The family of Anabel Reid will host the third-annual Anabel Reid Event for Water on their family farm in Petersburg, May 4 at 6:30 p.m. Anabel Reid was a sophomore agricultural and environmental science major who was killed Nov. 4, 2011 in a tragic bus accident while traveling with the Department of Agriculture and Environmental ... [Read More…]
The Optimist Print Edition: 01.29.14
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8th Time’s the Charm: Ciufo refuses to let surgeries ruin her cheer
Anna Ciufo rememberes the sunny daylight as she rode the bus next to one student, Merissa Ford, and across the aisle from another, Anabel Ried. "I feel like we were talking about goats or llamas or something like that," Ciufo said with a laugh. The rest, she said, gets fuzzy. "When I woke up, they said I remembered running off the road ... [Read More…]
Students vote Anabel Reid for contest
Former ACU student and Cru Dinnerware designer Darbie Angell, is on the search for a woman who is selfless, humble and passionate about paying it forward. A few ACU students believe Anabel Reid, victim of the 2011 bus crash, would be the perfect winner of this contest. Angell created a contest where women who are passionate about giving back ... [Read More…]
Driving safely means saving lives
Two years ago to this coming Monday, my world was torn apart when my dear friend Anabel Reid was killed in a bus accident that injured 15 other students and faculty members. Her absence left a gaping hole in my life, the effects of which I still feel every single day. The ACU community has experienced too many losses because of automobile ... [Read More…]
Driving safely means saving lives
Two years ago to this coming Monday, my world was torn apart when my dear friend Anabel Reid was killed in a bus accident that injured 15 other students and faculty members. Her absence left a gaping hole in my life, the effects of which I still feel every single day. The ACU community has experienced too many losses because of automobile ... [Read More…]
AES club returns to Medina for service project
The Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Club prepares to go to Medina Children's Home for its annual service project. The club members have only a general idea of what they are going to do once they get there, said Kimberly Panther, junior animal science major from Southlake and the club's secretary. "Last year we cleaned pig pens and ... [Read More…]
High school student revives Run for Water
The second annual Anabel Reid Run for Water will take place Saturday from 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. at Chapman Field in Lubbock. The event will honor the life of Anabel Reid, the ACU sophomore who was killed in the Nov. 4, 2011 bus accident. The goal of the event is to raise money for the Water 4 Anabel Reid Memorial Fund. Water 4 is a charity that ... [Read More…]
You don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone
It's funny how we sometimes forget the happy memories but the memories that make us sad or the ones that bring us pain, we remember in vivid detail. For me, Nov. 4 2011 is a date that will always be branded in my mind. I remember sitting at in the Bean eating and talking to friends. It seemed like a typical Friday. You'd think that when tragedy ... [Read More…]
Service remembers Anabel, accident
A year after the death of Anabel Reid and of the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences bus accident on Nov. 4, the university honored Reid’s memory with a special Chapel service on Friday. 19-year-old Anabel, a sophomore environmental science major from Becton, died after the department’s bus veered off the highway and hit a ... [Read More…]
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