b'16 PaysoncaresZORAN BOSKOVIC I Grace Orzechowski Scholarship recipientIm chasing the dream that was also Graces1,000 percent, 1,000 percent, he said as he completes classes and trains at Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care, where Grace was treated. Zoran realizes becoming a radiation therapist involves more than medical treatment.The big thing is the one-on-one connection I get to have with patients as they come in every single day, \x1c ve days a week, for a certain amount of time, he said. The connection includes helping Zoran Boskovic, 20, of Laconia isZoran was the \x1c rst recipient of Gracesreassure anxious and fearful patients grateful that training to become aScholarship and Grace was the \x1c rstand being their ray of sunshine on radiation therapist allows him toclassmate Zoran met on campus whentheir cloudy days, he said.connect closely with patients. As hehe \x1c rst became a student at NHTI. He is proud the scholarship created in completes his studies, he also isGrace stood out from day one, Zoranmemory of his classmate and friend is grateful for a close connection with asaid. If there was one person that Ihelping him toward that goal.classmate at New Hampshire Technicalwould say, Ill have you \x1c ght for me, InstituteGrace Orzechowski. I am grateful to Graces family and it was Grace. She was very, very, veryto her as a person, as a classmate, he Grace enrolled in the radiationoutgoing, very optimistic, a verysaid. Its really an honor to receive it.therapy program while in treatmentglass-half-full type of person. It makes for brain cancer. When she died of theme choke up because of how nice of a disease last year, her family(below)person she was. established a scholarship for NHTIZoran and Graces other classmates radiation therapy students.graduate in August.Zoran Boskovic inside the classroom (above)and outside the MacRury Building on the NHTI campus(right)with Professor Amy VonKadich, Head of the Diagnostic Medical Imaging Department, where Grace and he received training in radiation therapy.Pictured left to right are Graces mom, Anne LaForce; father, Ray Orzechowski; sister, Hannah; Grace; and brother, Sam.'