In 1978, the Cleveland-based Mildred Andrews Fund commissioned a May 4 memorial on the Kent State campus by noted New York sculptor George Segal. Segal chose as his theme an Old Testament metaphor. Segal’s sculpture, which he titled Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac, depicted a knife-bearing father facing a kneeling youth with hands bound in front of him. “I found that sculpture interesting to do,” Segal later said, “because I thought [May 4] was far more complicated than it appeared on the surface.”
