A proposal from the family of Robert Jason Gore, an ISU student killed in Iraq last April, to list his name in Gold Star Hall in the Memorial Union has not yet been filed.

Kathy Svec, program coordinator for the Memorial Union, said she has not talked with Gore’s mother, Sue Selby-Gore, since she sent her information on the eligibility criteria a few months ago.

“I have not received anything from her and I have not communicated with her at all,” Svec said. “The ball is in her court, so to speak, and I have no idea what her intentions are.”

There are four criteria that Selby-Gore has to provide documentation on before Gore’s name can be engraved on the wall. Gore meets all the criteria except one — he wasn’t on active status and involved in military action when he died.

Gore, who was a sergeant with the Iowa Army National Guard’s 186th Military Police Company based at Camp Dodge in Johnston, was performing a six-month tour of duty as a security contractor for Blackwater USA, a private military company, when he was killed in a helicopter crash.

Selby-Gore said she’s trying to get the paperwork together, but she is not sure what she needs.

“I don’t know what it is they need,” she said. “I wish I had guidance; that would help.

“Svec mailed me the four guidelines or criteria, but I don’t know how to prove them. I could copy the letters from the President, the Army and the National Guard.”

The State Department is supposed to be sending Selby-Gore some documentation to help prove Gore’s eligibility, but she hasn’t received anything yet.

Right now Selby-Gore said this hasn’t been at the top of her to-do list.

“I’ve had other things going on and honestly this hasn’t been a priority,” she said.

“I’m in the process of picking out a headstone for the grave site and spending time with my 17-year-old son. I thought that was more important at the time.”

She added she had gotten the impression that the whole process would take considerable time.

“They gave me the impression that it would take a lot of time — like years — before his name would appear on the wall,” she said. “It just didn’t feel urgent.”