KING COUNTY SHERIFF’S DETECTIVE PRESENTS $85,000 SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT TO CWU
CWU has been presented with a new scholarship endowment fund, thanks to a King County Sheriff’s Office detective whose investigation of a fatal hit-and- run crash led to the identification of the driver who caused the accident. The donations to the endowment fund came from the family of Bryan Panzanaro, who passed away in the accident, and six of the crash survivors—David Scott Hutchison, Stephen G. Clay, Jeffrey Cushman, Sheryl Foley, Oliva Pascua, and John Weatherwax— who designated Detective Jeanne Walford (’96) as the recipient of the $85,000 fund. The survivors pointed to Walford’s work as an example of excellence in protecting and serving the community. “By locating the phantom driver, she profoundly impacted the civil litigation of the wrongful death and personal injury cases,” they said in a statement.
the law and justice profession by providing scholarships to current and future law and justice students. She said her decision to start a new CWU endowment fund was an easy one. I loved Central. It was a great school,” Walford said at a July 31 ceremony at CWU-Sammamish, also attended by CWU President Jim Wohlpart and Provost Michelle DenBeste. “And if I can help one student a year to pay their tuition, maybe they will come work for us someday.”
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Walford presented the funds to her alma mater in hopes that it will further
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