The likeness of Dora E. McQuaid is being added to the Penn State mural. Click the picture to see earlier versions of the mural.
The Heister Street mural had earlier been edited to exclude Jerry Sandusky, leaving an empty chair and a blue ribbon to represent survivors of sexual abuse.
The mural, as it was originally painted by Michael Pilato.
Penn State finally, totally obliterates Sandusky in mural
6/25/2012Jerry Sandusky's image was blotted out of a mural depicting local heroes at the Penn State Student Book Store in November. Since then, a blue ribbon denoting child-sexual-abuse awareness has occupied his empty chair. But "with just the blue ribbon there, you still saw Sandusky," mural creator Michael Pilato says. Now he's filling that seat with a far more worthy occupant: Dora E. McQuaid, a poet, activist and Penn State alum who's won awards for her work on behalf of victims of domestic and sexual violence. Pilato has also added a blue ribbon around the neck of the Nittany Lion, the school's mascot, featured at the bottom of the mural.
What other person's portrait would have made a good replacement?
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