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Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC What's News? Newspapers 4-22-1985 What's News @ Rhode Island College Rhode Island College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news Recommended Citation Rhode Island College, "What's News @ Rhode Island College" (1985). What's News?. 295. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news/295 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in What's News? by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. History club brings Robert Clary: Holocaust survivor• and TV star here Robert Clary, known internationally to 16 children, Clary began performing quit e Clar y and the rest of his famil.y were television viewers for his role as LeBeau in early in life. He was singing profes sionally placed in a cattle car with I 00 other French the comedy series about prisoners of war, throughout Paris at age 12. Jews and traveled for three days and two Hogan's Heroes, is a survivor of a much When the Nazis invaded France in 1940 nights before reaching the first of four grimmer sort of German prison camp . cha nges that were to alter his life forever camps in which he was held prisoner dur Clary spent the years from 1942 when he began . ing the war. was 16 until 1945 in German concentration In 1942 the Germans came for him and Because he was young and . strong he was camps. his family. They were given 10 minutes to put to work as a slave laborer. He was liberated from the infamous collect their belongings and get ready for '' It was pure luck," claims C lary, that Buchenwald death camp by the American removal to the camps . - he survived . army in 1945. His mother urged him to hide in a Thirteen members of his immed iate Clary will visit Rhode Island on May 9 neighbor' s bathroom with his sister , but family were deported from Paris to Nazi to speak at Rhode Island College about his Clary couldn't leave his mother. The sister camps . Clary was the only one to survive. experiences as a survivor of the Nazi became a member of the French After being libe rated he went back to camps. underground , survived the. war and still Born in Paris in 1926, the youngest of lives in Paris today (continued on page 6) . ROBERT CLARY Rhode Vol. 5, No. 28 April 22, 1985 Island @ College Scholarships A wards to be given at May 9 dinner: Double INSIDE Alumni Assn. honors six Due to the success of last year's annual fund drive, the Rhode Island College An evening with .Kitty •••••••••••••••••3 A state senator Baird has twice been named coach of the Alumni Association has approved increas who is a member of year, once in 1969 by United Press Inter ing the number of scholarships it will award First step to the future ..••••••••.••..• 4 the Rhode Island national and again in 1970 by Words for 1985-86 from 16 to 34. College faculty, the Unlimited . The scholarship committee, chaired by At your service .......................... 5 college's director of Currently, he is serving on the executive Roberta Joseph DeAndrade , Class of '59, athletics, two alum com mittees of the New England College presented its recommendations at the Court helps gays ........................ 6 nae, a faculty Athletic Conference and the Eastern Col March meeting of the executive board and member and the lege Athletic Conference . received unanimous support. Cabaret returns ••••.•••••••••••••••••.•••7 assistant vice presi Roberta Joseph DeAndrade of the class Six categories of scholarships are dent for academic of 1959 has been chosen alumna of ·the Yo-Yo Ma at RIC •.•••••••••••••.•••••• 7 affairs and dean of ·(continued on paae 6) year. graduate studies will DeAndrade has been actively involved be the honored Lederbeg with the alumni association for 22 years . guests when Rhode She serves as news notes secretary for her Other interests: Island College's Alumni Association holds · class in the Alumni Review, has been a its annual awards dinner May 9 . member of the alumni executive board The evening's festivities will begin at S: IS several times including one term as She's a playwright! p.m . with a reception . Dinner is set for 6 secretary and three years on the scholarship p.m. with the awards ceremony to follow . committee, and has been involved with Story and photos by George LaTour . RIC's Faculty Center will be the site for the several alumni !heat-re productions. affair . DeAndrade serves as a substitute teacher One gets little indication upon first known speakers on minority affairs and Victoria Lederberg, a state senator and in the Lincoln School Department. meeting and talking with Rhode Island Col civil rights such as Shirley Chisholm and professor of psychology at RIC, willreceive Patricia DeLaive, a 1975 cum laude lege's coordinator of minority programs Julian Bond, and she has coordinated the the alumni service award. graduate of RIC, will receive the Charles and services, Jay Grier, that she is a college's first black alumni reunion . Lederberg, a member of the RIC facul B. Willard Achievement Award. playwright, producer, director and In her private life, membership in the ty since 1968, is a lawyer as well as a DeLaive is currently employed by the uninhibited actress in her off-campus life. Mt. Zion Church in Providence seems to psychologist. DuPont Chemical . Corp . in North Soft spoken and with a tendency towards • play akey role. It was in this context that shyness away from the stage, the parttime she wrote her first play, an Easter produc- college staff member and substitute teacher tion entitled "Thy Will Be Done." · in the Providence school system, never - Aaron Williams, co-director of the Pro theless, knows what she wants and doesn't vidence Mass Choir, who had been in a hesitate to go after it . play at the Mt. Zion Church at Christmas, Since joining the college staff two years approached Grier with an idea for an ago, she has registered considerable success Easter play this year. in promoting minority awareness on cam Grier explains that she and Williams pus through the presentation of nationally (continued on page 6) Baird De Andrade Marzzacco An active supporter of education, she Carolina . has served as chair of the national advisory Since graduating from RIC she has earn panel on financing education . She is or has ed a Ph .D. in chemistry at the University been a trustee of Brown University , Roger of North Carolina and held two post William s College, Providence Public doctoral fellowships, one in Switzerland, Library, Temple Beth El and Children's the other at California Institute of Friend and Service. Technology where she studied under two She has received numerous awards and of the nation's top inorganic chemists. citations during her career . She ha s been William M . Baird , directo r of athletics described by former at ·RIC , has been at the college since 1965 professors as one of when he was appointed associate professor the college's top of physical education and head basketball students ever in the coach. He became athletic director in 1967. field of chemi stry. Baird will receive the alumni associa A chemistry pro tion's staff award. fessor, Charles A member of the University of Rhode Marzzacco, will be a Island's athletic hall of fame, Baird was a fellow recipient of basketball great at URI. For many years alumni association TAKING A CURTAIN CALL: Aaron Wiliams, Jay Grier and the cast of Grier's play , he stood third on the list of all-time scorers honors. fo - 'Thy Will be Done," acknowledae the audience applause. in university 'history . -.,if (continued on page 6) Sai~~,-es r1 hae l-Wllat's News @-RIC, Monday, April 22, 1915 ~. Focus .on the Faculty and Staff , ELLEN WEA VER PAQUETTE, coor secretary of the Old and Middle English dinator of cooperative education, and Ken session and was elected chai r for the 1986 neth Osborne , director of cooperative session to be held at Rutger s. education at Roger Wiliams College, have DR. JOAN GLAZER, professor of just returned from Chicago after presen elementary education, presented a paper ting a workshop to more than 100 par entitled "Poet ry in Chi ldren's Magazines : ticipants entitled " Byteing the Bullet: Your How Much and How Good" at the spring Computerized Co-op Ed Program" at the conference of the National Council of 21st annual Cooperat ive Edu .cation Teachers of Eng lish in Houston March Association Conference on April 9-12 . 28-30. She also made a presentation at the DR . PAMELA J. BENSON, as~istant session on "Notab le Trade Book s in the professor of English, presented a paper en-· Language Art s" and served as a discu ssion titled "The Paradox of the Independent leader for a coffee and wnversation hour. Woman in the Renai ssance" to the Baro DR. ANN E. MOSKOL, asso ciate pro que literature section at the Northeast fessor of mathematics and computer Modern Language Association annual science, gave an invited · talk on meeting which was spo nsored by the " Mathematical Appli cation s from Opera University of Hartford . She wa s elected tions Research" at the spring conference CUTTING THE RIBBON at the dedication of the RIC School of Social Work Building chair of the Baroque section and will of the Associated Teacher s of Mathemati cs 11 are O to r) Renato Leonelli, RIC Foundation; John ~oley, vice presi~ent for 0rganize and preside at next year's meeting in Connecticut ·(ATOMIC) .