WKU will host a memorial service at 4 p.m. at the Guthrie Bell Tower for First Lt. Eric D. Yates, a WKU ROTC graduate who was killed this weekend in Afghanistan.

Yates, of Rineyville, was serving with the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan, according to a university news release.

Associate history professor Patricia Minter taught Yates’ senior seminar class on civil rights, civil liberties and global perspective.

“I found him to be a very interesting person,” she said. “He was someone who was in ROTC, who came to me and wanted to write his senior seminar paper about Ghandi.”

She said Yates was a nice student and a bright young man.

“It’s a terrible tragedy. I’m very sad,” she said.

Check Friday’s Herald for a full obituary and coverage of the memorial.