Eve Carson—Archives
Pi Beta Phi Sorority and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity have partnered to give the campus an opportunity to unite in memory of Eve Carson. The inaugural Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2008. For more information, visit the Education for Eve Web site.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in consultation with the Carson family, has established the Eve Marie Carson Memorial Junior-Year Merit Scholarship. The scholarship is a one-year merit based scholarship to recognize rising seniors who have excelled as students and community leaders while attending the University.
Crister Brady, a Morehead-Cain Scholar in the class of 2008, honored Eve in a special tribute in his hometown newspaper, the Santa Barbara Independent. To read his tribute, click here.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill remembered and celebrated the life of Eve Carson in a memorial service on Tuesday, March 18 at 4:00 p.m. in the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center. Audio and video clips from the service are available on the University's Web site. To view the memorial service in its entirety, please go to WRAL’s Web site and click on March 18 Memorial Service: UNC Remembers Eve Carson.
To view our Flash presentation in remembrance of Eve, click here.
For an in-depth look at Eve's public service work in Ecuador, please see our multimedia presentation: Living Proof: The Extraordinary Lives of Morehead Scholars and Alumni.
To read a statement from James Moeser, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, click here.
In the Athens, Georgia, publication, Flagpole, editor Pete McCommons notes that Eve not only personified the spirit of Carolina, but she also "personified the neighborhood where she grew up." Read the complete article here.
MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
March 6, 2008
The Morehead-Cain family is grieving today over the loss of Eve Carson. Eve was one of the great young people we have had the joy of knowing. She had such enormous promise and was loved by so many. Her loss to the University community is of staggering proportions. She loved deeply everything about Carolina, and in many ways, her character and personality became synonymous with it. We grieve with her family today and with the student body and with her fellow Morehead-Cain scholars. We will do all we can to cooperate with law enforcement agencies to understand this senseless tragedy. We join hands with Eve’s family and friends in this hour of darkness and remain committed to the ideals she so gracefully and courageously upheld.
Charles E. Lovelace, Jr.
Executive Director
The Morehead-Cain Foundation
MESSAGE FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
March 7, 2008
It is unthinkable that we have lost a person such as Eve Carson in this sudden, tragic, and terrible way. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Carson family, with our extended Morehead-Cain family, and with all who knew and loved Eve.
I find it hard to pinpoint what made Eve so special because she was so absolutely special in every way. She was brilliant, beautiful, and humble. She was a leader with nonstop energy and enthusiasm. She radiated joy and humor; she was carefree and yet as deeply compassionate as anyone I've ever known. Whoever she was around—Morehead-Cain staff, University administrators, professors, or her fellow students—knew that they were in the presence of a wise, loving soul, someone who made them feel secure and capable of great things. Eve perfectly embodied not only the Morehead-Cain and Carolina ideals, but also the ideal of all human life: caring more for others than for ourselves.
Now that Eve is gone, I realize that I've always thought of her as somehow belonging to all of us—as if God had put her on this earth to help us all see what we could be like, and what we could be doing better as human beings. I will be forever grateful to have been blessed by her friendship, and I miss her terribly.
Megan M. Mazzocchi
Associate Director
The Morehead-Cain Foundation