Brian Howley This is Me

Education

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1. 1. Lincoln journalstar.com

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   Published on: 10/22/2002   Last Visited: 10/22/2002

   Brian Howley believes that all the days, months and the 34 years that came before that Sept. 11 morning at the World Trade Center are the true mementos of his wife. He wants her accomplishments and qualities of determination, hard work and personal character to be her biography.
   
   "She was beautiful inside and out," Howley said in a telephone interview Saturday from his Long Island home.
   
   To inscribe her memory and inspire other young people in Lincoln, the town where she grew up and graduated from high school, Howley instituted two annual scholarships in her name. A $1,000 four-year renewable scholarship was awarded for the first time in April to Tabby Janak, a student at Lincoln Southeast, Jennifer's alma mater. Janak is attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, majoring in interior design.
   
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   In addition, Howley has pledged $100,000 toward renovation of the Southeast theater and stage, a $400,000 project not included in the overall renovation and air quality project. The school is trying to raise the money to update the nearly 50- year-old auditorium.
   
   Southeast has asked the permission of the Lincoln Board of Education to name the renovated auditorium the Jennifer Dorsey Howley Performing Arts Center in her memory. This morning, the board is expected to consider suspending a policy that prohibits naming a room in an existing LPS facility.
   
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   Howley met his wife on a late summer day in 1994 through a friend. She had model good looks, he said. Dark brown hair, blue eyes, just barely over five feet tall, about 105 pounds.
   
   "I would go out of my way at the train platform to see her and talk to her," he said.
   
   They married March 8, 1997.
   
   The two would take the train into the city every workday morning. He would walk her to work, give her a kiss and she would go to the 92nd floor of 2 World Trade Center, he to the building across the street where he was a senior market risk analyst for a bank. After work, he would pick her up.
   
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   It is hard enough for Howley to think about the loss of his wife, he said. He cannot even begin to think about the loss of his child.
   
   "You never get over anything, you just get through it," he said.
   
   Howley continued his job until this summer, when his company moved back to the financial center. He has not returned downtown since the attack and says he cannot work there and look down each day into the hole that was the World Trade Center.
   
   He took a leave of absence June 30 to travel and see family and friends. He also organized and directed a golf tournament on Long Island in late July that raised $25,000 for Jennifer's scholarship fund.
   
   Howley returned to New York about two weeks ago and says he now knows he has to make some permanent changes, including selling the couple's home in New Hyde Park.
   
   "I just need to move. There's too much of my wife here," he said. "She's inside of me and she always will be. ... I can't stay here."
   
   He'll wait until the first of the year and move to a new place in Westchester, about 25 miles away, and to a new career, he said.
   
   But Lincoln will always be a special place for him, he said, because it was Jennifer's home. She was proud of her high school, and to have the new theater carry her name would be a great tribute, he said.

2. 2. LSE| Jennifer Dorsey-Howley Performing Arts Center

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   Published on: 12/13/2006   Last Visited: 12/13/2006

   Brian Howley called yesterday to tell me that he began a new career in 2003, and he had never really shared his story with his present employer. Several weeks ago, he wrote a letter to the head of the company explaining his wife's death, and his passion for getting our auditorium renovated and named after Jennifer. He asked for a corporate donation from the company. They called yesterday to tell him they would be mailing a check to the LPS Foundation for $25,000! Brian said it was the best Monday he had in quite a while! ... Dr. H-P, 3/28/06
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   "I would like to briefly tell you about a woman who defied expectations," Jennifer's husband, Brian Howley, said in accepting LSE's Distinguished Alumni award on her behalf in April, 2002.
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   Jennifer would never back down," Brian emphasized.
   
   A number of colleagues wrote to Brian to share their thoughts of Jennifer.
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   She had the ability to be a team leader, while all the time being a teammate," Brian recalled from those colleagues who wrote to him.
   
   "She learned from mistakes, and grew because of them. She knew that hiding from mistakes was a weakness, and because Jennifer was not weak, she could admit and learn from them ... now that takes someone special," Brian said.
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   Neither of these were an issue for Jennifer- - she was the personification of hard work," Brian noted.

3. 3. lse.lps.org

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   Published on: 3/24/2007   Last Visited: 9/17/2007

   "I would like to briefly tell you about a woman who defied expectations," Jennifer's husband, Brian Howley, said in accepting LSE's Distinguished Alumni award on her behalf in April, 2002.
   ...
   Jennifer would never back down," Brian emphasized.
   
   A number of colleagues wrote to Brian to share their thoughts of Jennifer.
   ...
   She had the ability to be a team leader, while all the time being a teammate," Brian recalled from those colleagues who wrote to him.
   
   "She learned from mistakes, and grew because of them. She knew that hiding from mistakes was a weakness, and because Jennifer was not weak, she could admit and learn from them ... now that takes someone special," Brian said.
   ...
   Neither of these were an issue for Jennifer- - she was the personification of hard work," Brian noted.