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May 25, 2000

Shooting victim sets up scholarship with proceeds from benefit

Shooting victim sets up scholarship with proceeds from benefit

A former Pitt student has asked that some of the proceeds from a golf outing in his honor go to fund a School of Engineering scholarship.

Kevin Cecil, who was shot, apparently at random, near the Pitt campus in July 1995, has asked that 25 percent of the proceeds from the golf outing go to students in the materials science and engineering department.

The golf outing, sponsored by Oakland Rotary, has raised more than $100,000 to help defray medical costs that Cecil has incurred. Cecil is a quadriplegic as a result of the shooting.

The remaining 75 percent of the golf outing proceeds and other donations will go toward the purchase of medical equipment not covered by insurance.

Donations can be made year-round to the Oakland Rotary/Kevin Cecil scholarship fund. For more information, contact Kathleen Delaney, Institutional Advancement, at 383-7442.


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