Scholarship endowed in memory of Campbell student

     On May 1, 2003, students Jessica Ann Kalinowski, Rebekah Heldreth and Brooke Hudgens were killed when their automobile hydroplaned into oncoming traffic on Interstate 20 near Crawfordsville, Ga. The girls had just completed spring semester at Campbell University. Kalinowski, a junior from Martinsville, Va., and Heldreth, a junior from Dry Fork, Va., were set to enter pharmacy school in the fall.
     “I see myself as an ambitious individual, one who would like to do everything I can to help other people,” Kalinowski wrote in her application to pharmacy school.
     Dr. Ronald Maddox, dean of the School of Pharmacy, affirms her assessment. “Both girls were outstanding students, so supportive of the School of Pharmacy and so happy,” Maddox said. “Jessica was involved in the Pre-Pharmacy Club and was committed to doing what it took to be accepted into pharmacy school. Her mother was so excited when she learned Jessica had been accepted.”
     Sadly, Jessica did not live to hear the good news, but her family has perpetuated her legacy of kindness and hard work by endowing a scholarship in her memory. The Jessica Ann Kalinowski Memorial Pharmacy Scholarship, which benefits first-year pharmacy students, has already been awarded to a student from Jessica’s home state, Stephanie Lynn Weiss of Stuart, Va.
     “I was saddened by Jessica’s death, and I know how difficult it must be for her parents to come back to endow a scholarship in her honor,” said Maddox, “but it continues to build a bond between her family and the School of Pharmacy. I’m so pleased that they are willing to support other students in the pursuit of a pharmacy education.”
     For more information on how to contribute to the Jessica Ann Kalinowski or the Rebekah Heldreth memorial pharmacy scholarships, contact the Office of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the Campbell University School of Pharmacy at (910) 893-1685 or (800) 334-4111, ext. 1685.

Photo #2: The family of Campbell University pharmacy student, the late Jessica Kalinowski, endowed a scholarship in her memory. With the Kalinowski family are recipient Stephanie Weiss and her family. From left, Karl, Vickie and Stephanie Weiss, Sandy and Jimmy Joyce with sons Joseph and Justin. Sandy is Jessica’s mother