Scholarship Description Written by Kyle Downey and Jason Mosley

Anita Mathur, Judy (Williams) Kucera, Matt Smith, Sebastien Roy, Amy Priestley-Roy, Steve Wourgiotis

Order of Scholarship Presentations

The first scholarship in the amount of $500.00, was given to ORHS graduating Senior, Matthew MacDowell Smith on June 11, 2004. Anita Mathur, Judy (Williams) Kucera, and Steve Wourigiotis (ORHS '91) awarded the scholarship at the graduation ceremony. Sebastien Roy and Amy (Priestley) Roy were also in attendance. Special thanks to Tim Myer's mom, Carole York, for videotaping the presentation!

Matt with framed photo of Peter headed off to climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park

Matt is an ORHS honor student and will be attending UNH next year to pursue Environmental Studies. His sport interests include hiking, skiing, snowboarding, biking, spear fishing, surfing, and running competitively. He has experience hiking in the rainforests and mountainous regions of South India and on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Matt has receieved numerous awards for track and field and cross country including: Twelve Season Athlete, Most Committeed Athlete, Leadership Award, Team Sportsmanship award, and High School Men's Athletic and Academic Award. In addition he helped set the school record in the 4X200 meter relay during his senior year.

Outside of sports Matt is a math tutor, does landscaping work, and writes articles for the school newspaper (article part 1, article part 2). He also volunteers at fundraisers for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and YMCA Art Auction. During the summer of 2002 Matt participated in Project SMART in Environmental Science and Marine Biology at the University of New Hampshire. He also enjoys panning for gold in consultation with the UNH Geology department.

We are thrilled that Matthew Smith is the first recipient of the Peter D. Grant "Wild Ride" Adventure Scholarship!

UPDATE MAY 2008:
Congratulations to Matt Smith who graduated from UNH
with a Bachelor's Degree in Natural Resources!