09/11/2025
Thank you, Julie Fromm Taylor, for always remembering William Wik, Concordia College New York alumnus, lost on 9/11/2001.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET, 9/11
Today we remember William Wik, graduate of Concordia's ADP Program in the 1990's, who perished in the towers on 9/11. He gave his life trying to save others.
From the New York Times:
He Helped the Rescuers
When William Joseph Wik called his wife, Kathleen, shortly after the first attack on Sept. 11, her message was emphatic: "I told him, `Get out!' " she said. Her husband, 44, an assistant director in the risk management service department of the Aon Corporation , on the 92nd floor of 2 World Trade Center, said, " `No, I can't do that, there are still people here,' " she recalled. "I wasn't surprised. Billy wasn't the type to turn his back on someone who needed help."
She, and the city officials who have examined his remains, believe that he joined the rescue workers, "possibly showing them where the other workers were," said Mrs. Wik, who lives in Yonkers. Her husband's body was discovered in a pocket of rubble along with the bodies of five firefighters. Mr. Wik was wearing work gloves and a mask and had an Emergency Medical Service flashlight in his hand; the equipment was probably handed over by rescue workers as he assisted them. Mrs. Wik said she believes that for her and their three children, ranging in age from 8 to 16, "the fact that he was located, and that we got his wedding ring and wallet; well, those are little miracles — a sense of closure for me and the kids.
