Golf outing to be held in honor of late student

Eagle Crest Golf Club is holding a golf outing on June 20 in remembrance of a former Eastern student who died in a car accident.

On Oct. 12, 2013, Henry Vance Davis II, who came to Eastern in 2006 to study computer science, was killed in an accident when he fell from a vehicle that his friend was driving.

The 25-year-old died in the hospital two days later.

His father, Henry Vance Davis, is organizing a golf outing at the Eagle Crest Golf Club to remember his son. This is related to the Henry Vance Davis II Scholarship & Educational Support Fund the Davis family created in memory of their son.

"Henry was beautiful inside and outside,” said Davis’s father in a press release from EMU’s division of university communications. “He was intelligent, gentle, respectful and kind to a fault as a young man.”

This inaugural outing will be used as an opportunity to raise educational money for students in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Detroit, according to the press release.

The all-day event will begin at 7:30 a.m. The actual golfing will start with “a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m.” Participation costs $150. It will include a golf cart, food and several unspecified prizes. The following dinner will cost $50.

An Ann Arbor native, Davis graduated from Pioneer High School in 2006. He took a trip to Japan when he was 16 years old and had an avid interest in Asian culture. He was an EMU student at the time of his death.