Walpole Residents Honored as Patty Roche Memorial Scholars

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Erica McLaughlin (left), Kyle Ryan (center) and Alexandra Ordway (right) at the Roche Scholarship Dinner.

EASTON, MA (09/22/2011)(readMedia)-- Walpole residents Erica McLaughlin, Kyle Ryan, and Alexandra Ordway attended a special dinner for Patty Roche Memorial Scholars at Stonehill College in Easton recently. Stonehill's Roche Memorial Scholarship gives priority to Roche Brothers Supermarkets, Inc. employees and children of employees.

McLaughlin is senior Communication major while Ryan is a sophomore Biology major at Stonehill. Ordway is a first-year student at the College.

The scholarship is named in honor of Patty Roche, a Stonehill alumna and Personnel Director of Roche Brothers who died in 1986 of a brain tumor. The scholarship, which has assisted nearly 50 Stonehill students since it was established in 1992, is funded by Patty's parents Bud and Eileen Roche. In 1952, Bud Roche and his brother Patrick founded Roche Brothers in Roslindale.