Susan Galos Eason Memorial Scholarship
Type
Scholarship / FellowshipYear Established
1986Purpose
Support a female flight student enrolled in the College of Aeronautics. (GF000016)Description
The recipient must be a female student enrolled in the College of Aeronautics.
History
On November 27, 1985, Susan Eason, age 24, a recent Florida Institute of Technology graduate, died when a plane she was co-piloting crashed in East Greenwich, Rhode Island while en route from Morristown, New Jersey to Providence, Rhode Island. Susan was a commercial pilot who held multiengine and airline transport ratings. She was employed for the previous year as a pilot and flight instructor for Northeast Airways in Morristown. Before that, she had been employed by Hyannis Aviation in Massachusetts as a pilot flying scenic flights over the Bar Harbor, Maine area.
In her memory, numerous friends and family donated support to establish the Susan Galos-Eason Memorial Scholarship. Since 1992, the fund has supported scholarships for female flight students, enrolled at the Florida Institute of Technology College of Aeronautics, who have achieved academic distinction.
If you would like to contribute to this fund, please go to Panther Fund and use the "other" designation to identify that you wish to give to this named endowment fund.