Daily News names scholarship winners

By Charles Frost
Staff writer

May 24, 2008 03:51 am

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Each year, The Daily News awards $1,000 college scholarships to newspaper carriers. We're proud to announce this year's winners:

Jeffrey Hanshaw, 18, said his best subjects in school have always been science and math.

That's why the Amesbury High School senior will major in chemistry in the fall when he attends Merrimack College. Although he doesn't know what he will do after he graduates, he said he is looking at two options, chemical engineering or pharmaceutical research.

"(Chemistry) has always been one of my favorite subjects," Hanshaw said. "There are a lot of things you do with it in the real world."

Hanshaw is very involved at school as well, as a member of several different clubs, including the school newspaper and student council, and he is in a few different honor societies.

He delivered newspapers for The Daily News for three years. Being a newspaper carrier was his first job and a responsibility he decided to take on because others he knew who had paper routes had a good experience doing it.

"I learned a lot about responsibility and how it is to have a job," Hanshaw said.

Hanshaw is the son of Thomas and Gale Hanshaw of Amesbury.

David Reynolds, 18, learned a lot of valuable lessons from his job as a newspaper carrier for seven and a half years, which began when he was 10.

"It definitely taught me a lot about personal finance," said Reynolds, a Newburyport High School senior. "That's when I started my first checking account, and it taught me how to balance my money and self-management. It is a good experience having a job at that young of an age."

He said his favorite part of being a newspaper carrier was being able to interact with his neighbors and learn more about them.

Reynolds plans to attend the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in the fall, majoring in nuclear medicine technology.

"I will probably work in some type of hospital or clinical setting using my major after I graduate, helping people who need help," Reynolds said.

For now he spends his time working at Anna Jaques Hospital in food service and in the summer, he works for the city of Newburyport, mowing lawns and doing other odd jobs.

David is the son of John and Susan Reynolds of Newburyport.

Andrew Senior, 17, cannot even remember how long he has delivered papers. What he does remember, however, is what it taught him.

"You definitely learn to appreciate money and working for money," Senior said. Delivering papers for The Daily News was Senior's first job, and his first taste of his own finances.

This job introduced the young Senior to not only money managing, but also the world of newspapers. Now, a senior at Newburyport High School, Senior has been involved with the school's paper since his junior year and is currently the editor.

Now, as he heads off to either Syracuse University or the University of Massachusetts Amherst (he is undecided), Senior wishes to continue in the direction of journalism.

"I'm really interested in magazine journalism," Senior said.

In addition to working at the paper, Senior said that he has been playing baseball his "whole life" and currently plays for the NHS team.

Andrew is the son of Thomas and Joyce Senior of Newburyport.

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