Scott Hazelcorn was a person who dreamt of owning an ice cream truck so he could hear the squeals of children all day. He offered people hugs rather than handshakes, his friends said.
"Nobody enjoyed life more, from the minute he got up to the minute he went to sleep," his father said in an online memoriam.
Hazelcorn had an uncompromising spirit of life and laughter, but this was taken from him last Sept. 11, when he was working as a long-term treasury-bonds trader on the 105th floor of One World Trade Center for Cantor Fitzgerald.
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He grew up in New Jersey and attended Governor Livingston High School in Berkeley Heights. He was a 1994 graduate of the Penn State Smeal College of Business.
Hazelcorn recently had begun work for a spin-off company called eSpeed, and his work group decreased from 30 to four. He had plans of leaving Wall Street to become a teacher, though, because his work left him longing to work with children. He and his girlfriend, Amy Callahan, had plans to open a summer camp for needy children.
In Hazelcorn's memory, Callahan and Hazelcorn's parents, Charles and Janice Hazelcorn, and his brother Eric Hazelcorn created the Camp Haze-Scott Hazelcorn Memorial Children's Foundation. The name "Haze" comes from the nickname that many called him.
Hazelcorn loved children -- bringing together his contagious ability to love and have compassion. Children fell in love with him because he never found their thoughts meaningless and he made their world a better place, his loved ones said.
In his opinion, one should, "Talk and play with every child you see -- they have so much to teach us," the foundation's Web site said.
According to the foundation, Hazelcorn wanted to create a camp that would be "the happiest place on earth for children of all walks of life."
Many friends and family say that he had a way of making people feel special, as though they were the only one in the room. He did not care much about the materialistic side of life; he just enjoyed being around others.
In his 29 years, Hazelcorn was able to realize the important things in life. According to the Camp Haze Web site, he never let a day go by without telling those he loved how much they meant to him.
