Great Neck South High School is planning to honor Adana Taranis, a 19-year-old South High graduate who was killed last week in a single-car accident in Lake Success, and will also dedicate the May 20 Spring Concert to her memory, school officials said Friday.
“The [Great Neck School District] does plan to honor this student and we are working with her family to find an appropriate venue,” Superintendent of Schools Tom Dolan said.
The spring concert dedicated to Taranis will start at 7:30 p.m. at Great Neck South High School, according to the Great Neck South High School Parent Teacher Student Association’s website.
South High principal Susan Elliot confirmed plans for the memorial service and the concert to be held in her honor, but declined to comment further.
Taranis was traveling eastbound on the south service road of the Long Island Expressway near Community Drive at around 7:30 p.m. on April 20 when her car struck a tree.
She was pronounced dead at the scene at about 7:50 p.m. by Nassau County ambulatory technicians. Police said there were no passengers with her in the vehicle at the time of the crash.
Taranis was remembered at the Great Neck Board of Education meeting the day after the accident.
“While every death is tragic, this one hits especially close to home,” board President Barbara Berkowitz said at the meeting. “Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to this woman’s family and friends. This is a tough time for Great Neck.”
Friends and others were leaving comments on various news stories via Facebook pointing out the bad weather conditions the night Taranis died, including heavy fog, and expressing sympathy for her family.
CORRECTION: An April 30 digital headline and May 1 print headline for this story inaccurately described her as ‘slain.’ ‘Slain’ describes people who have been murdered. She was not murdered. A correction will run in the 5/8 edition of the Great Neck News and has been corrected here. We regret the error.
