YSU student remembered as leader with bright future cut short

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University student Eric Stone was a leader and an excellent student who worked hard and was always smiling and willing to help others, according to some of those who knew him.

The junior electrical engineering major died Tuesday evening after he collapsed playing basketball at the Andrews Student Recreation Center on campus.

“He was very energetic,” said F. Mossayebi, associate professor in YSU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Stone’s academic adviser. “He was always smiling. He was an excellent student and had a 4.0 grade point average.”

Mossayebi also is the faculty adviser for the Youngstown chapter of the Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers of which Stone was the president.

Andy Morgan, the organization’s secretary, was in many of the same classes with Stone and the two worked on projects together.

“He was a bright young man who always worked hard, and he always had a smile on his face when he did,” Morgan, of Vienna, said. “Everything he did, he was dedicated to it.”

University Counseling Services was available to counsel students Wednesday.

It’s exam week at the university, and Mossayebi said students were offered the opportunity to put their finals off to another date if they felt uncomfortable because of their classmate’s death.

Read more about Stone in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.