Eve Marie Carson (1985-2008)

Eve Was Loved, Respected, and Admired by Thousands

The communities of Athens, GA, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suffered a heart-breaking and tragic loss on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 with the unexpected death of Eve Marie Carson. Eve was a senior pre-med student majoring in Political Science and Biology and was the university’s currently serving student body president. She left behind an extraordinary and brilliant record of academic achievement, community service, and leadership as well as a rich legacy of friendships and connections with others. Eve was known, respected, loved, and admired by literally thousands of her fellow students, community leaders, friends, and acquaintances. Her facebook account listed 2,745 friends and an estimated 10,000 UNC students attended an emotional campus memorial service held in her honor on Thursday, March 6, 2008.

Video Tribute to Eve

Eve was a native of Athens, GA. She was born on Nov. 19, 1985 to Bob and Teresa Carson. She attended Clark Central High School where she was both student body president and Class of 2004 Valedictorian. She is remembered by Maxine Easom, Clark Central’s principal as having been brilliant, compassionate, and passionate about helping people.

Eve chose to attend The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the recipient of a prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship. She was selected for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and was elected to be a North Carolina Fellow, a four-year leadership development program. She was inaugurated as UNC’s student body president in April of 2007. She served as a member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and as co-president of the Honors Program Student Executive Board. She was a member of the Committee on Scholarships, Awards, and Student Aide, the Academic Advising Program, and the Chancellor’s committee for University Teaching Awards.

Her service projects focused on health care, poverty, and children. In 2006 she taught science at an elementary school in Chapel Hill as part of the INSPIRE program and earlier was a tutor at a middle school in Durham. She coached a running program that taught self-awareness and character development to girls aged 8 to 12 and was active in a campus organization for hunger relief called Nourish International. She studied abroad in Cuba and and spent summers volunteering in Ecuador, Egypt, and Ghana. Chuck Lovelace, Executive Director of the Morehead-Cain Foundation remark ...

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Eve Was Loved, Respected, and Admired by Thousands

The communities of Athens, GA, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suffered a heart-breaking and tragic loss on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 with the unexpected death of Eve Marie Carson. Eve was a senior pre-med student majoring in Political Science and Biology and was the university’s currently serving student body president. She left behind an extraordinary and brilliant record of academic achievement, community service, and leadership as well as a rich legacy of friendships and connections with others. Eve was known, respected, loved, and admired by literally thousands of her fellow students, community leaders, friends, and acquaintances. Her facebook account listed 2,745 friends and an estimated 10,000 UNC students attended an emotional campus memorial service held in her honor on Thursday, March 6, 2008.

Video Tribute to Eve

Eve was a native of Athens, GA. She was born on Nov. 19, 1985 to Bob and Teresa Carson. She attended Clark Central High School where she was both student body president and Class of 2004 Valedictorian. She is remembered by Maxine Easom, Clark Central’s principal as having been brilliant, compassionate, and passionate about helping people.

Eve chose to attend The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the recipient of a prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship. She was selected for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and was elected to be a North Carolina Fellow, a four-year leadership development program. She was inaugurated as UNC’s student body president in April of 2007. She served as a member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and as co-president of the Honors Program Student Executive Board. She was a member of the Committee on Scholarships, Awards, and Student Aide, the Academic Advising Program, and the Chancellor’s committee for University Teaching Awards.

Her service projects focused on health care, poverty, and children. In 2006 she taught science at an elementary school in Chapel Hill as part of the INSPIRE program and earlier was a tutor at a middle school in Durham. She coached a running program that taught self-awareness and character development to girls aged 8 to 12 and was active in a campus organization for hunger relief called Nourish International. She studied abroad in Cuba and and spent summers volunteering in Ecuador, Egypt, and Ghana. Chuck Lovelace, Executive Director of the Morehead-Cain Foundation remarked that “You were motivated to do something in the world if you were around Eve.” Eve’s college roommate observed, “Eve connected friends, colleagues, acquaintances, kids, and adults because she loved to see the synergy of relationships. And with her enthusiasm even the most unlikely combinations of people came together.” She went on to say that “Everyone adored Eve and we all liked ourselves a little more because of her inspiration—her interest in others, her enthusiasm for life and her driving sense of what was good and right.”

Memorial donations may be directed to the Clarke County Foundation for Excellence in Public Education, P.O. Box 1780, Athens, GA 30603, or any other charity of your choice.

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