Former Student's Legacy Lives On At Seton Hill Music Rehearsal Hall
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The Beth Ann Johnson Music Rehearsal Hall is a centerpiece of the music program at Seton Hill University.
Beth Ann's parents dedicated it in the memory of their daughter - one of 270 people who lost their lives when a bomb planted by Libyan terrorists rocked Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, Dec. 21, 1988.
"We wanted people to know something about her," Carole Johnson says of her daughter. "The people that come in, the students, to know why this room, what the history of it was."
Now, Carole and Glenn Johnson have added something else: the tiny piano their daughter played when she was just a little girl.
"We think this is another step in helping to enlighten students as to who Beth was," Glenn Johnson says. "What she stood for. How she got started. The students come in, they see the piano, they walk over to the piano, they look above the piano, and read a little bit about what she did as a student. And I think it should be an inspiration."
Photographs above the piano tell the story of a talented student, active in theater and the music she loved. Just before her daughter boarded flight 103, on her flight from England, Carole Johnson says, "She had told us that she was planning to branch out into all the stringed instruments."
Curt Scheib, Seton Hill's director of visual and performing arts, says the legacy of the once little girl who played this piano will live on.
"We will have piano majors here now who might have started on a similar small piano, or a small violin, or whatever that might have been. So it makes her as a person alive to those students."
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