This year’s Outstanding Vocational Student from the Dental Assisting program is Lauren Kerrigan*. The daughter of Thomas Kerrigan and Catherine Brown of Fall River, Lauren came to Diman from Kuss Middle School.

Lauren is currently ranked 6th in her class with a 3.95 GPA and received academic awards for biology in 10th grade and anatomy & physiology in 11th grade, as well as earning the highest average in Dental Assisting all four years. Lauren has volunteered with Key Club as a junior, Relay for Life in 2014, the Old Colony Haunted Railyard fundraiser in 2014, and Diman’s Admissions Night in 2013 and 2014.

Lauren intends to be a radiology technician, and plans to attend college at Bristol Community College to study Pre-Radiology, then transfer to Massasoit Community College to study Radiologic Technology.

* John and Abagail Adams Scholarship recipient