$5,000 scholarships awarded to Honor Roll Girl and Boy - Sports ... - The Providence Journal

PROVIDENCE â€" Smithfield's Stephanie Mattson and Barrington's Corey Daugherty, the 2015 Providence Journal Honor Roll Girl and Honor Roll Boy, each will receive a $5,000 scholarship awarded by Wendy's and the Peter Bennett Scholarship Fund. 

The Wendy's-Peter Bennett Scholarship is given in memory of the late Peter Bennett, who died in 1973 at age 11. The Bennett family, led by Harvey Bennett Jr., one of Peter's older brothers and owner of 11 Wendy's restaurants in Rhode Island, established the scholarship in partnership with The Providence Journal in 2006. 

The Bennett Family Association with the Honor Roll program dates to the mid-1960s when Curt Bennett, the oldest of six brothers and an All-State hockey and tennis player at Cranston East, was the 1966 Honor Roll Boy. 

Mt. Hope's Tyler Barbosa, the 2015 Dick Reynolds Correspondent award winner, will receive a $5,000 scholarship through a fund named in honor of the late Providence Journal sports writer. The fund was established through the estate of Dick Reynolds' late sister Catherine Reynolds. 

Mattson, Daugherty and Barbosa will also receive a $1,000 gift certificate from Cardi's Furniture, a longtime partner of the Honor Roll program. 

Wendy's also will provide each Honor Roll and Reynolds Award nominee a product gift certificate. 

The Honor Roll Girl and Boy are selected by a committee comprised of Anne Hird, the 1977 Honor Roll Girl; Richard Santaniello, the 1952 Honor Roll Boy; Elizabeth Marquis, former assistant chair of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League's Principals Committee on Athletics; Richard Lynch, former Smithfield superintendent of schools and former Rhode Island Interscholastic League executive director; and Providence Journal sports writer John Gillooly. 

The Reynolds correspondent award is selected by the Providence Journal sports department. 

â€" jgillool@providencejournal.com 

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