SURREY - Laura Szendrei's name will live on in the halls of academia with a scholarship in her name at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU).
The Laura Szendrei Memorial Endowed Scholarship was created through a $20,000 donation that will establish a lifetime of financial support for Delta youth in the young girl's memory.The endowment was raised through a community-wide fundraising and awareness initiative, which includes the yearly Walk, Run and Roll event, held last Sunday at North Delta Secondary.It will fund an annual $1,000 scholarship for a student enrolled in a KPU program who is passionate about giving back to others."Laura was kind, gregarious yet humble, and a hard-working, kindhearted young woman," said schoolmate Kirsten Martin.Szendrei was a grade 10 Frenchimmersion Burnsview student who was murdered in September 2010.South Delta Leader