PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) -The first Drew Carpenter Memorial Golf Tournament hit the Worthington Golf Club course saturday with all the funds going to a great cause.
According to the WVU at Parkersburg Foundation, Drew Carpenter was a professor of Mathematics at WVUP till his passing in 2023.
Kristine Fry, Drew’s sister, said Drew was a person who always cared about other people, even if he didn’t know them.
“Drew did not know a stranger,” Fry said. “Where most people would say, ‘oh yeah, , you can come over sometime,’ Drew will come over sometime and he will make you part of his family. If you knew him, you loved him. He always left any place he went better than he found it. You didn’t ever forget Drew.”
The funds raised for the event are going to a scholarship that will be named in his memory.
“It’s going to help out the students that Drew really like to help out,” said Oliva Reeder, the president of the WVU at Parkersburg Foundation. “This will help the underdogs that he really wanted to see succeed.”
A total of 27 teams came out to support the first event.
Both Reeder and Fry added it’s a important for the community to support this scholarship.
“As a member of the community through WVU Parkersburg and the WVU Parkersburg Foundation, we want as many community members to get involved and to change lives,” Reeder said. “It’s to really remember those who have gone before them to already make the changes that we see happening around us every day.”
“Because it helps the people, his family,” added Fry. “When I say his family, I don’t just mean us. I mean all n his friends, his friends’ friends, everybody in this community he cared about and he wanted better for them. He wanted them to be able to have opportunity to grow.”
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