Story Published:
Jan 4, 2006 at 8:32 AM PST
Story Updated:
Aug 31, 2006 at 1:10 AM PST
SPOKANE - A Gonzaga University student died after
slipping from a rock wall and falling down a cliff near Scotland's
St. Andrew's Golf Course, school officials said.
Matthew C. Madison, 20, a junior from Bozeman, Mont., was
pronounced dead at the scene early Tuesday after he apparently
slipped off a rock wall and fell about 60 feet from cliffs
overlooking the North Sea near the course, the university said in a
news release.
"The collective heart and prayers of the Gonzaga University
family go out to Matthew's family and friends," Gonzaga University
President Rev. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., said.
Madison, an avid golfer and former all-state high school golfer
in Montana, was on Christmas break from the school's one-year study
abroad program in Florence, Italy. He was scheduled to play a round
at the course later Tuesday and had gone there with friends to
check it out, the university said.
Funeral arrangements were pending Tuesday. A memorial service
will be held on the Gonzaga campus in Spokane after students return
for spring semester Jan. 17, school officials said.
Madison graduated from Belgrade, Mont., High School. At Gonzaga,
he was an electrical engineering major.
He is survived by his parents, Dan and Marilyn Madison of
Bozeman and an older brother and sister.