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QUADangles JULY 2008, VOL. 15, NO. 5

DEPARTMENTS UP FRONT 3 News and views PRESS BOX 8 PHOTO PAGE 10 Happy Birthday Rhody! ALUMNI CHAPTERS 26 Upcoming events and contacts PHOTO WRAP-UP 28 50th Reunion and Golden Grad Weekend LOOKING BACK 30 CLASS ACTS 31 News from your classmates and alumni profiles BACK PAGE 40 The Dedication of M. Beverly Swan Hall INSIDE BACK COVER Profile in Giving Steven Bouley ’80 and Rhonda Wilson BACK COVER Homecoming 2008 COVER AND IFC: NORA LEWIS CONTENTS: NORA LEWIS; MICHAEL SALERNO; GEORGE DISARIO;

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GOING GREEN By Todd McLeish How URI is building a sustainable campus community

THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD By David Gregorio ’80 William Flynn is president and CEO of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., an airfreight company with the world’s largest fleet of 747 freighters

GIFT OF LIFE By Jan Wenzel ’87 Daniel Carpenter donated 60 percent of his liver to his ailing colleague David Gitlitz

TWENTY YEARS AND COUNTING By Rudi Hempe ’62 The Kingston Chamber Music Festival gears up this summer with a series of concerts to celebrate its 20th year

PRESERVING CORAL, COASTLINES, AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS By Marybeth Reilly-McGreen Their work takes oceanographers John McManus and Liana Talaue-McManus to the world’s coastal areas

GREAT EXPECTATIONS By Vida-Wynne Griffin ’67, M.A. ’72 Clarice Odhiambo is on a mission to bring clean water, sanitation, and small business opportunities to the women of African villages

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It’s no secret that the Internet has changed the way we communicate. We’re taking advantage of the latest advances in this technology to stay in touch with alumni and s upporters. HAPPY CAMPERS This will be the eighth year for URI Alumni Family Camp, held this year July 18-20! Stay overnight in one of our newest residence halls, Eddy Hall, or come for day camp. Join us for an optional day trip to Block Island, take in all the wonders of the 30th annual South County Balloon Festival, and dig into an authentic Rhode Island Lobster Bake. Keep your cool by skating at Boss Ice Arena, and learn about the stars and the world of dinosaurs from outstanding URI faculty! For the full schedule of activities planned for 2008 Family Camp, visit our Web site at advance.uri.edu/ alumni/events/familycamp, and register online! Don’t delay—last year’s Family Camp was a sellout! SMILE Browse photos from our 122nd Commencement, the Class of 1958’s 50th Reunion, our Golden Grad Celebration, Alumni Golf Tournament, and more by going to advance.uri.edu/ photoalbums. You are sure to see some familiar faces! WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CHAPTERS This summer, alumni in Chicago, Arizona, and New Jersey are heading to the ballpark. In Northern California, they are planning their popular annual San Mateo clambake. For the most up-to-date listing of upcoming alumni chapter events near and far, go to advance.uri.edu/alumni/ events/chapters. FILM FEST The Alumni Association invites you to opening night of the Rhode Island International Film Festival at the Providence Performing Arts Center on August 5. Enjoy the premiere and post-screening gala with alumni and friends. For more information or to register online, go to advance.uri.edu/alumni/events/calendar. PRIDE IN URI NIGHT AT MCCOY Head to the ballpark on August 20 and enjoy this popular Rhody summertime tradition! Join alumni, family, and friends for a great night as the PawSox take on Syracuse at McCoy Stadium. Gates open at 5 p.m. for all-you-can-eat burgers, hot dogs, and the fixings. The game begins at 7:05 p.m. For more information and to register online, go to advance.uri.edu/alumni/events/pridenight.

Give a Special Gift for Graduation Buy a brick on the URI Century Walk, and give a gift that lasts a lifetime. For $150, you can order a 4” x 8” brick for yourself, to honor a friend, a former faculty member, a student, or to recognize your fraternity, sorority, club, reunion class, or alumni chapter. Inscriptions are limited to two lines with a maximum of 14 characters per line. For more information or to order online, visit advance.uri.edu/alumni/centurywalk or contact Mary Ann Mazzone, URI Alumni Relations, at 401-874-2242. Your brick donation is tax deductible and benefits Alumni Association scholarships and programming.

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QUAD angles QUAD ANGLES is a publication of the University of Rhode Island Alumni Association, Division of University Advancement, 73 Upper College Road, Kingston, RI 02881-2011. Phone: 401-874-2242. Vice President for University Advancement Robert M. Beagle Executive Editor Michele Nota ’87, M.S. ’06 Editorial Committee Paula M. Bodah ’78 Jodi Hawkins Mike Laprey Dave Lavallee ’79, M.P.A. ’87 Liz O'Brien Managing Editor Vida-Wynne Griffin ’67, M.A. ’72 Associate Editor Jan Wenzel ’87 Interim Director of Publications Russell Kolton Director of Communications Linda Acciardo ’77 Contributing Editors Mary Ann Mazzone, Class Acts Nicki Toler, Alumni Online & Chapters Contributing Designers Johnson Ma Bo Pickard Kim Robertson Verna Thurber Photographer Nora Lewis Alumni Relations Staff Michelle Fontes ’96, Assistant Director Lisa Harrison ’89, Executive Assistant Sarah Howard ’96, Associate Director Jessie Kenyon, Assistant Director Gina Simonelli ’01, M.S. ’03, Assistant Director Alumni Association Executive Board Gary W. Kullberg ’63, President Peter J. Miniati III ’85, Past President Victoria H. Wallace, M.S. ’82, Vice President Donald P. Sullivan ’71, Vice President Joseph M. Confessore ’96, Treasurer Councilors-at-Large Ana Barraza ’93, M.S. ’04 Mark A. Davis ’83 Carlos M. Ferreira ’89 Allison E. Field ’95 John Finan ’80 Ronald P. Joseph ’67 Kelly J. Nevins ’90, M.S. ’02 Kathleen P. O’Donnell-White ’90 Raymond B. Sepe ’62, M.S. ’67 Benjamin W. Tuthill ’04 Representatives Arts & Sciences: Jerome H. Kritz ’76 Business: Henry Nardone ’90 Continuing Education: Edna Poulin ’71 Engineering: Leo Mainelli ’58 Environment & Life Sciences: Wayne K. Durfee ’50 Faculty Senate: Mary C. MacDonald ’82, M.L.S. ’97 Human Science & Services: John Boulmetis ’71, M.S. ’73 Nursing: Deborah D. O’Brien ’85, M.S. ’96 Oceanography: Mary B. Wiley, M.S. ’86 Pharmacy: Lynn M. Pezzullo ’91 Student Alumni Association: Brittany Manseau ’08 Student Senate: Neil Leston ’08 URI Foundation: Mary F. Carmody, M.S. ’82 URI is an equal opportunity employer committed to the principles of affirmative action. The ideas and opinions expressed in QUAD ANGLES do not necessarily reflect those of the Alumni Association, the editor, or the University. QUAD ANGLES is published five times a year for alumni and friends of the University of Rhode Island; standard postage paid at Burlington, Vt. QUAD ANGLES is printed at The Lane Press, South Burlington, Vt., and is recyclable.

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Bestselling British Author Visits The University kept author Chris Cleave of London busy as a writer-in-residence this spring teaching classes, running creative workshops, and giving public lectures at the Kingston and Feinstein Providence Campuses. His book, Incendiary, is an international bestseller that was published in 20 countries. A movie based on the book and directed by Sharon Maguire (director of Bridget Jones’s Diary) will be released this year. Cleave’s visit was a result of his participation in an online forum that was part of an honors seminar last year taught by Alain-Philippe Durand, associate professor of French, film media, and comparative literature. The course explored the 2001 terrorist attacks through a selection of post 9/11 literature and film, including Cleave’s novel. “Not only did Cleave write a compelling and prescient novel, but he graciously and thoughtfully responded to every point the students made,” says Naomi Mandel, associate professor of English and comparative literature. “Not all the students liked the book, but Cleave took their reservations as grist for an engaging dialogue.” Mandel and Durand joined forces in the spring to teach an honors seminar, Novels of the Contemporary Extreme, that explored emerging global litera-

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ture set in an often apocalyptic world invaded by popular culture, permeated with technology, and dominated by destruction. The two professors edited and wrote chapters for a book, Novels of the Contemporary Extreme, published by Continuum in 2006. Students found Cleave engaging. “Chris Cleave is a wonderful person and very genuine,” said Megan Coral. “He was open to listening to viewpoints that didn’t agree with his and said that some of the comments had actually persuaded him to see things in new ways.” Katie Collazzo agreed. “I thought his book was haunting and original,” she said, noting that she and Coral gave Cleave a campus tour. During the tour, Cleave mentioned that his two sons asked him to bring back American candy. The students later surprised the author with bags of gummi worms. “What an incredible, life-affirming experience it was for me to be surrounded by such intense intellectual engagement—and such fun and kindness too,” the author emailed shortly after returning to England. “I will never forget it. In fact it has had an immediate effect on my writing. I sat down this morning and threw away the manuscript I was working on and started something much more fun and a whole lot weirder instead!”

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Let’s Book It! Here’s a recipe for summer reading: Take some little known papal history, add an insightful biography of a press secretary, sprinkle a powerful coming-of-age novel set in British-occupied India, and stir with love. The result is four new books “cooked up” by URI professors.

Remembering Love Count the ways Jody Lisberger knows about love and they’ll add up to at least 10—the same number of short stories in her collection, Remember Love (Fleur-de-Lis Press). Her first book reveals different kinds of love—searching, Jody Lisberger wishful, deluded, young, old, aching, discovered, honest, and enduring. The interim director of our Women’s Studies Program doesn’t have a favorite. “They are all my favorites, I suppose, but for different reasons,” she says. Written over the last decade, the stories aren’t autobiographical, but Lisberger suggests that all stories have traces of the writer in them. Her stories begin with an idea, but once she starts writing, she focuses on character development. “The plot will then take care of itself,” she says. She doesn’t keep a journal, although she did when she was younger. “As I see it now, we each have a limited number of words in us and a limited time for writing, so I don’t want to expend my words or time in doing any writing other than fiction,” she says. “I’m reminded of a renowned French jazz pianist who once stayed at our house. When I asked her how many hours she practiced, she looked up from her seat at the keyboard and said, ‘Practice? I never practice. I always play!’” 4 QUAD ANGLES JULY 2008

Climbing the Charts Padma Venkatraman’s debut novel Climbing the Stairs (Putnam) climbed the charts before its official May publishing date. Although this is her first novel, she has penned 20 other books on a variety of subjects for adults and children. She has plenty of story ideas, just not enough time to write them. Writing isn’t her only vocation. In addition to being an adjunct chemical oceanography professor, she’s the director of the Office of Graduate Diversity Affairs. And she and her husband, Rainer Lohmann, an assistant chemical oceanographer at URI, are new parents. Although she has degrees in oceanography and engineering, her novel isn’t about either. It’s about a young female adolescent growing up in British-occupied India where Gandhi is leading a nonviolence movement to Indian independence while World War II rages on. It’s loosely based on her mother’s Padma Venkatraman experiences. Everyone told the novelist not to take the time to title the book since publishers always change it. She did and they didn’t. “I think the title works on many levels,” the author says. “The 15-year-old protagonist lives in a restricted household and is forbidden to go upstairs to the library because she is a female. She sneaks into the library anyway. Her climb is to womanhood and personal freedom. It’s also about India’s freedom from colonization to independence.”

Presidential Press Stephen T. Early was not a household name during the Depression or World War II, yet he was one of the most influential men in the mid-20th century. As press secretary for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Early was responsible for getting FDR’s messages out to Linda Lotridge Levin the press, employing print journalism, newsreels, and radio broadcasts. He helped the Harvard-educated, wealthy president communicate a robust strength and confidence in a language his fellow countrymen and women could not only understand but embrace. Until now, little was known about Early. Linda Lotridge Levin, professor and chair of our Journalism Department, gives readers an unobstructed view of the man behind the president in her biography, The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America’s First Modern Press Secretary, published in the spring by Prometheus Books. Early’s role as press secretary and presidential image maker kept the president in the spotlight, which helped boost the president’s policies and popularity.

Roosevelt became the longest-serving president in U.S. history. Levin spent more than a dozen summers and winter breaks researching at the FDR Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., where Early’s papers are housed; at the Baker Library at Dartmouth College; the Alderman at the University of Virginia; and at local historical libraries in Virginia and Washington, D.C. She also interviewed Early’s daughter and grandson several times. “The friendship between the two men made the book both fascinating to research and to write,” says Levin. Photo By Michael Salerno

Pulling Back Papal Mourning Curtains When Pope John Paul II died, tens of thousands of mourners filled St. Peter’s Square to express their sympathy. What a difference a few centuries make, according to Joëlle Rollo-Koster, professor of history, whose latest book, Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism, has just been published (Leiden and Boston). During the Middle Ages, it was common to pillage and sack the goods of a dead pope. “Basically, throughout the history of Christianity when a pope or a bishop died, crowds rushed to his dwellings and emptied them of all moveable goods,” says Koster, one of a handful of medieval historians who deal with cultural anthropology, which means she applies anthropological methods to her analysis of events and behaviors. “People are usually interested in papal history, but very few are aware of this practice, which is recorded in ample documentation,” says the historian.

Joëlle Rollo-Koster “Many Catholics do not realize that the election of the pope was once in the hands of the congregation. After the people were marginalized and pushed out of the papal electoral process, the pillaging began,” says Rollo-Koster. UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 5

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Chemical Life after Graduate School

Army’s Best Instructor

Twenty-one chemistry graduate students participated in an intensive three-day seminar designed to get them ready for life after graduate school and into industrial employment or careers in academia. Sponsored by the American Chemical Society, the workshop was a primer for job-seeking skills including mock interviews, résumé critiques, and one-oncareer counseling. The presenter and career consultant was Daniel Eustace, a retired physical organic chemist whose industrial career in applied research, development, manufacturing, and management at Exxon Mobil and Polaroid Corp. spans more than 33 years. Eustace (bottom right) is shown conducting a mock interview with Christina Liuzzi ’03, ’07, a URI organic chemistry graduate student. Neil Pothier, Ph.D. ’94, director of Analytical Services for Chemic Laboratories, was also on hand to share his industrial experience with the group. The seminar, Preparing for Life after Graduate School, was the result of a 2002 ACS survey of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who found that despite terrific research training, many doctoral programs fail to offer pertinent career information or guidance.

Filling the GAP for 20 Years

During the spring, the U.S. Army acknowledged URI’s teaching excellence by selecting Maj. Robert Edwards for its most prestigious teaching award, the Col. Leo A. Codd Memorial Award, which is presented each year to the most outstanding ROTC instructor from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. “It’s the best job in the world,” says an exuberant Edwards, who recently concluded his three-year assignment to URI ROTC’s Cramer Saber Battalion where he taught URI, Roger Williams University, and Salve Regina University students enrolled in URI ROTC. “And it’s the most important. There are many ways to serve one’s country. Maj. Robert Edwards “All the staff and instructors in URI ROTC, as well as the administrators at URI, deserve to share this great honor,” he adds. Teaching comes naturally to Edwards. A native of Fairfax, Va., he earned three degrees from Virginia Tech—a bachelor’s degree in business, a master’s degree in education, and an M.B.A. He was a teacher and coach in the Fairfax County public school system for eight years while in the Army Reserves before beginning active duty in 2003, which has included a tour in Iraq. “Soldier, scholar, teacher, and mentor, he does it all with excellence and character. Robert is an outstanding representative of our Army and our University,” commented Lt. Col. Paul Yager, commanding officer and department chair of military science.

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“It’s every parent’s dream that their children do better than themselves,” confided Luis Palencia who, with his wife, Rosa, comes from Guatemala. URI is helping make the Palencia family’s dream come true. Their son, Chris, a junior at Rogers High School in Newport, was one of 147 high school students from seven urban high schools who signed a contract with Guaranteed Admissions Program this spring at our Feinstein Providence Campus. It was the largest group of students to sign the contract since Marcia Marker Feld of URI’s Urban Field Center and David Taggert, former dean of Admissions, developed the program two decades ago. The program provides URI with a way to recruit and encourage students of color and students from

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disadvantaged backgrounds. Most are the first in their families to consider college as an option. Students sign contracts in which they agree to take college preparatory courses, maintain B- averages, participate in summer programs and after school workshops, take college tours, and meet all URI admission requirements. In return, URI promises them places in the freshman class. Cynthia Bonn, dean of Admission (right), the student’s high school principal, and the student’s parent or guardian also signs the contact. URI’s Talent Development Program took GAP under its wing in 2004. Today, more than 500 students are in the GAP/TD program, which recently expanded to urban middle schools. The core staff includes Gerald R. Williams, director; Joanna N. Ravello, assistant director; Marc D. Hardge, Sara Potter, Kevin A. Smith, and Debra L. Veloso; GAP/TD coordinators. In addition, GAP/TD recruits 35 to 40 Talent Development students to serve as mentors during fall and spring search weekends.

Global Environmental Change Global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and biological extinctions are among the topics that will be addressed during this fall’s Honors Colloquium, People and Planet, Global Environmental Change. Coordinated by oceanography professors Steve D’Hondt and Art Spivack, the series will feature bi-weekly public lectures by internationally recognized experts and a film series designed to promote discus-

sion of human-induced global change viewed through the prism of popular culture. The colloquium Web site (uri.edu/hc) will include streaming video of the lectures, a list of recommended readings, maps and images designed to promote deeper understanding of the issues, and an Ask a Scientist section that will allow visitors to ask questions.by URI faculty.

Andy Warhol at URI Some 150 original Andy Warhol polaroid and gelatin silver prints were donated by the Photographic Legacy Program, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, to our Fine Arts Center Galleries last spring. URI is one of only 180 academically affiliated galleries/museums nationwide to receive such a gift, which was given due to the galleries’ prominence as a Jack Nicklaus contemporary art showcase. Warhol (1928-1987), a central Pop Art figure, was particularly prolific during the ‘60s when he created his famous images of a Campbell’s Soup can and Marilyn Monroe. Using a Polaroid Big Shot and a Minolta SLR automatic 35 mm camera, the artist often captured a person or event with both cameras, cropping one in Polaroid color as a “photograph” and snapping another in black and white as a “picture.” URI’s Warhol collection includes images of celebrities such as Carly Simon, Jack Nicklaus, Carly Simon and Giorgio Armani as well as celebrities’ animals, urban landscapes, and more. The prints are available for public viewing and study in the Special Collections Unit of the University Library in its permanent collection. For more information visit uri.edu/ library/special_collections/.

Hillel Building Enthusiasm More than 100 students, faculty, alumni, and Jewish community leaders welcomed a $1 million gift from the family of the late Rhode Island business leader and philanthropist Norman N. Fain ’36, Hon. ’67. The gift will help build a permanent Hillel center on the Kingston Campus that will serve as a meeting place where students can celebrate Jewish life, explore Jewish and universal issues, build life-long friendships, and enrich their personal growth. Jonathan Fain, son of Norman and Rosalie Fain, is shown talking about his father’s legacy of support for the University and the Jewish community. For more information go to uri.edu/news/releases/index.php?id=4403.

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Rowing Team Wins Atlantic 10 Championship Last year’s Rhode Island women’s rowing team won more races than any school at the Atlantic 10 Championship. Unfortunately, their overall point total was one shy of Massachusetts, so the Minutewomen took home the Atlantic 10 crown. Despite earning Coach of the Year honors in her first year at the helm, Shelagh Donohoe and her team were not satisfied. This spring, the Rhody rowers returned to Cooper River Park in Pennsauken, N.J. Several hours later, the Rams left the Garden State with their first-ever Atlantic 10 Championship, winning the Varsity 8, Varsity 4, and the Lightweight 4 while cruising past second-place UMass, 135–119. “This caps a tremendous season for our team,” said Donohoe, who garnered A-10 Coach of the Shelagh Donohoe Year honors for the second consecutive season. The Rams’ Varsity 8 boat, which placed first with a time of 7:09.0, finished more than two seconds ahead of second-place Saint Joseph’s to earn 40 points. In the Varsity 4 race, the Rams recorded a time of 8:24.2, which was more than 20 seconds ahead of second-place UMass and good for 20 points. The

Lightweight 4 boat, meanwhile, finished with a time of 8:05.7 to earn another 10 points. In the 2nd Varsity 8 Grand Final, the Rams finished with a time of 7:15.3, which placed them second and gave them 27 points. URI also took another eight points with a second-place finish in the 2nd Novice 8 Grand Final (7:56.8). Rhode Island’s third-place finish in the Novice 8 Grand Final (7:35.5) was good for 16 points while fourth-place finishes in both the Lightweight 8 Grand Final (8:26.0) and the Quad Grand Final (8:49.3) were worth seven points each. While the Rams did not advance to the NCAA Tournament, they set a new standard for future URI rowing teams. The following week, seniors Jill Brockmann, Tamara Burman, Ashley Coughlin, Tara Dorsey, Kathleen Hinkel, Beth McArdle, Whitney Phaup, Linnea Rowse, Lucy Sumners, and Amy VanRensburg were honored at the team’s final home meet.

URI Student-Athletes Honored at R.I. State House

Geoffrey Cameron

Men’s Soccer

Danleigh Borman

Two graduates from the 2007 men’s soccer team, Geoffrey Cameron (Attleboro, Mass.) and Danleigh Borman (Cape Town, South Africa), continue to impress their Major League Soccer teams. A member of the two-time defending MLS champion Houston Dynamo, Cameron made his professional debut in front of his hometown crowd when the Dynamo traveled to Gillette Stadium to take on the New England Revolution in their March 29 season opener. A week later, Cameron’s game-tying goal against Dallas FC beat out four other MLS stars— including David Beckham—for the Sierra Mist MLS Goal of the Week. At press time, Borman—who was picked seventh overall in the supplemental draft—had seen action in each of the New York Red Bulls four games, earning his first MLS start at Dallas on April 12.

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Seen here are, left to right, Steven Maurano, associate commissioner of higher education for external affairs, President Carothers, John DeCubellis ’82, and Rep. Ken Carter. Ten URI student-athletes were honored as part of a Scholar-Athlete Awards Reception at the Rhode Island State House on April 28. Jimmy Baron (men’s basketball), Tamara Burman (rowing), Jamie Degidio (baseball), Stephanie Gregory (women’s track & field), Brendan Lamboy (men’s track & field), Beth McArdle (rowing), Mike McCampbell (golf), Deb Nelson (women’s soccer), Jeannie Records (field hockey) and David Wilson (football) were presented with a plaque and a citation from the State. In addition, John DeCubellis ‘82 was honored with an outstanding athletics alumnus award.

Senior Banquet Awards

Seniors Jill Anderson (softball), Will Daniels (men’s basketball), Damien Gresko (football), and Dora Larusdottir (women’s soccer) received the Athletic Department’s four major awards while the entire student-athlete Class of 2008 was honored at the Damien Gresko Narragansett Towers on April 28. Anderson and Gresko received the Elizabeth Holmes Award presented annually to the female and male graduating seniors who have combined exceptional scholastic achievement with outstanding athletic talent. Daniels took home the Albert LeBoeuf Award, while Larusdottir was given the Winifred Keaney Award; these awards are presented to the most outstanding student-athletes who have been role models throughout their collegiate careers while remaining in good academic standing.

Dora Larusdottir

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Reading Week A number of URI studentathletes visited local elementary schools as part of the National Education Association’s National Reading Week. Members of the football, volleyball, swimming & diving, women’s basketball, and women’s track teams spent time reading to students at Peace Dale Elementary, Warwick Neck Elementary, Matunuck School, Hamilton Elementary, Wakefield Elementary, and the URI Child Development Center.

Men’s Basketball

Will Daniels (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) was one of 22 of the nation’s top senior studentathletes selected to take part in the 2008 NABC All-Star Game. The game, which served as a tip-off event for the NCAA Final Four weekend, was played on April 4 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Daniels is the first Rhode Island student to participate in the event. A week later, classmate Parfait Bitee (Yaounde, Cameroon) was one of 62 seniors selected to play in the 56th Annual Portsmouth Invitational Tour- Parfait Bitee nament, the nation’s oldest amateur basketball tournament where players are able to showcase their talents for NBA scouts and representatives from international leagues. UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 9

Many Happy Returns!

The Ram was adopted as our mascot on March 8, 1923, and Rhody celebrated this special anniversary surrounded by alumni and friends on March 8, 2008 at the Ryan Center. Rhody the Ram is the spirit of URI at home and on the road, and as you can see, the years have been good to our beloved mascot. At 85 years and counting, Rhody has never looked better. Happy birthday wishes and many happy returns! To see photos of Rhody through the years and to browse our Rhody Birthday Photo Album, go to advance.uri.edu/ alumni/rhody.

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going green Building a sustainable campus community

Marion Gold, Brett Lucht, and student Tara Germond show off one of the solar shingles installed on the CELS Outreach Center.

he University of Rhode Island has been at the forefront of environmental research for decades, helping to develop a greater understanding of the ecology of the planet we call home while also examining the impact of human activities on ecosystems as varied as the deep sea and suburban backyards. In many ways, however, the operations of the campus itself haven’t kept up with the advanced research and teaching taking place within its buildings. But that is rapidly changing. A wide variety of “green” initiatives are under way, designed to transform the University into a sustainable community and reduce its environmental impact while also graduating more environmentally-aware students who have the skills to address an increasing number of pressing environmental issues. In 2007, President Robert L. Carothers signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, which requires the University to develop a comprehensive plan to reduce campus greenhouse gas emissions and eventually achieve carbon neutrality.

“This is a significant commitment that will have to be incorporated into our strategic planning process and may require considerable investment in the short term. It will also affect a number of established University policies,” President Carothers said. “However, I believe it is vital to the image and the brand of the University, as well as to the health of the planet, that we take this important step and be fully engaged in the process.” To provide strategic guidance and oversight of the University’s commitment, the president established a Council on Sustainability, led by Vice President for Administration Robert Weygand ’71, ’76, that reviews plans, provides advice on best practices, supports initiatives, and imagines solutions for the greening of URI. The council’s first step was to calculate the University’s carbon footprint, the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted in a year from all activities on campus, including electricity, heating, and commuting to campus by faculty, staff, and students. Oceanography Professor Continued on next page.

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(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified as energy efficient. Hope Commons dining hall and the new residence halls that opened in 2007 will be the first buildings on campus to receive the certification, followed by the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences in Kingston and the Pell Marine Science Library and Inner Space Center at the Bay Campus, both of which are now under construction and due to open next winter. “The new biotech center, in particular, will include several notable design features that will qualify it for LEED certification,” said Weygand. “These include an energy efficient heating and cooling system, a “green” roof that is partially covered in vegetation that will filter pollutants and reduce heating and cooling needs, a storm water treatment feature, and environmentally friendly building materials.” The new building for the College of Pharmacy, which is due to begin construction this fall, will use a range of “green” technologies including energy recovery wheels and active chilled beams coupled with extensive use of natural light to achieve energy savings. Spurred on by the student-run Renewable Energy Club, led by Auriane Koster ’08 and Taylor Spalt ’07, URI is also continuing to study the feasibility of installing a wind turbine to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. Data collected in 2006 showed that the Kingston Campus does not have the wind capacity to make such an installation economical, but a site at the Bay Campus is being evaluated in collaboration with the Ocean Engineering program and the Environmental Protection Agency. Since emissions from transportation—commuting to campus and fleet vehicle use—represents approximately one-third of the University’s carbon footprint, new strategies are being considered to reduce single-occupancy vehicle use and idling time and increase the use of public transportation and carpooling. Graduate student Rachel Sholly ’06, who helped start

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S. Bradley Moran volunteered to take on that monumental task, which was made all the more difficult by the unavailability of some historic data. Nonetheless, after months of data collection and analysis he concluded that the URI carbon footprint is approximately 97,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, two-thirds of which is a result of heating and electricity usage. The total footprint equates to about 6 metric tons per person or 22 kilograms per square foot of building space. The council will soon establish a goal and strategies for substantially reducing that carbon footprint. Even before the Council on Sustainability was established in August 2007, many green initiatives were already in the works. Perhaps the most significant was a comprehensive $18 million effort to reduce energy use on campus. Following an energy audit of the University’s four campuses in 2005, a contract was signed with NORESCO, a leading energy services company, to replace lighting fixtures, windows, heating/air conditioning systems, and other equipment, as well as to make improvements to building energy management control systems. The upgrades will save more than 7 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 42 million pounds of heating steam per year. Best of all, the contract did not require any up-front capital expenditures. According to J. Vernon Wyman, assistant vice president for business services, the upgrades will be paid over 12 years from the savings on the University’s utility bills. “It’s a win-win solution for URI and the state’s taxpayers,” he said. The Memorial Union and the athletics complex were the first buildings to receive energy efficiency upgrades through the program, with numerous additional buildings due to be included through 2009. The University is pursuing a number of other energy-related initiatives designed to reduce its carbon footprint as well. For example, it has installed solar shingles on the roofs of two buildings—one on the Kingston Campus and one on the W. Alton Jones Campus —and it has committed to ensuring that all future buildings are LEED

Students, left to right, Rachel Sholly, Auriane Koster, and Hannah Morini stand among melting blocks of ice during the Focus the Nation teach-in.

A lifeguard, left, lowers a new pool cover in the Tootell Aquatics Center to save energy on heating the pool.

Photo By Michael Salerno

Hope Commons, below left, and the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, below, will be among the first buildings on the Kingston Campus to be LEED certified for energy efficiency.

the student group Student Action for Sustainability in 2004, was awarded a Campus Ecology Fellowship from the National Wildlife Federation to develop and implement a clean transportation policy on campus. The policy she develops will be the basis for an effort to increase the availability and use of alternate transportation to, from, and around campus. Education is another key element of the University’s efforts to build a more sustainable campus community, and several unique new academic programs are designed to do just that. Perhaps most notable is the nation’s first climate science/M.B.A. program, which is enrolling its first students for the fall semester.

“The business community will likely bear the brunt of the challenge to find ways to reduce the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet few people have the necessary training in both business and climate science to lead the way,” said Moran, who spearheaded development of the new academic program. “This unique new businessscience dual degree will educate students in the application of strategic management, leadership, and ocean and climate sciences to important real-world problems.” Undergraduate students in all disciplines will soon be offered an option to enroll in a new minor in sustainability that will examine local and global issues in relation to the environment, economy, and social equity. The minor will draw on courses from numerous disciplines and require an internship or capstone course, and its graduates will be better prepared to contribute to an environmentally sound and just society. Students and faculty are already enthusiastic supporters of the greening of the University. In January, more than 150 faculty members and their students participated in the inaugural Focus the Nation, the country’s largest teach-in designed to create a dialogue to develop solutions to the global warming crisis. URI professors led discussions about how climate change relates to such fields of study as politics, oceanography, communication, textiles, economics, and wildlife conservation. The day included educational displays featuring massive melting blocks of ice on the Quad, an interactive online Web cast to several locations around campus, and meetings with public officials to discuss the issue. “It was an exciting way to engage students and the public in this most important issue and generate enthusiasm for finding creative ways to address it,” said Fred Meyerson, assistant professor of demography, ecology, and environmental policy and campus coordinator of the event. “Climate change is one of the most challenging issues facing this generation of college students, and they need to understand global warming science and policy and how it will affect society and their future.”

By Todd McLeish

For more information about campus sustainability, visit uri.edu/administration/sustainability.html

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The Four Corners

Flynn estimates that 70 percent of his time is spent traveling to negotiate with customers and clients around the world. For dealing with such a global assortment of people, he said, there is no better preparation than an area studies program in college.

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If you attend a U2 concert or a Formula 1 race, or if you buy fresh blueberries at the supermarket in winter, William Flynn ’75 may well be the person you need to thank. Flynn is the president and CEO of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., a top airfreight company with the world’s largest fleet of 747 freighters. “If you’re buying cherries or blueberries on the winter shelves, I can pretty much guarantee you that they were flown in from Chile or somewhere else in South America,” said Flynn. “Those are short shelf-life products— you can’t send them by sea.” Atlas Air also moves electronics and other consumer items around the world and flies cargo for the U.S. to far-flung military bases. Beyond that, “changing consumer tastes are driving air freight demand,” said Flynn. For instance, demand for blooming flowers is booming. For one importer of flowers in Holland, Atlas Air flew 90 flights for Valentine’s Day over a period of five weeks. Prescription drugs are another area of growth, and so are entertainment and sports—Atlas ships Formula 1 racing cars all over the world. For last year’s U-2 tour, Atlas Air shipped the band’s instruments, stage setup,

and other supplies to concert sites around the world. Flynn, who lives in New York City with his wife, Sharon, son Eric and daughter Sarah, parlayed his URI degree in Latin American studies into a globetrotting career. He has lived in Latin America and Asia and has traveled to every corner of the world. The day before his interview with a QUAD ANGLES writer in New York, he had just flown in from a visit to Moscow. A native of Bridgeport, Conn., Flynn chose URI because he “liked the size of the school and the feel of it.” Already fluent in Spanish, Flynn took advanced Spanish courses and also studied Portuguese with Gregory McNab. “Greg was a great professor,” he said. “I really enjoyed learning Portuguese with him.” History, literature, and political science classes were also part of the Latin American Studies major, an interdisciplinary program led by History Professor Anthony Bryan. “The idea was to get a broad understanding of the region,” said Flynn, who particularly enjoyed the linguistics classes he took with Kenneth H. Rogers. “I loved languages, and so I certainly enjoyed Rogers’ great

of the World course in Romance linguistics. Among other things, it helped me distinguish between Spanish and Portuguese. Having learned the evolution of the languages, it became much easier to understand the differences between the two and the similarities. I still speak Spanish and Portuguese all the time.” Flynn said Latin American Studies gave him excellent training for his ultimate goal of living and working in other parts of the world. “I knew I wanted to work overseas,” he said. “I was fluent in Spanish and was able to learn Portuguese, so I knew that was going to give me an advantage, and I was highly motivated to get an international opportunity.” Following the advice of Professor Bryant and others, he earned a master’s degree in Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, and then, in 1977, he landed his first job with Sea-Land Service, Inc., a shipping company. “My first international position was in Caracas in 1978 for about a year, then I came back to the U.S. and worked in the Latin America group and traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean and Central America. Then, in 1983, I moved to Guatemala.” He lived there for four years, managing

Sea-Land’s business in Central America. “It was a pretty interesting time if you remember what was going on in the mid-80s in Central America,” Flynn said. “It was in the middle of a civil war for the most part,” he recalled. “Thanks to what I studied at school and the knowledge that gave me about the region, about the culture, and certainly the language, I adjusted easily. There was so much to understand, certainly politically. But also, I think people respond to you better as a foreigner if at least you have an understanding of their country.” After his stint in Latin America, Flynn moved back to the United States for a while, then spent eight years in Asia. His wife, Sharon, is Chinese. The Flynn family enjoyed getting in touch with their Asian heritage while Bill was stationed in Japan and Hong Kong. “I met Sharon here in the States. The beauty of it is that we got to live overseas and so our children, who are half Chinese, got to learn a lot more by really living in Asia.” Both Eric, 23, a secondyear law student, and Sarah, 21, a

junior in college, can read, write, and speak Chinese. Flynn also worked as an executive at CSX Corp. and later became president and CEO of Geologistics Corp. In June 2006, he took the helm at Atlas Air, a company with 37 aircraft and 1,800 employees. His first task was “looking at how to position our company to be more resilient and better positioned in dealing with the challenges in the market. One of the difficult ones is, of course, fuel. In aviation that’s our single largest cost component.” Flynn estimates that 70 percent of his time is spent traveling to negotiate with customers and clients around the world. For dealing with such a global assortment of people, he said, there is no better preparation than an area studies program in college. “The most important thing you learn is that there’s more than one approach to solving what may seem like a common problem,” he said. “You learn that there may be cultural and social dimensions to the problem that may not be obvious to you. It doesn’t mean you can’t solve the problems, but you’ve certainly got to be flexible in how to get there. That’s what makes it fun.” By David Gregorio ’80

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GIFT OF LIFE On average, 17 people die every day—6,600 each year—waiting for an organ transplant or donated tissue. Many die before organs become available. David Gitlitz, 66, a long-time professor of Spanish who retired last spring, is one of the lucky ones. Seven people each offered to donate a portion of their liver to him. But let’s start at the beginning. Gitlitz has been Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficient since birth, thanks to an unwelcome confluence of family genes. Alpha-1 attacks the liver and/or lungs. While it may eat away silently and undetected for decades, eventually it makes itself known.

“I’m still blinking at the wonder of it,” says a grateful Gitlitz. “The operation’s not trivial for the donor, even though the remaining 40 percent will, like a salamander’s tail, regenerate itself.”

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Gitlitz found out he had the condition a dozen years ago when he had an emergency appendectomy. While in the abdominal neighborhood, the doctor took a look at his liver and recommended that Gitlitz see a pulmonary specialist who was also an Alpha-1 specialist. By last year, Alpha-1 had destroyed about 10 percent of Gitlitz’s lung capacity, essentially through emphysema, and nearly all of his liver. His ability to function was severely limited. The best chance he had for survival was a liver from a live donor. That’s when Daniel Carpenter, Gitlitz’s colleague who teaches Latin, Greek, and classical civilization courses

Did You Know That… The liver is your largest internal organ and weighs about three pounds. You can donate 60 percent of your liver to save someone’s life. If you donate, your liver will regenerate within a year. as a full-time ad hoc lecturer, volunteered to donate 60 percent of his liver. “When I learned that David was going on the transplant list, I realized that for the first time in my life I had the opportunity to save a life and thought that I should not pass it up,” explains the 44-year-old. “The team at the Lahey Clinic allayed most of my fears. The chance of a catastrophic complication was less than one half of one percent, though, of course, there was still some trepidation.” “I’m still blinking at the wonder of it,” says a grateful Gitlitz. “The operation’s not trivial for the donor, even though the remaining 40 percent will, like a salamander’s tail, regenerate itself. Still there’s a protracted recovery period and the surgery leaves a scar the size of the old Jamestown Bridge.” In addition to Carpenter, six other people offered to share their livers with Gitlitz—his brother John, his two daughters Deborah and Abby, Abby’s friend Richard Willey, and two good friends, David and Susan Offer who now live in Maine. Matching livers requires compatible blood types, comparable body mass, and similar placement of ducts, veins, and arteries. Donors should be in good health, under 60, and free of disease. Five of the seven potential donors were eliminated or relegated to the liverof-last resort list, leaving Carpenter and Willey. Both were rejected as donors for questions of weight, body mass, and/or body fat. PHOTO BY MICHAEL SALERNO; BACKGROUND PHOTO OF DR. POMPOSELLI ’82 COURTESY OF LAHEY CLINIC

To learn more about liver transplantation and how you can be a donor, visit unos.org/ or Donate Life America at donatelife.net/.

Both men went on diets and stepped up their exercise regimen. Within three months, Carpenter lost about 25 pounds. His second biopsy revealed a liver fat level below the necessary minimum. The surgery was performed last March. Dr. Elizabeth Pomfret removed 60 percent of Carpenter’s liver during a six-and-a-half-hour surgery and handed it to her husband, Dr. James Pomposelli, who, after removing Gitlitz’s diseased liver, replaced it with Carpenter’s healthy one. Much to Gitlitz’s surprise, it turned out that Pomposelli was a URI alum, Class of 1982. Most of Carpenter’s liver regenerated in the first three months. He expects to recover between 80 to 100 percent of his liver mass within the year. Initially, Carpenter tired easily, but he improves daily as his liver regenerates. Gitlitz lost 75 pounds after winter break, 40 of them aftet the eight or so hours of his surgery. He’s regained about 10 of those pounds. He’ll have to take some anti-rejection medication for the rest of his life. He should recover fully within six months to a year. “I hope to come in on the short side of that,” he says. Gitlitz is still pinching himself. “The deep love and reciprocal commitments of family members and—for the

f ortunate few—of best friends, is one thing,” he says. “But up until several months ago, I wouldn’t have thought of either Dan or Richard in that way, though I sure do now. The best I can do is ascribe it to altruism—their unselfish commitment to my welfare. I feel certain that they would be offended by any hint of expectation of external reward, be it recognition, esteem, or even thanks. I suspect, though, because altruistic is not an adjective I would ever use to describe myself, that altruism derives satisfaction from itself. It moves from within, motivated only by some mysterious positive impulse deep within the wellsprings of a person’s character. And that is something Richard Willey, the other volunteers, and especially Daniel Carpenter have in full measure. They are my heroes.” “I would encourage everyone to sign donor registration cards,” says Carpenter. “Also, if you ever have the opportunity to become a liver donor, you should consider it. I know that the experience has been one of the most fulfilling and meaningful of my life.” “Whether you give permission for your useable organs to be harvested after your death, or decide to share an organ during your lifetime, as Dan did, you can do your part to share the gift of life,” adds Gitlitz. n By Jan Wenzel ’87 UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 17

2008

Kingston Chamber Music Festival

July 22–August 1, 2008 kingstonchambermusic.org

Twenty Years and Counting The festival has helped the University by attracting large audiences to the Fine Arts Center, thereby bringing positive exposure to URI and its Music Department

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URI has had its share of anniversaries, but none are as musical as the one being observed this summer when the Kingston Chamber Music Festival marks its 20th year. A series of six evening concerts, a free children’s concert, and four other performances at venues near Kingston will be held over the July 22–Aug. 1 period, drawing thousands of music lovers to the area for one of the country’s most successful chamber music festivals. Thanks to its founder, violinist David Kim, the festival has grown in stature, quality, and financial success. In the process, it has brought attention and prestige to the URI Music Department and its programs. As Ronald Lee, Music Department chair, put it, “It gives the Music Department something to toot about.” And yes, there are “toots” from wind instruments at some concerts, but the majority of invited musicians this year are string players. Kim, the son of Chai Kim, professor emeritus of business administration, is well known in international music circles as concertmaster of one of the world’s best ensembles, the Philadelphia Orchestra. The idea for a chamber music festival at URI dawned on David Kim on one of his frequent visits to see his parents in Kingston. Kim, a touring musician, fell in love with the bucolic campus and dreamed of offering a music festival of high quality with modest ticket prices that would appeal to people who could not afford some of the area’s more sumptuous summer festivals.

Kim was not born with a violin under his chin, but close to it. By age 3 he was playing one; at 8 he was studying with Dorothy DeLay, who has coached some of the greatest violinists in the world; at 12, he appeared with Itzhak Perlman as the subject of a TV documentary entitled Prodigy. In 1986, Kim, who received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, was the only American violinist to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 1989, Kim launched his dream of an affordable music festival. He received some seed money from the late URI President Edward Eddy and enlisted two other musicians and close friends, cellist Michelle Djokic and pianist Gail Niwa, to help out; they have performed in every festival since then. By knocking on doors for support, Kim was able to put on three concerts using eight musicians drawn from friendships nurtured at Juilliard and at concert venues. That tradition of employing a combination of old friends with musicians he has discovered in his world travels persists to this day. In the second year of the festival, Kim started enlisting people from the University community to help plan the event. Today the festival has a 15-member board of directors—all volunteers— and a part-time, paid managing director. As the festival’s artistic director, Kim controls all things musical.

One of those board members is Ron Lee, who recalls that the Music Department became actively involved with the festival partly because of such practical matters as insurance and scheduling. Other board members are President Martin Sadd, professor of mechanical engineering; Treasurer Steve Letcher, professor emeritus of physics; John Grandin, professor of German and director of the International Engineering Program; and Harold Bibb, associate dean of the Graduate School and professor of biological sciences. “The University has helped the festival with financial support, facility sharing, and program publicity,” says Sadd. “Likewise, the festival has helped the University by attracting large audiences to the Fine Arts Center, thereby bringing positive exposure to URI and its Music Department.” The recently refurbished Fine Arts Concert Hall, which seats 525, is an ideal size for chamber music. “We do five other festivals in the academic year,” notes Lee, “but of course the Kingston Chamber Music Festival is quite different. It has become a national and international festival that brings a very positive image to URI.” The festival’s presence helped bring about much-needed renovations to the concert hall from seats, to lights, to a quieter air-handling system. Couple that with convenient free parking and low ticket prices and the venue is a hit— so much so that concerts are now sell-outs. Now the problem is how to offer more concerts to meet the demand. Scheduling is difficult because musicians are usually booked well in advance and David Kim’s own schedule—including his full-time Philadelphia Orchestra position, other festivals, and the master classes he offers—leaves little room for him to spend time with his wife, Jane, and their two daughters. It used to be sell-outs occurred only when high profile artists were on the bill such as violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Sarah Chang and pianists Andrew Litton and Ignat Solzhenitsyn, who all performed at much-reduced fees. But it no longer takes big names to fill the seats. Kim is as adept at choosing programs and performers as he is at fingering his fiddle (a rare one loaned to him by the Philadelphia Orchestra). ANDREA HOY HANSEN; BRIAN MITCHELL; ISTOCK.COM

The festival features many young musicians whom Kim has met in his travels around the world. As for the music, the festival offers classical and romantic composers with an occasional side trip to more uncommon fare. Ron Lee says he has seen a change in the demographics of the audiences in the last few years with more young people and students attending. “The programming has helped,” he says, adding “young performers attract young audiences.” URI has continued to support the festival. Each year, the President’s Office contributes funds, and Dean Winifred Brownell makes sure that one of the concerts is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences. WRIU, the University radio station, gives lots of on-air support, and the Music Department helps with publicity. The alliance between the festival and the Music Department has created other benefits, including master classes offered by Kim and two free open rehearsals. A team of URI students helps with festival logistics, and every year a junior who is an outstanding musician from Rhode Island receives a $1,000 award from the festival. Last year the winner was violinist Sara F. Dillon ’08. The first award (2004) went to trumpet performer Nicholas Jemo ’06, now a graduate student at the Manhattan School of Music; the second (2005) went to violinist Emily Chen ’07; and the third (2006) went to violist Naseer Francois Ashraf, who is now studying music composition. Music Department faculty members who have joined the ranks of performers include pianist Manabu Takasawa and oboist Jane Murray. Kim has no problem in booking musicians— in the summer southern Rhode Island is a vacationland for beach lovers. The musicians are housed in B&Bs or private homes and relax at the shore, at restaurants, or at nightspots. For Kim’s part, the festival has become a major accomplishment in a life that is filled with accomplishments. “Someone recently asked me if I ever thought we would make it to 20 years,” relates Kim. “My answer was ‘absolutely—and then some!” By Rudi Hempe ’62

From above left: musicians in rehearsal; Artistic Director David Kim; pianist Paavali Jumppanen with flutist Demarre McGill rehearse on stage in 2007; violinist Sarah Chang; and trumpet player Nicholas Jemo ’06. Rudi Hempe ’62 has been a member of the festival’s board of directors for 18 years, including six as president.

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Preserving Coral, Coastlines, and Marine Ecosystems

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHN AND LIANA TALAUE-MACMANUS, AND ISTOCK.

Oceanographers John McManus and Liana Talaue-McManus could talk of their exceptional academic records. They both earned Ph.D.s in 1986 in about half the time it takes most candidates. They could talk about their professional achievements. John spent the first three days of April in Dubai, UAE, advising world leaders on scientific research and environmental planning as it pertains to development of seaside communities. Liana recently received the University of Miami’s coveted 2007 Excellence in Teaching award. They could talk about their decades of work in the Philippines teaching artisanal fishermen and politicians about environmental stewardship. And they could talk about the dangers of global warming, over-taxing of natural resources, pollution, plastic baby bottles, and all the other pertinent environmental issues that have enjoyed unprecedented media coverage in the past few years. All of this and more comes up in an hour-long phone conversation with the two at their home in Miami, but neither one spends much time talking about past events. The McManuses are much more interested in the future, a future in which scientists and average citizens partner in coastal conservation efforts. In his address to key industrial and political leaders gathered for the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, John put it this way: “Because approximately two-thirds of the Earth’s inhabitants live in coastal communities, we have to emphasize the urgent need to protect areas of representative regional biodiversity. Using participatory coastal management and supportive science, as well as cutting-edge decision support tools, we can help to preserve our coral reefs and other marine ecosystems for the future, while still meeting the demands created by our growing global populations.”

The McManuses are proponents of participatory coastal and resource management, the idea that inviting all concerned constituencies to the table— politicians, developers, scientists, environmentalists, and Sally the weekend beachcomber—is the way to ensure that common goals supplant special interests where matters of the coastline and ocean resources are concerned. They would like to see scientific research and information about the ocean made available online so that everyone can feel like a stakeholder in the future of the planet. The McManuses are members of the faculty of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. The school has 100 faculty members and 190 graduate students. John is a professor of marine biology and fisheries and director of the National Center for Coral Reef Research. Liana is a scientist in marine affairs specializing in the impact human beings have on coastal environments. A Fulbright grantee, she completed her master’s and Ph.D. programs at URI in four-and-a-half years. “I plowed through,” she recalled. “I had an assistantship. I would arrive in the morning, work until 4 or 5 p.m., have dinner, return, and then work until 4 a.m.” John entered the Ph.D. program at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography in 1982. He was fresh from a stint in the Peace Corp working in the Philippines. It was there that he began a study of coral reefs that would lead to his being named Leader of the Aquatic Environments Program of the Worldfish Center and to his founding of ReefBase, the Global Coral Reef Database, and the international Coral Reef Action Network. This world-renowned expert arrived at his specialty in an attempt to fill a need. “The research institute there needed someone to get involved in coral,” John said of his Peace Corps

service. “They were faced with the problem of people blasting coral to get to the fish. So I sold my car to buy books to study coral reef ecology.” Liana chose URI to complete her master’s and Ph.D. on the advice of her advisor at the University of Maine. John, who has a master’s degree from the University of Connecticut, chose URI for the chance to work with Saul Saila, a biological oceanographer and winner of the American Fisheries Society’s 2001 Award of Excellence. Saila was the only academic at that time studying the interaction between fishing and community ecology, John said. URI was just the place and Saila just the person for someone aspiring to do coral reef studies from the community-ecological standpoint. After graduation, the McManuses spent 20 years in Southeast Asia working in coastal management. Liana’s work on community-based participatory planning of coastal and marine resources development in the Philippines resulted in the passage of legislation based on her work with the communities of Bolinao and Bani. Hers was the first coastal resources management plan in that country. In 2006, the pair were made associate members of the World Technology Network, a designation given to organizations and/or individuals for achievement in innovation. The McManuses have three daughters: Lisa, 20, a marine and computer science dual major at the University of Miami, and twins Naomi and Tabitha, 16, high school juniors. The frequent travelers agreed that one parent would stay home with the children at all times. Now, with their family almost grown, they look forward to the day when they can once again travel and work together. Certainly there is no shortage of work when it comes to managing coastal resources. “It would take 10 lifetimes to do this,” John said. By Marybeth Reilly-McGreen

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Great Expectations Clarice Owiti Odhiambo is a woman on a mission. She is determined to bring clean water, sanitation, and small business opportunities to the women of African villages: “When you help the women become self-sustaining, you help their families and strengthen their communities.”

ast May, her ambition brought her back to URI, where she earned her master’s in chemical engineering in 1988. While on campus, Odhiambo made a Power Point presentation at a Women in Sciences luncheon to explain the goals of the organization she has founded, the Africa Center for Engineering Social Solutions (ACESS). “This is a limited corporation by guarantee, which means it is a charitable organization that can also make a profit and so sustain itself,” she explained. “My goal is to bring college faculty and student interns to Africa, starting with Kenya, to work on solving basic problems. “In my field, engineering, college students work on senior projects to earn their degrees. At the end of the year, these projects are discarded. Why not instead bring students to Africa to create and implement projects that would help solve Africa’s problems?” To underscore her point, Odhiambo showed a film illustrating existing projects she has helped start in Kenyan villages. “Kenya is a tropical country, so we can grow crops year round,” she said. “But water availability is a problem throughout Africa, and so is water loss through evaporation.” The film showed a gravity-fed drip irrigation system channeling water directly to the roots of plants. It showed modified clay water storage pots with spigots and narrow necks to prevent evaporation and contamination. “This simple technology combines the modern with the traditional, the relevant with the convenient, and the effective with the efficient,” said Odhiambo. “What I am showing you here is simple stuff— it’s not even Engineering 101,” she continued. “But developing simple solutions to common problems requires improvising, creativity, innovation. 22 QUAD ANGLES JULY 2008

Storage tank for gravity-fed drip irrigation system used for vegetable gardens.

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And that is why I want to bring students—engineering students, business students, in fact any interested students—to Africa to work on projects that will transform people’s lives.” “At the moment, Africa has been the recipient of so much in donor funds, yet the poverty situation does not seem to be changing. Development projects stall when the people who initiated them leave to return home. At the same time, there is a brain drain of educated Africans moving to countries with more opportunities.” Odhiambo said she is encouraged by the warm response she received at URI: “President Carothers has covered some of the cost of my stay at URI—he has been most kind and generous. Professor John Grandin gave me space in the International Engineering House. Vice Provost Lynn Pasquerella supported me both on campus and off. Professor Robert Comerford will be helping me with small business development plans. Professor Thomas Boving of the College of the Environment and Life Sciences hopes to set up internships for students in his college.” Odhiambo brings an irresistible combination of solid scientific training, enthusiasm, and personal warmth to her mission. When she traveled to other colleges and universities in New England, she received positive responses to her proposal from President Ruth Simmons of Brown and from administrators and faculty at Dartmouth, CCRI, and the University of Hartford. URI’s Boving, a professor of geosciences, and former Vice Provost Pasquerella, who is now at the University of Hartford, are part of a group traveling to Kenya this month on a fact finding trip that is partially funded by Dean Jeffrey Seemann of URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences. “The first group of interns would consist of 10 students from three institutions who would spend two weeks in Kenya working on several projects;” said Boving. “At URI, these internships would be open to interested students from any college. Then, the following semester, we would offer a seminar about the projects. We are all enthusiastic about Clarice’s ideas and committed to making them work.” A chemical engineer who previously worked for Unilever and Coca-Cola designing products for the African market, Odhiambo has traveled all over the continent, including Eritrea (she was evacuated from Asmara when the EthiopianEritrean war broke out). “I enjoyed my work,” she said, “but I have learned there is more to life than making money.” She began to find her way when Coca-Cola named her the Africa manager of the company’s Community Water Partnership program, which brought fresh water to African villages. Odhiambo

saw first hand the difference that the company’s projects made to village women who used to walk miles to muddy water holes to supply their families. With a water source close to home, the women had time to start small businesses that benefited both their families and their communities. “I meet so many people in these villages who are much smarter than me, but who have not been given my opportunities, who are often illiterate,” said Odhiambo. “I believe in the future of Africa—there is so much untapped talent there. I’m convinced that the next big technological breakthrough will come from Africa.” Odhiambo herself is a graduate of a Kenyan boarding school system modeled on the British system that uses a series of exams to select the brightest students for university education. As a schoolgirl, her best subjects were math, physics, and chemistry. She went on to the University of Nairobi, where she hoped to study chemical engineering. Since the subject was not offered, she majored instead in math and chemistry. Still interested in chemical engineering after her graduation, Odhiambo decided to follow her older brother, Peter Okero ’80, to URI for her graduate training. “My brother graduated in electrical engineering. I never asked him why he chose URI, and now I will never know,” she said sadly of Peter, who died in 2004. Peter proved to be a trailblazer. Other family members with URI ties include Danny Okero ’92, a zoology major who is now a dentist in California; Samson Okero ’91, an economics major who is now a banker in Africa; and Odhiambo’s daughter Alice Odhiambo, a marketing major who is now a sophomore. “Alice was born in Providence at Women & Infants Hospital on Sept. 2, 1988, just as I completed my degree,” said a proud Odhiambo. “She grew up in Kenya, but she knew all her life that she wanted to go to URI.” And now Peter’s daughter Elizabeth Okero plans to keep up the family tradition by enrolling at URI in 2009. Odhiambo made five trips to the U.S. between September 2007 and May 2008 to drum up support for the Africa Center for Engineering Social Solutions. Now back home in Kenya, she is enjoying a much-needed break and spending time with her husband, who works for the UN, at their vacation home on Lake Victoria. By fall she’ll be back in the U.S. to cement the relationships that will help the Africa Center for Engineering Social Solutions grow and flourish. As she says, “I have plenty of ideas but no money; it is up to me to find creative ways to sustain this organization.” By Vida-Wynne Griffin ’67, M.A. ’72

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Third Annual Distinguished Achievement Awards Saturday, October 18 at the Providence Westin Hotel

William Flynn ’75

President and CEO of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc.

John King ’85

Chief National Correspondent for CNN

Clarice Odhiambo ’88 Founder of Africa Center for Engineering Social Solutions

Bruce Sherman ’69

CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Private Capital Management

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July 20 The Arizona Chapter is heading to the ballpark this season to take in a number of Diamondback games. Other dates planned are August 10, August 24, and September 28. For more information, contact Art Levin at 623-584-9410.

More than 20 URI alumni participated in the 11th Annual 5K Revlon RUN/WALK for Women in New York City on May 3! Although the day was wet and cold, more than 40,000 participants of all ages gathered to walk or run from Times Square to Central Park to raise funds for women’s cancers. Following the event, participants were able to enjoy the Health Expo and entertainment in Central Park.

August 5 The Alumni Association invites you to opening night of the Rhode Island International Film Festival at the Providence Performing Arts Center. The group alumni rate is $35 for the premiere and the post-screening gala (a $25 savings). Register online at advance.uri. edu/alumni/calendar or contact Gina Simonelli at gmdei@advance. uri.edu or 401-874-5808 for more information. August 11 Join members of the Chicago Alumni Chapter at U.S. Cellular Field for a Chicago White Sox-Boston Red Sox game and a pre-game Alumni Association patio party. Register online at advance.uri.edu/alumni/calendar or contact Gina Simonelli at gmdei@advance.uri.edu or 401-874-5808 for more information. August 12 The New Jersey Alumni Chapter is hosting its annual Welcome Freshmen Picnic at Commerce Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Join URI alumni, current and incoming students as the Camden Riversharks play the Somerset Patriots at 7:05 p.m. Tickets are $25, which includes game ticket, food, and soft drinks. Register online at advance.uri.edu/alumni/chapters, or contact Gina Simonelli at gmdei@advance.uri.edu or 401-874-5808 for more information. September 20 The Northern California Chapter will hold its 13th annual alumni clambake in San Mateo. Mark your calendars and contact Rayna Lazaroff at 415-927-1087 or rbl1234@sbcglobal.net for more information.

LIVE FROM NEW YORK Rhody alumni participated once again in the Revlon Run/ Walk 5K for Women, held in New York City on May 3. The URI alumni were among the 40,000 who gathered together to take a stand in the fight against women’s cancers.

On June 1, Washington D.C. area alumni headed for Oriole Field at Camden Yards to take in a Red Sox-Orioles game. Before the game the group enjoyed a barbecue sponsored by the Alumni Association. In celebration of their 10th anniversary, members of the Theta Chi Alumni Chapter held a golf tournament and clambake in Jamestown on June 3. On June 12, the SoloBoomers met for an informal gathering at Casey’s Grill & Bar in Wakefield. The Arizona Chapter got together for an Arizona Diamondback game on June 15, the first in a series of Diamondback games the group is planning to take in this season. The Alumni Association took a road trip through Southern California the week of June 16, hosting events in Orange County and San Diego.

ROTC Hall of Fame Call for Nominations The ROTC Alumni Chapter is seeking nominations to the URI ROTC Hall of Fame. Membership in the Hall of Fame is open to any person who is either an ROTC alumnus of URI, a supporter of the URI Cramers Sabers ROTC Battalion, or an individual with a distinguished history of service to the military, community, or to URI ROTC. Please send nomination and supporting information to: LTC (Ret) Paul Helweg '86, Berry Hill Lane, Kingston, RI 02881, or email helweg1@cox.net. Nomination deadline is January 4, 2009. Those selected will be inducted into the ROTC Hall of Fame at ceremonies held in November 2009.

ARIZONA AFTERNOON The Arizona Rhode Runners Alumni Chapter held a surf n’ turf picnic on April 20.

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RHODE RUNNERS Vice President for University Advancement Bob Beagle is pictured with longtime Arizona Rhode Runners leader Art Levin ’51 at the April 20 picnic. Lisa ’94 and Christopher O’Connell ’93 are the new chapter leaders for the Arizona group.

Martha Smith Patnoad ’68, Wyoming, RI Phone: 401-539-2180 Email: mpatnoad@uri.edu

Phi Gamma Delta Richard Kingsley ‘71, Jamestown, RI 401-874-6693 (w) Email: kingsley@gso.uri.edu

Phi Kappa Psi Joe Hart ’85, Kingston, RI Phone: 401-783-4852 Email: jphart@cox.net Web site: www.ribeta.com

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Minnesota

INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS

Arizona Rhode Runners

John ’92 & Kristen Turcotte ’95, Saint Louis Park Phone: 952-285-1148 Email: jfturcotte@mindspring.com keturcotte@mindspring.com

If you attended URI as an international student, please contact the Alumni Office and let us know your current address. If you're traveling abroad,feel free to contact one of our alumni to say hello.

New Hampshire White Mountain Rams

FRANCE (PARIS AREA)

Rob Constantine ’95, Plainfield Phone: 603-469-3012 (h) Email: rconstantine@unity.edu

1A Rue Jules Vincent 95410 Groslay, France Phone: 011-33-1-39-83-0627 (h) 011-33-1-45-24-92-17 (w)

Christopher ’93 & Lisa O'Connell ’94 Goodyear, AZ Phone: 623-476-7303 (h) Email: lisa.oconnell@cox.net

California Northern

Alexandra De Matos Nunes '79

Pat Ludes ’79 & Greg Passant ’78, Pleasanton Phone: 925-227-1878 Mel Rodinsky ’63, San Jose Phone: 408-857-7269

Lauri Pietruszka ’84, West Paterson Phone: 973-890-1623 (h)

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Jeff Bolognese ’02 Phone: 760-945-4560 Email: jeff@richmondfinancial.net

Debbie McGowan ’99, New York

44 Achileos Pal Faleron 17562, Athens, Greece Phone: 011-30-1-981-3559 (h)

Colorado Mile High Rams Christy L. Gallese ’03, Denver Phone: 303-561-4979 Email: ChristyLPeters@yahoo.com

Florida Southeast Michelle Odai ’99, Miami Email: odaim@fiu.edu

Southwest Gators Gerry Leonard ’63, Englewood Phone: 941-475-3529 Email: samlen381@aol.com

Louisiana/Mississippi Phyllis DelFiore ’68, Slidell, LA Phone: 985-847-1609 (h) Email: feliciadf@hotmail.com Dee Canada ’62, Slidell, LA Phone: 985-643-8801 (h) Email: delinac@charter.net

Massachusetts Anne-Marie Enderby ’76, Attleboro Phone: 508-226-6239 (h) Email: teamenderby@verizon.net Nicholas G. Chigas ’03, Waltham Phone: 978-505-7161 (h) 781-672-5170 (w) Email: nicholas.g.chigas@smithBarney.com Michael P. Sams ’90, Westborough Phone: 508-665-4299 (w) Email: mpsams@kandSlegal.com

New Jersey

Phone: 646-295-5320 Email: debbie.mcgowan@gmail.com Janet Irlander ’78, New York Phone: 917-612-7276 Email: jirlander@paramount-group.com

North Carolina Ed Doughty ’93, Charlotte Phone: 704-995-9300 (h) 704-331-2219 (w) Email: edoughty@carolina.rr.com

Ohio Tom Noyes ’67, Wooster Phone: 330-345-6516 (h) 330-264-8722 (w) Email: noyes.1@osu.edu Danielle Pray ’88, Cincinnati Phone: 859-485-6790 Email: d@prayzpaws.com Bill ’74 & Betty ’74 Sepe, Hudson Phone: 330-650-6715 Email: OHRhody@hotmail.com

Rhode Island Mary-Lyn Siderski ’96, West Warwick Phone: 401-615-2326 (h) Email: mary-lyn@cox.net Allison Field ’95, Providence Phone: 401-808-9463 Email: allisonefield@aol.com

Texas Rhode Horns Jeffrey A. Ross ’75, Houston Phone: 713-668-3746 (h) 713-791-9521 (w) Email: jross67785@aol.com

Michigan

Washington, D.C./ Baltimore

David Diana ’84, Warren Phone: 586-268-0048 Email: dianad@flash.net

Hank Nardone ’90, Laytonsville, MD Phone: 301-803-2910 (w) 301-482-1062 (h) Email: henryjn@us.ibm.com Brooke Bondur ’93, Baltimore Phone: 443-756-3977 (h) 410-527-9328 (w) Email: bbondur@aol.com

Irene Kesse Theodoropoulou '69

AFFINITY CHAPTERS Alpha Phi Laura McMahon Kovacs ’01, Arlington, MA Phone: 781-648-1280 Email: lauralaylin@gmail.com

Community Planning Mike DeLuca ’80, M.C.P. ’88, Narragansett, RI Phone: 401-789-6888 (h) 401-461-1000, ext. 3137 (w)

Continuing Education Joyce Dolbec ’95, Slatersville, RI Phone: 401-766-2209 (h)

Delta Zeta

Jim DeNuccio, East Greenwich, RI Phone: 401-884-2993 (w) Fax: 401-885-2228 (w)

Phi Sigma Kappa Kenneth Gambone, New York, NY Phone: 212-996-2277 Email: Kgambone@lehman.com

Political Science Al Killilea, Kingston, RI Phone: 401-874-2183 (w)

RIDOT Charles Xenophontos ’84, Exeter, RI Email: xenopon@dot.ri.gov Charles St. Martin ’92, Coventry, RI Email: cstm@cox.net; csmartin@dot.ri.gov

ROTC John Breguet, Smithfield, RI Phone: 401-232-2097 (h) Email: jbreguet@cox.net Military Instructor Group, Kingston, RI Email: urirotcalumni@cox.net Web site: www.uri-rotc-alum.org

Schmidt Labor Research Center J. Richard Rose M.S. ’06 Phone: 401-461-2786 (h) Email: rrose@mail.uri.edu

Sigma Chi Mark Trovato ’89, Wakefield, RI Phone: 401-782-0064 (h) Email: mtrovato@riag.state.ri.us Web site: www.rhodysig.com

Theta Chi

Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

John Eastman ’62, North Kingstown, RI Phone: 401-295-1956 (h) Email: joneastman@aol.com Mike Testa, Jamestown, RI Phone: 401-423-8918 Email: jtown@cox.net

E. Gale Eaton ’74, Kingston, RI Phone: 401-874-4651

Theta Delta Chi

Nancy Lundgren ’54, Tiverton, RI Phone: 401-624-6364 (h)

Hasbro Mary Laurence ’80 Phone: 401-431-8434 (w)

Eric Lalime ’95 Phone: 201-962-2001 (h) 347-739-7345 (cell) Email: eric.lalime@morganstanley.com

Italian Alfred Crudale ’91, West Kingston, RI Phone: 401-783-3081 Email: acwvmhs@rinet35.org Remo Trivelli, Kingston, RI Phone: 401-874-2383 Lucia Vescera ’96, Lincoln, RI Email: lvescera@hotmail.com

Lambda Chi Alpha Jeffrey Hill ‘00, Shippensburg, PA Phone: 717-530-0188 Email: firemarshal70@hotmail.com

Lambda Delta Phi Linda F. Desmond ’68, North Andover, MA Phone: 978-687-7443 (h) 978-794-3896 (w) Email: lfdesmond@comcast.net

Would you like to START A CHAPTER in your region or for your group? We’d love to hear from you. To learn more, contact Sarah Howard at showard@advance.uri.edu or 401-874-2438.

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50th Reunion for the Class of 1958 To see many more photos from the reunion weekend, go to: advance.uri.edu/ photoalbums

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Golden Grad Weekend May 30-31

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LOOKING back Presidential Visits

At a time when we are preparing to elect a new president, it’s interesting to recall visits that two sitting presidents made to the Kingston Campus. Lyndon Johnson, top photos, accompanied by his wife, Lady Bird, and their daughter Lynda, visited on Aug. 20, 1966. The president donned academic robes in East Hall and then made his way across the Quad to the platform in front of Davis Hall where he received an honorary degree. His visit was controversial as some faculty and students used the occasion to protest the Vietnam war. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was in the last months of his second administration, visited on Aug. 1, 1960, and also received an honorary degree. In a previous visit to Rhode Island (Sept. 19, 1958), Eisenhower made a fishing trip to the hunting estate of his friend W. Alton Jones in West Greenwich. That estate is now URI’s W. Alton Jones Campus. Both presidents were greeted by URI’s sixth president, Francis H. Horn, Hon. ’67, who also conferred the honorary degrees. Horn appears to the left of Eisenhower in the photo of the president waving from his limousine and to the left of President Johnson as he emerges from East Hall. PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE URI LIBRARY DEPT. OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

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CLASSacts 1951 George Joseph Mona, ENG, of South Burlington, Vt., writes: “Even though I didn’t become a captain of industry, I had a satisfying career with G.E., retiring in 1990 from the Armament Systems Department in Burlington, Vt. Even though I didn’t become a world class long distance runner, I did manage a 12th place in the 1953 BAA marathon. More importantly, I have been lucky to be married to a University of Vermont math major for almost 55 years. I am healthy, play tennis, and am treasurer of a local non-profit organization. All of the above resulted from my education at Rhode Island State College. I completed my academic work at RISC in January 1951 but received my diploma from URI in June 1951. There are only a few of us with that unique distinction.”

1952 George R. Nazareth, CBA, of Cumberland, R.I., writes: “In my retirement, I now make intricate segmented wood-turnings. Many can be viewed online at oceanwoodturners. com; click on my name and see my creations.”

1955 Victor N. Allienello, HS&S, of Rumford, R.I., writes: “My wife, Mary, passed away in July 2007. We were married for 48 years. Our two children, Lynn and Bob, and our three grandchildren keep me busy.” Paul B. and M. Rose Fiorino Donnelly, PHM, write: “Paul is retired from the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Civil

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Honored at half-time of men’s home basketball games last spring were, left, Henry Pedro ’76; Anthony Rose ’54, center, with, left to right, Vice President Bob Beagle, Rose’s grandson Hans Stuting, a South Kingstown middle school student who regularly attends URI home games, President Carothers, and Athletics Director Thorr Bjorn; and Anna Cano-Morales ’91. PHOTOS COURTESY URI ATHLETICS

Service. M. Rose is also retired. We reside in Frederick, Md. Due to poor health, we are residents at Homewood at Crumland Farms. Two of our children also reside in Frederick, another one lives in Oklahoma, and a fourth is deceased.”

1965 Stephen Ronald Bokser, CBA, of Fort Lee, N.J., president and CEO of White Rose Foods, has received the third annual Modern Grocer Publisher’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. Stephen has developed strong personal contacts with retailers, particularly those in metropolitan New York. His involvement in the local retailing community has helped White Rose achieve over $1.3 billion in sales this year.

1967 Donald N. Kaull, CBA, of Portsmouth, R.I., has observed URI men’s basketball games from a reserved floor seat for 22 years and provided color commentary broadcasts on radio stations WHJJ-AM and WJZS-FM. Don, his wife, Caroline Tennant Kaull, and three children, Liz Stack ’90, Kate Heffernan ’91, and John Kaull ’94 all earned degrees from URI. Edward-David E. Ruiz, A&S, formerly of Middlebury, Conn., writes: “Effective April 1, I became a fullfledged retiree in the Philippines, proof indeed that history is cyclical. I left the Philippines in 1965 on a teaching assistantship at URI (bless her!). Now, I return as a naturalized American. To everyone who was instrumental in my growth, mentors,

students, friends, I must proffer my sincerest appreciation. Get in touch when you can, please: 8 Milky Way Dr., Blue Ridge B., Libis Quezon City 1109, Philippines. God bless all of you.”

1968 Robert James Kelley, CELS, of Keene, N.H., writes: My wife, Deborah, M.S. ’74, and I retired in June 2008. We are leaving New Hampshire after 32 years to re-invent ourselves in Portland, Maine.

1970 Andrew G. Yosinoff, HS&S, of Allston, Mass., is the latest recipient of the second annual Heights Award. The award recognized Andy for his significant contribution’s to women’s athletics.

SAA Hosts District Conference On March 28, 2008, URI’s Student Alumni Association hosted guests from other Eastern universities— including UConn, UMass, Bryant, Clark, Northeastern, and Stonehill College—at a conference on the Kingston Campus. Amid the workshops and seminars there was plenty of time for fun and relaxation, including an evening of skating at the Boss Arena. At URI, SAA members act as campus ambassadors for the Alumni Association and generate school spirit among their fellow students. PHOTOS BY NORA LEWIS

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1971 David N. Hammerstrom, CBA, of Groton, Conn., is executive vice president at Chelsea Groton Bank. He has been with the bank since 1988 and is the senior loan officer in the Loan Administration Department. He is also a graduate of the Connecticut School of Finance and the National School of Banking at Brown University. He is president of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut and vice president of the Home Builders of Eastern Connecticut. Donna M. Walsh, HS&S, of Charlestown, R.I., writes: “I am presently serving as state rep. for South Kingstown, Charlestown, Block Island, and Westerly. Prior to this I was a state senator for three terms. I am now in my 36th year of teaching.”

1972 Leonard Greenhalgh, CBA, of Spruce Head, Maine, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minority Business Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce. After getting his Ph.D. at Cornell, he became a professor of management at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is Dartmouth’s director of programs for minority and women-owned business enterprises. His work takes him all over the country and to the nation’s inner cities.

John C. Hansen, CBA, of Burke, Va., received a Meritorious Service Award for outstanding leadership on studies of aviation security issues from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the audit and investigations branch of Congress. He has been at the GAO since June 1974. Susan P. Luz, NUR, of North Scituate, R.I., was awarded a Bronze Star for “exceptional meritorious service” for caring for troops in Iraq. Susan, who holds the rank of colonel, quickly learned what happens when a frontline hospital takes on the dead and wounded from a major attack. Her previous nursing career has taken her from the rural outskirts of Brazil, across South America, and to the inner city schools of Providence.

1973 Cornelius M. Kerwin, M.A., of Bethesda, Md., was inaugurated at the 14th president of his alma mater, American University, in Washington, D.C.

1974 Raymond P. Fricano, CELS, of Mansfield Center, Conn., writes: “Entering my 32nd year working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. I presently work for the secretary in the National Appeals Division as a hearing officer. I travel throughout New England adjudicating administrative law cases.”

A SPECIAL MAN FOR A SPECIAL PROGRAM Leo DiMaio Jr., M.A. ’80, received URI’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2008 Diversity Award ceremonies in April. DiMaio was honored for his leadership in developing the Special Programs for Talent Development and for his commitment to constructing PHOTO BY NORA LEWIS pathways for underrepresented students to complete college. As a response to the nation’s awakened social conscience in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968, Talent Development was founded at URI to recruit, support, and retain underrepresented students from Rhode Island, initially admitting 15 students. After working as director of education and recreation at the Adult Correctional Institution for 12 years, “Mr. D” as he is affectionately known, joined Talent Development as the first assistant director, assisting his friend Rev. Arthur L. Hardge from 1969 to 1980. Campus diversity institutions, such as the Multicultural Center and the African and Afro-American Studies Program, owe their existence to the political initiatives of the students and staff of TD. In 1980, DiMaio succeeded Rev. Hardge, directing Talent Development until 2001. During their combined tenures, approximately 1,100 students graduated. Since 2001, DiMiao has administered the College Readiness and At Ease Programs at the Feinstein Providence Campus. His service has been recognized by a host of awards, including the URI Presidential Alumni Excellence Award in 2001.

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Robert M. Weible, A&S, of Carlisle, Pa., the director of public history at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, has been selected to be New York’s chief historian. Robert was cited as a public historian who built partnerships with community groups, universities, cultural organizations, and local historical societies. Morton White, CBA, of Cranston, R.I., writes: “Just wrote and published A Face Made For Radio: My Twenty-Five Years In Radio. It’s available for $24.95 at Whitehouse Productions, 577 Park Avenue, Cranston, RI.”

1975 K. Mark Primeau, A&S, of Boxford, Mass., is president and CEO of the 175-year-old Laconia Savings Bank. F. Randy Vogenberg, PHM, writes: “I started a new strategic consulting firm in Cranston with John Finan ’80 named Employer-based Pharmaceutical Strategies, LLC. I remain an adjunct professor in the College of Pharmacy and was a committee member for the 50th Anniversary Gala in Newport. I live with my wife, Jane, and son Jake in Sharon, Mass.”

1977 George S. La Cross, A&S, of Barrington, R.I., writes: “A long-time employee of The Providence Journal, I’m also editor of laffinthedark.com, a Web site devoted to past and present amusement park dark rides and fun houses. The site, which debuted in May 1999, has compiled nearly 60 feature stories and has been recognized by several newspapers and online trade publications. I started at The Providence Journal in 1980, spending most of my career as a specialist in the newspaper’s promotion department.” Michael M. Violet, PHM, of Middletown, R.I., is a pharmacist at Newport Prescription Center. He started his career there when the center was called Lion Drug Company. Scott D. White, CBA, of Windham, N.H., joined the firm of Waddell & Reed as a financial adviser in the Salem, Windham, Londonderry, and Merrimack Valley area.

1978 Rosemary L. Bowers, HS&S, of Tiverton, R.I., the founder and regional director of A Wish Come True, Inc., has helped make children’s dreams come true for the past 25 years. The nonprofit organization makes wishes a reality for Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts children age 3–19 who are suffering from lifethreatening illnesses. The organization was founded in 1982, but Bowers’ journey began four years earlier in 1978 when she and a group of friends began organizing area fundraisers to help those in need.

Pamela L. Sawin, CBA, of Foxboro, Mass., was promoted to audit principal at Lefkowitz, Garfinkel, Champi & DeRienzo. For more than two decades, Pamela has been providing services to clients in the health care and not-for-profit industries. She pioneered flex-time, successfully creating a foundation for the firm’s ability to attract and retain professionals seeking greater life/ work balance. John R. Washlick, CBA, of Mount Laurel, N.J., authored a chapter in the new health law best practices text Structuring Health Care Partnerships, Agreements, and M&A Transactions, published by Aspatore, Inc. John’s chapter is titled “Success Strategies for Joint Ventures: A Step-by-Step Guide.” The book features top health law attorneys who discuss assisting clients with the regulatory issues inherent in the healthcare industry.

1979 Keith S. Lerner, PHM, of Livingston, N.J., is senior vice president, global business development & licensing at Novartis Consumer Health in Parsippany, N.J. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Heidi, and children Jamie (16) and Max (13). Janice S. O’Donnell, A&S, of Barrington, R.I., received the Middletown 2008 Teacher of the Year award. Janice has been a teacher at Middletown High School since 1983.

1980 Philip L. Fitting, CBA, of Wilton, Conn., joined the board of trustees of the Harvey School. Philip is managing director of the Brookside Group, where he heads Brookside Equity Partners, a private equity investment entity. Annemarie Brisson Gillette, A&S, of Exeter, R.I., is advertising director at The Edward A. Sherman Publishing Company in Newport, R.I.

1982 Harold M. Horvat, CBA, of Cranston, R.I., is executive vice president at Mansfield Bank. Kao T. Li, A&S, of East Weymouth, Mass., joined MetLife/Capital Financial Group, an office of MetLife, as the agency recruitment/marketing manager.

1983 Brian Garbecki, A&S, of Hampden, Mass., director of healthcare services in New England at Gilbane Building Company, was recently selected as one of the “Twenty Who are Making a Difference” by Healthcare Design magazine. Brian was selected for his development and implementation of Gilbane’s proprietary Healthcare Cost Advisor application. Raymond J. Perry, A&S, of Washington, D.C., took command of Coast

Peter McKone ’49

A Dream Fulfilled

PHOTO COURTESY OF PETER MCKONE

McKone & Co.’s client roster included national names like Wilsonart and Aerospatiale. Another asset: McKone’s intellectual curiosity. When a student, this ad man, who earned a B.S. in marketing from URI, also possessed a strong interest in literature: “Every semester I took a lot of literature—British literature, Shakespeare. Literature offered a vision of people and how they reacted to history.” McKone’s many interests served him well. When working in newspaper advertising, for instance, the young advertising manager learned that if an ad appearing in the paper on Friday didn’t yield a sale by Sunday, then it wasn’t a successful ad. The key was in knowing the client, the product, and the audience. McKone was a pro at relationship marketing decades before the term was coined. He learned early that if you put one client in an industry together in a program with other non-competitive advertisers in a similar industry, you multiply the effect. He also learned that you can’t be what you aren’t—“Chevrolet can’t advertise like Cadillac.” McKone sold his business a decade ago. His retirement is spent flying his plane every Wednesday and keeping up with his children’s lives. When asked what one thing he’d want people to know about him, he answered, “I did a good job. I did the best I could. And I loved every minute of it.” —M.E. Reilly-McGreen

John F. Doherty ’88

The Art of Fishing

John Doherty likes fish. He goes diving to look at them, he sets out on his boat to catch them, and he likes to cook them to share with friends and family. But before he fires up the grill, he turns his catch into works of art. Using an ancient Oriental technique called Gyotaku, Doherty creates colorful fish rubbings by painting the fish then pressing rice paper or lightweight fabric on top of the paint. The rubbings started as a happy accident. He had just caught some bluefish, and as he was unloading them from his boat, he noticed the blood from one had seeped out from its gills and left a nearly perfect impression of the fish on the deck. “I thought, that’s so cool,” Doherty says. “I wonder if I could do that.” After playing with various techniques, he did some research and learned that fish rubbings were used two thousand years ago in the Orient as a way to document fish species. Eventually the science turned to art, and today

Doherty’s method is remarkably similar to that of his ancient predecessors. His favorite fish, he says, is striped bass. “Their scales come through the best, and their bodies tend to conform to rubbing.” Among his most memorable rubbings is a twelve-pound lobster. “It was more than three feet long,” he says. “I boiled it, rubbed it, and ate it—it tasted great.” Doherty, who owns an independent insurance agency, lives with his wife and three children in Belmont, Mass. His family has summered on the Cape for years, though, and he has a summer home in Harwich where his studio sits on a dock, making the transition from fisherman to artist a simple step from boat to studio. When his art is finished for the day, Doherty hoses the water-based paints off his fish and— voila!—dinner is served. See Doherty’s work at fishayetradingcompany.com. PHOTO & ART WORK COURTESY OF JOHN DOHERTY

Midmorning on a Wednesday in April in the final minutes of an hour-long interview, Peter McKone casually mentions that he arrived in Texas in 1949 with $25 in his pocket and a dream of working in advertising. He ended up owning a multi-million advertising agency and seeing all 10 of his children graduate from college. McKone had opened the discussion with the disclaimer that he didn’t think what he had to say would be of great interest. It is likely that that modesty—coupled with indefatigable persistence and an understanding of people—is what made McKone a force in advertising.

—Paula M. Bodah ’78

Susan Soletsky ’82

PHOTO COURTESY OF SUSAN SOLETSKY

Pediatric Anesthesiologist Dr. Susan Soletsky loves her job as a pediatric anesthesiologist at Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Houston, Texas. When she arrived at URI, though, she wanted to major in physical education. Her parents insisted she choose pharmacy or nursing. “I wasn’t a very good student,” she confesses. “I chose nursing because the pharmacy program was five years, and there was no way I was going to spend an extra year Susan Soletsky with her sons Zach (middle) and Ari. in school.” She didn’t know it at the time, but the nursing curriculum would spark a sense of purpose and determination that surprised almost everyone who knew her. She began to think about med school while she was still in URI’s nursing program. “I didn’t have the maturity for it then,” she says. After graduating, as much as she enjoyed her nursing career, she kept returning to thoughts of becoming a doctor. “I had to do more than dream about it,” she says. “When the hurdles were set up I had to decide whether I was going to jump them or not.” She worked full time while she earned a post baccalaureate pre-med degree from Queens College in New York, then went on to Cornell Medical School, intending to go into radiology. A mandatory rotation in anesthesiology changed her mind. “I realized that a lot of the things I liked about nursing—the problem solving, the physiology, the pharmacology—were involved in anesthesiology,” she says. Her nursing education gave her a grounding for medical school that proved invaluable. While her fellow students were grappling with the unfamiliar psycho-social aspects of medicine, she says, “I had so much more of a base, having worked with patients for several years already.” She credits her years at URI with helping both her personal and academic growth: “It was really a time of gaining lots of confidence and academic desire.” And she still holds nurses in high esteem: “A good nurse is priceless. They can make or break a patient’s wellness at every level.” —Paula M. Bodah ’78

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Guard Sector Southeastern New England at a ceremony in the Newport Naval Base Officers Club.

1984 Susan L. Campbell, HS&S, of Loxahatchee, Fla., is the director of Sylvan Learning Center in Royal Palm Beach.

1985 David M. Rudzinsky, CBA, of Wakefield, Mass., is now senior vice president and chief information officer for Hologic, Inc.

1986 Jill H. Andy, A&S, of Norton, Mass., is vice president in the human resources department of Amica Life Insurance Company. Mary T. Harrington, A&S, of Wakefield, R.I., has launched At Home Redesigns, an interior design business specializing in one-day redecorating and real estate staging. Mary is a certified interior redesigner and real estate stager working in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts and Connecticut. She is a graduate of the School of Interior Redesign, LLC, and a member of the Association of Design Education. She is a member of the board of directors of the Jonnycake Center of Peacedale. For more information on At Home Redesigns, go to athomeredesigns.com.

Paul R. Loiselle, CBA, of Newton, Mass., writes: “I joined Century Bank as a business development officer in April 2007. I focus on serving the business community in Allston, Brighton, and Cambridge, Mass. I can be contacted at ploiselle@centurybank.com.” Janine L. Burke, ENG, of West Warwick, R.I., is executive director of the Warwick Sewer Authority. June B. House, CELS, of Rehoboth, Mass., is the planner for the Town of Cumberland. June is concentrating on managing grant applications, community development, agricultural tourism, urban design, and research. She has more than 20 years of planning experience.

live every Tuesday at 5 p.m. EST by going to HelloWorld.com, selecting “Watch HelloTV,” and then looking for the live Webcast on “Who’s On Now.” Archived shows can be seen at henrydelangelo.tv. Dean E. Lombardo, A&S, of Ridgefield, Conn., is the author of Vespa, a science fiction/horror novel published by ActiveBladder in August 2007. The paperback, available on ActiveBladder.com and Amazon. com, follows the trials of entomologist Thomas Goodman, an expert on using parasitic wasps to exterminate agricultural pests. In a strange twist, Goodman’s latest assignment has him trying to stop a species of giant wasp that a heavily deforested Mother Earth has unleashed to control the human “pest” population!”

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Kimberly J. Kezer, CELS, of Amesbury, Mass., is a part-time animal training advisor who oversees three dozen training programs for Zoo New England. Kim is also a part-time dog training instructor.

Gregory A. Burbelo, HS&S, of APO, AE, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. The promotion took place in Northern Iraq on December 1, 2007. Gregory is an infantry officer currently assigned as the Secretary of the General Staff for the 1st Armored Division and Multi-National Division-North Iraq. Eric J. Striffler, A&S, of Water Mill, N.Y., has been shooting fashion, travel, and lifestyle in the Hamptons, NYC, Miami, and the Caribbean for over 10 years. Photography assignments have also taken him to such exotic locales as

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1990 Henry J. DelAngelo, HS&S, of Fairfield, Conn., is celebrating the second year of his Internet talk show, “Live at 5 on HDTV.” He interviews business owners in Fairfield County to find out what is new and exciting about their businesses. The show can be seen

Rio de Janeiro, Africa, Aspen, Turkey, Costa Rica, and much of Europe. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Town & Country, Business Week, Elle, Traveler, W, Vogue, House Beautiful, Complex, Elite,Time Out New York, Distinction, and the New York Observer.

1992 Victor F. Capellan, A&S, of New York, N.Y., is the president of the Dominican American National Roundtable; he will work with people from around the country advocating on behalf of Dominican-Americans. DANR is a non-profit organization that brings together people of Dominican origin living in the United States. Linda A. Hunter, NUR, of Providence, R.I., has joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital. She has been an ongoing clinical educator and curriculum lecturer for University of Vermont medical students during their ob/gyn clerkship; she has also been a co-lecturer for family nurse practitioner students.

1993 Michele L. Palmieri, A&S, of Wakefield, R.I., is executive director of the Newport Yachting Center. She joined Newport Harbor Corporation, the yachting center’s parent company, a year ago as site operations manager.

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Anna Cano-Morales ’91

A Pillar of the Community Girl Scout meetings and dance classes typically dominate the conversation of elementary school girls. Few give thought to sobering issues, such as immigration rights. Yet for Anna Cano-Morales, who as a first-generation Colombian-American grew up in Central Falls and Pawtucket, R.I., adult concerns defined her lifestyle in many ways. “As a child, I advocated for my community, often using my English skills to fill out job applications for my parents’ friends and broker rental agreements between tenants and landlords. My parents taught me that my community was special, and it was our duty to help those that are in need.” These values that Cano-Morales’ family instilled in her drove her to pursue a career in social services and philanthropy. Having majored in Human Development, Counseling and Family Studies at URI, Cano-Morales went on to earn a master’s in social work from Rhode Island College. PHOTO BY NORA LEWIS She worked as a social worker before joining the Rhode Island Foundation as senior community philanthropy officer. In this role, she oversees the discretionary grant program, a source of funding for numerous nonprofits dedicated to improving people’s lives through affordable housing, improved K-12 education, and other initiatives. “Philanthropy is a magnificent tool that allows us to invest in communities and in quality-of-life issues that affect our most vulnerable populations.” When she is not at the foundation working to help others, she spends her free time—well, helping others. Cano-Morales chairs the Central Falls School District’s board of trustees and is a member of the R.I. Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education. Through her work with both groups, she aims to “close the minority achievement gap and to create policies that help teachers and students achieve their fullest potential.” Though many years have passed since she translated for Spanish-speaking neighbors, her belief in giving back to the community became a lifelong passion preparing her to achieve these goals and to “challenge the status quo wherever I go.” —Maria V. Caliri ’86, M.B.A. ’92

Margot White ’94

On Broadway

URI professors Judith Swift, Kimber Wheelock, Margot White was living every theater major’s and Paula McGlasson all helped White assemble dream in the fall of 2007, acting on Broadway in “a full toolbox” of acting skills. One lesson in The Farnsworth Invention, a play written by West which movement teacher Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. Anne Scurria (of Trinity Rep) “It was my dream since I was told White to “move across five to be on Broadway,” said the floor like a river of hot White, who played “about eight fudge” in an effort to loosen roles altogether.” Her first up, popped into White’s head Broadway show, which closed years later during a pivotal in March, was “everything time in her career. I could have hoped for and After a disappointing more—except a longer run.” audition for playwright Horton White acted in many URI Foote, White was walking Theatre productions as back to her apartment when an undergraduate. After “this light bulb went off in my graduating, she spent a year head.” She went back, did acting in Rhode Island. In the audition again, and got 1995, she moved to New York the role. Foote later offered to study with the New York her the lead role in another Shakespeare Festival. Soon, PHOTO COURTESY OF MARGOT WHITE play, The Traveling Lady. An she was working in regional agent saw the play and loved her performance: productions including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “That’s how I got my representation. It was a really Romeo & Juliet, and The Shape of Things. serendipitous experience.” “Now I’m more interested in sticking closer to You never know where a river of hot fudge will home,” she said, noting that she and her husband, take you. It took Margot White all the way from Paul Johansen, have bought a country house Kingston to Broadway. north of the city in addition to the apartment in —David Gregorio ’80 Manhattan they share with their dog, Ruby.

Rudy Duthil ’04

Setting the Bar Three years: That’s all the time it took for Rudy Duthil to become a recognized leader in his industry. Duthil is the West Coast manager of experiential marketing for Zoom Media and Marketing out of Los Angeles. The company installs media billboards and manages marketing campaigns in nightlife venues, health clubs, and mini-family amusement centers—“places where people are enjoying their lives,” Duthil says. Zoom counts name PHOTO COURTESY OF RUDY DUTHIL brands like Ford, Continental Airlines, and T-Mobile among its clients. Duthil is currently working on a $1 million campaign for Pepsi Co., assisting its bottlers in promoting Pepsi’s Manzanita Sol brand. Duthil’s work earned him a 2007 ADCOLOR Rising Star award honoring the achievements of young persons of diverse backgrounds working in the advertising world. Duthil was one of 15 winners selected from over 100 nominees. The experience spurred Duthil to establish a multicultural group within his company. Its task: to assess and address the needs of multicultural ad agencies in efforts to reach the multicultural target consumer. “It is an intelligent business move,” Duthil says, “and, most importantly, something I’m truly passionate about.” Duthil’s other passion is his work with the Los Angeles Unified School District to establish an internship program at Zoom. His first intern for this program will also be participating in a summer college program at the University of California-Northridge that is comparable to the Talent Development program at URI that started Duthil’s collegiate career. Duthil credited the Adcolor Award he received, as well as URI’s Talent Development program, with inspiring him to help others recognize their professional goals. “I had some great examples and role models within the TD program such as Sharon and Frank Forleo, as well as my main mentor, Domingo Morel. They have all accomplished great things with the Talent Development program. And when you have people like that setting the bar for you, you can’t help but want to succeed.” —M.E. Reilly-McGreen

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Allison R. Price, A&S, of Winchester, Mass. is a registered nurse at Winchester Hospital. She is currently enrolled at Salem State College in the master’s in nursing program. She and her husband are the proud parents of Julia (8), Patrick (6), Amelia (4), and Annie (2).

1994 Christopher Calcagno, A&S, of New York, N.Y., hopes his friends and classmates enjoyed the profile that ran in the May issue of QUAD ANGLES about his career as a standup comic in NYC. He’d love to get emails from everyone, but the address printed with the profile was incorrect. To reach Chris, email him at christopher.calcagno@gmail.com.

1995 Donald L. Deardorff, A&S, of Xenia, Ohio, was promoted to professor of English at Cedarville University. He has been a faculty member there since 1996. Frank A. Marini, A&S, of Lincoln, R.I., is vice president of sales at Collette Vacations in Pawtucket. He began his travel career at Collette in 1994.

1996 Ilda S. Amado-Washington, A&S, of Pawtucket, R.I., audit supervisor in Citizens Bank Internal Audit Department, has been promoted to vice president. She joined Citizens in 2004 as an officer and senior auditor. Christina M. Carathanassis, A&S, of New York, N.Y., is president and owner of Christabelle’s Closet, a

Web-based designer resale boutique. Christina was featured on The CBS Early Show in February. Check out christabellescloset.com. Christopher A. Duhamel, ENG, of Westerly, R.I., was named the 2008 Engineer of the Year by the Rhode Island Society of Professional Engineers. Eric W. Matteson, CBA, of Providence, R.I., was recently promoted to vice president at Rampart Investment Management, a leading investment firm in Boston.

1998 Christine C. Brousseau, HS&S, of Bend, Ore., is the new executive director for Camp Fire USA Central Oregon. In 2004 she attained her M.P.A. from Portland State University with a concentration in non-profit management. Ann K. Dowling, CELS, of Hope Valley, R.I., has been named family support specialist at the March of Dimes Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Women & Infants Hospital. Her work will complement that of the NICU professional staff to support famlies in crisis throughout hospitalization and during the transition home.

1999 Jonathan C. Herman, A&S, of New York, N.Y., writes: “I was promoted to chief executive officer of Home Health Mates, a New Jersey based non-medical and medical home care franchiser. Looking back on my life, URI was indispensable in helping me achieve life-long goals!”

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Elizabeth R. Napier, CBA, of West Warwick, R.I., is vice president and accounting manager in corporate finance at Citizens Bank. She most recently was an assistant vice president and audit supervisor in Audit Financial and Investment Services. Brian P. Nelson, CBA, of Lyndhurst, N.J., was promoted to vice president at 16W Marketing, a full service sports marketing company that utilizes a completely integrated approach in the development of client programs. Brian joined the firm in 2000 when it was founded and has assumed increased responsibilities both externally and internally over the years. Karolyn Zambrotta, NUR, of Newport, R.I., is a certified midwife with many years of experience at local hospitals. She is a new member of Morton Hospital’s obstetric team.

2000 Nadav H. Mer, A&S, of Gainesville, Fla., is the owner and operator of Swamp Systems, LLC, a dealer of APC products in Gainsville, Fla. Kimberly A. Shockley, A&S, of West Warwick, R.I., was promoted to audit officer at Washington Trust Company. Lynne E. Standish, CELS, of Portsmouth, N.H., was named the 2007 Amgen-NSTA Fellow by The National Science Teachers Association. Lynne teaches at Seacoast Academy, a private middle school in Hampton Falls near the Exeter town line. She has worked as a camp counselor at Seacoast Science Center, has been an AmeriCorps volunteer bringing environmental education to Boston schools, and has been a naturalist on New England Aquarium whale watches.

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Barry M. Delmonico, HS&S, of Norwalk, Conn., is an associate at The Darien Sport Shop where he works as a replenishment buyer. Francis S. DiMenno, M.L.S., is the director at Emily Williston Library in Northampton, Mass. Jodi A. Baldwin, A&S, of Auburn, N.Y., founded a recycling program called Film and Entertainment Recycling Initiative. The initiative was created when Jodi entered the field of entertainment as a costumer. When she became aware of the waste created by filming on location, she began to recycle as many items as she could. Jodi soon realized that more people needed to be involved and more action needed to be taken, so she founded FaERI, which was incorporated in 2007. Kara B. Lukasiewicz, CELS, was awarded a Ph.D. in tumor biology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Kara plans to accept a position at the National Institutes of Health in

Bethesda, Md., where she hopes to hold a post-doctoral position.

2002 Christine L. Bowers, CBA, of Middletown, R.I., is the controller for Community VNA in Attleboro, Mass. Kendra A. Nicastro, CBA, of West Warwick, R.I., is an officer at Citizens Bank’s Stop & Shop branch in Westerly. She joined Citizens in 2003 as the assistant manager of the Stop & Shop branch in Johnston, and in 2004 became the assistant manger of the Stop & Shop branch in North Kingstown.

2003 Andrew L. Rosener, CBA, of Providence, R.I., is vice president of sales and marketing at Omega Sea, Inc., a seafood processing/trading company in Newport. Nicole G. Stenmark, A&S, of Woonsocket, R.I., was promoted to corporate instructor with AT&T in July 2007. She has been with the company since 2003 and is based out of Westwood, Mass.

2004 Kristina Perrelli, CELS, of Newport, R.I., was named the Richard F. Stevens Outstanding Graduate Student in Rhode Island, an award presented by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

2005 James P. Hagerty, CBA, of Cranston, R.I., recently joined the Veteran’s Administration Providence as a support services specialist.

2006 Gary J. Atturio, CBA, of Warwick, R.I., performed on national television on October 26, 2007, on The Next Generation American Band on Fox network. Gary performed with Joe Parillo and the URI Jazz Band. Sabrina A. Boulay, CBA, of North Attleboro, Mass., is assistant vice president and manager of compensation and payroll at FM Global. She will oversee the compensation programs and payroll unit, which includes more than 50 offices around the world. Matthew R. Wills, CELS, of Franconia, N.H., is a landscape designer at Gates, Leighton & Associates, Inc., an international landscape architecture and planning firm headquartered in East Providence.

2007 Benjamin L. Becker, A&S, of Amesbury, Mass., recently attended the West Coast Green, the largest residential green building conference expo in the U.S. The annual event draws 13,000 attendees and features presentations by 250 industry experts

in sustainable design, construction, and development. Eric B. Hogberg, CBA, of Cranston, R.I., played for the Dundalk Bulls in the Irish Ice Hockey League in the winter season of ’08. Alden G. Hough, A&S, of Barrington, R.I., accepted a position at Reliable Respiratory of Norwood, Mass., one of New England’s fastest growing respiratory product and service suppliers. Eric D. Larson, CBA, of North Kingstown, R.I., passed the exclusive Wine & Spirits Education Trust Advanced Certificate Program with merit. Eric was one of only 10 people in Rhode Island to pass the test. He has worked at his parents’ retail wine shop, Colonial Wine & Spirits in North Kingstown, hosts wine tasting events, conducts wine classes, and enjoys assisting people with wine and food pairing advice and party planning. Natalie A. Marcinkowski, HS&S, is the assistant buyer at the Queen Bee, a hip Boston boutique. The most rewarding part of her job is participating on the business side of fashion and being able to apply what she learned in college to her career. John T. Powers, A&S, of Cumberland, R.I., recently completed and published online a Veteran’s Resource Guide for Rhode Island Residents at operationvets.com. John’s goal was to unite all the resources available to Rhode Island veterans and their families. He hopes to continue the project for all 50 states to ensure returning soldiers and their families are getting the care and support they need. John is currently a Rhode Island College graduate student. Mark T. Stolte, A&S, of Rochester, N.Y., is tournament and program director at Lakeshore Hockey Arena.

WEDDINGS John V. Powell ’71 to Laura Myers, on February 9, 2008. Randall A. Swanlund ’74 to Jennie J. Muglia, on September 15, 2007. Jessica L. Curtin ’93 to John J. Donnelly, on June 16, 2007. John M. Daly ’93 to Allyson K. Barrett, on June 9, 2007. Christopher A. Willi ’93 to Jessica Dugan, on June 10, 2007. Kevin R. Corriveau ’94 to Maria D. DiGiovangiacomo, on October 27, 2007. Stephanie M. Ulicny ’94 to Steven Dornin, on July 28, 2007. Leslie A. Sacchetti ’96 to A. Joshua Appel, on August 26, 2007. Norman J. Verrier ’97 to Jennifer L. Lafleur, on October 27, 2007. Lisa J. Broccoli ’98 to Steven M. De Fusco ’98, on November 30, 2007. Scott P. Carter ’98 to Renee Berube ’00, on August 4, 2007.

Lauren E. Curtis ’99 to Thomas Pendergast, on July 23, 2007. Laura L. Nunes ’99 to John Santilli, on November 11, 2006. Nelson S. Pires ’99 to Christine Shields, on October 6, 2007. Patrick C. Sullivan ’99 to Shannon L. Rafferty, on August 11, 2007. Angela L. Vars ’03 to Michael K. Varacalli ’07, on October 6, 2007. Gene Paul Begin ’00 to Megan Mathewson, on September 2, 2007. Michelle A. Cass ’00 to Alexander D. T. Bea, on July 8, 2007. Maria R. Di Raimo ’00 to Marcello Castellano, on November 3, 2007. James A. Forcier ’00 to Susan B. Wilson ’02, on September 9, 2007.

Erin L. Hicks ’00 to David B. Manwaring, on October 20, 2007. Jessica L. DiSpirito Dauphinais ’01 to Christopher Rosa, on August 21, 2005. Jennifer L. Galli ’01 to Thomsen P. Sawicky ’02, on September 8, 2007. Mary Gamble ’01 to Terrence J. Glackin, on December 15, 2007. Colleen P. Gibbons ’01 to Jason Sobota, on September 22, 2007. Andrew J. Marr ’01 to Courtney A. Gustafson ’04, on September 22, 2007. Charles P. Chaponis ’02 to Elizabeth Ann Cain, on September 29, 2007. Marie T. Forster ’02 to Matthew McNiff, on September 15, 2007.

Melina Gesch-Karamanlidis ’02 to Richard Lodge, on August 11, 2007. Adam C. Giuliano ’02 to Erin M. Conti, on August 18, 2007. Kristen M. Hesford ’02 to Robert A. Pontarelli Jr., on February 10, 2007. Inga A. Lermontov ’02 to Jeffrey G. Hoit, on December 9, 2007. Kerri L. Marshall ’02 to Jason H. J. Smith, on October 7, 2007. Christina A. Payne ’02 to Nathaniel C. Earle Jr., on November 3, 2007. Kelley A. Wisdom ’02 to Brendon Warner, on October 7, 2007. Chad M. Wojnar ’02 to Julie Y. Mathieu, on July 28, 2007. Rebecca L. Argall ’03 to Parker D. Capwell, on October 6, 2007.

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Bethany A. Bottis ’03 to Kurt A. Gorter, on December 1, 2007. Elisa Grober ’03 to Nathan Lewkowicz ’03, on November 4, 2007. Alexander C. Kanelos ’03 to Alyssa R. Haun, on July 28, 2007. Antonette L. Mello ’03 to John A. Marshall Jr., on September 1, 2007. Christine M. Mischler ’03 to Stephen Allen Jr., on September 29, 2007. Sarah E. Thomas ’03 to Thomas E. Duprey, on August 10, 2007. Aaron S. Butler ’04 to Victoria Percival ’05, on September 2, 2007. Katherine A. Donovan ’04 to Anthony N. Giacalone, on September 1, 2007. Danielle L. Dorval ’04 to Timothy B. Crothers, on June 2, 2007. Jason M. Dvelis ’04 to Stephanie J. Wiencis, on October 19, 2007. Bethany L. Finateri ’04 to William H. Cooney III, on September 22, 2007. Erica L. Garber ’04 to Aaron P. Holzinger, on October 6, 2007. Allison Geller ’04 to Matthew Lopes ’04, on September 29, 2007. Delia M. Martin ’04 to Thomas J. Pacia ’04, on July 14, 2007. Tara L. Nastari ’04 to David P. Lafleur, on July 8, 2007. Melinda D. Plante ’04 to Timothy Golembeske, on June 2, 2007. Rosemarie Speranza ’04 to Casey D. Jarrett, on September 1, 2007. Courtney L. Townsend ’04 to Dennis J.C. Sevigny, on August 18, 2007. Kyle M. Braga ’05 to Regina Bertoldi, on September 29, 2007. Julie T. Brayton ’05 to David F. Carnvevale, on August 4, 2007. Noel M. Moreau ’05 to Emilio Pilozzi, on October 27, 2007. Marisa Desautel ’06 to Derek DiMeo, on September 15, 2007. Amy A. Gaudette ’06 to Brian E. Steere ’06, on October 25, 2007. Jana M. List ’06 to Craig Riley, on July 14, 2007. Lindsay Lopardo ’06 to Mario Fonseca ’06, on May 3, 2008. Amy E. McDonald ’06 to Justin K. Lamboy ’06, on August 10, 2007.

BIRTHS Scott and Denise Moniz Abraham ’89, a son, Aidan Michael, on May 28, 2007. Richard H. and Mary Carty McQuarrie ’90, a daughter, Maeve Rose, on July 1, 2007. Sarah W. ’92 and Robert J. Perrone ’91, a daughter, Catherine Ann, on January 17, 2008.

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Matthew ’93 and Karen A. Szrom McGuire ’93, a daughter, Mollyana, on May 3, 2007. Anthony Marciano and Kristina S. Mongelli-Marciano ’93, a son, Nicholas Peter, on March 27, 2008. Robert and Sheila DiSarro Paquette ’93, a daughter, Anacapri Joelle, on May 25, 2006. Joseph S. ’94 and Amy Campbell Buban ’97, a son, Ethan Joseph, on January 16, 2008. Andrea and David A. Osterberg ’94, a son, Aiden, on February 28, 2008. Jeremy Reed ’94 and Marissa Warren ’96, a son, Joshua Warren Reed, on September 28, 2007. Michael and Stacie Levitt-Sargis ’95, a son, Dylan Phillip, on January 2, 2007. Tara V. Lisciandro ’95, and Frank C. Hornich, a daughter, Jayne Francine, on July 1, 2007. Joseph ’96 and Bethany Gervasini Confessore ’97, a son, Michael Thomas, on December 14, 2007. Michael S. and Laurie Jean Kennedy Ezovski ’96, a son, Brendt Thomas, on January 10, 2008. Amanda and Michael J. Dugan ’96, a daughter, Margaret Mary, on December 22, 2007. Deborah and Peter J. Ilberg ’96, a son, Matthew Liev, on November 29, 2007. John and Jody L. Marrec Avery ’96, a son, Justin, on February 4, 2008. Randall ’97, and Suzanne Lichter Sanders ’97, a daughter, Kathryn Faye, on March 12, 2007. Michael J. and Sarah Lepkowski Rodgers ’97, a son, Presley James, on January 8, 2008. Jennifer E. DelSignore ’98 and Fabio Vuono ’99, a daughter, Caterina Andreana, on April 18, 2008. Miles and Lauren Almeida Auvil ’98, a son, Colin Miles, on April 02, 2008. Luke Jackson and Marisa Lee Vincent ’98, a daughter, Natalia Raine, on February 8, 2008. Michael ’99 and Tara E. McMahon Letzring ’02, a son, Dominic Joseph, on January 11, 2008. Aaron and Rebecca L. Seamans Jones ’00, a son, Alden Jess, on January 29, 2008. Jeremy P. ’01 and Jennifer Bailey ’01, a son, Izaac Christian, on October 27, 2007. Jay B. and Karen A. Humes ’02, a son, Jesse B, on October 5, 2007.

IN MEMORIAM Stanley Dallas ’34 of Seattle, Wash., on July 9, 2007. Stanley Madison ’34 of Charlestown, R.I., on February 25, 2008. Alden Saunders ’34 of Warwick, R.I., on March 7, 2008. Bertram Brown ’36 of Providence, R.I., on March 9, 2008. R. Michael Sammataro ’36 of Westerly, R.I., on February 22, 2008. Louis Diorio ’37 of Johnston, R.I., on January 8, 2008. Marguerite Masterson ’37 of East Greenwich, R.I., on March 28, 2008. Robert Mudge ’37 of Warwick, R.I., on March 20, 2008. Charlotte Souler Toole ’37 of Greenville, R.I., on March 14, 2008. Theodore Ventrone ’37 of Watchung, N.J., on February 2, 2008. Eileen Gorton Shanley ’39 of Portsmouth, R.I., on February 11, 2008. Helena Bourne Goodman ’40 of Tiverton, R.I., on January 25, 2008. Harold Werner ’41 of Newport, R.I., on April 1, 2008. James Fitzpatrick ’43 of Chicopee, Mass., on May 6, 2008. John Walsh ’43 of Melbourne Beach, Fla., on October 18, 2007. Margaret DePonte Kelly ’46 of Middletown, Conn., on March 2, 2008. Pauline Desantis ’47 of Wakefield, R.I., on March 13, 2008. James Matheson ’47 of Prospect, Pa., on April 3, 2008. Donald Gamble ’48 of Wakefield, R.I., on February 15, 2008. Shirley Goldberg Mittleman ’48 of Providence, R.I., on March 16, 2008. Martha Jacob Malenfant ’49 of Chocurua, N.H., on April 27, 2008. Albert Palmieri ’49 of New Bedford, Mass., on April 1, 2008. June Michie Dell’Abate ’50 of Lighthouse Point, Fla., on March 10, 2008. Stanley Grabiec ’50 of New Bedford, Mass., on January 12, 2008. Raymond Johnson ’50 of Meriden, Conn., on February 29, 2008. Louis Nebiolo ’50 of Middletown, R.I., on December 27, 2007. Barbara Kenyon Little ’51 of Lincoln, R.I., on April 18, 2008. John Guido ’52 of West Palm Beach, Fla., on January 28, 2008. Richard Grossman ’53 of Bethesda, Md., on March 1, 2008. Paul Homan ’53 of Colorado Springs, Colo., on February 9, 2008. Craig Potter ’53 of Port Charlotte, Fla., on February 27, 2008. Joan Peterson ’54 of Westerly, R.I., on April 4, 2008.

James Callahan ’55 of Saint Louis, Mo., on October 5, 2007. Aram Kevorkian ’57 of Barrington, Ill., on November 2, 2007. William Materna ’57 of Silver Lake, Ohio, on January 16, 2008. Ray Norberg ’57 of Chepachet, R.I., on February 6, 2008. Nicholas Palma ’57 of Cranston, R.I., on January 8, 2008. John Wilmot ’57 of Warwick, R.I., on February 6, 2008. Thomas Duggan ’58 of Wakefield, R.I., on February 23, 2008. Owen Eagan ’58 of Fall River, Mass., on February 13, 2008. Norman Soderberg ’58 of South China, Maine, on April 2, 2008.

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George Binns ’59 of Beverly, Mass., on December 31, 2007. Richard Ouellette ’59 of Las Vegas, Nev., on March 18, 2008. David Beattie ’61 of Centre Hall, Pa., on February 9, 2008. Patricia Evers Glendon ’61 of New York, N.Y., on April 11, 2008. Raymond McMahon ’61 of Providence, R.I., on January 15, 2008. Rita Conroy Rose ’61 of Saunderstown, R.I., on December 23, 2007. Regina Alman Summer ’61 of Cave Creek, Ariz., on April 9, 2008. Constance Pflomm ’62 of Niantic, Conn., on February 3, 2008. George Rainville ’63 of Warwick, R.I., on May 1, 2008. Harry Buckley ’64 of Pawcatuck, Conn., on February 27, 2008. Richard Ferrucci ’64 of Pawtucket, R.I., on March 13, 2008. Robert Watson ’64 of New Hampton, N.H., on December 28, 2007. Henry Digrado ’65 of Narragansett, R.I., on March 6, 2008. John Walker ’66 of Kingston, R.I., on February 18, 2008. Robert McCollough ’67 of East Greenwich, R.I., on March 31, 2008. Arthur Gruhn ’68 of Middletown, Conn., on March 18, 2008. Kevin Higgins ’68 of North Kingstown, R.I., on January 14, 2008. William Snyder ’68 of Marco Island, Fla., on April 9, 2008. Allen Swann ’68 of Coventry, R.I., on April 27, 2008. Bernard Ebbitt ’69 of Bristol, R.I., on April 11, 2008. Helen Mowry ’69 of Hope, R.I., on January 31, 2008. Terence Robb ’69 of Lititz, Pa., on March 14, 2008. David Carr ’70 of Cumberland, R.I., on April 29, 2008. Stephen W. Collis ’70 of Trenton, N.J., on February 4, 2008. Barbara Kingsbury ’70 of Concord, N.H., on March 28, 2008. Richard Rogalin ’70 of Braintree, Mass., on April 8, 2008. Martina Dalton-Quinn ’71 of Wakefield, R.I., on May 4, 2008. Italia Miller ’71 of Scituate, R.I., on April 12, 2008. Mona Leftoff Greenberg ’72 of Plainview, N.Y., on February 23, 2008. Donald Andreozzi ’73 of Jamestown, R.I., on March 21, 2008. Agnes Norcross Ball ’73 of Coventry, R.I., on January 28, 2008. Jonathan Oster ’73 of Lincoln, R.I., on February 22, 2008. W. Douglas Morgan ’74 of Wethersfield, Conn., on February 28, 2008.

Elaine Reynolds ’74 of Narragansett, R.I., on March 18, 2008. Marie Arenius ’75 of Newport News, Va., on January 30, 2008. Judith Gifford ’75 of Newport, R.I., on February 27, 2008. Gerald Shapiro ’75 of Providence, R.I., on February 1, 2008. Jeffrey Smith ’75 of New London, Conn., on March 31, 2008. Christopher Owen ’76 of Ellsworth, Maine, on January 11, 2008. Mala Schuetz Davis ’78 of Saunderstown, R.I., on January 19, 2008. Constance Mellor ’78 of East Greenwich, R.I., on February 28, 2008. Helen Savage ’78 of Pawtucket, R.I., on March 19, 2008. Maureen Sullivan ’79 of Lincoln, R.I., on January 8, 2008. Muriel Allen Lanfredi ’80 of Tiverton, R.I., on February 23, 2008. David Buckley ’80 of North Kingstown, R.I., on February 8, 2008. B. Collette Gershkoff ’85 of Naples, Fla., on March 26, 2008. Shirley Pendergast, Hon. ’97, of Warwick, R.I., on May 11, 2008. Rocco Kuhn ’02 of Coventry, R.I., on April 5, 2008. Erica Desautels ’06 of Nasonville, R.I., on February 25, 2008.

IN MEMORIAM FACULTY Donald B. Burns, Hon. ’83, professor emeritus of music and a former director of University Bands, died at his home in Weesp, Holland. A member of the URI faculty for over 20 years, he also served as chairman of the Music Department for three years. During his tenure, That Ram Band was recognized by the NCAA as one of the finest college marching bands on the eastern seaboard. The band gave frequent NFL halftime performances for the New York Jets and the New England Patriots and was featured at the 1965 New York Giants/Cleveland Browns playoff game at Yankee Stadium. Under Burns’ direction, the Ramette Dance Team was combined with the band to perform at the televised opening of the 1964 New York World’s Fair hosted by actor Lorne Greene and at Expo ’67 in Montreal. It was Burns’ talents and vision that provided support for the fledgling URI Jazz program thereby ensuring its permanent place in the music curriculum. In addition to his outstanding musical training and musicianship, Burns’ greatest strength lay in his ability to relate to, inspire, and motivate his students. He is survived by his wife, Annemarie.

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It’s official: On May 14 Independence Hall was renamed M. Beverly Swan Hall in honor of the former provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Justin Smith Morrill Distinguished University Professor. “There were only two times in the years that we worked together that the president has left me speechless,” remarked Swan who retired in June. “When he told me about the re-naming of Independence is one of them. I never, ever thought anything like this would happen—especially with a building with which I have so much history.” The reception that followed the dedication included a surprise: President Carothers unveiled a sculpted metal swan, top photo, which hangs on a wall in the lobby. At left, the former provost chats with sculptor Ed Brown, who created the swan.

REACH FOR THE STARS Profile in Giving From youth Steve Bouley ’80 had a fascination with rockets and space travel. His high school counselor recommended he pursue a degree in mechanical engineering, and Bouley did so at URI in the late 1970s. His senior year was eventful. As a newlywed and father of a newborn, Bouley held as many as three jobs to support his family and pay for his education. Sometimes financial pressures were acute, and Bouley’s education goals seemed as distant as the heavens he so admired. URI eased Bouley’s financial burdens with a $1,000 grant and another $2,500 in student loans. “It was a meaningful thing,” said Bouley, now the California operations general manager for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. The grant and loans “were significant in terms of what they meant for me and my future.” Upon graduation, Bouley received 11 different job offers from nine different companies. He accepted Rocketdyne’s offer and has been with the company for 28 years. Considered the premier liquid rocket engine propulsion company in the world, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne booster engines have powered most of America’s rockets and space shuttles, sending 774 astronauts into space. Bouley has witnessed over 100 space launches; his career has fulfilled his childhood dream: “I couldn’t have imagined back then that I would be in the position that I am today. To be leading an organization that is designing the liquid propellant propulsions systems that will take America back to the moon is like a dream come true.” Bouley wants to ensure that other students in the College of Engineering have the opportunity to pursue their educational goals. To that end, he and his wife, Rhonda C. Wilson, have pledged $50,000 to the University to fund the Steven A.

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Steven Bouley ’80

Bouley and Rhonda C. Wilson Graduate Fellowship in Engineering. The pledge will be matched by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s parent company, United Technologies Corp., bringing the gift to $100,000. Moreover, Bouley, a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Council, said he and his wife intend to donate additional money to the endowment in the years to come. “Rhonda and I believe strongly in education,” Bouley said. “I received help back then, and now I can do something to give back. It’s now my turn.”

The College of Engineering is looking to increase funding for graduate fellowships and research assistantships. “The generosity of the Bouleys will certainly enhance our efforts in this critical area,” said College of Engineering Interim Dean Ray Wright. “Maintaining the dynamic teaching and research environment URI has built depends on our ability to attract, retain, and support the research efforts of highly qualified faculty. Providing fellowships and research assistantships plays a major role in our success; a role that cannot be underestimated.” By Marybeth Reilly-McGreen

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HOMECOMING 2008 advance.uri.edu/alumni/events/homecoming

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 Rhody Rally/Bonfire/Fireworks The Student Alumni Association hosts its annual Rhody Rally, bonfire, and fireworks at Keaney.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 8th Annual Homecoming 5K Road Race Reunions! 30th, 40th, and Football Alumni URI vs. Villanova Game “Rhodyville”! Alumni groups are invited to gather in our reunion community. Rhodyville will be set up outside of the south entrance to Meade Stadium. Get more information and reserve your tent space by visiting the Homecoming Web site.

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The 3rd Annual University Distinguished Achievement Awards will be held at the Providence Westin Hotel on Saturday evening. advance.uri.edu/alumni/awards/daa

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