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

DATE: TUESDAY, September 13, 1994                   TAG: 9409130056
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-6   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

TALBOT SCHOLARSHIP ESTABLISHED

A scholarship fund at the college he helped found has been established in honor of the late Richard B. Talbot, the first dean of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.

Talbot was killed Thursday in the crash of USAir flight 427 outside Pittsburgh. He was returning home to Blacksburg from a Chicago meeting at the headquarters of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

A memorial service will be held today at 11 a.m. at Blacksburg Presbyterian Church.

Peter Eyre, who succeeded Talbot as dean of the vet school, said that the school, working with the Talbot family, hopes to endow a scholarship to support students at the vet school.

"We haven't truly worked out specific details of this," Eyre said Monday from his office. "But we've already had quite a number of donations. There were two envelopes pushed under my door this morning."

Donations to the Richard B. Talbot Memorial Scholarship fund can be sent to the Dean's Office, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, Va. 24061-0442.

by CNB