Honors College students are donating money to a scholarship in junior Alyssa Couch's name. She died in a car accident Nov. 17 in Yorktown while on the way to tutor someone.
Couch's family is still in the process of setting up the fund and has not decided on its specific name or purpose, Couch's roommate, junior Kendra Craycraft, said. The two possibilities are a school-related fund or a church camp fund, she said.
Members of the honors colloquium on Shakespeare, which Couch was in this semester, decided they would donate money to the scholarship fund, English professor Frank Felsenstein said. He said he would match each student's donation up to $10 if they chose to donate.
The Honors College will also match each of the combined amount donated by each student and Felsentein, providing up to an additional $20 per student to the fund, said James Ruebel, dean of the Honors College.
Felsenstein said donating to the fund was a small gesture the class felt they could make to remember Couch.
"I do feel it's important to try to remember Alyssa and the promise she had as a student," he said. "She had a very bright future."
Couch was the only science student in the class, and Felsenstein misses the perspective she was able to provide, he said.
"There is a big gap in the class," he said. "We all feel the loss and recognize the greatest loss is for her family."
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