Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 8, 1990                   TAG: 9006080041
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

CONSTRUCTION VICTIM WAS SON OF DEAN

Simon Peter Eyre, 23, a college student working on a construction job for the summer, was pronounced dead at the scene at about 4:30 p.m.

He was the son of Peter Eyre, dean of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.

Police said the incident occurred near the Vistavia Apartments behind Christiansburg High School.

Eyre, a student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, was home for the summer and worked on the construction crew, a veterinary-school spokesman said.

He and other construction workers had been laying pipe in the ditch leading from buildings at the apartment complex to a nearby open field. Police said they did not know what caused the ditch to collapse.