Cutline: Gretchen Carroll

Carroll awarded scholarship

The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund of Salem, Mass., recently awarded a $4,000 college scholarship to Gretchen Carroll.

A graduate of Westbrook High School, Carroll will attend the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn., in the fall. She was one of 178 new students who received an award this year and she was recognized for academic achievement as well as notable community, school and work activities.

Loring URI senior

Billy Loring, son of Bill and Donna Loring of Hardy Road, has finished his third year at the University of Rhode Island.

His mom said he ranks first in his class in both his double majors, accounting and finance. She said he was hired for part time accounting office work last fall during the school year and for fulltime this summer at Textron in Providence, R.I. She said Textron is a Fortune 500 company that manufactures helicopter parts.

Loring is a member of the Beta Alpha Psi accounting fraternity. Next year, he will serve as president of the fraternity.

He attended a regional convention of the fraternity in May in Philadelphia, Pa. Loring will take part in a national meeting in August in San Francisco, Calif.

Loring, who will be a senior this fall, plans a fifth year at the university to earn a master’s degree in accounting.

Cote on dean’s list

Joseph P. Cote has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Keene State College in Kneene, N.H.