KU Adpi missing in fire

Jhawkalum · #1 10-10-2005, 11:24 AM

Girls,
Please keep the Tau chapter in your prayers and thoughts today. There was a large fire at a Lawrence apartment complex, and a senior from the ADPi house is missing. Two bodies were uncovered, and they have been sent to the ME for identification. I can't imagine the fear and devistation the members are feeling right now.

Thirty-two KU students lived in the building and all but one had been accounted for as of 5 p.m. Friday, according to a press release from University Relations. The missing girl, Nicole Bingham, Wichita senior, is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

http://www.kansan.com/stories/2005/oct/10/ne_fire_folo/

honeychile · #2 10-10-2005, 02:04 PM

Oh, no! I heard about that fire yesterday, but never dreamed that it could hit so close to home! I pray that Nicole shows up safe and sound.

OleMissGlitter · #3 10-10-2005, 02:19 PM

I'll pray for everyone. Very sad.

Honeykiss1974 · #4 10-10-2005, 04:23 PM

They just found the remains of 3 people but haven't identified them yet, pending family notification.

She is believed to be among them (she is one of the 3 residents that is unaccounted for).

ADPiAkron · #5 10-10-2005, 11:55 PM

Not to overshadow the KU sister...check this out! An Alpha from Appalachian State died in a car accident...

http://www.goasu.com/?page=202&artic...7&fromPage=137

Honeykiss1974 · #6 10-11-2005, 04:17 PM

Suspect arrested in Lawrence apartment fire
Posted on Tue, Oct. 11, 2005]

A Lawrence man has been arrested in the fire that killed three people at a Lawrence apartment complex, police said. A Wichitan is among the missing.

Jason Allen Rose, 20, was arrested early today and booked into the Douglas County jail on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated arson, said Mark Bradford, interim chief of the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical department.

Police believe Rose lived at the complex, but they declined to release any information about a possible motive. They also would not say how or where Rose was arrested, or if there are other suspects.

Police Lt. Kari Wempe said no other charges are pending against Rose. He was scheduled to make his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon. Another news conference was scheduled for 2 p.m.

The three victims' remains were found Sunday in the ruins of the Boardwalk Apartments complex.

Nicole Bingham, a University of Kansas student from Wichita, hasn't been heard from since Thursday night.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/12874909.htm

In this article, the president of the KU chapter of ADPi comments

ASUADPi · #7 10-11-2005, 05:25 PM

My heart hurts for our sister

emleepc · #8 10-11-2005, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ADPiAkron
Not to overshadow the KU sister...check this out! An Alpha from Appalachian State died in a car accident...

http://www.goasu.com/?page=202&artic...7&fromPage=137

I recently met one of the sisters from the chapter, actually the RVP. My heart goes out to them!

honeychile · #9 10-11-2005, 08:50 PM

I was so hoping that Nicole would be found at a boyfriend's or something. I can hardly believe that both of these beautiful lives were cut so short, in one horrible weekend.

God bless them both.

azureblue · #10 10-11-2005, 09:40 PM

I can't tell you how close this has hit to home for me. I am an almuna member of Tau Chapter, and my heart is aching for my collegiate sisters. Please keep the KU Chapter in your hearts and prayers.

Loyally,
azureblue

Jhawkalum · #11 10-12-2005, 09:51 AM

Nicole's friends were interviewed for a story in the student newspaper, and the writer just decided to do a series of quotes about her instead:

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Nicole Bingham died in a fire at the Boardwalk Apartments Friday morning.

She would be 22 today

She was a Wichita senior at the University of Kansas.

She had blue eyes.

She had a half-brother and a mother, Nancy Bingham.

Her parents divorced when she was young.

A friend: “She’d gone through too much to die like this.”

Doctors discovered a hole in her heart when she was 15.

She was diagnosed with two heart conditions: special arrhythmia, a condition when the heart beats erratically, and syncope, a condition where the brain doesn’t signal the heart to restart.

Her mother couldn’t afford the surgery Nicole needed, and insurance wouldn’t cover it. So Nicole wrote a letter to Ronald McDonald House, which scheduled a surgery for her at Children’s Mercy Hospital.

“She always joked about dying. She said if she didn’t take her daily pill, she would have a 30 percent chance of dying. She said if she took it, she had an 9 percent chance of dying at any minute.”

“She could accept her mortality. She thought other people should accept theirs.”

In middle school, she played volleyball and ran track.

She was on the debate team when she went to North High School in Wichita.

“Alpha Delta Pi was her life.”

“She didn’t care if she was busy. She would drop everything to be with you.”

“Last year I was really sick, and she took me to the E.R. She held my hand and told me stories. My parents used to call her my guardian angel.”

“The last time I saw her, we went to the used bookstore, and she spent forever in the history section.”

She did her Alpha Delta Pi philanthropy at Ronald McDonald House.

“She was the happiest person I’ve ever known.”

She had two kittens, Spanky and Cleo, and three cats that lived with her mother in Wichita.

“I’m a big worrier. She had this way of calming me and making me feel okay again.”

“She had honey-brown hair.”

“Her favorite television show was the ‘Gilmore Girls.’ She liked ‘Sex and the City.’ It’s about girlfriends and how they make each other a priority.”

“One time we took her to the hospital. I started to cry because I was worried about her. She cracked a joke.”

“She brought a Big Bird stuffed animal to the hospital. She got it when she had her heart surgery at Children’s Mercy Hospital. She slept with it every night.”

“She sang me to sleep once.”

“She owned more than 200 movies. When I lived with her, we didn’t have curtains so we just put her movies in the window.”

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“She said, ‘I’m going to live life to the fullest. You may only have today so make everything of it you can.’” “I saw her last week. She saw me on campus and gave me a ride home. She went out of her way to take me home.” “We used to hang out and watch movies. We talked a lot. She was always there.”

“She majored in history at the University of Kansas. She liked working with kids, and she wanted to be a history teacher.”

“She always spoke her mind, and if she had a problem with something, she would let you know. That’s something not a lot of us have.”

“She gave great advice. I would talk to her about anything and everything.”

“She would stand up for her friends. She said what she felt because she thought it was the right thing to do. She made me want to be a stronger person. She made me want to stand up and say what I believed in.”

“When she found out what my last day at work would be, she asked if I liked fudge, cookies or cake better. I said fudge. She made her grandmother’s fudge for me on my last day.”

“She was one of my best friends. I talked to her almost everyday. She was always willing to hang out with me. She put her friends above all else.”

“She would walk into the room and smile. No matter how bad your day was, you had to smile back.”

“She taught us to appreciate life more.”

“She made a point to make sure everyone knew how much they meant to her.”

A friend thought what Nicole would want to come out of her death would be for everyone to tell their friends how important they were before they parted.

ADPiShannan · #12 10-18-2005, 11:35 AM

that is just so sad. All that she went through and overcame. My heart is with her family and sisters and the whole campus. Its just horrible.