CHARLESTON, W.Va. — About once a year, New Jersey resident Jim Gray receives a simple thank you note in the mail.
Each year’s young writer, Gray says, pens a sentiment about like this: “I’m grateful. I love playing for the Mountaineers. This will go a long way to help me.”
Chris Gray earned his bachelors degree at WVU in 1992 and his masters in 1994.
As meaningful as the “Chris Gray Memorial Scholarship” may be to its recipient, the thank you notes are equally meaningful to Jim Gray, Chris’s father.
The thank you notes, sent by football players benefiting from the scholarship, are a symbol that Chris, who died at age 32 in the Cantor Fitzgerald offices of One World Trade Center on Sept.