MassBay Starts Krystle Campbell Scholarship

MassBay Community College established a scholarship fund in memory of . The school announced the fund at her memorial service April 23. 

Campbell, 29, earned an associate degree in business administration from MassBay in 2005, was a 2001 graduate of Medford High School, and most recently an Arlington resident. Her grandmother told the Globe that Campbell had recently moved to Arlington, having spent the past couple of years with her grandmother in Somerville to help her through an illness.

The scholarship will be awarded to a full-time student majoring in business at the school who is also a Massachusetts resident, according to a release from MassBay.

In addition, the student must "must submit an essay about resiliency, making a difference, generosity of spirit, or overcoming obstacles to achieve a goal," according to the school.

“We lost one of our own on that horrific day,” said MassBay President John O’Donnell in the statement, “and we wanted to establish a permanent tribute to Krystle at our institution."

In addition to the Moment of Silence at MassBay, Campbell was Mourned at a Medford Funeral after a wake that drew hundreds. 

The MassBay Foundation Board is accepting donations to the Krystle Campbell Scholarship Fund at www.massbay.edu.