Photos and Article by Mary Alice Murphy
[Editor's Note: This author recommends you visit the show alone or in a small group. It was difficult to take in with a crowd.]
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An exhibit of work by Ella Sala Myers, who was taken from this world at age 16, in an airplane crash on May 23, 2014, opened on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, in the McCray Gallery at Western New Mexico University.
The crash also took the lives of two other Aldo Leopold students, Ella Jaz Kirk, 14, and Michael Mahl, 16, as well as that of the pilot, Dr. Peter Hochla. The students were to fly over the area in the Gila National Forest that they had been monitoring. The aircraft was attempting to return to Whiskey Creek Airport when it went down.
Prior to the opening of the exhibit, Ella's parents gave moving tributes to their daughter. Jennifer Douglass, Ella's mother, was the first to speak.