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With Vets High closing so does MacNaught scholarship

Posted 5/31/16

To the Editor: As Warwick Veterans Memorial High comes to a close, so do some of the traditions. Among them is the annual awarding of the MacNaught Memorial Scholarship. On August 7, 1970, 1st Lieutenant Robert W. MacNaught an Airborne Infantry Ranger

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With Vets High closing so does MacNaught scholarship

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To the Editor:

As Warwick Veterans Memorial High comes to a close, so do some of the traditions.  Among them is the annual awarding of the MacNaught Memorial Scholarship. On August 7, 1970, 1st Lieutenant Robert W. MacNaught an Airborne Infantry Ranger assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade was killed in action while leading his platoon in a nighttime Search and Destroy mission. It was his 2nd tour in Vietnam.  

In 1973, The MacNaught family started a scholarship in his honor awarded to the Most Valuable Wrestler of the Warwick Vets team, decided solely by the recipient’s peer team members. John Howell wrote a Memorial Day piece on Bob MacNaught in the May 29, 2012 edition.  At that time there was no thought that Vets would be closing a short four years later.  

Bob was the only casualty of the Warwick Vets Class of 1963 lost in Vietnam, and the class remembered him with a 50th Reunion Scholarship in 2013. Bob competed in the 110- and 127-pound class at Vets before attending both Northeastern University and Wentworth Institute where he graduated with a degree in Industrial Technology.

This past weekend the Vets wrestling team held their final banquet where I awarded the 44th and final scholarship to Kendall Watts, who competed in the 132 lb. class. It is a four-year award.

It was fitting that the final Vets team coach, Anthony Meyers was a two-time winner of the MacNaught Memorial.  

Kenneth MacNaught

Warwick

Kenneth MacNaught is Robert's brother. 

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  • JohnStark

    A fitting tribute to an American hero. Congratulations to Kendall and a debt of gratitude to the MacNaught family.

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