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Funds Given To Reynolds' Alma MaterScholarship I o Honor Slain City WomanBy DEREK BARRNews-Record Staff WriterBefore her slaying, Alicia Showalter Reynolds was working on a vaccine to treat a disease that afflicts children. Although she’s gone, her family hopes her memory will encourage other women to attain new heights.To that end, her family hasj taken all the donations received through the Alicia Showalter Reynolds Hope Fund and the Alicia Showalter Reynolds Memorial Fund and forwarded them to heralma mater, Goshen College in Goshen, Ind., to establish the Alicia Showalter Reynolds Women in Science Scholarship.The scholarship requires an endowment of $100,000, according to a letter from Harley and Sadie Showalter, Reynolds’ parents. Tony Yoder, computer/receipts secretary for Goshen College, said Tuesday that $64,500 had been donated to the scholarship fund.Reynolds, 25, of Baltimore and a native of Harrisonburg, was found slain May 7 in a remote logging area in Culpeper County. She disappeared March 2 on U.S. 29 near Culpeper, where her car was abandoned.No one has been charged in her killing.The scholarship’s purpose is grant $2,500 scholarships annually to two Goshen College junior and senior women who are majoring in biology, chemistry, mathematics, natural science or physics.After attending Goshen College, Reynolds was accepted by Johns Hopkins University, where she was working on a vaccine to treatschistosomiosis. The disease afflicts more than 250 million children, mainly in sub-Sahara Africa.Sadie Showalter said the family collected quite a bit of money through the Reynolds’ memorial fund, which the family didn’t want to use itself. Establishing a scholarship to encourage women in the sciences would provide a fitting legacy for Reynolds, who was concerned that there weren’t enough good women in the sciences to serve as role models, she said.See SCHOLARSHIP, Page 2News-Record File PhotoAlicia ReynoldsFamily establishes scholarship
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Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Thu, Dec 19, 1996
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