Notice to Members
Notice No. 455 09/05/2008
CME Group Announces September 11 Memorial Plans
NYMEX will observe moments of silence on Thursday, September 11, 2008, marking the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Names of the exchange community members who lost their lives in the tragedy that day that will be read in a brief ceremony on the NYMEX trading floor at 2:45 PM. Open outcry trading will cease for one minute at 8:46 AM and 9:03 AM, the times the airplanes crashed into each tower and again at 9:59 AM and 10:29 AM, marking the times that each tower collapsed. All electronic market users are asked to participate in these moments of silence in memory of the personnel affiliated with NYMEX and ICE Futures USA (formerly the New York Board of Trade) who lost their lives that day by refraining from trading NYMEX and COMEX products on CME Globex® and Clearport® during these times. The individuals who will be remembered include: Dennis Foo (member of COMEX Division of NYMEX and NYBOT) Steven Furman (former NYMEX member) Doug Gardner (NYBOT member) Joseph Heller (COMEX member) Joseph Holland (NYMEX member) Robert Hussa (former COMEX member) Joseph Kellet (NYMEX member) Neil Leavy (former COMEX member) James McAlary, Jr. (NYMEX member) Thomas McGinnis (NYMEX member) Mark Motroni (member of NYMEX and NYBOT) David Nelson (COMEX member) Edward Oliver (NYMEX member) Robert O’Shea (NYMEX member) Patrick O’Shea (member of COMEX and NYBOT) Mark Petrocelli (NYMEX Brent permit holder) Edward Ryan (former member of NYMEX and COMEX) Joseph Shea (NYBOT member) Paul Skrzypek (former NYMEX member) Carlton Valvo (former NYMEX member) Elkin Yuen (NYMEX member) Evan Baron (Carr Futures) Michael Canty (Carr Futures) Christopher Dincuff (Carr Futures) Brendan Dolan (Carr Futures) Karen Klitzman (former NYMEX vice president of research) Damian Meehan (Carr Futures) Peter Raimondi (Carr Futures) Lonny Stone (Carr Futures) Scott Timmes (Carr Futures) Christopher Traina (Carr Futures) Alfred Vukosa (former NYMEX staff) After September 11, 2001, NYMEX was the first exchange in New York to reopen trading on its electronic trading system on September 14, 2001, and the first business to reopen west of Ground Zero, when it resumed floor trading on September 17.
Should you have any questions or require any further information, please contact exchangeinfo@nymex.com