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

DATE: THURSDAY, October 27, 1994                   TAG: 9411120002
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: RANDY WALKER SPECIAL TO THE ROANOKE TIMES & WORLD-NEWS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

STUDENT IS FIRST RECIPIENT OF SCHOLARSHIP NAMED FOR DEPUTY

``If I get injured or killed, so be it,'' he says. ``I just want to be there for others.''

On July 22, Dye became the first recipient of a full-year scholarship from the Barry Pendrey Scholarship fund. Barry Lee Pendrey was a Roanoke deputy sheriff who was killed in the line of duty. In addition to working as a deputy, Pendrey volunteered with the Roanoke Life Saving and First Aid Crew, the Williamson Road Life Saving and First Aid Crew and the Cave Spring Life Saving Crew.

On Feb. 26, 1985, while working as a paramedic in the city jail, Pendrey was beaten to death with an oxygen tank by a mentally disturbed inmate. He was 30. City Council passed a resolution lamenting his death and praising him as ``an outstanding public servant whose service was exemplified by personal characteristics of humanitarianism, conscientiousness, dedication and loyalty.''

In Pendrey's memory, members of the sheriff's department set up a scholarship. Every year since 1986, they have held a golf tournament and other fund-raising activities.

The money has been deposited with Virginia Western Community College's Educational Foundation to endow a scholarship for students in the administration of justice program. This year's fund-raiser brought the endowment to about $20,000, enough to begin awarding annual scholarships from the interest.

The $1,000 scholarship is reserved for second-year administration of justice students such as Dye.

A graduate of William Byrd High School, Dye spent part of his childhood on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, where his parents were Southern Baptist missionaries. He returned to the Roanoke Valley in 1987 and began night school about a year and a half ago, he said.

Now 23, Dye lives with his parents in Vinton while studying at Virginia Western, where he has a 3.55 grade-point average.

After another year of study, Dye hopes to graduate with an associate degree in administration of justice. From there, he said, he may go to a four-year college or enlist in the Marines and eventually seek a job in law enforcement.