After the death of her sorority sister and friend Pamela Eve Frank, Jackie Weiner wrote her a letter.
She read it aloud Wednesday night at a standing-room-only memorial service for Frank, a UF sophomore who died in a car crash Nov. 4.
"I only completely broke down once, when I was walking down 34th Street and saw a spot where the sisters were painting your name on the wall in big white letters," she read.
Not long before, she said, she had been walking home down the same street with Frank, complaining about her painful high heels and feeling stupid for not calling a cab.
"I know now that God wanted us to spend that time together," she said.
The memorial, organized by the sisters of Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority, known as AEPhi, included tributes from friends, family, sorority sisters, rabbis and university officials. Most spoke about Frank's happy disposition and ever-present smile.
"Every time we were together, it turned into an adventure, leaving me with memories and scars I'll have forever," said Ali Nyman, Frank's "little sister" in AEPhi.
Jamie Silverstein, a former AEPhi president who coordinated the memorial, said Frank's parents, who drove up from Coral Springs, had a lot of input in the service.
"It's pretty emotional," Silverstein said. "Everyone's been pretty cooperative."
She said she had not known Frank well since they were two years apart, but she had been in a pledge class with her older sister Suzanne, who was also at the service.
Frank's parents, Lawrence and Nancy Frank, asked for the poem "We Wait Too Long" and a prayer to be read at the service. They also brought a video one of Frank's friends from home had made for her funeral.
AEPhi President Erinn Kellner said a bus of Frank's sorority sisters had traveled to Coral Springs to attend the funeral Nov. 7.
The memorial also included a slide show of pictures collected by AEPhi senior Amy Becker.
