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Goizueta scholarship honors college student
 
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Emory alumnus Daniel DeSevo ‘97C. |
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Life is short. Yet each day presents an opportunity
to affect others’ lives and leave a legacy that transcends time.
So it is with Daniel DeSevo ’97C,
who touched many lives before his death in 2000. His friends and family
never run short of adjectives to describe the energetic young man from
Red Bank, New Jersey: caring, compassionate, intelligent, kind, brave,
athletic, self-sacrificing, a leader by example, and so on.
At Emory, he was president of his fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. Despite
his youth, he had already visited more than twenty countries, including
one full semester spent studying in Spain. After completing his second
year of law school at Georgetown, he had secured a future slot with a
prominent New York law firm.
Then disaster struck. The talented and promising young man was diagnosed
with leukemia; the world of ivy-covered buildings replaced by drab hospital
halls and endless chemotherapy. He died a year and one month later at
age 24. In his final months, Daniel remained an inspiration to everyone
around him. “He led by example,” remembers his father Frank,
also an attorney. Daniel was known to leave the hospital in New York on
nice days, IV pole included, to do a little shopping or take his girlfriend
to dinner, says his dad.
Georgetown classmates remembered Daniel by giving a clock in the University’s
library. His family and friends at Emory have chosen to honor his memory
with a $50,000 endowed scholarship at Goizueta Business School. It is
to be awarded each year to an undergraduate business student from the
Tri-State area (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania).
Friends from Daniel’s undergraduate years at Emory spearheaded the
fundraising for the scholarship. They will continue raising funds to further
the scholarship’s impact, and welcome support from the Goizueta community.
For more information on giving, contact Melissa Kontaridis in the Goizueta
Development office at 404.727.8484.
“He would have been a very successful lawyer,” says Frank DeSevo.
“He was a special person.”
—Sarah Banick