August 21, 2008
Portrait, scholarship to memorialize engineering major Pendley
The University of South Carolina's College of Engineering and Computing will unveil a memorial portrait of Cassidy Fae Pendley at 2 p.m. Aug. 28.
The memorial portrait will be located in the Reading Room on the first floor of the Swearingen Engineering Center. Pendley, a beautiful, generous, and intelligent young woman, was a 2007 chemical engineering freshman and pledged to Delta Delta Delta Sorority. She was one of seven students, six from the University of South Carolina, who died in the house fire at Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., in October 2007.
In addition to the memorial portrait, Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Pendley II have established the Cassidy Fae Pendley Memorial Scholarship in Engineering Fund. "We are doing this as a means of keeping our daughter's spirit alive," Howard Pendley said.
The first recipient selected for the Pendley Memorial Scholarship is Stephanie M. Johnson, a biomedical engineering major. She is the daughter of Donna P. Johnson of North Augusta, S.C.
For more information about the Cassidy Fae Pendley Memorial Scholarship in Engineering Fund, contact Deborah A. Wells, senior director of development at the College of Engineering and Computing: 803-777-0947 or dawells2@engr.sc.edu.
For more information on the portrait unveiling, contact Dr. Michael Perkins, assistant dean of academic affairs: 803-777-4177 or perkins@sc.edu.
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