Foundation Endows Scholarship For Student At Fairfield's SHU Struck By Car

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The H.W. Wilson Foundation has given $100,000 to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield to establish an endowed scholarship in memory of Kaitlyn Doorhy, who was struck and killed by a car crossing a street in Bridgeport on her way to campus.

Sacred Heart University Chaplain the Rev. David Buckles, left, speaks during a special tree dedication ceremony in honor of Kaitlyn Doorhy on Oct. 25, just outside of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit on campus in Fairfield.
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Kaitlyn Doorhy, 20, of Mattituck, N.Y., died after she was struck by a car who was struck and killed by a car crossing a street in Bridgeport on her way to campus.
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Nicole Briggs

11/10/2014 4:30 a.m.

Doorhy, of Mattituck, N.Y., died in late August at the age of 20. She was just about to start her junior year at SHU.

The scholarship will be given each year to a junior student from Long Island with financial need. It is anticipated that the first award will be given for the 2015-16 academic year.

Harold Regan, president of the Manhattan-based H.W. Wilson Foundation, says the board was deeply moved by the news of Doorhy’s untimely death.

“We pray for Kaitlyn’s family and hope this gesture can add to the many joyful memories of her extraordinary life,” said Regan.

The foundation was established by Halsey W. Wilson in 1952 to support the needs of company employees and retirees. By 1957, the foundation directed its funding efforts to support libraries, library associations, historical societies, cultural programs and scholarships for library and information science programs accredited by the American Library Association.

Doorhy was also recently honored by her four roommates, who planted a tree in her memory outside the Chapel of the Holy Spirit on the Sacred Heart University campus. The tree was dedicated during Family Weekend, and a plaque was placed nearby before a crowd that included 70 of Doorhy’s visiting friends and family members.

Doorhy was hit while crossing Madison Avenue in Bridgeport on Friday. The driver of the vehicle, an unidentified male, remained at the scene and said he didn't see the victim run out into the road.

Doorhy had aspired to be a lawyer and lived in her sorority on campus, near where the accident occurred.

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