USC To Unveil Portrait of Student Killed In Beach House Fire

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The University of South Carolina plans to unveil a portrait of one of the school’s six students killed in a beach house fire in North Carolina last fall.
    The university says a portrait of Cassidy Fae Pendley will be presented during a ceremony Thursday afternoon.
    The 18-year-old chemical engineering freshman died in the October 28, 2007 blaze in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
    The school says Pendley’s parents have established a scholarship fund in her honor.
    Five other University of South Carolina students and one Clemson University student died in the blaze. All seven students died from smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning.
    Six other University of South Carolina students survived the
fire.
   
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