The Record

Friends - 

This Sunday we will be playing Hark the Sound 2011 at The Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh, NC.  We, The Record, will open the show at 7:00 PM, followed by Future Ghosts, Martha Ann Motel and Attalus.  The cost of the show $10.00 and all proceeds will be donated to the Eve Carson Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Eve Carson was tragically shot and killed in Chapel Hill in the morning of March 5, 2008.  From her UNC biography:

“Eve Marie Carson, 22, was elected student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in February 2007. Her term would have ended in April.  A native of Athens, Ga., Eve was born Nov. 19, 1985. She came to Carolina in the fall of 2004 as the recipient of a prestigious Morehead Scholarship.  A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, she was a pre-medicine student majoring in both political science and biology. As a North Carolina Fellow, she was part of a four-year leadership development program for undergraduates.  While at UNC-Chapel Hill, she was extremely active in both leadership and service roles. As student body president, she was also a member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees. She served as co-president of the Honors Program Student Executive Board and as a member of the Committee on Scholarships, Awards and Student Aide; the Academic Advising Program; and the Chancellor’s committee for University Teaching Awards. Teaching and working with children were key service interests for Eve. In 2006, she taught science at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School in Chapel Hill as part of UNC’s INSPIRE program, whose mission is to encourage young students to pursue science as an interest. In her junior year, Carson was a tutor at Githens Middle School in Durham. She was also an assistant coach in the Girls on the Run of the Triangle, a character development program for girls ages 8-12 that uses running to teach values and a sense of self. Eve’s service extended well beyond the Triangle, however. In the spring of her sophomore year, she participated in a study abroad in Havana, Cuba, and she spent her summers working and volunteering in Ecuador, Egypt and Ghana as part of the Morehead Summer Enrichment program. “I credit my prior experiences, especially my past two Morehead summers, for preparing me to get along with pretty much whatever comes my way,” she wrote in an e-mail posted on the Morehead Web site. On campus, she became involved in Nourish International, an organization started by UNC students in 2002 for hunger relief. Eve served as freshman volunteer coordinator (2004) and co-chair (2005) for the group.  The daughter of Bob and Teresa Carson, Eve was also the student body president of her high school, Clarke Central, in Athens, Ga. When she ran for the same office at Carolina, she was elected with 55 percent of the vote in a runoff with a bigger turnout than the previous year’s general election.”

It is clear that Eve was a driven, ambitious, and caring young woman.  It’s almost impossible to believe that such grotesque crime could occur in a town like Chapel Hill and such a bright, vibrant future could be instantly extinguished.  While the loss of Eve will never seem fair or justified, one can honor her life by donating to the scholarship created in her name. 

We would like to thank Jenny Stevens and Stephanie Baker for their hard work in organizing this event.  Booking bands and venues is not a trivial task.  Their effort in raising money for the Eve Carson Memorial Scholarship will allow Eve to be honored in a way very reflective of her own life - by helping others excel.

~The Record