Friends and family are saying good-bye to a promising young student killed last month at Johns Hopkins University.
Hundreds turned out for a memorial service in honor of Miriam Frankl -- who was struck and killed by a truck outside of her apartment building back on October 16th.
More than 400 people attended the memorial at the Johns Hopkins campus recreation center -- many of them wearing purple ribbons made by Frankl's sorority sisters. ‘The Alpha Phi girls made them about a day after it happened and purple was her favorite color, and it's good to remember her as best as we can,’ said Casey Rose, a junior at Johns Hopkins who lived next to Miriam Frankl last year.
Frankl was also a junior at Hopkins. She was majoring in molecular and cell biology, and she had been assisting with research into possible causes and potential cures for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease in the medical school's neurology lab.
She would have represented her family's third generation of women scientists from Johns Hopkins -- Frankl's aunt is a professor at the school of medicine, and Frankl's grandmother earned her PHD at Johns Hopkins.
The man being held in connection with the crash that killed Miriam Frankl – Thomas Meighan -- has a long history of drunk driving arrests.
The organization 'Mothers Against Drunk Driving' will be lobbying legislators in Annapolis in the upcoming 2010 session. MADD is calling for a new law that would force even first-time drunk driving offenders to have ignition interlock devices installed in their vehicles. Eleven states already have similar laws.
