Bowie High Sponsors 5K to Remember Student

A group of students and teachers at Bowie High School are organizing a run/walk to raise money for a scholarship in the memory of Chuck Pacholkiw, a 2005 graduate who died of cancer.

The 5-kilometer (5K) run/walk will be held at the school at 9 a.m. on April 14, and the fee is $15 in advance or $20 on race day. Click here to register online.

Math teacher Dives Richards and English teacher Kelly Price are working with students to plan this year's event. Price wrote the following to Bowie High faculty, staff and PTSO:

As many of you remember, Chuck was a 2005 BHS graduate who died of cancer in November, 2010. He was a brilliant math and physics student who continued his academic work at University of Maryland even while he was undergoing intensive chemotheraphy treatment, and was only a few credits short of graduating when he died.

We established this scholarship to be awarded to a BHS senior planning a major in math or physics in the hopes that it will help a deserving student achieve Chuck's goal of becoming the next Stephen Hawkings. Amara Mbionwu was last year's scholarship winner. Chuck was a scholar-athlete of the best kind, and truly the dearest young person one could imagine: smart, witty, modest, kind, and beloved by all. It is an honor for the scholarship team to plan and execute this 5K in his memory.