The Grand Canyon Photos by Kevin Smith Kato ’88
Monument Valley
From the start Jon Krawczyk ’88 knew he was involved in something special. n October of 2006 the iconic I-beam cross recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center was placed outside St. Peter’s Catholic Church, a block from the site of the attacks. Father Kevin Madigan, pastor of St. Peter’s, foresaw the day this I-beam cross would be moved back to the former site of the World Trade Center and approached Jon with the task of creating something to replace it – something to stand in memory of those who lost their lives, and as a tribute to those brave souls who perished trying to save them. After many months of reflection, designing and planning Jon began early this year to build for St. Peter’s a new cross. Reminiscent in some ways of the cross he’d sculpted for Delbarton’s Fine Arts Center, this new cross would ultimately be an original, as imaginative and imbued with meaning as anything Jon had ever created. For eight weeks he labored, cutting pieces of stainless steel, welding them together, hammering out corners and smoothing out edges, drawing out a shine that can only come from relentless polishing and buckets of sweat. By March the cross was almost finished, ready to be
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