risen to $38,000.

The sum will allow Ewan's parents Penny and Tyrone to finalise their plan for an annual scholarship in Ewan's honour.

And more and more donations continue to come in, with $13,000 having been raised in the last month alone.

Mr. and Mrs. Sampson have dedicated themselves to the scholarship fund ever since 17-year-old Ewan died after the head-on collision with a bakery van on April 21.

They have found trustees to work on the project.

And they are hoping the Island's budding computer experts can follow their dreams at overseas universities by making use of the scholarship.

Ewan, a graduate student at Saltus Grammar School, had already secured his place to study information technology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.

He had planned to share a room with his best friend Ben Beasley, who was in Canada recently for early registration.

But Ben's mother Lorraine joined former Saltus head boy David DeCosta yesterday to donate almost $6,000 to the Sampsons outside The Royal Gazette's offices on Par-la-Ville Road.

Mrs. Beasley raised $2,640 in sponsorship during a walkathon last month, organised by Mr. DeCosta. The other 150 walkers who took part in the event, which ran from Warwick Long Bay to Saltus, raised the other $3,000. Mr.

DeCosta handed over the cheque for $5,650 to Mrs. Sampson.

He said: "I was quite a few years ahead of Ewan at school and in fact I was his prefect at one point.

"I wanted to organise the walkathon to give something back to the memory of a remarkable young man who gave so freely of himself to others.

"And I keep getting more and more donations. I have even got some more cheques at home.'' The fund topped $25,000 towards the end of June.

Mr. Sampson told The Royal Gazette the first scholarship award could now be presented next summer.

Ewan died in hospital on April 21, hours after the crash on Middle Road, Southampton.

His bike slid out of control when the kickstand became caught on the road surface and he was killed yards from the spot which claimed the life of 27-year-old Mark North in another accident 11 days earlier.

Anybody wishing to contribute to the Ewan Sampson Memorial Scholarship fund should quote account number 70115742 at the Bank of Bermuda or 20-006-060-881768-200 at the Bank of Butterfield.

WITH THANKS -- Penny and Tyrone Sampson (right) accept a cheque for $5,650 from David DeCosta and Lorraine Beasley outside The Royal Gazette's offices.