Mike Dillon Earns Agganis Foundation Scholarship

The Agganis Foundation has selected Mike Dillon of Lynnfield High School as one of its 2011 scholarship recipients. Dillon is headed to Tufts.

With this year’s class, the Foundation has awarded $1,436,525 in scholarships to 845 student-athletes since its inception in 1955.

The Foundation is named for Harry Agganis, a legendary athlete at Lynn Classical and Boston University who was the starting first baseman for the Boston Red Sox when he died unexpectedly in 1955 at the age of 26.

This year’s scholarship winners are headed to colleges such as Boston College, Brown, Harvard and Tufts.

Agganis scholarship recipients receive $1,000 for each of the four years they are in college. There are four student-athletes chosen as Yawkey/Agganis scholarship winners, with the scholarships funded by a donation from the Yawkey Foundation. Two recipients, one of which was Dillon, are awarded Michael J. Agganis scholarships, funded by a cousin of Harry Agganis who owns a professional baseball team in Ohio.

One recipient who is a resident of either Swampscott or Marblehead receives the Angelopulos/Oppenheim scholarship, donated by Chuck Angelopulos in memory of his friend, Peter Oppenheim. One recipient is awarded the Patrick J. McManus Scholarship in memory of a Lynn mayor who is the only person to receive an Agganis Scholarship, play in an Agganis All-Star Classic and serve on the Agganis Foundation Board of Trustees.

The scholarship recipients will be honored at the Agganis awards ceremony, July 10 at 10 a.m. at Manning Field in Lynn.