Some of the students have returned to classes, while others who were injured are healing at home.

All of us in the ACU family appreciate your continued expressions of love and encouragement, and solicit continued prayers on behalf of these students, faculty and friends, and their families.

Pat Miller, the wife of Dr. Emmett Miller, was transferred Saturday from a hospital in San Angelo to Abilene’s Hendrick Medical Center, where she began receiving hospice care.

However, she showed enough improvement Sunday to be moved out of hospice care and to another room, and has been responding to family members for the first time since the Nov. 4 bus accident.

Pat Miller, wife of Dr. Emmett Miller, was transferred today from Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo to the in-patient hospice unit at Abilene’s Hendrick Medical Center.

She and her husband were injured in the Nov. 4 bus accident, although he was released Nov. 7 to return to their home in Hawley, Texas, near Abilene.

Anna Ciufo, a freshman, was released this morning from Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.

Three people injured in the Nov. 4 bus accident remain hospitalized in Abilene, San Angelo and Houston.

Tiffany Lutz, a senior, was released this morning from Abilene’s Hendrick Medical Center and transferred to a rehabilitation hospital to continue her improvement.

Four people injured in last Friday’s bus accident remain hospitalized in San Angelo, Dallas and Houston, and are still in critical condition.

Earlier today, two more students were released from hospitals: freshman Allison Dorshorst from San Angelo Community Medical Center and junior Merissa Ford from Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene.

In tough times, “Christians have an important opportunity to share what they have with those who have not,” writes Doug Mendenhall (’82) in his most recent Soul Food column in the Huntsville (Ala.) Times newspaper. Mendenhall is instructor and journalist-in-residence in ACU’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. His insights may provide inspiration for you today.

A live audiocast of Anabel Reid’s “A Celebration of Life” memorial service is being provided by Acapella Radio.

Listen live at 5:30 p.m. (CST): http://bit.ly/v76wx1

A full video replay of the memorial service will be posted later this evening. You’ll find the video on this blog as soon as it becomes available.

Earlier today, sophomore Anna Watson was released from Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo.

Six people are still hospitalized with injuries from last Friday’s bus accident. Three of them remain in critical condition.